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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 3110055" data-attributes="member: 30709">.....I'm sorry, I don't recall ever replying to a post of yours before.  (The one you quote was the first I've written on the topic of your comments on this adventure, certainly.)  I didn't realise I was going to touch a nerve here.  You can PM me if you want to talk about what I've said in the past.As for the my group concers vs general concers: Felon has a valid point in that not everyone who reads the sample does so planning to break an adventure, and may simply be idly considering running it and then later on another GM opts to use it instead.  But arguably, with a character as famous in D&D as Strahd, that's always going to be something of a problem: when the words "Vistani", "Barovia" or "Ireena" get used in an adventue, I know what I'd be suspecting OOC, even if I didn't know there was a new 3.5 version out.The reason I was "personalizing" it is because, well, there are some groups I've played with where that would be an issue, and otehrs where it wouldn't.  That can be a trust thng linked to metagame stuff, but it can also be as simple as "I know another player who sometimes GMs and he might check this book out to".  I know I've played in adventures before which are sample adventures for the campaign setting/system which I also owned, and so I knew (and had possibly ran as well) - does that ruin them?  Sometimes it takes away some of the fun, yes.I don't think it's a disaster that Strahd's stats are up online - but I'll at least concur that in a horror adventure in paticular, that information being public domain can ruin some of the tension.  Certainly, if someone asked me if I fancied playing in their Ravenloft game, I'd have to cross that hurdle.</blockquote>

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