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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkKestral" data-source="post: 4662691" data-attributes="member: 40100">Well, my problem is.. it really depends on the theme. "Bram Stoker's Dracula" Strahd is going to be different from Hammer Horror Strahd and both are going to be a lot different than "Interview With the Vampire" Strahd. They're fundamentally different types of stories. The first is about a relatively normal man learning of a great evil and eventually challenging it and winning, the second is going to be a lot more bloody and gruesome and will feature more over-the-top fights between skilled opponents, and the third is going to be about a descent into darkness.In some, the "monster" wins, and some, the monster loses. Likewise, in some, the monster's "defeat" comes through exploiting a weakness, and in others, it's simply a matter of surviving long enough for its wrath to be deflected elsewhere or to naturally abate of it's own accord. In some, the player is the monster, and the story is thus how they go from moral human to amoral monster, while in others, the player is the monster hunter, and the story is how they go from unaware nobody to heroic monster killer. In some, it would be a bad idea to go beyond Paragon or even Heroic tier; in others, starting at Paragon and finishing in epic might not be a bad idea at all.</blockquote>