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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8272026" data-attributes="member: 7635">I gotta admit, I was one of those idiots who paused-and-read the flip-through videos to see how certain things were changed. Somewhat because I am prepping for a new game shortly after it comes out and because I felt there was a lot of misconceptions born out of conjecture about what is changing. My takeaway from this is that the material is modular enough that you could use it to reverse engineer much of the old setting if you wanted to, or at least replace the parts you liked from the old setting, but I think people who are open to the change will find the new version is quite elegant and streamlined. Every domain has a hook that affects it directly that doesn't require the domain lord's direct intervention. For example, Dementllieu is a boring domain if you're not dealing with Dominic's manipulations, whereas the new domain's connection to false appearances, masquerades and such give you plenty of thematic elements without ever meeting Sadria. I think, based on what I've seen in your Gazetteer readthrough, you'll be happy with many of the changes. It addresses a lot of issues you often brought up, and by removing the Core and the metaplot, each domain becomes much more flavorful and unique. Its streamlined, its thematic, and it really does support both weekend-in-hell play and natives (every feature domain has info for playing natives of that domain). My general takeaway is that if you are open to change, you'll find a lot of good ideas in this book. If you are adamant about keeping Ravenloft like it was 30 years ago, you will find some but not as much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 8272026, member: 7635"] I gotta admit, I was one of those idiots who paused-and-read the flip-through videos to see how certain things were changed. Somewhat because I am prepping for a new game shortly after it comes out and because I felt there was a lot of misconceptions born out of conjecture about what is changing. My takeaway from this is that the material is modular enough that you could use it to reverse engineer much of the old setting if you wanted to, or at least replace the parts you liked from the old setting, but I think people who are open to the change will find the new version is quite elegant and streamlined. Every domain has a hook that affects it directly that doesn't require the domain lord's direct intervention. For example, Dementllieu is a boring domain if you're not dealing with Dominic's manipulations, whereas the new domain's connection to false appearances, masquerades and such give you plenty of thematic elements without ever meeting Sadria. I think, based on what I've seen in your Gazetteer readthrough, you'll be happy with many of the changes. It addresses a lot of issues you often brought up, and by removing the Core and the metaplot, each domain becomes much more flavorful and unique. Its streamlined, its thematic, and it really does support both weekend-in-hell play and natives (every feature domain has info for playing natives of that domain). My general takeaway is that if you are open to change, you'll find a lot of good ideas in this book. If you are adamant about keeping Ravenloft like it was 30 years ago, you will find some but not as much. [/QUOTE]

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