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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9272374">Well I would still be in Massachusetts, but I might be missing out. However these things are not equivalent. Not meeting the governor is equivalent to not meeting Strahd. You can not meet the governor and still interact with people from Massachusetts and see sights in massachusetts.Not encountering Starhd in Barovia isn't the same as not encountering anyone in barovia.But to continue with this analogy, to me if I am in a Ravenloft game and the first thing the GM does is have Strahd show up. That is like going to massachusetts and hitting the Witch Museum. It feels like a tourist trapNow you are adding things though. The question is whether the dark lords are featured, not whether you also eschew a domain's themes. I mean if I set an adventure in Kartakass, wolfweres, music and werewolves are going to feature in. But Harkon Lukas doesn't have to show up to make sure we are playing Ravenloft the right way. I don't know, I have been running Ravenloft since the black boxed set came out and while I certainly have had players face off or deal directly with dark lords, those instances always feel too on the nose for me, and its the sessions that are modeled more after the monster hunts in the Van Richten books that really feel like Ravnloft to me.</blockquote>