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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9341402" data-attributes="member: 6787503">Other than the DM is in control of the Dark Powers, this tells me nothing about how it’s supposed to operate at the table. I’m sure the PCs aren’t the only people the DP have ever allowed into Ravenloft, and presumably they’ve also let some of those people out again who could have brought stories back to their home worlds about their experiences, some of which could have come to the PCs’ ears in the years represented by their backgrounds. As travelers between worlds, the Vistani could also have brought information about Ravenloft to the Material Plane, and zeroing in on Barovia, wasn’t the time of its occultation into Ravenloft only about 400 years before the present day of the adventure? That seems recent enough for some to remember tales of the land that mysteriously disappeared into the Mists. EtA: So I understand the DM plays the DP in the game, but that really doesn't tell us how the players are supposed to interact with the wider setting and how it might intersect with their PCs' backgrounds, that is unless the DM's control of this aspect of the setting is being used to justify running a total railroad.</blockquote>