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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8229260" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>Unfortunately I lost my Darklords so I don't have access to that entry at the moment and can only go on two decades old memory. But in the black box, they are basically just described as hags. Very little is said about them. In DoD, the more striking characteristic is their cannibalism. It is a little difficult to boil that entry down to one thing. There is mention of a dandy they killed and fueled over, but like you say, even though this was the act that drew them in, it doesn't seem particularly defining. Just prior to that they were killing travelers and feeding them in a stew to their father and brothers. It does mention they can take any form but are never satisfied because they always see each other for the monsters they are. And there seems to be a sort of selfish jealousy at work (which was directed at a man in the case of the dandy but seems like it could be directed at anything). Personally I always liked this domain, and I liked the hags, but they, like most lords really, were background threat, and an explanation for the domains' character. </p><p></p><p>Something that I think is getting lost in this discussion is that, while the domain lords are important, they really weren't supposed to be the focus of play. People did play ravenloft as 'kill the domain lord' but 99 parent of my adventures never featured the domain lords at all. The ones I do remember running were the likes of Ivana Boritsi, Ivan Dilisnya, Jacqueline Renier, Vlad Drakov, Gabrieller Aderre, Strahd, Adam, and Harkon Lukas. I am sure there were plenty of others I ran, but those are the ones I recall coming up, and I remember enjoying running (my favorite to run was probably Harkon Lukas because he was fun, and Gabrielle Aderre for the reasons I already stated: also both are great characters for masterminding plots that lead to adventures for the players, but don't need to involve a direct confrontation with the domain lord). I feel like Soth came up too, and I've always liked him as a lord, but just can't recall at the moment if he did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8229260, member: 85555"] Unfortunately I lost my Darklords so I don't have access to that entry at the moment and can only go on two decades old memory. But in the black box, they are basically just described as hags. Very little is said about them. In DoD, the more striking characteristic is their cannibalism. It is a little difficult to boil that entry down to one thing. There is mention of a dandy they killed and fueled over, but like you say, even though this was the act that drew them in, it doesn't seem particularly defining. Just prior to that they were killing travelers and feeding them in a stew to their father and brothers. It does mention they can take any form but are never satisfied because they always see each other for the monsters they are. And there seems to be a sort of selfish jealousy at work (which was directed at a man in the case of the dandy but seems like it could be directed at anything). Personally I always liked this domain, and I liked the hags, but they, like most lords really, were background threat, and an explanation for the domains' character. Something that I think is getting lost in this discussion is that, while the domain lords are important, they really weren't supposed to be the focus of play. People did play ravenloft as 'kill the domain lord' but 99 parent of my adventures never featured the domain lords at all. The ones I do remember running were the likes of Ivana Boritsi, Ivan Dilisnya, Jacqueline Renier, Vlad Drakov, Gabrieller Aderre, Strahd, Adam, and Harkon Lukas. I am sure there were plenty of others I ran, but those are the ones I recall coming up, and I remember enjoying running (my favorite to run was probably Harkon Lukas because he was fun, and Gabrielle Aderre for the reasons I already stated: also both are great characters for masterminding plots that lead to adventures for the players, but don't need to involve a direct confrontation with the domain lord). I feel like Soth came up too, and I've always liked him as a lord, but just can't recall at the moment if he did. [/QUOTE]
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