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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8103716" data-attributes="member: 4534">I agree with you.  In truth, I don't find it very useful to quibble overly much over whether or not something fits into a specific genre and that is especially true when we're talking about something so broad as science fiction, fantasy, or horror.  And we've all been around that guy who insists Star Wars is science fantasy and gets bent out of shape whenever someone says sci-fi instead of science fiction.  I am perfectly comfortable with labeling Ravenloft and its derivatives and adaptations as horror.  And Curse of Strahd did have at least one terrible encounter that made some of my players uncomfortable.  [spoiler]The priest who trapped his son in the basement of the church after Strahd turned him into a vampire hoping to find a cure.  When I ran the game, I had the son pleading with his father to set him free, asking what he had done to deserve such abuse, and complaining that he was so hungry.  The son wasn't at all hostile until the PCs went into the basement to kill him.  If anyone doesn't react with horror to a situation where you're killing someone's son in front of them you've got ice in your veins.[/spoiler]</blockquote>