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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9607817" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>Yeah Ravenloft's big appeal when they put out the boxed using the old module as a foundation, was gothic horror and classic horror. It was for people who largely liked older horror movies, who had an interest in stuff like Frankenstein. And it contrasted itself with the more gorey horror that was popular at the time. I like that stuff too. But I grew up watching universal horror movies and once I found Ravenloft I got deep into gothic horror, so the setting loses a lot of its sizzle for me when it just becomes a generic horror setting. And they did incorporate other elements over the years but it was a pretty conservative approach (like the one taken in the Guide to the Created for bringing Mike Myers type figures-----the black box is outright hostile to the slasher genre). But Ravenloft is all about mood and atmosphere, classic horror tropes, the slow building of horror. I think the one genre that does fit Ravenloft and can be folded in more organically is body horror because its approach to building horror works very well with that (and even one of the adventure seeds in the black box was body horror inspired by alien)</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9607817, member: 85555"] Yeah Ravenloft's big appeal when they put out the boxed using the old module as a foundation, was gothic horror and classic horror. It was for people who largely liked older horror movies, who had an interest in stuff like Frankenstein. And it contrasted itself with the more gorey horror that was popular at the time. I like that stuff too. But I grew up watching universal horror movies and once I found Ravenloft I got deep into gothic horror, so the setting loses a lot of its sizzle for me when it just becomes a generic horror setting. And they did incorporate other elements over the years but it was a pretty conservative approach (like the one taken in the Guide to the Created for bringing Mike Myers type figures-----the black box is outright hostile to the slasher genre). But Ravenloft is all about mood and atmosphere, classic horror tropes, the slow building of horror. I think the one genre that does fit Ravenloft and can be folded in more organically is body horror because its approach to building horror works very well with that (and even one of the adventure seeds in the black box was body horror inspired by alien) [/QUOTE]

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