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The Kargatine were also, frankly, way more fleshed out than the Kargat ever was, probably because the secret societies got real focus right around the time Azalin took his big dirt nap. A network of informants and researchers centered around the goal of immortality is a nice wrinkle that gives them ...

I feel like Kateri is what makes Ebonbane more interesting than your average fiend in a box. As far as demons and devils go, Ebonbane's committed the great mistake of being bested by a human not just physically but spiritually, but despite all of its terrible efforts has been unable to break the spi...

I've been pondering this a few days because I really like and respect how much work you put into this even if I find myself disagreeing with a lot of the creative decisions. The corrupted knights seem like promising characters, but most of them work just as well as cursed or afflicted characters who...

Your observations are very helpful. I never really understood why G'henna should be an island. Next to Falkovnia is perhaps odd, but isn't it more horrifying that everybody starves although all neighbours have plenty (like North Korea, for instance). Not sure if it should be in the Amber Wastes. Cu...

The late 2e developers were really, really into literal isolation and the threat of starvation as themes. Vorostokov, island G'Henna, landless Paridon that then also had a sewer full of hungry aliens to deal with... The only Domain I feel really needs this treatment is Vorostokov, because the need f...

Illustrated Guide to the Core had a really interesting pitch for a Strahd redemption arc, where the latest Tatyana incarnation actually lives until her 40s, and Strahd has to deal with the fact that he's been obsessed with this teenager he doesn't know for almost five hundred years....and now here s...

Honestly I don't get why the Dark Powers are interested in low end outsiders anyway. Minor devils, demons and angels barely have any of the personality flaws they love messing with. It feels like an old rule to keep too-clever players from escaping by abusing their summons and something you can alte...

Hey, Docbeard. Glad to see you. ^_^

Good to hear from you too! Nice to see some of the old gang still around.

I like the idea that Azalin started snatching territories the second Strahd did out of sheer pettiness.

Well what kind of 'learn' are we talking about? If you mean taking an individual failure and adjusting his tactics in response to it, Drakov does that in every version of canon. He wouldn't be an effective commander without the ability to assess a situation and take something back from a setback, an...

An Illustrated History of the Core proposed a very interesting take on Drakov, noting that he has had successful military ventures; he successfully waged war to force a beneficial treaty with Lamordia, the might of his armies have reshaped the Core with only Darkon able to thumb its nose at Drakov a...

Building on this..and wow it is weird seeing a thread I participated in when I was last active here come back to life...I feel like a Dread Possibility everyone's sort of slept on in canon is that Strahd is the first successful conqueror in Ravenloft's recent history. Think about it; most people's e...

Caliban is a cool name and it fits the "cursed hero" slot pretty well. You can always use half elves and hexbreed for the prettier type of magically doomed do-gooder. If you want to have a wider variety of caliban, maybe make them a theme? Then you can pick out exactly what deformities you...

My general feel on this is a little more narrativeist than the general convo here, but what the hell. There are, imo, two broad types of Ravenloft games. Outlander games, where the setting is an encounter to be survived or escaped, and native games, where it's a spooky campaign setting. These philos...

Has anyone ever integrated or used Rookhausen in their games? Apparently the only info is Hubbard's old archive, so we don't actually have any information on what was under the facade for the domain... I like the idea of a little something in that empty spot between Darkon and Nova Vaasa, though. Ro...