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Parmandur · Wednesday at 11:05 PM

Charlaquin said:
Pastiche is fine and often good. Campy crossover can be fun in small doses. Modern entertainment has blended all pop culture into bland, flavorless slop, and it’s terrible. I just want things to be unashamed to be themselves again. Be the best they can be at the thing that makes them unique, instead of trying to be exactly like everything else.

As I said prior, anything worth doing well is worth doing badly, and putting everything together into a stew is delicious.

Charlaquin · Wednesday at 11:26 PM

Parmandur said:
As I said prior, anything worth doing well is worth doing badly, and putting everything together into a stew is delicious.

M.L. Martin · Wednesday at 11:51 PM

Remathilis said:
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 making Star Wars a D&D setting. You can't do that with a free pages, you need at least a full book and realistically a lot or changes to the core to work. AD&D 2e was too high magic for it; 5e would need a near rebuild of every class.

Honestly, I'm fine with letting MotRD stay buried. There are far better Victorian Gothic horror RPGs built for that thing.

Agreed; Masque was great at the time, but there's plenty of other stuff filling its niche today, such as Triple Ace Games' Leagues of Gothic Horror and Pinnacle's Rippers for Savage Worlds.

Trivia: According to TSR's 1994 Catalog, Masque of the Red Death was originally intended to include Cthulhu. That must either have been changed or a mistake by the marketing department.

(I don't think Cthulhu would fit well into 2E/3E Ravenloft. I only know enough about 5E Ravenloft to know that it's best described as a reboot/"Ultimate" version of the older setting.

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Older Beholder · Wednesday at 11:57 PM

I'm looking forward to reading how they incorporate Cthulhu into Ravenloft before passing judgement on the idea.
I use these books as inspiration for my own imagination, not some carved in stone scripture that must be followed to the letter of the law.

Henadic Theologian · 2026-03-05T00:00:58+0000

ersatzphil said:
I'll reserve judgement until I actually read the book or at least hear more, but I'm really unsure why the Great Race of Yith would be in Ravenloft.

Yeah the Yith from what I've read are one of the most belevant species of Lovecraftian lore.

Older Beholder · 2026-03-05T00:21:22+0000

Parmandur said:
As I said prior, anything worth doing well is worth doing badly, and putting everything together into a stew is delicious.

D&D has always been a stew of ideas. That's always been it's biggest strength.

Parmandur · 2026-03-05T00:47:00+0000

Charlaquin said:
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I love 70s/80s comic books where Spiderman interacts with Godzilla or Transformers, all while Conan is undergirdimg the whole Marvel comics universe.

One of the main problems with recent Marvel stuff is lack of that energy, rather than too much.

Give me Cthulu and Spiderman in D&D, and I like TMNY Magic cards unapologetically.

Remathilis · 2026-03-05T01:14:41+0000

Parmandur said:
I love 70s/80s comic books where Spiderman interacts with Godzilla or Transformers, all while Conan is undergirdimg the whole Marvel comics universe.

One of the main problems with recent Marvel stuff is lack of that energy, rather than too much.

Give me Cthulu and Spiderman in D&D, and I like TMNY Magic cards unapologetically.

Fortnite. Until All Are One.

Parmandur · 2026-03-05T01:18:13+0000

Remathilis said:
Fortnite. Until All Are One.

Yes, I do not play Fortnite myself, but I respect the heck out of what they are building.

Charlaquin · 2026-03-05T01:22:37+0000

Parmandur said:
Yes, I do not play Fortnite myself, but I respect the heck out of what they are building.

Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me

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