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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BB Shockwave" data-source="post: 9694118" data-attributes="member: 6799257">Why would Strahd want an heir? He is A: immortal, B: stuck forever in the Domains of Dark.  He does not need an heir.Looking at these characters on the cover just shows me how little this generation knows about classic Hammer and Universal horror movies, or the books that that inspired Ravenloft. Colorful weird people are likely to get burned as evil entities by the peasants long before they even meet Strahd. A Kenku can maybe pass themselves off as a Wereraven, but even those guys never go out in the open in hybrid form. And Orcs, dark Elves and literal hellspawn Tieflings? This would be a very short lived party there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> If your friend wants a real Sphinx familiar, you can do that now - Sphinxes of Wonder are exactly that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />[ATTACH=full]410056[/ATTACH]Modern writing is so cliche now that I can always predict that if a movie has a straight white man - or sometimes woman - especially if they are rich, they are always revealed as the villain in the end. I started reading the synopsis of M3gan 2.0 and looked at the cast and already knew who the secret surprise villain will be.If you think Ravenloft is just a "skin" you put on basic 5E then clearly you never read the 2E original setting books.Race should not be a cosmetic option. It should define your character. If it is just a "skin" for you then that's the World of Warcraft style of "RPG" - if done right it should be like the Dragon Age Origins style of RPG where a Dwarf noble player would have completely different reactions from NPCs and party members than an Elf Mage.Kenku are not really evil but also very much untrustworthy, and mostly operate as thieves and run black markets in cities. They are Chaotic Neutral so basically, trusting them is a very naive idea.</blockquote>

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