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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3303766" data-attributes="member: 4937">I got some of that too, especially in the 'Witch Doctor' aspect.  But, I felt reading the adventure that it was intended to have a polynesian feel to it.  The original setting drew heavily on world civilizations (roman here, viking there, so forth).  My assumption upon a seeing scattered chain of islands isolated far from land was that Polynesia was being invoked.  The great statues from the former period were I thought meant to recall Easter Island and it's vanished civilization.  The great wall and the lost world beyond it, I took as inspired by the island of King Kong - which is not in the carribean but rather in the vaster and more mysterious expanse of the Pacific (as is Ryleh, which is I think also critical to the correct feel of the setting).  I typically depicted the surviving descendents of that earlier age as having much in common with the Māori.  That the survivors have access to necromancy is easily explained if you know something about the original adventurers true enemy, which I must say is greatly diminished from its original Cthullan roots if the island is just another demon haunted place.Meso-America is a great source of potential inspiration, but I don't think it has a thing to do with 'The Isle of Dread' and it inclines me to think that the design team behind 'Savage Tide' didn't really get it.  I suppose I should read thier stuff before judging it, but I must say it diminishes my enthusiasm for doing so.</blockquote>

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