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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9272674">That is fair. I can see how it would have an influence Many of them certainly don't stand the test of time. But they recruited some good writers for them as the line went on. And some stood out. Others were what you might expect from TSR era novels. Knight of the Black Rose is a book that stood out to me (I haven't read it in a while but I do recall that one really holding my attention). The sequel was also quite good. I Strahd was pretty good too (obviously the writer was limited by the subject matter though). And I recall liking Tapestry of Souls. Also I read a lot of horror novels in the 90s. There was a ton of trashy horror at that time all over the place (especially vampire books which were pretty huge). Sometimes though they were just good for helping bring a domain to life as a GM (I read Heart of Midnight soley because I wanted to have a more fleshed out sense of Kartakass). One book I remember really not liking was Mordenheim and I think it suffered from what a lot of TSR novels suffered from which was liberalizing setting and mechanical conceits (a good example of this is the forgotten realms books, Drizzt being told by a character "You're a ranger" when Drizzt is on a path of self discovery after leaving the under dark---that intrusion of the mechanic class into the story always felt weird to me). In Mordenheim the book has to justify his doubts about magic even though evidence of it is presented to him, and he starts calling it the 'new science'.  Oh man, I love the black box. The red box was good too, but for met hat first black box, realm of terror is what defined Ravenloft and it is what I look for in Ravenloft</blockquote>

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