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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9710970" data-attributes="member: 2209">I love 2e and 3e Ravenloft and ran a couple campaigns in the setting.The <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2478/ravenloft-3-0?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">3.0 campaign setting book</a> is fantastic, it is player oriented including a gazetteer of the core and islands that reveals no spoilers on stuff like even who the dark lords are (sometimes they are the political ruler, sometimes they are the big boogeyman monster of the domain, sometimes they are entirely behind the scenes). So it can completely be run as a dark fantasy gothic horror setting backdrop even with all the dark lord stuff rewritten or absent if you want. The only non player stuff is the monster templates at the end appendices to power up vampires and such age categories and unique power choices.It was the late <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17525/ravenloft-domains-of-dread-2e?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">2e Domains of Dread</a> book though that shifted the default to being campaigns of natives instead of probably outsiders being sucked in. 5e turned most everything into mini isolated domains of nightmare as opposed to a D&D setting with strong ghost and vampire themes to deal with. I ran Ravenloft as a coherent setting for long term campaigns since the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17474/ravenloft-realm-of-terror-2e?src=hottest_filtered&affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">original 2e black box</a>.It is easy to do a dark fantasy Solomon Kane vibe in Ravenloft, witch hunting is definitely a thing that vibes well with the setting as well as the sword and black powder aesthetic fitting right into a bunch of the domains. Diablo is a bit more of a stretch as Ravenloft fiends when they show up are usually unique villains and rare and kind of against the default gothic horror unique villain with a tragic revealed backstory baseline. You do not normally get the horde of demons in a dungeon in the default gothic horror tone. Although it would be easy enough to throw the d20 Diablo book stuff including the megadungeon into any Ravenloft village if you wanted. The isolated nature and small population of Ravenloft would explain why it is really up to the party to handle the recently uncovered demon dungeon.</blockquote>

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