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No I responded responded to your assertion that WotC will require a paid subscription to access items bought on Beyond. Which is not true currently and unless you have insider information, baseless speculation that they will. The loss of access to material you have paid for is a separate issue...

Speculative conspiracy theories serve no value. They haven't. You can argue they might one day, but they might not and unless you access to reliable time travel or precognition, both outcomes have equal chances of happening. If you want to argue about the value of D&D Exclusivity NOW, you...

He made a guest appearance. So has Spawn, Heihachi, Eizo, 2B, Geralt, Kratos and Darth Vader and Yoda. So guests are wild as far as that goes.

One of my favorite video game series was Soul Calibur. A fantasy weapon-based fighting game series where heroes were pulled from all across genres of fantasy. Some of the main characters included: A baker girl turned champion of Haephestus. A Holy Roman Empire knight. A ninja demon hunter A...

I assume part of the reason things like the Tortle Package was released both on DMsGuild and Beyond was, at the time, WotC did not own Beyond lock, stock and barrel yet and it was just another distribution method. But WotC does now and ignoring the traffic exclusivity drives to their platform, I...

Dark Lord status isn't about CR, Victor and Viktra were never more then normal commoner level humans in combat. And not every domain needs to sprawling multi-story endeavors. The House of Lament is a one-and-done domain but it obeys the rules (has a Lord, closeable borders, can be entered though...

Basically my point. D&D is a mixture of historical and mythological ideas covering from the Bronze Age though at least the Renaissance and increasingly has bumped into the enlightenment, Victorian, and other pre-20th century eras. (And Eberron gently tests even that boundary). To call D&D...

Problem is, there are 16 domains (fact) and 17 dark lords (fact) and Borca is a known inclusion (fact) and Borca had two dark lords (fact). Ergo the remaining 15 domains must correlate with the remaining 15 dark lords, so either Mallingo and Odaire is included as a separate domain OR they aren't...

Nothing confirmed on any of these, they are mostly educated guessing and a little wish fulfillment. Viktra has made a lot of cameos in Ravenloft media. Comics, novels, even the MMO. Plus the reanimator is screaming Lamordian flavor. Im less certain on the others, save they were popular in VGR...

As an aside, I'd have LOVED a DLC that discussed Innistrad in the lens of Ravenloft as a Domain of Dread. I really feel you could do some interesting things now, especially opening the new species (dhampir, reborn, lupin, and hexblood, and possibly aasimar and tieflings) as humans influenced by...

I feel its a pretty safe bet Lamordia, Har'Akir and Dementlieu are there. Also, a piece of art showed the Darklord of Kalakeri, so that's a pretty strong bet. That leaves six true unknowns. I'll go out on a limb and say ONE of those six has a folk-horror vibe (to go with the hollow warden) so...

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Its far more important to discuss what I6/I8 did NOT include: The Dark Powers. The larger setting hinges on the Dark Powers and the fact they have trapped Strahd et all into the Domains of Dread. I6 at no point discusses the Dark Powers. Strahd is not trapped in Barovia, he simply has no reason...

Lots of depictions medieval Europe (or ME type settings) do place them there before the ships needed to routinely make that trip were built (yes I know, Vikings. They weren't importing potatoes back to Scandinavia). On the one hand, few people care about authentic medieval diets in a world of...

Unfortunately, it ended up one of those seminal adventures for the larger metaplot of Ravenloft that the setting would reference constantly. Luckily, it was still possible to ignore it and the 5e version changes it to far more of an Omen style story in the brief blurb in VGR.

I ran my relentless killer as Ghostface from Scream, including multiple killers and all...

I think it's also important to mention that horror is never about the violence, but the threat of violence. To yourself. To others. To society. Dracula is clearly overpowering compared to Johnathan Harker, but the horror doesn't come from his (or his brides) attacks, but by the the threat of...

See I think that is better handled at the system level. Level Up for powerful heroic fantasy, The One Ring for low magic epic adventure. The system that tries to allow both does neither well.

I'm going to assume you don't watch Twitch streamers. Or OnlyFans for that matter.

If by broader, you mean a disjointed one that tried to run away from its core premise chasing fads and trying to be GURPs, I might agree. Even in my 2e days, it bothered me how nearly every setting insisted on arbitrary limitations and widely fluctuating power levels, often at the expense of any...