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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8582910" data-attributes="member: 19857">I mean, Ravenloft is a horror setting, not a heroic setting.  Dracula always comes back in the Hammer films, even if they have to deal with a contractually obligated Christopher Lee refusing to do anything but growl at the camera.  Jason will always rise from the grave to stalk another group of campers.  Freddy can be put down for a while, but he'll always come back to haunt another teenager's nightmare.  Frankentstein's creature will always be able to be revived by another mad doctor, and someone new will always put on a Ghostface mask to terrorize the people of Woodsboro.The heroes of a horror story solve the immediate problem and stop the monster for some period of time - but the possibility of the monster's return is always there.(Also I'm always amused by the idea that the people of Ravenloft are somehow "fake" because they're created by the Mists instead of by, i don't know, gods or something.  The Dark Powers of Ravenloft are pretty much gods - if they create people in their world how are they "fake" people?)</blockquote>