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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8272089" data-attributes="member: 6915329">As has been thoroughly gone-over, though, there was a lot of problematic stuff in Ravenloft. Stuff that could be used just fine in unofficial fan content, but not so much for official work.They could simply ignore Ravenloft, not updating it at all, But then the fans would be mad because their favorite setting is being ignored in favor of more Realms stuff or MtG settings or whatever.They could just release a book of the old domains, untouched except for the problematic stuff being removed. But then the fans would be mad that they're paying $50 for stuff that I already have in their 2e and 3e books. But that assumes that there's anything left to a domain after the problematic stuff has been removed. And it still leaves you with a very non-diverse setting. Even ignoring non-white ethnicities, it's still very male-based. And if the problematic stuff is removed but not replaced, then most of the female darklords, and many of the male ones, would be gone as well.They could just release a book of new domains and not touch the old ones. But then the fans would be mad that their favorite domains were ignored. After all, anyone can make new domains. If you don't mind 2e and 3e stuff, not only were there <s>three</s> two netbooks of fan-made domains (Edit: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070519192700/http://www.angelfire.com/co2/axismundi/900_netbooks_navigaccio.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.zayix.com/Media/netbooks/Ravenloft/ravenloft%20-%203e%20-%20netbook%20-%20nebula%20obscura.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>), but there were more in the <a href="http://www.kargatane.com/" target="_blank">Books of S___</a> and the <a href="http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/Library.html" target="_blank">Undead Sea Scrolls</a> netbooks, and probably still more in the Quoth the Raven netzines. On dndspeak.com there's a <a href="https://www.dndspeak.com/2018/11/01/100-new-darklords-and-domains-in-the-ravenloft-setting/" target="_blank">d100 list </a>of new Ravenloft domains (which OK, are only described in a sentence or three, but still, that's a hundred potential new domains that can be expanded upon and used) (there's also another one which had been <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191116051039/https://www.dndspeak.com/2019/11/100-more-darklords-and-domains-for-the-ravenloft-setting/" target="_blank">lost in the Mists</a>).So they're left with basically one option: Modify what exists, perhaps radically. Try to remove the problematic stuff and hope that what it's replaced by is good enough that even the old fans find something to like in it.</blockquote>

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