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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8211561">Whether the powers took an interest in the villagers or not, they were subject to the monsters that inhabit ravenloft (and those were plentiful). But you look at a place like Kartakass, it is only a pleasant place to live if you turn into a wolf at night.Whether it is more miserable elsewhere than Ravenloft, the life of the downtrodden in most fantasy worlds is pretty bad. I think in Ravenloft it is more the nature of the badness than whether it is more bad or less bad. In Forgotten Realms you can still die a horrible death or be forced into servitude somewhere. In Ravenloft loft the death is probably more likely to like something plucked out of a horror movie, where you are filled with fear before being killed. And the kinds of creatures you are likely to encounter are more in line with ghosts, werebeasts, ghouls, etc. Personally I would probably prefer the more straight forward death I am likely to get in the realms, but it is likely to only be more pleasant by a degree (and who knows you could end up getting killed by some sadistic orc chief).I suppose it ultimately depends on who the GM is. Presumably though, if the villagers are described as cautious, superstitious, and skittish, then bad things are supposed to be happening to their people.</blockquote>