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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9470907" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>Grand Conjunction was pretty well received in its time. SO were a number of the metaplots in other settings. I think where people have objected to changes with the newer version of Ravenloft is stuff that fundamentally alters the feel (i.e. shifting to multi-genre horror, reconceptualizing it as everything being more like an island of dread, etc). For me I ran Ravenloft 2E through all the 90s and into the 3E era using the Sword and Sorcery stuff. I found it didn't run as well for me with the 3E system and the more white wolf vibe of the d20 material. But all three iterations of 2E Ravenloft were good. I like the broad stroke and simple approach that the black box set uses so that is my preferred, but I am still running it with DoD at the able sometimes and I can appreciate the value it brings (one thing I didn't like about DoD was its shift back towards heroic fantasy----some people did like that, but the thing I loved about the first two setting books for Ravenloft was that heavy gothic tone the art and setting material struck, sometimes to the point of feeling well outside normal D&amp;D time frames (which I quite liked). In fairness though, DoD did in some ways lean into this by including cultural levels so some domains could be further advanced and others more medieval. Personally I liked how Ravenloft didn't feel like standard Medieval Fantasy</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9470907, member: 85555"] Grand Conjunction was pretty well received in its time. SO were a number of the metaplots in other settings. I think where people have objected to changes with the newer version of Ravenloft is stuff that fundamentally alters the feel (i.e. shifting to multi-genre horror, reconceptualizing it as everything being more like an island of dread, etc). For me I ran Ravenloft 2E through all the 90s and into the 3E era using the Sword and Sorcery stuff. I found it didn't run as well for me with the 3E system and the more white wolf vibe of the d20 material. But all three iterations of 2E Ravenloft were good. I like the broad stroke and simple approach that the black box set uses so that is my preferred, but I am still running it with DoD at the able sometimes and I can appreciate the value it brings (one thing I didn't like about DoD was its shift back towards heroic fantasy----some people did like that, but the thing I loved about the first two setting books for Ravenloft was that heavy gothic tone the art and setting material struck, sometimes to the point of feeling well outside normal D&D time frames (which I quite liked). In fairness though, DoD did in some ways lean into this by including cultural levels so some domains could be further advanced and others more medieval. Personally I liked how Ravenloft didn't feel like standard Medieval Fantasy [/QUOTE]

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