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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8266899" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I got into Ravenloft my freshman year of Highschool. But I never took a class where they had us read Frankenstein. That said, the quote is right in the black box, so I made the connection. But it was easy enough to miss (and most of the people I knew at the time hadn't yet read Frankenstein even if they had seen the movies).</p><p></p><p>For me it didn't prompt an eye roll. I kind of liked it and probably chuckled a bit.</p><p></p><p>The whole Alucard thing though isn't something that most people figured out (I am sure many say they did now, but I remember the first time I encountered Alucard and had no idea what the name referred to). Sir Fangsalot is obviously much more easy to figure out. But with Adam, encountering him, you don't immediately know its Frankenstein's monster because he is named Adam (there are plenty of other reasons to name a character Adam), you know because he is a stitched together monstrosity who was made by a mad scientist. Also these are just some of the major characters, not all characters have those kinds of names. You won't know Harkon Lukas is a wolf-were because of his name for example.</p><p></p><p>I will say, perhaps in the internet age, names like that may need to be a step ahead and bit more clever. But a lot of people now, and not saying you did this, act like they have things figured out, act like they pieced these things together or knew about them ages ago, when really they just found out about them on the internet because someone else did all the heavy lifting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8266899, member: 85555"] I got into Ravenloft my freshman year of Highschool. But I never took a class where they had us read Frankenstein. That said, the quote is right in the black box, so I made the connection. But it was easy enough to miss (and most of the people I knew at the time hadn't yet read Frankenstein even if they had seen the movies). For me it didn't prompt an eye roll. I kind of liked it and probably chuckled a bit. The whole Alucard thing though isn't something that most people figured out (I am sure many say they did now, but I remember the first time I encountered Alucard and had no idea what the name referred to). Sir Fangsalot is obviously much more easy to figure out. But with Adam, encountering him, you don't immediately know its Frankenstein's monster because he is named Adam (there are plenty of other reasons to name a character Adam), you know because he is a stitched together monstrosity who was made by a mad scientist. Also these are just some of the major characters, not all characters have those kinds of names. You won't know Harkon Lukas is a wolf-were because of his name for example. I will say, perhaps in the internet age, names like that may need to be a step ahead and bit more clever. But a lot of people now, and not saying you did this, act like they have things figured out, act like they pieced these things together or knew about them ages ago, when really they just found out about them on the internet because someone else did all the heavy lifting. [/QUOTE]
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