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<blockquote data-quote="QuentinGeorge" data-source="post: 7854960" data-attributes="member: 20990">In my opinion the Kargatane Gazetteers are the definitive description of the Ravenloft &quot;core realm&quot; (incuding Barovia). While Curse of Strahd was a fine product and provided a lot of enjoyment to many people it doesn't &quot;feel&quot; right to me. And I am annoyed by the tendency to want to return some of the settings to their most primitive incarnations. The most interesting parts of Ravenloft were always outside of Barovia, and Cure of Strahd didn't even include the parts of Barovia that elevated it above a Transylvania with the numbers filed off.(You can (and I would) supplement CoS with the info from the Gazetteers, but you'd have to ignore a whole bunch of problematic timeline issues. Curse of Strahd is sort of set in the same time as the original module, which means neither Van Richten nor Mordenkainen should be running around there. But that's probably not as big an issue as the whole &quot;not everyone in Barovia has a soul&quot; business, which is really problematic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="QuentinGeorge, post: 7854960, member: 20990"] In my opinion the Kargatane Gazetteers are the definitive description of the Ravenloft "core realm" (incuding Barovia). While Curse of Strahd was a fine product and provided a lot of enjoyment to many people it doesn't "feel" right to me. And I am annoyed by the tendency to want to return some of the settings to their most primitive incarnations. The most interesting parts of Ravenloft were always outside of Barovia, and Cure of Strahd didn't even include the parts of Barovia that elevated it above a Transylvania with the numbers filed off. (You can (and I would) supplement CoS with the info from the Gazetteers, but you'd have to ignore a whole bunch of problematic timeline issues. Curse of Strahd is sort of set in the same time as the original module, which means neither Van Richten nor Mordenkainen should be running around there. But that's probably not as big an issue as the whole "not everyone in Barovia has a soul" business, which is really problematic. [/QUOTE]

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