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[Updated with cover!] The D&D Book Is.... Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft!
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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8207589" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Well, it seems the book has far more than vampires. </p><p></p><p>A Zombie Apocalypse setting</p><p>A setting with Lycan's attacking towns (picture) </p><p>A setting where you are in the jungle being hunted by the Dark Lord</p><p></p><p></p><p>And rules to create your own dread domains. Maybe a setting where ghosts never leave but always linger, feeding off of each other and possessing the living to continue their own existence. There was a setting mentioned about mad science, creatures altered and experimented upon to make new, horrifying existences. </p><p></p><p>There is a lot of good potential here beyond vampires and strahd</p><p></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>I do though worry, having recently gone through a rather painful experience where someone tried to run us through a module based in the Dread Domain of Vecna and Kas about the... tone is perhaps the right word. </p><p></p><p>An huge issue with that temporary mini-campaign that just drained the enthusiasm from the players (who to note, were never asked if they wanted this style of game, we just let the guy take the DM chair for a bit) was that it came down to obey Kas the evil Tyrant or Vecna the Mad Lich. </p><p></p><p>Now, if you present the players with this at session 0 and they agree to it, awesome, but it is incredibly difficult to get players to pick between two bad options. "Which end of the world do you help bring about" is a very bleak way of approaching a game, and not one that I've seen garner a lot of enthusiasm outside of an evil game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8207589, member: 6801228"] Well, it seems the book has far more than vampires. A Zombie Apocalypse setting A setting with Lycan's attacking towns (picture) A setting where you are in the jungle being hunted by the Dark Lord And rules to create your own dread domains. Maybe a setting where ghosts never leave but always linger, feeding off of each other and possessing the living to continue their own existence. There was a setting mentioned about mad science, creatures altered and experimented upon to make new, horrifying existences. There is a lot of good potential here beyond vampires and strahd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I do though worry, having recently gone through a rather painful experience where someone tried to run us through a module based in the Dread Domain of Vecna and Kas about the... tone is perhaps the right word. An huge issue with that temporary mini-campaign that just drained the enthusiasm from the players (who to note, were never asked if they wanted this style of game, we just let the guy take the DM chair for a bit) was that it came down to obey Kas the evil Tyrant or Vecna the Mad Lich. Now, if you present the players with this at session 0 and they agree to it, awesome, but it is incredibly difficult to get players to pick between two bad options. "Which end of the world do you help bring about" is a very bleak way of approaching a game, and not one that I've seen garner a lot of enthusiasm outside of an evil game. [/QUOTE]
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