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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8229239" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>This is sort of what I was trying to get at. You don't need every character, male or female, to be about this, but I do think the majority should be focused on things related to love, family, etc. Or at the very least, you need some stand outs who are. Strahd's story has impact because it his love lead to jealousy and murder of his own brother, and the suicide of Tatyana. And he is the quintessential domain lord. If you are going to have tragic and cursed villains, they are going to be more relatable if they want things that people can identify with and understand. And if you want drama and melodrama, these kinds of backstories really fuel that. Yes you also want split personality psychos, mad scientists, religious fanatics, but even some of these characters can be rounded out with love in the motivations (not all need be). If you scrutinize characters like Mordenheim, he wants a baby too. Adam despises his father, but cannot bring himself to kill him. This is the kind of stuff that you often see in gothic horror. And let's not reduce characters like Aderre to one element of their backstory. There is usually a lot more going on with these charters than people are admitting because they want to pain them as badly written in order to make a point about how Ravenloft should be now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8229239, member: 85555"] This is sort of what I was trying to get at. You don't need every character, male or female, to be about this, but I do think the majority should be focused on things related to love, family, etc. Or at the very least, you need some stand outs who are. Strahd's story has impact because it his love lead to jealousy and murder of his own brother, and the suicide of Tatyana. And he is the quintessential domain lord. If you are going to have tragic and cursed villains, they are going to be more relatable if they want things that people can identify with and understand. And if you want drama and melodrama, these kinds of backstories really fuel that. Yes you also want split personality psychos, mad scientists, religious fanatics, but even some of these characters can be rounded out with love in the motivations (not all need be). If you scrutinize characters like Mordenheim, he wants a baby too. Adam despises his father, but cannot bring himself to kill him. This is the kind of stuff that you often see in gothic horror. And let's not reduce characters like Aderre to one element of their backstory. There is usually a lot more going on with these charters than people are admitting because they want to pain them as badly written in order to make a point about how Ravenloft should be now. [/QUOTE]

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