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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BB Shockwave" data-source="post: 9868427" data-attributes="member: 6799257">Looks pretty awesome. A proper dark, bloody revival of Ravenloft, not the neutered one where most Darklords had no stat blocks and nobody had alignments. Not to mention all the weird gender-swaps of characters like Doctor Victor Mordernheim, Adam, or Vlad Drakov - quite an unnecessary change, when Ravenloft had quite a large number of female Darklords already.  I was particularly annoyed that they replaced the super interesting Ulrich von Kharkov (a black Panther turned human, used as an unwilling assassin, gaining sentience, becoming a Vampire of the Khargat (Azalin's secret police) then gaining his own domain) with the really boring Chakuna.  I am surprised by Chtulhu being there, albeit more of a prisoner than a Darklord. And one of the artworks shows a Ythian! I think WotC did not use Lovecraftian mythos before, although they could have at any time, it is in the public domain  - and Paizo used it a lot already. The new player races are mostly ones we had before, but Lupins are interesting. Unlike the Mystara anthro Wolf-people these are a result of a botched infection of lycanthropy and have dread howl and unarmed attack abilities. I do like the artwork shown. Hope there will be minis too!Were they even used after 2E? [URL unfurl="true"]http://mojobob.com/roleplay/monstrousmanual/l/lupin.html[/URL]</blockquote>