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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5273846" data-attributes="member: 82106">I can definitely see where you're coming from. OTOH suppose you're WotC and you decide you DO want to do a sort of 'Vampire Superheroes' kind of supplement. What WOULD you call it? There's one name that is classically associated with the whole concept of vampires and werewolves and such, and that name is 'Ravenloft'. They might well feel exactly the way you do about it in terms of it not being really the same thing as the original, but they'd still probably have to end up using the existing iconic name for it. In the end marketing trumps pretty much anything else when you're selling retail products... It will certainly be interesting to see what they end up with. Personally I was never a huge Ravenloft fan anyway. I did run the original module and it was a fun adventure, but on the whole D&D never did gothic horror that well and the Domains and all that went with it always felt kind of tacked onto the system. A module where you fight a vampire is one thing, but if you're going to make an entire campaign about that stuff it seems like there are a LOT better game systems out there to use than D&D, even with some added mechanics.</blockquote>