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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 3971751" data-attributes="member: 20805">I think it would be interesting to alter the concept of domains much in the same way Expedition to Castle Ravenloft worked by tying key landmarks/sites to the powers of the domain. Eliminate the barriers to crossing from one domain to the other, but the domain advantages would keep the lords within thier area while allowing the others to roam, for once a Lord leaves their domain, the additional powers become domant and others can take over those key landmarks/sites easily.My home campaign is normally 'set' in Ravenloft, and most of the characters are not aware of the fact. Having it be a plane attached to the Material through the Shadowfell would be interesting, but cosmology doesn't matter much to me. The main issue is to make it so planar travel to and from is very difficult and dangerous.Unless you expect the domain lords to be undefeatable, the domains would have to be mutable, shifting locations. The Vistani could have a unigue ability to know how to get from one place to another without wandering into a dangerous area.I would reduce the impact of the Mists, leaving the 'snatched from the real world' effect to only one case, when a new Domain is grabbed. The main reason for the mists is to hide the mutable land and misdirect travelors. In the PoL conceit, the Mists become the real unknown terror that keeps villagers within the bounds of thier community for fear of becoming completely lost.Definately would need a good horror-stricken mechanic and some means of handling Taint <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />A campaign arc bridging the alterations between settings could be cool, if done right. Perhaps a DragonBorn domain appears and the warrior race pushes out against the other Lords and gaining enough power to push through the Shadowfell...and the PC's have to save the Material world by saving the Darklords  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I would like to see the Gazetters re-done in an edition-free setting book, with online addendums for the edition specific crunch. That way people could play Ravenloft with whatever rules they wanted.</blockquote>

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