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<blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 8266100" data-attributes="member: 6563"><p>I just don't have the rose-tinted nostalgia glasses for Ravenloft the way some people do. I was a teenager when Ravenloft (the setting) first came out. Some of my friends were all in on the setting, but my thoughts on it at the time were that it was hokey and quaint. It was very Bela Lugosi and, well, to quote Bauhaus, "Bela Lugosi's Dead". The Universal Monsters had given way to rather different ideas of vampires and horror. Even Dracula had to have a facelift, giving way from Bela Lugosi to Christopher Lee to Gary Oldman. But Ravenloft never got the memo, and for the most part stayed chained to cliches and bad ripoffs of Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, etc. while rarely offering anything new or truly inspired or subversive (IMO). And, while I guess that can be fun, I never had as high of an opinion of the setting that my peers did.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I'm glad that the new Ravenloft is giving something more than the staid same-old-same-old and not hewing so closely to literature and movies. The setting can still be played with the old fluff and the old lore and the old tropes, but for me I'm interested in seeing the new twists it adds and its attempts to take on additional types of horror subgenres.</p><p></p><p>I fully welcome the new Falkovnia and Anhktepot's new look.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azzy, post: 8266100, member: 6563"] I just don't have the rose-tinted nostalgia glasses for Ravenloft the way some people do. I was a teenager when Ravenloft (the setting) first came out. Some of my friends were all in on the setting, but my thoughts on it at the time were that it was hokey and quaint. It was very Bela Lugosi and, well, to quote Bauhaus, "Bela Lugosi's Dead". The Universal Monsters had given way to rather different ideas of vampires and horror. Even Dracula had to have a facelift, giving way from Bela Lugosi to Christopher Lee to Gary Oldman. But Ravenloft never got the memo, and for the most part stayed chained to cliches and bad ripoffs of Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, etc. while rarely offering anything new or truly inspired or subversive (IMO). And, while I guess that can be fun, I never had as high of an opinion of the setting that my peers did. Personally, I'm glad that the new Ravenloft is giving something more than the staid same-old-same-old and not hewing so closely to literature and movies. The setting can still be played with the old fluff and the old lore and the old tropes, but for me I'm interested in seeing the new twists it adds and its attempts to take on additional types of horror subgenres. I fully welcome the new Falkovnia and Anhktepot's new look. [/QUOTE]
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