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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8229524">But Tristessa is a banshee. She rules a domain that is more in line with Forlorn. Characters like Ivana Boritsi or Jacqueline Renier are more for doing the kinds of spying and politicking that Azalin does. He has the biggest domain, but also the least gothic horror domain of all. I literally never once used the Kargat. Lords of smaller domains, were a lot more manageable I think in general. Darkon was just too big, too fantasy oriented and Azalin felt like someone's favorite that I was supposed to like but didn't.I do think you could have used more female lords controlling domains. You needed more female lords in general. One of the cool things about Ravenloft though is you can do that without throwing away the old stuff. It is amorphous and new domains can accrue to the core. So you can expand that greatly. If you are going to get rid of something, get rid of Darkon, change it to a mercantile empire rules by a vampire queen. That is better than the lich who drives all the worst meta plots (sorry I get passionate about this one <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Also, Tristesse may be thin (she wasn't even an entry beyond it saying she was a banshee in the original box: and later it was it was an interesting but incredibly focused character, which isn't and necessarily); but she was terrifying. Keening was one note. But what a note. Traveling through keening is one of the most harrowing things a party can do. Again this is all in service to horror, not in service to making the dark lords feel like they are more competent political leaders than other dark lords. The most interesting lords don't have what they want, and are often deeply flawed (that is why I think Drakov is more interesting than Azalin for example).</blockquote>

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