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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8208868">Well the point was classic horror, so they were not trying to feel timely. Personally I am glad they went that direction. I think it is better sometimes to have an interesting vision for a setting and persuade people to it, than follow consumer trends. However, hammer and universal were not these things people didn't know about at the time. They were classic. I am 43, and hammer was a massive part of my upbringing (and that wasn't unusual). It may have been a regional thing, it may have been you and I watched different TV stations and went to different video stores. But I remember universal movies being on all the time. I remember me and my friends watching hammer studios movies (and seeing films like hammer's dracula or the mummy on tv). Universal horror films were still very influential. At the time that the black boxed came out, there were modern trends in horror and Ravenloft was not about those, it was about classic horror (like the universal films, like books like Dracula, like the hammer movies). If the black box reflected the horror movies of the time (which I also watched) it would have been things more like Chucky, Hellraiser, Puppet Master and the Serpent and the Rainbow. I think there was definitely interest in classic horror among fans and I think as a setting it worked. What mattered to me though, more, is it was a wonderful setting. And it worked great at the table. I think one of the strong suits of the 2E era are these amazing worlds and settings they put out (ten times better than anything I've seen under WOTC: which definitely pays closer attention to things like market research). That said though, obviously it had an impact. Otherwise they wouldn't be rebooting the setting. All I know about Ravenloft is I read Knight of the Black Rose and was super intrigued about the setting. I loved the tone and the classic horror feel. I devoured the black boxed set, and pretty much everything in it registered with me. From that point on, I was running campaign after campaign. A lot of people and that experience (not everyone of course, and for some, the setting didn't click: which is true of any setting). Prior to that, I was not as successful with other settings as a GM. Something about Ravenloft made sense to me.I get that it has its critics. And everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I feel like you are stating your opinions as if they are objective facts. Again just my opinion, but I think the original black boxed set is a masterpiece. When you combine that with some of the ideas laid out in Feast of Goblyns, it really takes the original Ravenloft module and creates something sustainable out of its core concepts.</blockquote>

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