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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9607804" data-attributes="member: 85555">On this I do agree lol It depends on why one goes to Ravenloft. And this has been discussed extensively. I may just read the book to see what it is all about. But my misgivings come from things like the cover, like the fact that it is a whole party of characters (I think the best Ravenloft books stick to one or two main characters), that Ravenloft is meant to be human centric. You can have other characters brought in from other worlds. Knight of the Black Rose did this, and that story followed a lycanthrope and a death knight around, and it was a monster rally story. It can work. I'm not going to get super enthusiastic though about a party made up of a half-orc, teifling, a kenku, etc. I am sure this was handed to the writer, so it still could be good if the writer is good. But the way they have been dealing with Ravenloft it looks like they are moving it away from the whole gothic and classic horror and more towards a multi-genre horror setting (the cover gives me more Underworld vibes or Vampire the Masquerade vibes than Ravenloft vibes if that makes sense). If that were the cover of a Jim Butcher novel, I'd probably pick it up if I were still reading the series (there was nothing bad about the series, I just petered out by like the 6th or 7th book). There is a little too much attitude with the characters for me in a Ravenloft story</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9607804, member: 85555"] On this I do agree lol It depends on why one goes to Ravenloft. And this has been discussed extensively. I may just read the book to see what it is all about. But my misgivings come from things like the cover, like the fact that it is a whole party of characters (I think the best Ravenloft books stick to one or two main characters), that Ravenloft is meant to be human centric. You can have other characters brought in from other worlds. Knight of the Black Rose did this, and that story followed a lycanthrope and a death knight around, and it was a monster rally story. It can work. I'm not going to get super enthusiastic though about a party made up of a half-orc, teifling, a kenku, etc. I am sure this was handed to the writer, so it still could be good if the writer is good. But the way they have been dealing with Ravenloft it looks like they are moving it away from the whole gothic and classic horror and more towards a multi-genre horror setting (the cover gives me more Underworld vibes or Vampire the Masquerade vibes than Ravenloft vibes if that makes sense). If that were the cover of a Jim Butcher novel, I'd probably pick it up if I were still reading the series (there was nothing bad about the series, I just petered out by like the 6th or 7th book). There is a little too much attitude with the characters for me in a Ravenloft story [/QUOTE]

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