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Can you actually address my point rather than the point you made up in your head? I'm not complaining about there being a "cosmic horror" themed darklord. I'm complaining about literally porting over Cthulhu as is as a darklord.

It's pretty much the most uninspired approach. Ravenloft already has its own style of cosmic horror, why import someone elses?

Wizards of the Coast has never understood Ravenloft as a setting, they're not about to start doing it now, my friend.

Weren't they from another planet? So there's probably no need to have a lot of stuff about them.

The guy who (accidently) killed Henri II was a member of the Scottish Guard (the French regiment, of Scottish descent but actually French). He later converted to Protestantism and fled to Elizabeth I's England and the French tried to get her to extradite him back. I think you may be conflating...

Yep, fundamentally, adding any sort of plot to a publish D&D adventure almost always lays down the railroad tracks.

I think you might want to check the names of the contractors who wrote that 1E Module. Here let me help.

Based on what happened last time Winninger went to Castle Greyhawk, this product could have been far, far worse.

The crazy thing about this is that the Anglo-Saxons were probably Christians before the Normans were! The last pagan Anglo-Saxon King died centuries before Rollo became ruler of Rouen. (The Anglo-Saxon/Norman conflict is also heavily exaggerated, it was basically already moribund by the reign...

I am so tired of the depicton of medieval people as having an inversion to colour. Guys, we have medieval art, we know how they dressed. You just don't think they looked cool.

Almost no one actually involved with Dragonlance the setting wants to connect them, it is a push from outside designers. Which makes sense because it cheapens Dragonlance as its own thing for the sake of "muh multiverse".

Except when we see stories set in Istar (including the original Legends trilogy) the Istarians do not call them that at all.

The Ultima series had a tinker player character class back in the early 80s

Licensed pre-painted miniatures, like D&D or Pathfinder or Critical Role. There's a reason they are sold in blind boxes.

I know with miniatures is that without a rarity system they are actually uneconomic to produce, so in fact the collectors are subsidising the people who just want to go on the second-hand market and buy a bunch of zombies and orcs. This was why the experiment with non-blind boxes ended - the...

Most of Radiant Citadel adventures are riddled with issues and just not particularly good (the settings are different, and have flavour, even if the book has the most bone-headed ideas of where to place them in establish settings) but of the adventures in there, Roberts' one is one of the best...

Why is there this persistent idea that DMs are forcing players to join games? DM builds world, proposes campaign. Puts guidelines up for campaign. Player says: Do I want to join this? Yes or No. Player builds character as guidelines tell him. There is no compulsion and no one is...

But you're missing the point of curation, part of the joy of a curated setting is the increased versimilitude from removing thematically redundant creatures and tightening the focus on the major components of the world. The Krynnish goblinoids and ogre races render orcs redundant and...