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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 9171633" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>I'll be honest, I don't share [USER=8461]@Alzrius[/USER]'s enthusiasm for Ravenloft, anything but. It's the one 2e setting I have the least interest in and the only thing I am interested in doing with it is running good old I6 as a special Halloween game. I don't like horror or find it scary, after all my favorite vampire movie is Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Of course, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/unpopular-opinion-d-d-is-a-terrible-venue-for-horror.675105/post-8100595" target="_blank">I've stated before my opinion that D&D is unsuitable for horror and my general contempt for the genre</a>, so combined with the focus on more narrative gameplay which is something else I have little interest in, it's no stretch that Ravenloft isn't really to my taste. That whole intro about making monsters more scary rolls my eyes today, but that's the MCA1 version which seemed impressive when I was 19, but not anymore. They're just ogres, and being coy about things was a trend of the times I don't agree with. To keep players on their toes, I prefer digging through lots and lots of monsters and using unusual stuff than pretending standard MM stuff is something different. Maybe in the context of a Ravenloft game it works though.</p><p></p><p>OTOH, I actually like MC10. There's a decent selection of monsters in here, and they don't feel like they're confined to Ravenloft. While I dislike horror, I do like some of the aesthetics of Gothic horror that Ravenloft does. I'd use that in the game, but not really expect the players to be frightened by it. I mean they have a cleric, right? Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised by this one, enough to regret not picking up the softback reprint when it was released.</p><p></p><p>Side note: AI typing suggestions continue to be stupid, my tablet keeps suggesting "truck" after monster. Not as bad as <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/complete-looking-back-at-the-leatherette-series-phbr-dmgr-hr-and-more.677493/post-8220487" target="_blank">the iPad that thought "turtle" was the best follow up to ninja though</a>. (Which interestingly enough was in Alzrius's first retrospective thread.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orius, post: 9171633, member: 8863"] I'll be honest, I don't share [USER=8461]@Alzrius[/USER]'s enthusiasm for Ravenloft, anything but. It's the one 2e setting I have the least interest in and the only thing I am interested in doing with it is running good old I6 as a special Halloween game. I don't like horror or find it scary, after all my favorite vampire movie is Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Of course, [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/unpopular-opinion-d-d-is-a-terrible-venue-for-horror.675105/post-8100595']I've stated before my opinion that D&D is unsuitable for horror and my general contempt for the genre[/URL], so combined with the focus on more narrative gameplay which is something else I have little interest in, it's no stretch that Ravenloft isn't really to my taste. That whole intro about making monsters more scary rolls my eyes today, but that's the MCA1 version which seemed impressive when I was 19, but not anymore. They're just ogres, and being coy about things was a trend of the times I don't agree with. To keep players on their toes, I prefer digging through lots and lots of monsters and using unusual stuff than pretending standard MM stuff is something different. Maybe in the context of a Ravenloft game it works though. OTOH, I actually like MC10. There's a decent selection of monsters in here, and they don't feel like they're confined to Ravenloft. While I dislike horror, I do like some of the aesthetics of Gothic horror that Ravenloft does. I'd use that in the game, but not really expect the players to be frightened by it. I mean they have a cleric, right? Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised by this one, enough to regret not picking up the softback reprint when it was released. Side note: AI typing suggestions continue to be stupid, my tablet keeps suggesting "truck" after monster. Not as bad as [url=https://www.enworld.org/threads/complete-looking-back-at-the-leatherette-series-phbr-dmgr-hr-and-more.677493/post-8220487]the iPad that thought "turtle" was the best follow up to ninja though[/url]. (Which interestingly enough was in Alzrius's first retrospective thread.) [/QUOTE]
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