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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 4704665" data-attributes="member: 4086">True. I seem to be having trouble making my point. Mechanically, 4E would be fairly easy to modify to fit Ravenloft in several ways, and is in some cases superior to previous versions. (I remain agnostic about how well the tactical combat emphasis would work with the setting.) As a game or culture, though, I think the 'core D&D experience' that drives so much of 4E design is distant enough from Ravenloft that either the 4E designers will have to let some of it go if they do Ravenloft 4E, or Ravenloft will have to undergo some changes of its own.   You may be right. I admit that worry about that tactical emphasis and a general ambivalence about 4E means I haven't delved deep into the system and looked at trying to make it work for Ravenloft. Still, the general zeitgeist of the systems seems friendly to tinkering with basic mechanics in AD&D than 4E, although I admit that 4E is tremendously extensible off its baseline. But my concern in the thread that spawned this discussion was less "Can 4E and Ravenloft be made to fit together?" (enough people seem to be doing it, and I'm sure that it will do for most gamers who already know and love the setting and want to use the system) than "Will WotC be willing to make the sacrifices needed to make 4E work with the Ravenloft I know and love, or will the setting have to be sacrificed to the system?"</blockquote>