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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8208323" data-attributes="member: 18">I think very few people &quot;wanted&quot; most of the domains in the original Ravenloft (beyond a core few derived from classic horror). In particular, I don't think players or DMs were going &quot;Oh, you know what I want, a setting that's EXACTLY like a Hammer horror movie, even down to the only inhabitants of a bunch of the places being humans who are super-racist!&quot;. Pretty much 100% sure that wasn't &quot;a thing&quot;. Pretty sure NOTHING about the original Ravenloft was really driven by the what players or DMs wanted, and pretty 100% of it was driven by Bruce Naismith and Andria Hayday being bigass Hammer/Unviersal nerds who wanted to replicate Hammer/Universal stuff even when it made no sense, and didn't work well for D&amp;D at all.Nah someone upthread pointed out that it actually looks like after the first few domains they kind of reaching, and a lot of them are just, iffy attempts to replicate Hammer movie scenario/vibes, which causes them to end up with town after town of what basically amount to scared puritans, even though that's not really a D&amp;D thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8208323, member: 18"] I think very few people "wanted" most of the domains in the original Ravenloft (beyond a core few derived from classic horror). In particular, I don't think players or DMs were going "Oh, you know what I want, a setting that's EXACTLY like a Hammer horror movie, even down to the only inhabitants of a bunch of the places being humans who are super-racist!". Pretty much 100% sure that wasn't "a thing". Pretty sure NOTHING about the original Ravenloft was really driven by the what players or DMs wanted, and pretty 100% of it was driven by Bruce Naismith and Andria Hayday being bigass Hammer/Unviersal nerds who wanted to replicate Hammer/Universal stuff even when it made no sense, and didn't work well for D&D at all. Nah someone upthread pointed out that it actually looks like after the first few domains they kind of reaching, and a lot of them are just, iffy attempts to replicate Hammer movie scenario/vibes, which causes them to end up with town after town of what basically amount to scared puritans, even though that's not really a D&D thing. [/QUOTE]

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