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<blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 4103107" data-attributes="member: 12386"><p>Expedition to Ravenloft is quite likely the most disappointing adventure I have ever purchased. I'm normally a big fan of James Wyatt, and WotC has really been hitting adventures out of the park recently (IMO, of course), so it's really, really, REALLY annoying that one of my two favorite adventures of all time is the lone misfire of the past few years.</p><p></p><p>Spoliers Follow.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The biggest issue that I have with the module is that the designers decided to tear Ravenloft away from its Gothic Horror roots by cramming in as many different types of Horror as possible.</p><p></p><p>* You've got a zombie movie (the plague)</p><p>* You've got a Chainsaw Massacre (the dwarven serial killer)</p><p>* You've got a guy messing with "things man was not meant to know" (Danovich)</p><p>* You've got Lovecraft (the Garden, the Blood God)</p><p></p><p>You have SO many references to different horror genres that the original gothic feel of Ravenloft is drowned out and muted. Even worse, some of the other changes were excellent and inspired, making the generic mess of the theme even more tragic. Making Eva a hag and the head of a coven? Genius! But she's wasted as a simple encounter rather than as a tragic figure mourning Strahd's betrayal of the land, which I think would be amazingly cool and very in line with the original.</p><p></p><p>I think you're on the right track. I'd re-institute the original flavor of Ravenloft by stripping away some of the more egregious references to other horror genres. Get rid of the zombie plague. Eliminate the Dwarf Psychopath. Remove Cthulhu's Topiary.</p><p></p><p>I'd also re-work Eva into a much more complicated figure- she was originally a nymph of the land, right? Wouldn't she be torn between her own survival and the desire to purge purge away Strad's influence, which she might see as a betrayal? (She might also feel guilty for being complicit in this betrayal). Maybe once her two sister die she'll willingly take her own life- something along those lines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Puggins, post: 4103107, member: 12386"] Expedition to Ravenloft is quite likely the most disappointing adventure I have ever purchased. I'm normally a big fan of James Wyatt, and WotC has really been hitting adventures out of the park recently (IMO, of course), so it's really, really, REALLY annoying that one of my two favorite adventures of all time is the lone misfire of the past few years. Spoliers Follow. The biggest issue that I have with the module is that the designers decided to tear Ravenloft away from its Gothic Horror roots by cramming in as many different types of Horror as possible. * You've got a zombie movie (the plague) * You've got a Chainsaw Massacre (the dwarven serial killer) * You've got a guy messing with "things man was not meant to know" (Danovich) * You've got Lovecraft (the Garden, the Blood God) You have SO many references to different horror genres that the original gothic feel of Ravenloft is drowned out and muted. Even worse, some of the other changes were excellent and inspired, making the generic mess of the theme even more tragic. Making Eva a hag and the head of a coven? Genius! But she's wasted as a simple encounter rather than as a tragic figure mourning Strahd's betrayal of the land, which I think would be amazingly cool and very in line with the original. I think you're on the right track. I'd re-institute the original flavor of Ravenloft by stripping away some of the more egregious references to other horror genres. Get rid of the zombie plague. Eliminate the Dwarf Psychopath. Remove Cthulhu's Topiary. I'd also re-work Eva into a much more complicated figure- she was originally a nymph of the land, right? Wouldn't she be torn between her own survival and the desire to purge purge away Strad's influence, which she might see as a betrayal? (She might also feel guilty for being complicit in this betrayal). Maybe once her two sister die she'll willingly take her own life- something along those lines. [/QUOTE]
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