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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NaturalZero" data-source="post: 8269465" data-attributes="member: 55705">I vaguely remember Masque of Red Death was a thing and planned to look it up. It was released after I had fallen out of following 2e but before I picked up the game with 3.5.In any other campaign, I'd have no problem coming up with a wild, fantastical magic solution to support the verisimilitude of the setting. I feel like the vibe of RL is pretty low magic, so this is a trick.Monster templates used to be a big deal and half-troll was on the list. Back in 3e, someone on the WotC forum brought up the idea of half-troll cattle that could be cut up into steaks and regenerated daily. Some sort of weird cattle that gets butchered -and re-butchered- every day could be pretty horrific and fit the setting. Add "slaughterhouse" to my list of horrific Victorian adventure sites.The Dark City angle is a good one. In the previews, they called out Dark City, so I'm expecting we'll have at least one domain with that theme.Hmm. Not-London is the big industrial supplier of the war effort in Falkovnia maybe?I think the idea that the dark powers need the population to persist as part of the domain's curse is pretty fair, thematically. The social network of an urban environment is the essence of the realm's nature and so the powers need the population to subsist for the dark lord's prison to exist intact.Alternatively, I'm now thinking of a "breadbasket" domain where they produce tons of food, but no one who lives there can eat it themselves. They export a lot but barely subsist because everything rots if left within the borders.</blockquote>

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