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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8210293" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I think though you might be conflating a good set of tools with the setting you used them in. I have a homebrew setting that I tend to use, and it isn't horror themed. And yet, two of my most horrific encounters happened there because of clever use of monsters. An Aboleth who used the children of the community as its workforce, leaving them little more than puppets of the God of the community, who worshipped the evil thing as their salvation. A Mindflayer colony that had overrun an elven kingdom centuries ago, and the body horror and sheer ugliness of what those Illithids did to create a sustainable population of slaves from those elves. So, if we accept that horror can happen anywhere when you have the proper idea and the proper challenges, then what about Ravenloft made it better for horror, compared to someplace where it is far easier to have that contrast?</blockquote>