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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 9336004" data-attributes="member: 945">The difference is that, in those stories, there's like ONE bad guy - one vampire, one werewolf, what have you. Feast of Goblyns literally has a tavern full of vile wolfweres that kill with impunity. The other thing is that - and I treat dragons like this in my "normal" campaign, is that they don't prey on people. A smart vampire would mostly feed on animals, just as a smart dragon is wise not to attack caravans and pilgrims on the roads. Neither would want to arouse a lot of suspicion and ire towards them. A dragon can occupy a part of the world for decades simply by feasting on the local fauna, but as soon as it chomps down on a group of merchants, adventurers are going to start hounding it until it's dead. A vampire would have to operate in the same way. A werewolf attacks blindly. You'd only kill one person close to you before you start going to bed with a manacle around your ankle tied to your bedpost. I see that a lot with regards to the townsfolk in these modules, too. The Rite of Terror in the Book of Crypts suffered from this. A dozen kids have gone missing just this month, and yet the townsfolk do... nothing? Like, Ravenloft or not, what kind of parent is just going to sit idly by because "well, that's life, I guess?" Good lord!I mean, I'm willing to fix some of these modules to a certain extent, but many of these are just broken beyond repair. That doesn't mean I haven't found some really good ones. I really like Night of the Walking Dead (and am working on a review of it currently). The 5e House of Lament is really solid. Neither Man nor Beast seems pretty solid, thought I haven't dug into it too hard. Chilling Tales has some really good adventures - Undying Justice, and The Scarlett Kiss are both excellent. The Cedar Chest in the Book of Crypts could be doable, but would take a fair amount of work to make sense. The Sea Wolf and Castles Forlorn also seem quite good. Not sure why people feel the need to justify that it's OK for there being so many bad modules. If I have to go through hoops to make a module believable and logical, it's not worth the effort, IMHO. Not when there are actual good modules out there that I can run without having to do that.</blockquote>

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