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Parmandur reacted to Artamo's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with
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It’s not HIS fault people go insane looking at him! What’s a guy gonna do? -
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We can see in his write up from the preview that he isn’t being tormented like other Dark Lords. The Dark Powers are just keeping him at...
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Parmandur reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
Yeah, irritating cultists keep trying to wake him up. Maybe he thought that by moving R’lyeh to Ravenloft from the Pacific he would get...
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Parmandur reacted to Artamo's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with
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People keep waking him from his beauty sleep. -
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Much of Ravenloft is just recycling horror stories. Strahd is Dracula, Mordenheim is Frankenstein, etc etc. It makes plenty of sense for...
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Parmandur reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
It also has Cthulhu as a dark lord (visible in one of the images). I assume there will also be a R'lyeh domain for him to sleep in. But...
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It’s also a dark demiplane where the rules of reality don’t really match up with any other plane - in other words, anything can happen...
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Parmandur reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D’s 2026 Announcements: Roadmap Contains A Mix of New and Familiar with Like.
Ravenloft is a brand. It means “any horror themed D&D”. It’s long since passed being a setting. But it’s the players who never...
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Parmandur replied to the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork.Barovia is a very specific, distinct thing...but is Ravenloft all that specific...?
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So what? Ravenloft was always a collection of horror novel and movie pastiches, Cthulhu was always part of D&D, with an interruption due...
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Even as far back as the 2nd edition boxed set Ravenloft has had a Cthulhu Mythos domain. Ravenloft is very meta - it represents D&D’s...
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Aliens are alien. It would be stranger if all aliens were humanoid! If we are doing science, it’s mind flayer psionics that is most...
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Parmandur reacted to mamba's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
I mean, sure, they are different, but does one make more sense than the other?
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I seem to recall Deities & Demigods made them lawful neutral. That might be my memory playing tricks though. I used to have the original...
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Parmandur reacted to mamba's post in the thread Check Out This Early Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Artwork with Like.
are they that different from Mindflayers?