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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorPain" data-source="post: 4666974" data-attributes="member: 82012">I am a little late to the discussion.  Is it that you don't like the domain and lord structure; or that you don't feel the specific features laid out in the original matierial within that structure can go? Or did I miss your statement entirely. I suppose the argument for keeping things the way they were, is most people who play Ravenloft probably don't just want a gothic horror setting; but want the Ravenloft setting itself. Just like someone who plays Dragonlance, doesn't just want an epic fantasy setting; they specifically want to play in the Dragonlance setting. Probably has a lot to do with nostalgia. With Ravenloft I think this is doubly the case; because it is a setting based on nostalgic tropes. I would be lying if I didn't admit part of the reason I fell in love with Ravenloft was it took characters and ideas from books and movies I had grown up on. Then I cut my teeth on Ravelnoft, and now when I play in the setting it reminds me of my early gaming days. I am all for someone developing a new Gothic Horror setting, or just a new horror setting (is any one really terrified by Gothic Horror any more ?). But if they release a book called Ravenloft, and it is something different from the original setting, I probably wont enjoy it as much. Even if what is in the book is objectively better than what was in the original boxed set; because the nostalgia wont be there.</blockquote>

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