I don’t like roll low, though some % based games make up for it by otherwise being excellent. I don’t like yet another disparate sub-system for AD&D, which was my biggest problem with AD&D
Over the years I have built up quite a bit of resistance to buying new rpgs, for the reasons mentioned above.
But then once in a while resistance will breakdown and I make an impulse purchase. Results are pretty random, but it does not happen very often.
For the those 3 products implied in the OP it’s not about lore, it’s about lackluster execution.
CoS is one of the most successful D&D products of all time. It has plenty of updated lore, it’s just better.
I think we know the top two. Ravenloft, if CoS is treated as a version of I6, has to pretty much be number 3.
I don't think Sunless is 4. 3e was pretty popular, but not B/X or AD&D popular. And it had some serious competition, lots of good adventures for 3e thanks to the OGL.
So for...
It felt like a combination of his WWII movies and his more standard fantasy ones. Theme, plot, and world building all felt underdeveloped compared to many of his other movies. But certainly better than a lot of other stuff put out lately.
I have been hear for about 20 of those years.
I still think of the site in terms of what it was then, and what it was after. Then wonder things like “maybe buttercup is still here, and I am just on her ignore list”