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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5273951" data-attributes="member: 2067">I'd like to think WotC is better than that. They have remarkably creative people on board, and I've got confidence in their ability to expand D&D. If I was to do a "Monster Mash" supplement for  D&D, there's any number of possibilities (heck, re-use the Heroes of Horror title! Perfect!), without slapping a name on with little consideration for what that name means. I dunno, I see Strahd and their ilk as "Level 35 Solo" badasses in 4e. Or possibly lower-level, but the point remains: they're BBEGs. They're the Final Bosses. They're the people behind all the trouble the world is experiencing (or at least very nearly the people behind it). They're the ones you will work toward killing as you gain levels, since they cause overt suffering, and you know it, becuase you spend your lower levels working obliquely against that suffering. They're different in that they define the setting. Asmodeus is present in D&D, but the campaigns don't just revolve around him. There's plenty of evil big and small to take out in various places.A Ravenloft game might be like a regular D&D game set entirely in the Nine Hells. And I'd hope that a Ravenloft setting would give me rules that would help me do that as much as it would help me fight against The Mummy in a world where The Mummy is in control.</blockquote>