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While too nonsenicle to really have a Ravenloft fell, the Lucio Fulci 'Gates of Hell' trilogy (City of the Living Dead, The Beyond, House by the Cemetary). His style was very much dream-like, with story being secondary to terrifying and enthralling the audiance. In a way, this makes it great for so...

(Excerpts from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Sea of Sorrows, Oct. 14, 741 BC) The preparations for this voyage were rushed and it shows. I've been forced to hand out meals from my everfull sack of food to account for a dangerous lack of provisions, when I'm not hanging over the side vomiting...

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Miskatonic, MA, Aug. 7, 2011) I have to give the "psychics" at the Office some credit. They were right that something was going to happen involving the supernatural. Just wrong that it would intrude into the physical plane. This morning t...

A party of 13-15 level NPCs in Gothic earth will cut through that Qabal of yours like hot butter if the Qabal pushes things. Pretty much this. The power level gap between outlanders and GE natives is lopsided in the favor of the former in the 19th Century. The outlanders' better grasp of magic woul...

I actually hesitate to post this because it's much more comedic than horrific but The Boneyard (1991) has some things that fit well with Ravenloft. The curse that Mr. Chen and his ancestors labored under keeping kyonshis (properly chiang-shi, since Mr. Chen is Chinese) pacified to prevent them from ...

The fenhounds in Denizens of Darkness/Dread for 3.0/3.5 are based on the hound from The Hound of the Baskervilles , which itself was based on the black shuck of Celtic folklore. They hunt down those who have failed powers checks in a swamp, marsh, or fen and seek to destroy them. But the Ravenloft ...

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Draper, UT, Aug. 2, 2011) I'm almost embarrassed at how both Kyra and I handled what happened in Nohoro. We've clearly lost our touch when it comes to using all the resources at our disposal. The necromantic miasma wasn't so thick that spells and p...

There was a request for British Isles accurate supernatural beings. Has DND ever statted anything like the ghostly black dogs from Celtic folklore? The fenhounds in Denizens of Darkness/Dread for 3.0/3.5 are based on the hound from The Hound of the Baskervilles , which itself was based on the black...

40K is a tabletop war game. Forget the over-the-top sci-fi aesthetic and just focus on that fact. War isn't gothic; it's horrific but it's not gothic. Everything can be gothic. I doubt you could turn W40K's lore into anything gothic. Unless you mean as a template. In that regard the Empire of Man i...

40K is a tabletop war game. Forget the over-the-top sci-fi aesthetic and just focus on that fact. War isn't gothic; it's horrific but it's not gothic.

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Nohoro, Japan, July 31, 2011) It's been two days since I last wrote and we've been busy searching every building in the town, as well as shutting down anything left on and otherwise cleaning things up out of respect for the dead. The authorities ca...

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Nohoro, Japan, July 29, 2011) I took first watch so Kyra could rest and regain her spells. The town's streetlights still came on automatically and gave the place an almost peaceful look at night. But the knowledge of what had happened just kept cre...

One idea I've been tossing around in my head for The Lost Journals is a nomadic tribe in Nova Vaasa made up of calibans and humans who do not fit in with the Vaasi culture. Ones that take in abandoned caliban children and raise them with a sense of pride in what and who they are and act as a counter...

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Salt Lake City, UT, July 26, 2011) The OSA has given me and Kyra and assignment but not one in the States. It's over in Japan, a request from a government-backed organization called the Phantom Hunters Society. There has been some trouble with an a...