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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8207319" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>I once used the mists & Dark Powers as a malfunctioning rescue eldritch machine for an advanced civilization (dhakaani) who created a domain(or more) as a safe room kind of thing that is powered by the dread/despair/etc of the poor schlebs on the surface & of course they treated the surface folk there like a particularly immoral reality show producer/voting audience might treat contestants complete with a darklord just as helpless as the new arrivals trying to fix up the place <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />. I don't think there's ever been a concrete answer on what is good & evil but they are at least <em>probably</em> more evil than not.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't think they were ever defined in any "I can touch them" state either, more like knowing a black hole exists because of the ways it affects the surrounding universe <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> About the most concrete description of the Dark Powers is from exploring eberron & is talking about mabar's Dark Powers but still doesn't get very concrete</p><p>[ATTACH=full]133229[/ATTACH]</p><p>For the most part that could largely apply to the Ravenloft ones too & in a way knowing it is even worse for a PC. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>People escape from Ravenloft from time to time, often more than once only to be pulled back each time things are going right for them again in some cases <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> Those "scholars" could be as simple as a legitimate scholar like a psychiatrist who tries to help that poor 30 year old guy they found in the asylum on & off for the last several hundred years... "Unfortunately it seems like his room is empty.. again.. but why are the first few pages of this completely filled journal from his room identical to my notes from that session yesterday?... aged yes... but even the coffee stain is the same... how could this be?!" <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8207319, member: 93670"] I once used the mists & Dark Powers as a malfunctioning rescue eldritch machine for an advanced civilization (dhakaani) who created a domain(or more) as a safe room kind of thing that is powered by the dread/despair/etc of the poor schlebs on the surface & of course they treated the surface folk there like a particularly immoral reality show producer/voting audience might treat contestants complete with a darklord just as helpless as the new arrivals trying to fix up the place :D. I don't think there's ever been a concrete answer on what is good & evil but they are at least [I]probably[/I] more evil than not. I don't think they were ever defined in any "I can touch them" state either, more like knowing a black hole exists because of the ways it affects the surrounding universe :D About the most concrete description of the Dark Powers is from exploring eberron & is talking about mabar's Dark Powers but still doesn't get very concrete [ATTACH type="full" alt="1614157919807.png"]133229[/ATTACH] For the most part that could largely apply to the Ravenloft ones too & in a way knowing it is even worse for a PC. :D People escape from Ravenloft from time to time, often more than once only to be pulled back each time things are going right for them again in some cases :D Those "scholars" could be as simple as a legitimate scholar like a psychiatrist who tries to help that poor 30 year old guy they found in the asylum on & off for the last several hundred years... "Unfortunately it seems like his room is empty.. again.. but why are the first few pages of this completely filled journal from his room identical to my notes from that session yesterday?... aged yes... but even the coffee stain is the same... how could this be?!" :D [/QUOTE]
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