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Oboy, another scientific theory debunking the existence of a monster, which doesn't seem to grasp that the "movie version" of the monster -- which the study is usually about -- has precious little to do with the version of the creature people actually believed in. (This is a crucial difference...

Oh, indeed he did, while being interviewed to promote LotR.

Regardless, my personal take on the whole argument over whether Soth ever went to Ravenloft is rather close to Christopher Lee's opinion on who would win in a fight between Dracula and Saruman.

Keep in mind that dead reckoning (the system of charting one's progress by recording current speed and heading at regular intervals) relies on the use of a compass (or, at the very least, some equivalent device for noting one's heading).

Correct, we think. (The Ravenloft authors were given contradictory answers to this question over the years.) But yes, the basic understanding was that we couldn't refer directly to other settings, since we hadn't licensed them. In exactly the same way the current Dragonlance team couldn't refer...

Ah, thanks, I overlooked that.

Sorry, I meant to include them in the "were never converted" category. Apparently I got distracted somewhere between "clip" and "paste." :)

As a note: I was a little confused by this, so I double-checked: There is no diamond figurine in the Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III.

Lords of Madness. These monsters have been converted to 3.X, though sadly I can't say without needing (sometimes extensive) errata. Leech, Magical: It's in Denizens of Darkness/Dread under "Leech, Witchbane." Doppelganger Plant, Podling: It's in Denizens of Darkness/Dread under "Plant, Dread"...

Oh, man, if only.

I'm off to Gen Con in a matter of hours, but before I go, I'd like to thank folks for the generally positive comments for the Kargatane and our work on 3E Ravenloft. (And as for those with complaints... well, I know where you're coming from and generally agree.) Warms my shriveled, lifeless...

That's a pity. The level of detail in her work was a source of inspiration when I was compiling the annotated Ravenloft timeline, back in the day. That timeline was my first step toward meeting the folks at TSR/WotC and writing on the RL line, so my debt to her is not small.

We updated the seawolf as the sea stalker in Ravenloft Gazetteer II. Their base animal is the MM 3.5 sea cat (sea lion, at the time).

I only just discovered this thread tonight; I knew Ryan was seriously ill, but I didn't know it had come to this. I never interacted with him all that much, but once upon a time, I was a Ravenloft writer and he was a fan. ... This is actually the second time in a few years that cancer has...

Actually, it classifies the walking dead (lesser, corporeal undead) according to their Craving -- the single, driving urge that compels them to act. All other desires are thrust aside in the face of this irresistable impulse. The Obedient Dead exist solely to obey. Here you find your mindless...