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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8269432"><p>I think this is one of those strange balancing acts with Ravenloft. It is a land where change is part of the setting's cosmology. And it is meant to be dreamy. This is why I really don't care about population arguments or arguments about it feeling too much like  a movie set (in some ways I want that stagy feel because it creates a sense of heightened reality). On the other hand if it gets too amorphous all the time, it can be hard to connect to the setting or make it feel too ephemeral. With changes to characters like Mordenheim, it does feel weird if they are just having him in setting change into a woman (the world changes, the world warps characters in ways that fit their evil, but generally the dark lords have pretty stable personalities and situations). On the other hand, if Mordenheim had a daughter and that is why Mordenheim is a woman (and they were just advancing the timeline) it would feel more like a 'daughter of Frankenstein' type sequel than a total re-write of the character. Like I said before, the setting could use more variety, and more female characters. But just doing it for its own sake, feels blatantly woke to me. I think those changes can be good, but it has to be about the quality of the material, and if politics are driving all the story, and our measure of whether the story is good is how much it evades problematic things, and how much it matches the politics of its intended audience, to me that is a big fail (sometimes horror needs to be problematic, sometimes it needs to be challenging, and it always first and foremost needs to be about the horror and the quality of the story).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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