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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8816733" data-attributes="member: 85555">Ravenloft is very dreamlike, so the basic idea is something I pulled from a concept I sometimes used in my more epic level wuxia campaigns (really getting into the realm of stuff like A Journey to the West more than wuxia), which is roughly a day in heaven in a hundred years on earth (which I used to degrees for different celestial realms to both create a sense of distance between them and our world, but also to allow for an interesting area of play where the players are functioning on a different time level than the people below them (so it kind of allows for this almost domain management approach to things). Here I've done something similar though it is very much more eyeballed as this is a highly casual campaign meant to just give them a taste of how I used to run Ravenloft and what Ravenloft was like in the 90s (so I am using heavier handed techniques than currently tend to). Basically years are elapsing for other characters that the players are interacting with as they spend time in the misty borders and in domains in the misty borders. So the player found a disciple in Darkon as he passed through and by the next month or so was in Moondale sending a message and receiving a message where it was clear the disciple had been spending time, possibly years, building up a religious community. Over the next few adventures he received more messages, and messages from new individuals, where it became clear this was spreading and building over many years. But the other player was also receiving word about their enemy who was enjoying a similar time advantage against the players. I should say, I don't normally do this time thing when I run Ravenloft, but I wanted a way to cater to the players desire to build religious communities and build a thieves network (these were tasks they started doing on their own). Because it was only going to be like an 8 adventure campaign, approaching time in this way allowed for them to get actual results from their efforts and for a nice series of things to unfold. This would be pretty hard for them to mistake as me forgetting about time, because they would receive letters, only a day after sending one out, that indicated massive elapses in time for the person they were communicating with.</blockquote>

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