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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7701420" data-attributes="member: 6677017">I didn't catch that! Thanks for bringing it up. It is potentially promising.I don't have the book. Does it actually outright contradict the existence of the Ravenloft demi-plane setting, or simply remain silent on anything outside of Barovia? For instance, I assume that in the adventure the Mists prevent you traveling outside Barovia, but as I understand it, lore states that Dreadlords can seal the borders to their domains, having exactly that effect. So if that is how they present it, it could be interpreted either as Barovia is a stand alone location, or it could be interpreted in harmony with 1e-3e lore.I could see them going either way with this. The DMG tended to take an inclusive and flexible approach to interpreting the multiverse, and one of the WotC staff said in response to a question about Ravenloft's location that Ravenloft is where it has always been. (Note the the DMG doesn't say that the domains actually exist in the Shadowfell, just that they can be reached through the Shadowfell.*) Still, they have occasionally taken a solid stance on something they could have left more open, for mysterious reasons, so it's possible they officially decided the demi-plane doesn't exist and it's just individual domains. *It does, however, refer to them as "demiplanes" in plural. However, the chapter also tells us that all the various planar connections are just someone's best guess, and people disagree. So maybe a lot of multiverse sages see the domains as separate demiplanes, while the most knowledgeable believe it is one plane in the Ethereal Plane (or vice versa). The chapter does however, seem to define the Dark Powers as actual beings (boo! hiss! let me define the plot device how I want!)</blockquote>

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