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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8207193" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>Gygax liked very narrow distinctions (<em>how </em>many creatures were made based on various spellings of Norse dwarves and elves?). It would have been interesting to have had a much looser "afterlife" then what we ended up with. What little I know about the planes in 4e seems to indicate that it could have been a better way to go.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I hadn't heard of that before! Has it been printed yet?</p><p></p><p></p><p>I think the main idea is that there are scholars with lots of ideas, but absolutely no way to test them and they're probably wrong anyway, except for the bit about the Dark Powers and the Mists being two separate entities/groups/minds/whatever. </p><p></p><p>I always assumed that the only scholars who studied Ravenloft were those who lived in it, but sometimes their books got loose. </p><p></p><p>One of the more amusing non-canon ideas is that the Dark Powers are not, in fact, evil at all, since they only target people who actively commit evil (except for Strahd in the very beginning, but he was thinking about it) and only imprison the worst of the worst.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8207193, member: 6915329"] Gygax liked very narrow distinctions ([I]how [/I]many creatures were made based on various spellings of Norse dwarves and elves?). It would have been interesting to have had a much looser "afterlife" then what we ended up with. What little I know about the planes in 4e seems to indicate that it could have been a better way to go. I hadn't heard of that before! Has it been printed yet? I think the main idea is that there are scholars with lots of ideas, but absolutely no way to test them and they're probably wrong anyway, except for the bit about the Dark Powers and the Mists being two separate entities/groups/minds/whatever. I always assumed that the only scholars who studied Ravenloft were those who lived in it, but sometimes their books got loose. One of the more amusing non-canon ideas is that the Dark Powers are not, in fact, evil at all, since they only target people who actively commit evil (except for Strahd in the very beginning, but he was thinking about it) and only imprison the worst of the worst. [/QUOTE]
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