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<blockquote data-quote="Wraith Form" data-source="post: 2677795" data-attributes="member: 10789"><p>I think it's these two quotes from the original post that steers the rest of us toward suggesting Midnight...I mean, you basically described a more modern, Tolkien-lite version of how I see Midnight to play out. Midnight does not HAVE to be a bleak, "you can never win" setting. (In fact, I very <strong><em>very</em></strong> firmly believe that's not the intention behind it at all.)</p><p></p><p>Your description also sounds a LOT like Ravenloft, but maybe if RL was accelerated a few decades or even centuries into the future. Most of the sources you listed were "classic," such as the Universal Studios monsters (the big 4 - Lugosi as Drac, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Chaney as the Wolfman). Ravenloft really doesn't stray too far from those origins. There *is* a 1890's version of Ravenloft, which I'm sure you know about--it's called Masque of the Red Death. This might be a very good fit for the setting you've detailed.</p><p></p><p>I hope these little suggestions help...?</p><p></p><p>I know it's often hard to put in words the mood, feel and themes we have in our heads (oh, believe me--I've agonized over various "concepts" for months at a time)...but, if you could clarify just a little more what it is about the sources you quoted--specifically the movies, especially the more modern ones--that you want to include in the setting it'd be helpful for us to make further suggestions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wraith Form, post: 2677795, member: 10789"] I think it's these two quotes from the original post that steers the rest of us toward suggesting Midnight...I mean, you basically described a more modern, Tolkien-lite version of how I see Midnight to play out. Midnight does not HAVE to be a bleak, "you can never win" setting. (In fact, I very [B][I]very[/I][/B] firmly believe that's not the intention behind it at all.) Your description also sounds a LOT like Ravenloft, but maybe if RL was accelerated a few decades or even centuries into the future. Most of the sources you listed were "classic," such as the Universal Studios monsters (the big 4 - Lugosi as Drac, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Chaney as the Wolfman). Ravenloft really doesn't stray too far from those origins. There *is* a 1890's version of Ravenloft, which I'm sure you know about--it's called Masque of the Red Death. This might be a very good fit for the setting you've detailed. I hope these little suggestions help...? I know it's often hard to put in words the mood, feel and themes we have in our heads (oh, believe me--I've agonized over various "concepts" for months at a time)...but, if you could clarify just a little more what it is about the sources you quoted--specifically the movies, especially the more modern ones--that you want to include in the setting it'd be helpful for us to make further suggestions. [/QUOTE]
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