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Yet that's basically the whole middle of Dracula. Much of the Lucy saga is character drama over horror especially when the three suitors all get involved. The horror aspect picks up again when Mina is bit and it becomes a race against time. Put another way

I'm pointing out that most of your classic Gothic monster novels (not the movies, the original novels) are surprisingly monster lite. Dracula is most active in the Transylvania section, but by the time he's in Fairfax he's mostly a looming MacGuffin. Frankenstein's monster is likewise only a...

I mean, have to READ Dracula? It's a all written as journal entries and news snippets from the protagonists. Dracula barely is in the second half of the novel.

Its a spiritual sequel to Crust on Scrod.

Just to define my terms: High Magic just means that magic is generally accessible and present. PCs get spells and magic items fairly regularly and often can access more powerful magic through NPCs (for a cost, of course). Obviously, the speed of access changes edition to edition, but I don't...

But does the fact Clue doesn't have a rule 0 to make it Risk actually make Clue bad, or just narrowly focused? I would argue D&D is treated far too broadly. As in, people really think that Dungeons & Dragons should support a large style of different styles and do so equally well (this thread is...

Essentially my point. D&D horror often feels like a Halloween overlay to normal D&D play. Yeah, you are in a spooky castle with a vampire, but it's not particularly different than being in a dungeon with a wizard except in aesthetics. Now I don't necessarily consider that bad, buts it's a weak...

I would still argue any edition of D&D will end up as high magic heroic fantasy. The level that happens changes, as does the amount of house running necessary to delay it, varies from edition to edition.

Clue does not allow me to attempt to take over the world using troop movements. It's a bad game.

There is also a difference between changes made for taste and having to modify the rules to make them functional. You absolutely can play D&D with no house rules and it will function just fine, but maybe not to your tastes.

I think that's getting forgotten. Just because D&D can be modified to a particular style doesn't mean it was designed for handling that style. The d20 system is absolutely amazing at handling a variety of game styles. Dungeons and Dragons ™️ as written in the PHB, is less so.

I'm pretty sure that's called the Oberoni Fallacy.

I mean, that's a point too.

I have always said D&D emulates no genre but D&D. However, you can flavor your D&D in different ways. D&D horror is basically dark fantasy where your goblins and kobolds are replaced with skeletons and werewolves. And if you approach it mostly as Halloween-themed D&D, it works. Anything more...

Combat is a factor, but I think it comes with the fact that most D&D characters have a lot of tools and resources that your typical horror protagonist doesn't. Divination magic, healing spells, stuff like that. Horror is doable, I'm not arguing that. Too many years as a Ravenloft DM to say it...

Horror. D&D doesn't handle real horror well because after 5th level, everyone D&D is a Big Damn Hero. D&D handles action-movie horror like Castlevania, but not real horror unless you are house rulling it into oblivion.

What hobby is that? Name a hobby that doesn't either require a tremendous amount of money either in materials or facilities. Sports? That's a huge investment to play at even a city league level. Video games? Hardware games and subscriptions/dlc. Art and music? Tools and workspace. RPGs...

I think that depends more on the DM and players tastes. Yes, all modules need some work to get going, but even the worst modules from major companies come with stocked dungeons, interesting encounters and new loot to use. Dragon Heist might be one of the hardest modules to run by the book, but...

$20 (USD) a month for a pre-published adventure is nuts. If you were doing your own prep, I'd argue that is reasonable, but $20 to read out of a book and make tweaks? No. If your going to charge, $10 for a published and $20 for an original is far more in line. Unless your $20 includes a...