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<blockquote data-quote="Noctem" data-source="post: 6739349" data-attributes="member: 6801315"><p>Thanks for the responses! </p><p></p><p> [MENTION=7635]Remathilis[/MENTION]</p><p></p><p>Yes you're correct that it's not going to be Ravenloft as it has been presented before. The surival horror aspects are kind of from Black Company and yet not. I'm also going to be running the setting with a bigger map. For example, the aspects you mention about starvation and the like are worse in some places over others simply because those who have power have retained control over bastions of power (like large cities) and the like. So for them it's going ok, but for everone else it's a living hell. Plant life exists but not like it does in other settings. The elves who live in the last remaining forests have plants, those in the cities have plants, but outside of those areas plant life is struggling outside of corn which is one of the main foods for people to grow. Most of the open land within several miles of the cities has been planted with corn year after year. I'm still working on fleshing everything out in the OP and I'm totally open to any further details you want to share about Ravenloft and making it more pronounced. You mentioned gothic settings and the like, I was thinking of having the main cities be like that so that the players who get there for the first time have a sort of culture shock when seeing the way people dress, the way they live, the structures, etc.. So please do share <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p> [MENTION=6801670]Istbor[/MENTION]</p><p></p><p>I am really interested in that book however it's listed as 70~ american and I just don't have the cash to spend on it right now (I live in Canada). If you have any details about how you converted things to 5e or want to discuss the book for example, maybe some of the magic mechanics just to see what they are like, let me know <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Otherwise I will be using the stuff from 5e dnd.</p><p></p><p>And yeah I love TBC as well and I figured Ravenloft could offer an interesting setting for mixed campaign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noctem, post: 6739349, member: 6801315"] Thanks for the responses! [MENTION=7635]Remathilis[/MENTION] Yes you're correct that it's not going to be Ravenloft as it has been presented before. The surival horror aspects are kind of from Black Company and yet not. I'm also going to be running the setting with a bigger map. For example, the aspects you mention about starvation and the like are worse in some places over others simply because those who have power have retained control over bastions of power (like large cities) and the like. So for them it's going ok, but for everone else it's a living hell. Plant life exists but not like it does in other settings. The elves who live in the last remaining forests have plants, those in the cities have plants, but outside of those areas plant life is struggling outside of corn which is one of the main foods for people to grow. Most of the open land within several miles of the cities has been planted with corn year after year. I'm still working on fleshing everything out in the OP and I'm totally open to any further details you want to share about Ravenloft and making it more pronounced. You mentioned gothic settings and the like, I was thinking of having the main cities be like that so that the players who get there for the first time have a sort of culture shock when seeing the way people dress, the way they live, the structures, etc.. So please do share :) [MENTION=6801670]Istbor[/MENTION] I am really interested in that book however it's listed as 70~ american and I just don't have the cash to spend on it right now (I live in Canada). If you have any details about how you converted things to 5e or want to discuss the book for example, maybe some of the magic mechanics just to see what they are like, let me know :) Otherwise I will be using the stuff from 5e dnd. And yeah I love TBC as well and I figured Ravenloft could offer an interesting setting for mixed campaign. [/QUOTE]
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