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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8207028" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>I'm a bit on the fence when it comes to the new/reinvented Darklords. It's either going to be a complete retcon in which the old Darklord never existed (Dominic d'Honaire? Vlad Drakov? Never heard of 'em...) or else there's been a mass transition of Darklordship (seemingly along genetic lines, which flies a bit in the face of the idea that one's own individual sins damn oneself in a unique way and create one's own domain), which is going to be hard to pull off convincingly in a way that's true to the old lore. When this sort of transition has been done in the past the results have rarely resonated (Azazel the werebadger and profoundly inadequate successor to Soth, I'm looking at you...)</p><p></p><p>(I certainly understand why they wanted to get rid of Dominic though - there was more than a bit of the Unpleasant Sexual Implications about the guy)</p><p></p><p>Not 100% sure why Dementlieu is suddenly a 'twisted fairy tale' domain - we already had a couple of others which would have filled that role nicely. But on the other hand, Dementlieu is geographically situated in the more gaslamp-y, technologically-advanced bloc of domains along the coast, which I've always seen as the heart of the setting as a standalone setting, rather than as a weekend-in-Barovia oneshot, so I'm happy there's still a focus on the region. And i really, really hope they do a bit with higher-tech PCs coming from a gaslamp setting. Firearms etc. It doesn't sound like they're focusing on that side of things very much, but full plate in somewhere like Richulemont or Paridon or Mordent is just anachronistic, and the rules should reflect that.</p><p></p><p>Glad to see they're doing something with old Sri Raji - that had been neglected for far, far too long. Not sure why one domain with three darklords though. Why not have a couple of different Indian inspired domains? There's certainly scope for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8207028, member: 5948"] I'm a bit on the fence when it comes to the new/reinvented Darklords. It's either going to be a complete retcon in which the old Darklord never existed (Dominic d'Honaire? Vlad Drakov? Never heard of 'em...) or else there's been a mass transition of Darklordship (seemingly along genetic lines, which flies a bit in the face of the idea that one's own individual sins damn oneself in a unique way and create one's own domain), which is going to be hard to pull off convincingly in a way that's true to the old lore. When this sort of transition has been done in the past the results have rarely resonated (Azazel the werebadger and profoundly inadequate successor to Soth, I'm looking at you...) (I certainly understand why they wanted to get rid of Dominic though - there was more than a bit of the Unpleasant Sexual Implications about the guy) Not 100% sure why Dementlieu is suddenly a 'twisted fairy tale' domain - we already had a couple of others which would have filled that role nicely. But on the other hand, Dementlieu is geographically situated in the more gaslamp-y, technologically-advanced bloc of domains along the coast, which I've always seen as the heart of the setting as a standalone setting, rather than as a weekend-in-Barovia oneshot, so I'm happy there's still a focus on the region. And i really, really hope they do a bit with higher-tech PCs coming from a gaslamp setting. Firearms etc. It doesn't sound like they're focusing on that side of things very much, but full plate in somewhere like Richulemont or Paridon or Mordent is just anachronistic, and the rules should reflect that. Glad to see they're doing something with old Sri Raji - that had been neglected for far, far too long. Not sure why one domain with three darklords though. Why not have a couple of different Indian inspired domains? There's certainly scope for it. [/QUOTE]
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