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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 721501" data-attributes="member: 2182">Some of the Ravenloft stuff was kind of hokey, but there are some cool ideas in there.Cool Stuff: 1. The Nightmare Lands: Sleep becomes your worst enemy.  Dreams that become so real that they can affect you physically and mentally during the day.2. The Dark Powers: Who are they?  What are they?  Good or Evil?  The biggest mystery of Ravenloft is left up to the DM.3. Monsters: The standard D&D monsters with a twist.  Glass Golems (Remember Young Sherlock Holmes?), Assassin Imps, Demihuman Vampires, Goblyns (Not the standard D&D goblin, but a horrible flesh eating monster) to name a few.4. The Carnival: A twisted freak show that transforms people who dwell around it too long.Hokey Stuff:1. All the D&D crossovers: Sure it's cool to take characters from other game worlds to Ravenloft, but do we really need Domains based off of every published setting?  Luckily White Wolf has done a good job untangling Ravenloft from the web of crossover fever.2. Rokushima Taiyoo: Why do we need another generic psuedo-Japanese domain?  Besides that it seems silly that all the islands of Rokushima Taiyoo are just names of real world countries in Japanese (e.g. Beikoku=America)  Why couldn't they have used names that had sinister meanings in Japanese?3. That generic Egyption domain:  Another generic Egyption world.  This has been done to death.  First Forgotten Realms, now Ravenloft.4. Trying to combine Medieval with Gothic: Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't.  Sometimes it seems weird to have illustrations of NPCs wearing Victorian style garments while in a medieval world.  Luckily White Wolf has done a fair job of making the world more consistant with the introduction of Cultural Levels applied to all the domains.Just my 2 cps</blockquote>

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