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<blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 8362744" data-attributes="member: 6807784">I've never liked how the Core was marketed or written.The idea of a lone continent terrorized by Dark Powers who pull through time and space various evils to imprison in mist-bordered Domains of Dread is an interesting one, but not with the direction I read in the old 2E books. It felt like there was so much more of a fertile concept there that ended up being reduced down to a bunch of scared, unwitting, non-educated, and wholly ignorant NPCs who are constantly in fear of weird things in the mist. It isn't bad, per se, and for its time it was actually pretty revolutionary I think, but I really think the idea isn't pushed far enough.I'd like to make a version of the Core (with please another name &quot;the Core&quot; makes me think of something gross but not in a horror way) where the civilization there has adapted to the Domains of Dread filling the surrounding waters and appearing randomly in the land. Maybe the Domain's of Dread have appeared in vital places, like lakes and major rivers, destroying them. Now the civilization of the Core has to brave their fears and dive into the Domains of Dread to bring back resources to keep themselves afloat.Which, really, I just reinvented my own setting as a Ravenloft one here, so I think I'm being biased. But I still think you could really push the Core in a unique way, and if you didn't, I don't see much of a point for it existing at all in 5E Ravenloft.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shardstone, post: 8362744, member: 6807784"] I've never liked how the Core was marketed or written. The idea of a lone continent terrorized by Dark Powers who pull through time and space various evils to imprison in mist-bordered Domains of Dread is an interesting one, but not with the direction I read in the old 2E books. It felt like there was so much more of a fertile concept there that ended up being reduced down to a bunch of scared, unwitting, non-educated, and wholly ignorant NPCs who are constantly in fear of weird things in the mist. It isn't bad, per se, and for its time it was actually pretty revolutionary I think, but I really think the idea isn't pushed far enough. I'd like to make a version of the Core (with please another name "the Core" makes me think of something gross but not in a horror way) where the civilization there has adapted to the Domains of Dread filling the surrounding waters and appearing randomly in the land. Maybe the Domain's of Dread have appeared in vital places, like lakes and major rivers, destroying them. Now the civilization of the Core has to brave their fears and dive into the Domains of Dread to bring back resources to keep themselves afloat. Which, really, I just reinvented my own setting as a Ravenloft one here, so I think I'm being biased. But I still think you could really push the Core in a unique way, and if you didn't, I don't see much of a point for it existing at all in 5E Ravenloft. [/QUOTE]

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