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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8205548" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Sure, sure but the last major Ravenloft setting edition was 2E, right? (Discounting the somewhat-altered White Wolf one for 3E). I have that, and basically the first thing that happens in it, is the author(s) launch into an accidentally hilarious hectoring rant about how modern horror sucks giant bowling balls and Gothic Horror which they basically define as Hammer Horror + 1800s horror novels was awesome and not dumb like this stuff kids today like. Basically starting the entire book out with a giant "GET OFF MY LAWN, KIDS!" about Gothic Horror.</p><p></p><p>And I think what Gothic Horror includes, now, in 2021, is a hell of a lot broader than what Gothic Horror included to the authors of the 2E Ravenloft. I honestly hope that whilst they might be consulted, they aren't the authors on this. At all. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that in 1990, it was reasonable to do what they did. Even a kid like me grew up with Hammer and similar constantly on TV (even into my late teens). But now we're looking at this much broader Gothic Horror oeuvre, which Japanese creators have really embraced, and maybe done a better job than Western creators with over the last couple of decades (I mean, I may be biased because last time I tried to read Thomas Ligotti I couldn't stop giggling), and rather than trying to keep harking back to that Hammer/Universal Horror era, which really a lot of Ravenloft springs out of, maybe we should y'known, have some new domains which aren't Hammer/Universal-derived but are maybe still Gothic Horror.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8205548, member: 18"] Sure, sure but the last major Ravenloft setting edition was 2E, right? (Discounting the somewhat-altered White Wolf one for 3E). I have that, and basically the first thing that happens in it, is the author(s) launch into an accidentally hilarious hectoring rant about how modern horror sucks giant bowling balls and Gothic Horror which they basically define as Hammer Horror + 1800s horror novels was awesome and not dumb like this stuff kids today like. Basically starting the entire book out with a giant "GET OFF MY LAWN, KIDS!" about Gothic Horror. And I think what Gothic Horror includes, now, in 2021, is a hell of a lot broader than what Gothic Horror included to the authors of the 2E Ravenloft. I honestly hope that whilst they might be consulted, they aren't the authors on this. At all. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that in 1990, it was reasonable to do what they did. Even a kid like me grew up with Hammer and similar constantly on TV (even into my late teens). But now we're looking at this much broader Gothic Horror oeuvre, which Japanese creators have really embraced, and maybe done a better job than Western creators with over the last couple of decades (I mean, I may be biased because last time I tried to read Thomas Ligotti I couldn't stop giggling), and rather than trying to keep harking back to that Hammer/Universal Horror era, which really a lot of Ravenloft springs out of, maybe we should y'known, have some new domains which aren't Hammer/Universal-derived but are maybe still Gothic Horror. [/QUOTE]
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