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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 8273690" data-attributes="member: 27957">From what I've gathered (and few of us know for sure, with the book not official out yet) it's not that you can't kill Darklords. You totally can, and it triggers a period of peace (or chaos and destruction) for the Domain. It's that the Dark Powers often don't let the Darklord stay dead and bring them back in continued service of whatever their ultimate goal is. Except sometimes they decide that there's a better successor to inherit the Domain, or that the Domain has served its purpose and is to be decommissioned, or some other major change that suits their inscrutable whims.I get the sense they're trying to walk a line where killing the Darklord is a valid goal but isn't the automatic response to entering a new Domain. A lot of people have been copying the original Strahd adventure and treating it as the default purpose for Darklords, to be the BBEG to be killed, and I believe they're trying to move away from that.</blockquote>