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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8232185"><p>This is obviously preference but I can say for sure, Ravenloft wasn’t about that with the black box. Especially when you apply the van Richten books (the seeds of which were in the RoT boxed set). The charm of the black box is it is highly evocative, gives great broad stroke descriptions of the works while leaving plenty of room for the GM to invent and add. It is minimal but that design works. That it is more ‘bare bones’ is what I like about it. The WE material felt off in tone, made it too much like a typical setting and the content just seemed not very impressive to me (more isn’t necessarily better). Ravenloft is a gothic, dreamy, demiplane. It has real people in it but it isn’t the sort of setting like forgetting realms where endlessly producing more setting canon adds to it: IMO it takes away. I did run the WW Ravenloft but it never resonated with me like the earlier material (and I never found it as successful in play). I know lots of people like it. I just can’t</p></blockquote><p></p>