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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8272660" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>If we had got the stats for Maligno, dark lord of Odiare, this only would be for low-level players, but without stats, PCs don't know what is going to happen in Odiare. And there had been a lot of pages. It would be better to await for modules set in those dread domains.</p><p></p><p>Diamabael could be an interesting dark lord, but with some little retcon. He would start like a dethroned heir, a totally secular or lay background, a mixture of Spartacus, Robin Hood, Willian Tell, Paul Atreides (Frank Herber's Dune sage), Guy Hawknes (V of Vendetta), Robin Hood and Robespierre. He is a rebel leader, but also a caravan raider. The realm suffer a civil war, mixture of fight for the succesion (in the cultures with poligamy the firstborn isn't the heir usually) and religious conflict by different self-proclaimed prophets (of living idols, now practically demigods), or avatar/incarnations of the gods from the Pharaonic pantheon (or another Preislamic politeism from Middle East). He gets the power, becomes a new tyrant, and start a witch-hunt against those "idolaters" and the living idols, only allowing priests by a clergy totally controlled by the state (I think the term for that is "regalism", the opposite of Caesarpapism). Also he orderder of the extermination of the palace of staff, because he suspected (rightly) some nobility members were hidden among the servants. One of the warlocks before his execution warned him with a prophecy about his powers would be lost by hands of an celestial-blood(aasimar). And now lots of children with humans or another humanoid race are born with aasimar traits (even children by the members of the harem). I guess this can be used as a fabule against the false prophets but enoughly subtle and politically correct. </p><p></p><p>Other idea is "farm domains", demiplanes created by spellcasters, but "tainted" by the Dark Powers, as collaborator with a poisoned gift. These would be a relatively safe space, but sometimes visited by "predators" because their original "ecosystem" has hunted too many "preys" and this needs a "biological stop", also a trap because supernatural creatures could believe they have escaped, and they discover now they are in a zone where the native are totally ready to be not the prey any more.</p><p></p><p>The core will come back, but the domains within this will be according the level of popularity.</p><p></p><p>* The good horror games shouldn't be railroads. </p><p></p><p>Is not the novel Modderheim canon any more?</p><p></p><p><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5139093M7CL._SX299_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/RavenloftDarklords[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 8272660, member: 6802378"] If we had got the stats for Maligno, dark lord of Odiare, this only would be for low-level players, but without stats, PCs don't know what is going to happen in Odiare. And there had been a lot of pages. It would be better to await for modules set in those dread domains. Diamabael could be an interesting dark lord, but with some little retcon. He would start like a dethroned heir, a totally secular or lay background, a mixture of Spartacus, Robin Hood, Willian Tell, Paul Atreides (Frank Herber's Dune sage), Guy Hawknes (V of Vendetta), Robin Hood and Robespierre. He is a rebel leader, but also a caravan raider. The realm suffer a civil war, mixture of fight for the succesion (in the cultures with poligamy the firstborn isn't the heir usually) and religious conflict by different self-proclaimed prophets (of living idols, now practically demigods), or avatar/incarnations of the gods from the Pharaonic pantheon (or another Preislamic politeism from Middle East). He gets the power, becomes a new tyrant, and start a witch-hunt against those "idolaters" and the living idols, only allowing priests by a clergy totally controlled by the state (I think the term for that is "regalism", the opposite of Caesarpapism). Also he orderder of the extermination of the palace of staff, because he suspected (rightly) some nobility members were hidden among the servants. One of the warlocks before his execution warned him with a prophecy about his powers would be lost by hands of an celestial-blood(aasimar). And now lots of children with humans or another humanoid race are born with aasimar traits (even children by the members of the harem). I guess this can be used as a fabule against the false prophets but enoughly subtle and politically correct. Other idea is "farm domains", demiplanes created by spellcasters, but "tainted" by the Dark Powers, as collaborator with a poisoned gift. These would be a relatively safe space, but sometimes visited by "predators" because their original "ecosystem" has hunted too many "preys" and this needs a "biological stop", also a trap because supernatural creatures could believe they have escaped, and they discover now they are in a zone where the native are totally ready to be not the prey any more. The core will come back, but the domains within this will be according the level of popularity. * The good horror games shouldn't be railroads. Is not the novel Modderheim canon any more? [IMG]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5139093M7CL._SX299_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg[/IMG] [URL unfurl="true"]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/RavenloftDarklords[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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