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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9497651" data-attributes="member: 5948">I haven’t (of course) read this, and to be honest I’m unlikely to. But I’m going to offer an old-ish school defence of it from a ravenloft point of view.First, we have a group of PCs pulled into Ravenloft by the Mists. This is of course classic Ravenloft, none of that stuff with native inhabitants of the Core (which I loved and was my preferred way of doing things, btw). There is absolutely nothing inconsistent with even old-school Ravenloft here. Even back in the old days, PCs were assumed to be pulled into the mists from another setting. These days that setting is quite likely to be tiefling-heavy Exandria or similar, but back in the day, you reckon Ravenloft parties weren’t filled with overpowered bladesinger elves from FRs ‘mooooore elf sub races!!!’ phase, or annoying kender or weirdos from Spelljammer? Hell, TSR themselves forcibly shoved Dark Sun into ravenloft, so you could play a mul or thri-keen there too!Secondly, I kinda like how the blurb calls out the main character’s character flaws. Prideful, embittered, etc. Experiencing the consequences of your own flaws, your own sins is of course CLASSIC Gothic and classic Ravenloft, an aspect that the 5e iteration completely abandoned, to my sorrow. But I have hope that this book may indeed explore that aspect a little. Of course, at least one of the party needs to die or turn evil for it to be really Ravenlofty, and I suspect that won’t happen.But I think this might not quite be as much of a desecration as some are perhaps expecting.</blockquote>

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