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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 7856464" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>Sorry, I really try to be polite and to use an assertive tone, but sometimes my unintentional rudeness is because I am too used to be hard with myself, and lack of respect by other people.</p><p></p><p>We will see more modules of gothic horror genre, not only set in Ravenloft. This setting will come back but the metaplot will be paralyzed for a long time. The plot for the time of the unparalleled darkness is ready but not the script, and we don't know plans for after. Maybe they are going to remake "Shadow Stalkers", the minisetting from d20 Past, or a total reboot of "Masque of the Red Death" because Gothic Earth is too close to real life History, with some uncomfortable threads about the past, and because a fantasy counterpart allows more freedom to allow new things, for example dinosaurs in tropical regions. WotC would like to publish its own version of the Call of Cthulhu, and now Lovecraft's myths are public domain, aren't they? This d20 system will need a lot of work because these games are more about investigation and surviving psychological stress, not about exploring dungeons and killing monsters. </p><p></p><p> The best gothic horror tales should have got some almost-hidden or subliminal morale, for example:</p><p></p><p>- We become monsters when we forget moral principles of Natural Law as mercy or the respect for the human dignity.</p><p></p><p>- Tyrants, and toxic people, want to destroy your faith you to become coward and submissive. Don't allow it. </p><p></p><p>- We are responsible for our actions, we can't be always blaming others or circumstances because we aren't victims by the fate. Warning against the prelearned helplessness </p><p></p><p>- Wealth, prestige, fame, social status, love conquests, are nothing when you lose your soul.</p><p></p><p>- The highest fear should be the punishment in the afterlife by divine powers.</p><p></p><p>- When you face death and suffering then you don't want to be only a stupid bohemian having fun and enjoying life. You shouldn't worry about getting a higher social status but to leave a positive legacy for the next generations.</p><p></p><p>- Your fight to get the supreme status is useless if after sacrifices you notice you haven't got true respect because the rest want to behead you because you have become a too tall poppy. </p><p></p><p>- Is your life too boring? You should thank because you can breath one more day. They are others worse than you fighting for the survival.</p><p></p><p> My forecast for the background of the setting is Strahd von Zarovich will be the eternal darklord of Barovia, because is the iconic character of the franchise. But maybe we will discover he isn't totally guilty but also victim by a supernatural conspiration. Maybe his family was cursed by enemies and Tatiana an innocent peasant used as bait for a trap to cause the fall in the dark side. Some surprise could be characters exchanging souls or bodies. </p><p></p><p>In the future the creatures from the demiplane of the dread could conquer, invade or infect a world from the prime material plane, maybe that ruled by vampyres. And some haunted zones from the land of the mist could be teletransported temporally to different (cursed) zones from different worlds. One of my ideas is a post-apocalypse where walking dead were eaten by gnolls and werehyenas (and other mutant therianthropes). Other idea is a mixture of giants and trolls like in the anime "Attacks on the titans". </p><p></p><p>* My mind is open to the idea some naives from Athas, the Dark Sun world, could leave this and go to other worlds before the genocide wars and the rise of the sorcerer-kings. Somebody told me in this forum there was a gladiator circus in Sigil, or a neighbour with the name Tyr.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 7856464, member: 6802378"] Sorry, I really try to be polite and to use an assertive tone, but sometimes my unintentional rudeness is because I am too used to be hard with myself, and lack of respect by other people. We will see more modules of gothic horror genre, not only set in Ravenloft. This setting will come back but the metaplot will be paralyzed for a long time. The plot for the time of the unparalleled darkness is ready but not the script, and we don't know plans for after. Maybe they are going to remake "Shadow Stalkers", the minisetting from d20 Past, or a total reboot of "Masque of the Red Death" because Gothic Earth is too close to real life History, with some uncomfortable threads about the past, and because a fantasy counterpart allows more freedom to allow new things, for example dinosaurs in tropical regions. WotC would like to publish its own version of the Call of Cthulhu, and now Lovecraft's myths are public domain, aren't they? This d20 system will need a lot of work because these games are more about investigation and surviving psychological stress, not about exploring dungeons and killing monsters. The best gothic horror tales should have got some almost-hidden or subliminal morale, for example: - We become monsters when we forget moral principles of Natural Law as mercy or the respect for the human dignity. - Tyrants, and toxic people, want to destroy your faith you to become coward and submissive. Don't allow it. - We are responsible for our actions, we can't be always blaming others or circumstances because we aren't victims by the fate. Warning against the prelearned helplessness - Wealth, prestige, fame, social status, love conquests, are nothing when you lose your soul. - The highest fear should be the punishment in the afterlife by divine powers. - When you face death and suffering then you don't want to be only a stupid bohemian having fun and enjoying life. You shouldn't worry about getting a higher social status but to leave a positive legacy for the next generations. - Your fight to get the supreme status is useless if after sacrifices you notice you haven't got true respect because the rest want to behead you because you have become a too tall poppy. - Is your life too boring? You should thank because you can breath one more day. They are others worse than you fighting for the survival. My forecast for the background of the setting is Strahd von Zarovich will be the eternal darklord of Barovia, because is the iconic character of the franchise. But maybe we will discover he isn't totally guilty but also victim by a supernatural conspiration. Maybe his family was cursed by enemies and Tatiana an innocent peasant used as bait for a trap to cause the fall in the dark side. Some surprise could be characters exchanging souls or bodies. In the future the creatures from the demiplane of the dread could conquer, invade or infect a world from the prime material plane, maybe that ruled by vampyres. And some haunted zones from the land of the mist could be teletransported temporally to different (cursed) zones from different worlds. One of my ideas is a post-apocalypse where walking dead were eaten by gnolls and werehyenas (and other mutant therianthropes). Other idea is a mixture of giants and trolls like in the anime "Attacks on the titans". * My mind is open to the idea some naives from Athas, the Dark Sun world, could leave this and go to other worlds before the genocide wars and the rise of the sorcerer-kings. Somebody told me in this forum there was a gladiator circus in Sigil, or a neighbour with the name Tyr. [/QUOTE]
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