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Heh, I quickly run through the list of possible products, so as far as WotC is concerned: - Don't make other setting books, because you'd cannibalize sales. If fans want to play them, there's the old material. - Don't make FR books, because people are fed up with FR, it got re-making in every...

This is another review of CoS, which highlights well my main problems with the book: http://sheffieldgothicreadinggroup.blogspot.hu/2016/04/review-gothic-gaming-and-curse-of-strahd.html I think the author makes a good point: CoS is not really a RL modul, it's a general D&D modul with a...

Since I'm currently reading SKT, i want to add to my former posts that it's far the best as setting content goes. It's really meaty about the North, and I'm applauding that. However, it needs a very sandbox-y adventure to do that, so I'm not expecting every adventure in the future will be like...

Exactly. I might add I liked them most as exactly what you wrote, a cosmic morality play. They grant evil power, yet they also imprison it. They might even lend heroes some help, albeit in a non-clear way, if they are truly heroes. Or they just want to see, how far evil can go, or they think...

Different tastes and all like that. You don't have to care about them, but for me it adds to the setting to have some vague ehm, powers who do things, but most of the people aren't even aware of them and who are don't know anything for sure. You could decide how much you want to use them. In...

I'm somewhat ambiguous about that. Yes, they could have been railroad-y devices, or a more pretentious allegory of the DM. However i liked that basically no one knew what exactly they are, what do they want, if they want anything? Why did they made the Demiplane? Are they malevolent...

No, still don't agree. :) IF they would have been writing "VR is from Darkon, which is the northern neighbor of Barovia and then maybe adding that usually there is trading between the two, but about x time Strahd closed the borders, because of y reasons." then I'd say that would be the...

All the adventures focusing on a limited part of the setting, but the other adventures don't handle the other parts of the Realms as nonexistent. Even OotA has parts that connected to the larger world above. All of them have the AL factions, even CoS, as a starting point, while isn't having ANY...

Recently re-reading the 2e/3e Ravenloft books. Good times. They seems to be managing the brand right. Or at least successfully hitting the current zeitgeist and making good marketing. I'm giving full credit for that, it's not an easy task, especially after 4e. It's just the game itself and...

I'd sooooo much pay for this.

My biggest problem is the focus on broadcasting and modules. I don't want to watch D&D, I want to read and play D&D and read novels, which if they're really axing, that's just sours the taste of everything that's otherwise good in 5e in my mouth. Now, Paizo also focuses on modules, but their...

Yes, and i explicitely said that inclusivity matters and is a good thing. But, when speaking about why 5e is more successful than PF, or other games nowadays, I think inclusivity is not the main reason. I think inclusivity is contributing more to the diversification of the community and to a...

Yes, because Dracula isn't really a character in the original story. He has very few dialogue lines and we know nearly nothing about him. He was just a monster, the impersonation of the British fears. Later works made him into a person and a real character and I like that even if the...

The main problem for me is: people claim that inclusivity is a big part of 5e's success. Then other people point to the fact that 3e was more inclusive that it's predecessors, PF is waaaay more inclusive (and a lot of people considers PF in the D&D family) and other games, like the WW ones were...

BUT we're talking about D&D and other rpgs to some extent. Ok, vampire were just monsters in the old folklore and stories. Never argued about that. However, things happened since , which things didn't invalidates the monstrous vampire trope, but opened up space for more complex vampires, which...

It's really simple IMO. At the times Pathfinder was "the more D&D than 4e" game. It was considered as the spiritual successor of 3.5e. It used largely the same system, worked with the same troupes. The people who did it ran dragon and Dungeon prior for years. They wrote for D&D. A lot of D&D...

Ok, I'd write a list as soon as i get the time. :) Or otherwise if anyone has the incline to do so, feel free!

So, basically every humanoid and monster could be a nuanced person, good, or bad, but vampires couldn't. I think we're disagreeing here. That kind of definitive pure evil, I reserve it for outsiders, especially demons. Note, that I'm not saying vampires are in general poor, brooding...

Ok, my questions: - Did you read the other topic's related posts? We explicitely discussed how CoS differs from the 2e/3e version. It started somewhere around here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?492046-Product-page-for-Volo-s-Guide-to-Monsters-updated/page7 - Are you familiar...

We'll see. believe me, I would be the happiest to be proven wrong and we'll indeed get more support for the settings. As for your questions (assuming you intended to them to be questions) see upthread and the VGtM topic. :) To change he discussion to a more positive route, what was the most...