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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8211257"><p>Everyone is going to feel differently about this. It may be safer to not use these kinds of sources as inspiration. I also feel not drawing on real world examples like that for inspiration, leads to less flavor, less potency, and generally just doesn't appeal to me as much. One of the reasons Falkovnia resonated was because it tapped into powerful feelings around historical events. When I first played ravenloft we were a generation whose grandparents fought in the war in question, many of the people at my table, myself included, had family backgrounds where people were affected by the atrocities in question or had to flee them, and we were in a community where these atrocities were dealt with in school (I am trying to answer your question clearly without violating the real world politics rule, so sorry if I have to talk around events). I get that people will have different reactions to that stuff. To me, it had resonance because we were still living in the echo of some of the things it was drawing on. That said it is important to understand Drakov evolved over the course of the line. I do feel some of it got too on the nose toward the end (you could kind of project a wider range of historical figures onto Drakov early on I feel: though I am going largely by memory here). But it is like the other poster said about Daleks. You can invoke that stuff and it will be impactful. In fact I think there is more danger in not invoking it, and in avoiding it entirely. Much better to acknowledge those kinds of real world evils in a setting in my opinion when you are trying to do horror.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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