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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8760116" data-attributes="member: 2629">I only use a few of the 'by the book' domains, and then only technically.  I can't recall a PC actually stepping foot in one, although they've heard of the Barovia in the land of Shadows.  My Ravenloft Domains are all places where horrific things took place in my campaign world.   For my campaign, the horrific thing causes enough horror that when the Shadowfell tries to mirror it, the Shadowfell is corrupted and manifests a 'tumor' that it seals off.  The beings in it are not technically real beings, but are instead reflections of the people there at the time of the event.  Many of them run on 'Groundhog Day' style repeat loops.  Others delve into abstract spirals that take the calamity down further and further decay and destruction.  Others develop a hunger for life and seek out ways to lure people in so that it can slowly sap their lifeforce.There was a Kingdom that fell 1000 years ago due to one bad decision,.  The result destroyed the kingdom, caused devastation across the globe (which is 12 times the size of earth on the surface and has a Dyson Sphere like interior Underdark nearly the same size) and cut the Gods off from the Prime Material Plane for a millenia.  The being that made that decision instantly understood what they did, and their anguish created a Ravenloft Domain that repeats that day over and over.  PCs that enter the Domain can try to change the results, but it does no good in the end as the day repeats anyways.  However, the PCs can wander through the domain and learn exactly what intrigue was going on that day, and can then apply that knowledge to their real world current challenges.  It is a very deadly environment, though, as the final hour of the day involves a near extinction level event centered on the Ravenloft Domain.  If the PCs do not find their way to safety the first day to stay protected through that first loop, they die and the Shadowfell swallows their souls,There is a small Ravenloft Domain that travels the seas of the Shadowfell.  It is a Spelljammer that crashed due to human error, and the crash killed the lover of the Captain.  Overcome with anguish, the Captain sails the Shadowfell Sea in search of the lost love, unable to believe they are gone, and obsessed with the idea everyone else is hiding the love.One of my largest cities has a vacant district.  People within it disappear.  They are drawn to the Shadowfell and into the Ravenloft Domain created when a child unleashed Devils into their manor home.  The Devils killed their siblings and them before their father put the Devils down - but the child dying with the belief that their acts caused the death of their family - and likely the entire city - created a Ravenloft Domain that slowly grows.  Within it, there is a 'Childish Horror Movie'  filled with a mix of 'Real World' Fiends and the stuff of a Child's Nightmares.  One might be assaulted by Chain Devils one moment  and then a colored wax drawing of a plant might come to life and try to crush them.  Or they may be run over by a stampede of stuffed horses.  Or they may find all of their food turn to rotten maggot infested brussel sprouts.</blockquote>

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