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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 8279184" data-attributes="member: 17607"><p>Hear, hear. Let me try to get this discussion onto a more Ravenloft-specific topic. Specifically, despite the impression that much of 'classic' Ravenloft has changed for this book, there's a surprising amount of that classic material that still applies, or can at least inform the current lore, and it's not just the names of old domains.</p><p></p><p>Out on another discussion board, there's a 'let's read' of the Swords & Sorcery Ravenloft Gazetteers, not in response to the 5E book (the thread was started well before the book was even announced), but it's gone slowly enough so that right now the discussion is up to the entry on Darkon. At one point in the chronicle, 'S' points out that, as a student in Il Aluk prior to the Requiem, she found an old tome that identified the ruler of Darkon prior to the rise of Azalin -- the ruler that Azalin supposedly defeated to take the throne -- as 'Firan Darcalus Zal'honan'.</p><p></p><p>Knowing that, go back and re-read the sections on p.90 and p.181 of this book; any interesting ideas now bouncing around in your head?</p><p></p><p>Just because Ravenloft is different in 5E doesn't mean the older lore still isn't usable or relevant to the stories you might want to tell there.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>Pauper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 8279184, member: 17607"] Hear, hear. Let me try to get this discussion onto a more Ravenloft-specific topic. Specifically, despite the impression that much of 'classic' Ravenloft has changed for this book, there's a surprising amount of that classic material that still applies, or can at least inform the current lore, and it's not just the names of old domains. Out on another discussion board, there's a 'let's read' of the Swords & Sorcery Ravenloft Gazetteers, not in response to the 5E book (the thread was started well before the book was even announced), but it's gone slowly enough so that right now the discussion is up to the entry on Darkon. At one point in the chronicle, 'S' points out that, as a student in Il Aluk prior to the Requiem, she found an old tome that identified the ruler of Darkon prior to the rise of Azalin -- the ruler that Azalin supposedly defeated to take the throne -- as 'Firan Darcalus Zal'honan'. Knowing that, go back and re-read the sections on p.90 and p.181 of this book; any interesting ideas now bouncing around in your head? Just because Ravenloft is different in 5E doesn't mean the older lore still isn't usable or relevant to the stories you might want to tell there. -- Pauper [/QUOTE]
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