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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8211838" data-attributes="member: 6779196">The impression I get is that a lot of us in this conversation (at least [USER=6801228]@Chaosmancer[/USER] and I) aren’t super familiar with Ravenloft. We’ve heard about it second-hand, and there are some aspects of it we thought sounded really cool, and some we thought sounded weird and didn’t really “get.” I also get the impression that we’re the ones the new book is being written for, because it seems to double-down on the ideas that make the setting sound really cool in an elevator pitch (Prison worlds isolated by magical mist! A domain for every flavor of horror! Make your own domains and plop them in!) and downplay the ideas that seem strange in that context (why do you have two Dracula-themed domains? Why are some domains themed after other D&D settings instead of horror subgenres? Why are so many of these prison-worlds connected in a single land mass that you can easily travel across?) I’m sure these questions have answers that are satisfying to many existing Ravenloft fans, but from an outside perspective they seem ill-fitting with the very cool premise we’ve been pitched, and from that perspective it makes sense when bringing the setting over to a new edition to clean up some of those apparent incongruities and tweak the setting to more closely align with the expectations new people will have based on the hook.</blockquote>