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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythago" data-source="post: 6208091" data-attributes="member: 3019">But isn't that the problem? These things are familiar. They're not scary. Hence the goofy cereals and the bad accent with the cape-flapping. Mummies are bad guys in lame adventure movies, etcetera.I'm not saying that Ravenloft is irrelevant or that the monsters you mention are irrelevant - only that it's tougher to make Strahd scary when people are used to thinking of vampires as sexy brooding immortal teenagers, or even good guys. Dr. Jekyll has a lot less punch in an era where people are not afraid of the Beast Within. And so on. It can be done! Just, oy.(Though, hm, you know, The Invisible Man could still mess with people even in an era of IR goggles and heat sensors. The idea of somebody you can't see who can see you just fine may well be a perfect monster in our own paranoid security-state age...)</blockquote>