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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8210719" data-attributes="member: 5948">Though to be honest - and heresy alert here - if i was designing Ravenloft from scratch right now in 2021, I'd be sorely tempted to discard the concept of the mists entirely and just draw up a damn world map.  I get the reasoning behind them - you want an in-setting way to deposit PCs in a place they have no intention of going - but I think mostly they were just a plot device created to keep people in Barovia waaay back in the first iterations of the Castle Ravenloft module, and just spun a bit out of control and as the setting expanded they started to be more of a hindrance than a help.  But for better or worse, they're a fundamental part of the setting now, and you can't just discard them.  I have no issues with the islands-in-the-mist concept itself, I just want to see domains implemented in such a way that regular citizens can live relatively regular lives in them, and travel/trade/etc between them, while certainly not risk-free, is not only possible but frequent.  I don't want the various domains reduced to a bunch of one-shot adventure sites hanging around in some sort of limbo, populated by fake people spawned from Strahd's imagination or whatever, waiting for a PC party to show up and bash the darklord.  They should be living worlds populated by people with agency and agendas and lives of their own, like any other campaign world.  Except if it's one of those domains where everyone's dead...  <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" /></blockquote>

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