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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8408922" data-attributes="member: 2629">It seems like it is a half-product.  I'd much rather they'd released it as a full product after releasing their 'signature Feywild adventure'.  However, even if they did, I'd just be ripping it apart for inspiration rather than doing a lift and shift into my world.  I have a feeling we'll see better "Domains of Delight" in third party hands popping up in the DM's guild, Reddit, etc... that give you domains intended to be lifted and shifted into your game - but I think any such product is problematic.  I think both Ravenloft and the Domains of Delight both work best when the worlds are secrets and mysteries.  To that end, I don't want to include stuff that people can find on the internet.  While I've had Ravenloft 'Dark Domains' in my game since the early 90s (rarely used, but there), they're all unique.  Technically I established that Barovia exists, but beyond that each Dark Domain in my world is a Dark Reflection of a tragic event in my main world, so each is specific to that setting specific event, with the 'Lords' being reflections of the creatures that existed in the 'real' world.  These Domains of Delight are less intrinsic to my setting lore.  I've always given Archfey control over their immediate environment in the Feywild, but the recent books have expanded my inspiration for what these can be (and provided me some more structure for how to build them). To that end, because they are more 'standalone' environments than Ravenloft, I feel like I could be more likely to just lift and shift something I find online into my setting.  However, I feel like the sense of Wonder is paramount to the Feywild, so the idea that a player might read up on the workings of a realm and have that spoiled is anathema to me. To that end, I might steal from a less well known presentation of material from a 3rd party source - but any main books by WotC would not be useful for me as is, but might be ripped off for inspiration that I twist and change.</blockquote>

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