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Do you have difficulty understanding subtext in people's posts or do you truly think he meant "not Ravenloft" in the literal sense of "I can't see the word Ravenloft."?

Yes, that's why there were rule variations, something the designers of 5E resolutely refuse to consider. Playing a Ravenloft campaign should feel different to playing a Forgotten Realms campaign. It doesn't. That's the problem.

Exactly. Ravenloft was TSR's answer to the rise of Call of Cthulhu RPG, expecting it to be a similar experience to vanilla D&D defeats the purpose in my view, but Crawford and his "D&D is D&D" philosophy leads to the commodification and flavourless goop that are 5E settings.

Ravenloft novels were always in a bit of a weird place, canon-wise, with the RPG writers never seemingly doing much with anything revealed within (except the Kargatane), but this doesn't look any different to the general mishandling of the setting under Wizards of the Coast so I'm not going to...

Cattie Brie and Wulfgar would have died of old age, but the time skip didn’t necessitate killing if Regis or Bruenor. I’m also of the opinion that undoing death is cheap and overused in fantasy, but, look, he’s the author, it’s his choice.

It's frankly pretty bad to imagine a few different people had their whole mind and identities replaced with that of dead people.

Technically he hasn’t, since the origin Cattie Brie died during the Spellplague. This is a reincarnation who we met as an adult. All Drizzts original friends are dead!

He's 56 so I assume not far from retiring... Perkins seemed to be overly fond of whimsy, and I don't think I'll ever forgive him for being the instigator of the mishandling of Ravenloft in 5E, but he is the last man standing since the TSR days, and looking at how the newer content has been...

Good for Greyhawk, stops them from monkeying with it too much and stuffing it up (5e has a bad track record)

Not really, since there's no evidence of the Dark Powers "refusing" to grant powers to anyone.

Elena Faith-Hold still gets her powers as well, even though she's completely fallen from Belenus' grace. I don't think there's a single example of someone in the Demiplane actually losing their divine powers, regardless of their relationship with their god, or whether or not their god is "real"...

I don't think it makes a difference. It'd be a mistake to think of the "Dark Powers" as a distinct deity or god, if they are indistinguishable from the setting, then it is by definition still them providing a cleric with his powers. (if "the nature of the place" instills power and the "dark...

Yeah but the key fact is Strahd is never going to get her. He's the ultimate incel.

The original Ravenloft isn't set in the campaign setting, not really, its best to see it as "proto-Ravenloft". In fact, it's not even clear that is in a separate plane of existence rather than an inaccessible part of the normal world. Ravenloft II: Gryphon Hill is not even in continuity with...

In pre-3E, clerics were actually getting their powers from the Dark Powers, no matter the actual god they were worshipping. There was a sort of a "divine block" going on.

Honestly still the best way that it's been done. Eberron's whole take on deities doesn't work if you've got the bozos from Toril's outer planes blundering around in the same reality, and the less said about WoTC deciding to equate Paladine/Takhisis and Bahamut/Tiamat the better.

He also managed to sour on Hitler and condemn Kristallnacht when guys like Lindbergh were still shilling for him. Anyone claiming Lovecraft was a super-racist by the standards of pre-WWII US simply doesn't understand how much more racist the world around him was. Birth of a Nation was being...

Eberron should never have been forced into the "multiverse" as it really messes with its rather different conception of the divine. (To be honest, apart from Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk, none of the settings should share cosmologies. It just messes too much with their core concepts)