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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8269994" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>1.) When it comes to representation, yes. Several domains were based around bad takes on non-European cultures (and few on bad takes on European ones as well) that should be looked hard at. Souragne is a domain built around common misconceptions of voodoo. I'Cath is badly butchered Chinese myth. Vistani have famously been savaged for perpetuating stereotypes of Roma. These things should be corrected, not swept under the rug. </p><p></p><p>2.) Dementieu is fixing a different problem; its called "this domain is painfully boring". Tell me one story you can tell with Dominic d'Honaire that you couldn't tell with a evil noble wizard with a few charm spells? Tell me one story in Dementieu that doesn't involve Dominic that couldn't be told in Mordent, Richemont or Borca? What is so great about the old Dementieu that it must maintain existing in it's boring, one note current form? Especially with no Core anymore, Dementieu barely qualified as a Domain of Dread; I can think of worse places to live in Faerun and Eberron. (Sarlona, with it's nightmare-born psionic thought police is a far more interesting take on a mind controlled populace than Dementieu and that is a whole continent in Eberron).</p><p></p><p>I'll let you in on a little secret; it's been decades since I ran something in Ravenloft that wasn't Barovia and many of the changes they were making was stuff I always thought was true: Dementieu was all high society and gentry, Lamordia was high tech, Valachan was a jungle. It's taken [USER=5948]@humble minion[/USER] 's let's read thread to remind me it wasn't nearly as interesting as I'd remembered. So I've welcomed many of changes since they fit with my apparent head cannon of what the setting should be like. I empathize with those who loved it as it exactly was, but for me, this aligns far better to what I'd want out of Ravenloft than the 2e version did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 8269994, member: 7635"] 1.) When it comes to representation, yes. Several domains were based around bad takes on non-European cultures (and few on bad takes on European ones as well) that should be looked hard at. Souragne is a domain built around common misconceptions of voodoo. I'Cath is badly butchered Chinese myth. Vistani have famously been savaged for perpetuating stereotypes of Roma. These things should be corrected, not swept under the rug. 2.) Dementieu is fixing a different problem; its called "this domain is painfully boring". Tell me one story you can tell with Dominic d'Honaire that you couldn't tell with a evil noble wizard with a few charm spells? Tell me one story in Dementieu that doesn't involve Dominic that couldn't be told in Mordent, Richemont or Borca? What is so great about the old Dementieu that it must maintain existing in it's boring, one note current form? Especially with no Core anymore, Dementieu barely qualified as a Domain of Dread; I can think of worse places to live in Faerun and Eberron. (Sarlona, with it's nightmare-born psionic thought police is a far more interesting take on a mind controlled populace than Dementieu and that is a whole continent in Eberron). I'll let you in on a little secret; it's been decades since I ran something in Ravenloft that wasn't Barovia and many of the changes they were making was stuff I always thought was true: Dementieu was all high society and gentry, Lamordia was high tech, Valachan was a jungle. It's taken [USER=5948]@humble minion[/USER] 's let's read thread to remind me it wasn't nearly as interesting as I'd remembered. So I've welcomed many of changes since they fit with my apparent head cannon of what the setting should be like. I empathize with those who loved it as it exactly was, but for me, this aligns far better to what I'd want out of Ravenloft than the 2e version did. [/QUOTE]
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