Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4661942" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think the core story of Ravenloft depends on which side of the shadowy line your character is going to be played on.   Played in a heroic mold, the can best be expressed by looking at the core story of Tolkien's work: "For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty forever beyond its reach." - The Two TowersPlayed straight, the core story is how people - perhaps with shadowy pasts and shaky holds on their sanity - can nonetheless triumph in the darkness simply by being the smallest of lights but refusing to be extinguished.   The idea her is to somehow validate existence in the very face of the worst possible nightmare.  I think it would attract players with a flair for drama and who are wanting to up the ante abit from your standard dungeon crawl.I imagine that you can also play Ravenloft from the vantage point of agents of shadow, in something that for me would be 'Edward Gorey' style.  In this case, the core story is probably something like, "Throughly vile protagonists with darkness in their hearts and a tenuous grasp on their sanity find themselves saving the day and all the little in the world that is good, not out of any particularly alturistic motive, but because the soul destroying alien horrors that are the protagonists foils refuse to share the scraps."  In this case, the campaign is probably (or hopefully) infused with macabre humor, and would attract players who do alot of method acting and could sustain comic improv.  I suppose you could also play it straight, but if you did I think you'd be in serious risk of Darker And Edgier trope abuse.</blockquote>

Verification