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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 9375659" data-attributes="member: 27051">Really glad you posted this thread. I've been reading [USER=945]@der_kluge[/USER] review thread and didn't want to wade in and muddy the waters because it's such a cool thread. But wow, do I disagree with like 90% of the reviews there hahaha. So funny how opinions can be so far apart <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />We loved Feast of Goblyns. Jut adored it. Same for From the Shadows/Roots of Evil. Much of what seems to put people off the setting (the heavy-handedness, the stamping on PCs to make a point, the railroadyness etc) my groups love. Sometimes you want agency and narrative freedom and sometimes you want to be immersed in a directed narrative that delivers the goods. We use Ravenloft for the latter and it works every time.Except for House on Gryphon Hill. Every time I run that, it sucks. Which I don't get because it looks like it should work. But I can't get it to run properly. Maybe that's on me. Shame.But the others we've played (and yeah, I6 is still king because of course it is) all play waaaay better than they read. Touch of Death was excellent - have players who still talk about that - and Night of the Walking Dead was very cool as well. But yeah, we had people cheering when that horseman turned up in From the Shadows and started cutting heads and the players realised what was going on haha. They were like "Wait, is this Ravenloft?! Hell yeah!!!"</blockquote>

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