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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5425059" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Believe it or not, Ravenloft is one of the few campaign settings that I have absolutely nothing from. If you know of specific stuff from it that would fit well with the ideas coming together here then I'm all ears.</p><p></p><p>Just had another brilliant brainstorming session with my wife over a tasty lunch (we're stuck at home today due to ice). I love having her as one of my players sometimes but man she's an AMAZING source of ideas when she's sitting a campaign out!</p><p></p><p>Couple of new ideas that came out of this discussion:</p><p></p><p>I think I'm going to tie my "talking skull" idea to my "Da Vinci Genius" idea and have it be HIS skull that they find at some point. Currently playing with two opposing ideas on that. One is that he was a genius/artist/inventor who got hit by a falling chunk of masonry and then began to have doomsday ideas of the Darkness coming again in a couple hundred years. The other is that he started as a normal worker helping to build one of the cathedrals and was hit on the head with a falling chunk of masonry, whereupon he became this genius/artist/inventor who was driven to build the orrery that presaged the coming Darkness. Either way his head injury resulted in the trepanning that included the gold plate on his skull that preserved his undead skull from the corruption of the Darkness.</p><p></p><p>Mr. Crow got some good ideas too. I like the notion that he's a sort of traveling storyteller/bard who knows the story of every major battle in history. Because he was THERE in the form of the crows who feasted upon the dead. He hopes that his tales of glory in battle will inspire people to fight thus providing more food for the crows. Furthermore, given the current state of civil war, his travels are allowing him to be an agent for multiple sides in the conflict. He gathers and relays intelligence for all sides in an effort to bring them into conflict early and often. I'm still not totally sure how I bring him into conflict with the PC's but I'm thinking that he might ask them to do some spying for him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rel, post: 5425059, member: 99"] Believe it or not, Ravenloft is one of the few campaign settings that I have absolutely nothing from. If you know of specific stuff from it that would fit well with the ideas coming together here then I'm all ears. Just had another brilliant brainstorming session with my wife over a tasty lunch (we're stuck at home today due to ice). I love having her as one of my players sometimes but man she's an AMAZING source of ideas when she's sitting a campaign out! Couple of new ideas that came out of this discussion: I think I'm going to tie my "talking skull" idea to my "Da Vinci Genius" idea and have it be HIS skull that they find at some point. Currently playing with two opposing ideas on that. One is that he was a genius/artist/inventor who got hit by a falling chunk of masonry and then began to have doomsday ideas of the Darkness coming again in a couple hundred years. The other is that he started as a normal worker helping to build one of the cathedrals and was hit on the head with a falling chunk of masonry, whereupon he became this genius/artist/inventor who was driven to build the orrery that presaged the coming Darkness. Either way his head injury resulted in the trepanning that included the gold plate on his skull that preserved his undead skull from the corruption of the Darkness. Mr. Crow got some good ideas too. I like the notion that he's a sort of traveling storyteller/bard who knows the story of every major battle in history. Because he was THERE in the form of the crows who feasted upon the dead. He hopes that his tales of glory in battle will inspire people to fight thus providing more food for the crows. Furthermore, given the current state of civil war, his travels are allowing him to be an agent for multiple sides in the conflict. He gathers and relays intelligence for all sides in an effort to bring them into conflict early and often. I'm still not totally sure how I bring him into conflict with the PC's but I'm thinking that he might ask them to do some spying for him. [/QUOTE]
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