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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8275941" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>Mind you, some of the old Ravenloft stuff was so far beyond this that WotC didn't even try to retcon it, (possibly for fear of drawing attention to it in the first place...) Tiyet, the Darklord of Sebua, whose damnation was fueled by her undying love for ... the powerful official who blackmailed her into sex. Or Pharazia, the only arabian-inspired domain to make it into a game book, where the Darklord was basically an <em>extremely </em>thinly disguised fanatical Mohammed copy. Or the Gentleman Caller, an incubus who used his magical abilities to seduce women and impregnate them, and, if I remember right, leave them hazy blissful memories of the encounter ... unless at some point in the future it amused him to withdraw his enchantment and let them remember the horrifying degradation and brutality they really experienced. </p><p></p><p>Yeah. Personally I found Vlad Drakov more unimaginative and over-the-top than problematic, but that's just speaking for me personally. And he was entirely myopically focused on conquering his neighbours (and being cursed to fail whenever he tried), which obviously ceases to work if all domains are islands in the mist. I don't mind Falkovnia getting a rewrite.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8275941, member: 5948"] Mind you, some of the old Ravenloft stuff was so far beyond this that WotC didn't even try to retcon it, (possibly for fear of drawing attention to it in the first place...) Tiyet, the Darklord of Sebua, whose damnation was fueled by her undying love for ... the powerful official who blackmailed her into sex. Or Pharazia, the only arabian-inspired domain to make it into a game book, where the Darklord was basically an [I]extremely [/I]thinly disguised fanatical Mohammed copy. Or the Gentleman Caller, an incubus who used his magical abilities to seduce women and impregnate them, and, if I remember right, leave them hazy blissful memories of the encounter ... unless at some point in the future it amused him to withdraw his enchantment and let them remember the horrifying degradation and brutality they really experienced. Yeah. Personally I found Vlad Drakov more unimaginative and over-the-top than problematic, but that's just speaking for me personally. And he was entirely myopically focused on conquering his neighbours (and being cursed to fail whenever he tried), which obviously ceases to work if all domains are islands in the mist. I don't mind Falkovnia getting a rewrite. [/QUOTE]
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