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The table of contents is bonkers, but Mystara is both the world name and the setting name (at least in 2nd edition). "Faerun" is the odd one out there.

If by "all races" you mean elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings and human, then yes, it is. Huh? They did migrate and they were found in other domains. But demihumans weren't even a majority in Darkon (population around 120,000) so it's not like there's enough of them to create crowds of...

Vechor is almost entirely human as well. Even Darkon has a human plurality.

You see, no, having the player being undead is really not going along with how Ravenloft worked as a setting either. The setting was always about being that lone candle against the darkness, not a super-cool powerful monster.

Elrod's Strahd novels were pretty good as well.

If you wanted to add warforged in Ravenloft, you do it properly and refluff them. Lamordia's alliance with Falkovnia leads them to provide Drakov with a "better" sort of soldier, but the revealed truth is that the Lamordians are unable to truly create life (Mordenheim's creation of Adam is the...

I did like where the Gazetteers broadly hinted at the mention of dragon gods potentially being able to be brought to life in post-Soth Sithicus (although as with a lot of hooks, the Arthaus line died before anyone did anything interesting with it).

Yes, I really think people underestimate how much Ravenloft was about taking the player out of their comfort zone. You shouldn't expect reality to run the same way it did on Oerth, Toril, etc. It was part of the fun of it. But now fighting Strahd in Barovia is no different to fighting him in...

Weirdly we may have got purple tieflings due to a colouring error in the 2014 PHB...

What are you talking about? In the "days of the core", all the domains bar Darkon and Sithicus were almost entirely human, and only Sithicus had a non-human majority. I'm pretty sure "walking cat-man" is more obviously non-human that "person with pointed ears".

I've always preferred that origin for Dragonborn - its what I use in my own homebrew. I think having Dragonborn in Darkon being tied to Ebb (Azalin's shadow dragon) might work on a thematic level. Darkon really being the only realm I can see them honestly fitting into. (Maybe Nidala, if you...

Look, you could have just said "I don't understand the setting", it's ok to admit that.

I actually am pro-tieflings for Ravenloft campaigns, I think they work for the atmosphere. But they shouldn't have a uniform appearance and be the sort of 5E Draenei ripoff that they have become. It should be more like 2E Planescape tieflings, complete with the wide variety of appearances...

The TSR managers actually tried to get the Ravenloft design team to make it "more mature" after World of Darkness was released but the designers refused.

Please keep in mind it seems a lot of these people responding are very unfamiliar with how a Ravenloft campaign was played, so likely no.

Yeah, all of those books have extremely evocative covers to me, rather than the same homogenised 5E art that has more in common with YA literature.

Of course... ...but it didn't have any "zombie apocalypse domains" until the 5E gutting of the setting and ridiculous reimagining of Falkovnia. The only "zombie" domain in pre-5E was the New Orleans inspired Souragne, and that wasn't "zombie apocalypse" at all. So are you agreeing with me...

No, sorry, that's wrong. If you want to fight vampires and have it play similar to Forgotten Realms... fight vampires in the Forgotten Realms. If your Ravenloft adventure is just a Forgotten Realms adventure with vampires and gothic castles, then...it's just a Forgotten Realms adventure with...

No, it really wasn't. It came before any of that. It was a response to the initial popularity of CoC, particularly since it was the most popular RPG amongst TSR designers. That's true, but not the point. Who is saying run it as a meatgrinder? I don't. But at the same time its not a superhero...

Yeah I agree, Ravenloft worked well in play in 2E because the authors had the courage to have the ruleset be adjusted for the setting which 5E will not even contemplate. 5E could work fantastically with Ravenloft - if the developers would allow it (altered magic, powers checks, the rest - all...