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Getting rid of bad drsign is objectively good design. We may disagree what is bad design, but getting rid of bad is objectively good. So if I believe ASI were bad, which they are and always have ben...

Asi are, howevrr, bad and boring design and getting rid of them is getting tid of glaring flaw in the game, ehich is objectively good.

This is incredibly petty reason to ragequit. Especially since it was obiectively a good thing. Too bad in 2024 they didn't do what Kobold Press did and remove ASIs altogether.

Sitting snd complaining about fandom you removed yourself from is counterproductive, at best. But I'll bite - what was ypur issue with Tasha? I don't care what most pople would say, I literally provided examples of similiar covers with Soth to show there is nothing inherently unique or that is...

That implies you had came to that conclusion because the tent ws big enough for others, is that so? Also, if you are not in the tent, why ar you complaining about it?

You are the one having problem accomodating other people in that tent. 1. Soth is standing there* and castles are also common in fantasy, "contains a castle" is a really bad criteria for defining gothic horror. 2. No, the opening chapters are very much high fantasy,we begin on Krynn. Also if...

I don't know what a big tent is. The term, I know what a real tents are, ofc

The Fallbacks

It is better than generic bland party number #426 we were usually getting. Btw, I jyst remembered, didn't people comlain the party from new Forgotten Realms novel looks boring and safe, looking like a grognard's nostalgic idea of a dnd party, rather than what people are playing? I'm starting to...

Species were always just humans eith funny hats, developers just drew arbitrary lines about which are ok to play, which must be arbitrary rstricted and which are not. And Ravenloft in particular was bad at it, treating Vestsni, a ssnd in for real life Roma, as a different species like Elves.

Tand you sccomplish this by running thrm in different games. Also one of demands thrown in this thread about how to PROPERLY run REAL Ravenloft was humanocentrism. Something a lot of old school crowd also demands of Dragonlance, Greyhawk, Mystara, Dark Sun, Forgotten Realms and every single...

Except you are still for homogenization by trying to make everything ve dnd, when youshpuld just run Ravenyin Warhammer Fantasy. Also, are people who complain that every single dnd setting isn't humanocentric anymore really claiming they stand for setting diversity now? The irony.

1. Then I think you haven't seen many fantasy book covers. 2. KotBR was literally "what if dDarth Vader fought Dracula?" this is as far from gothic horror as they go . Lsi, ad I have pointed out, you can have d&d be gothic horror without it being Ravenloft, so it's poor foundation of what...

And I feel you're perfectly happy with your own version of Ravenloft for your table, so why are you complaining about a version you don't even play? I see little to no point trying to force round peg intoa square hole while Warhammer Fantasy exists.

The thing is, I do play Ravenloft in modern way - a "weekend in hell" addition to other campigns, where PCs can enter and are expected to escape eventually. True in Curse of Strahd my party lost and it will have consequences in future campaigns. But when I want a true 100% grimdark...I don't...

Irrelevant and too subjective to judge. Besides, we established it does a lot a cover hsould - shows off the setting, shows off the main cast and antagonist and puts them into a contrast so you know this will be a story about heroes being put into a situation outside their comfort zone, likely a...

I mean, you do you but I generally like when heroes in rpg feel like heroes, even in WoD and CoC I prefer if I can feel my character could accomplish something, not be doomed to fail because status quo is too precious.

Knight of the Black Rose is title wielded by Lord Soth, who is the iconci Dragonlance villain. The title itself is embedded in Dragonlance history as he was a member of Solamnic Knights of Rose, and wore symbol of rose on his armor. It has darkened when he died in fire, hence why this is his...

Thise are so incredibly shallow. There is a castle on the new book's cover, very gothic-looking (as in: gothic ficiton, not gothic architecture). A scary-looking guy in armor isn't automatically pushing something to horror, every other book has one. Lifetake on this cover seems to have burning...

You see, here is an issue - a common criticism of Ravenloft 2e campaigns that they swung too much for the "doom and gloom at all times" to the point the games would become railroads where nothing PCs can do can really affect the world. Pretty much all the Darklords became beyond repproach for...