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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 9501779" data-attributes="member: 82524">No, because that's only one example of Ravenloft not being as real serious and look at my scars emo as people are remembering it through their nostalgia goggles.My introduction to the setting was an official novel about and evil cat man in a hilarious swing and a miss at both Jekyll and Hyde and Beauty and the Beast.The entire premise is a bunch of DM expies torturing the villains from other settings or implied setting for funsies. It was D&D fanfiction: the setting. 'dude, what if Lord Soth hung out and was sad at people in a time loop?'It was never a 'serious' setting. There were never any 'serious' settings* in D&D because D&D is goofy as hell.Maybe some people played it serious (or the kind of 'serious' high schoolers think they're being when they're being cringefully hilarious), but that was thier problem and it'd be nice to not have it made the rest of the world's problem when they're trying to enjoy their weekend in ironic hell.*yes, even that one. Especially that one. Cannibal halflings indeed.</blockquote>