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Elves.

That is for the best. D&D needs more unanswered questions and less canon answers. Who is the Lady of Pain? What are the Dark Powers...

21. I generally find them overrated though. I reckon a rested and preped 14th level party as a solo main boss. But one would expect...

If they made a Red Wizard adventure and didn’t give players the chance to fight Szass Tam, who is on the cover of the book, they messed up.

The nefelsheen is an appropriate boss for 11th level characters (I just used one recently) so my guess is the adventure tops out there...

they seem to be experimenting with different formats and price points. The Arcana Unleashed is slightly cheaper at $50, so probably...

They expanded the definition beyond what 2e did to account for the change in the game and in horror. When Realms of Terror was...

Indeed. Hint without confirming anything is the right way to go. But it does mean there is no canon true Ravenloft lore.

And if you want it taken seriously, then you do need to change the names, because if you mention Cthulhu by name the players will...

Putting anything into D&D from some other media - eg elves and hobbits - is pastiche. Which was why Gygax put the whole Cthulhu...

Yeah, it is. Punching actual Cthulhu is a lot funnier than punching a lookalike. D&D is inherently silly. Lovecraft mythos is...

Ravenloft is about any kind of horror. That's why it has lots of domains, each one an isolated mini-setting inspired by a different...

I would drop Azathoth into Spelljammer. Or Star Trek. Kirk: "lets see how that thing likes a warp core detonation up it's backside!"...

Pastiche is what D&D is at it's core. Doing pastiche is D&D being itself. It's when it tries not to be pastiche that it becomes a bland...

Not in this book. Masque is set on 1890's Earth and was extremely low magic. It doesn't port over to regular D&D well, on par with...