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Does it say anywhere how Elana feels about arcane magic? Knee-jerk reaction for me is that she despises it. For her it's mocking the miracles of divine magic, but I'm always interested in other peoples' thoughts on the matter. Speaking of rules I realize that there are more morality rules in Nidala ...

That's kind of my take on it too really. The only reason that Elana is a 'blackguard' is because she lost her powers outside the mist. Then again I'm assuming that Elana has paladins in the first place. By the by I'm giving Elana a few torturers. They'll be heresy hunters in a sense. While she has l...

Good point about about that being Elana's alignment not the paladins' in question. But I'm assuming that the clergy teaches her views on religion. Anything else would be viewed as heretical and thus punishable by death. And that's where I was looking at rather than a paladin from Nidala. Though I ha...

Do you let the paladin's alignment drift to fit their ideals or do you strip them of their paladinhood if they drift from their alignment. The reason I ask is particularly paladins of Belenus in Nidala would be lawful evil instead of lawful good.

My favorite dark lord has to be Ebonbane. I just love the idea of the monster trapped within the house. Then again I just love the whole Shadowborn story line. Elana is a close second but she's apart of the Shadowborn cluster so much I really want to run a campaign. Preferably with a child or great ...

I know it's not original, but what if we flipped the theme darkness within the light. Focus on the good within Ravenloft, but with the twist that no one in Ravenloft is without taint or sin.

With the magic weapons and items it's to enhance the strength of the warrior. Magic itself is used by old white bearded people to again kill the more skilled more armored opponent.

I've been thinking heavily about this myself lately. I think that while he's in control and his will is absolute people under him are cambering for his respect and attention. This leads to some things that might go against his will. Such as firearms and gunpowder being used in the ministry of scien...

What muskets did is less get rid of the need for training but changed what kind of training was needed and sped up the training process. If all you do is hand some poor schlep a musket what you get is a poor schlep with a musket not a soldier. What it doesn't take is a lifetime of practice but a fe...

So in the end I've decided to go with a caliban. I think having a half fiend would be trying to put hammer in a concept into place. Not to mention I can really make the caliban what I want it.

And I understand that fiends are not just a source of evil. They are evil given form. It's not just a succubus it's the embodiment of lust, seduction, and betrayal given feminine form. They shouldn't be within Ravenloft nearly that often and often not by choice. Okay that being said my idea is a gen...

And I understand there. It was just an idea to be honest.

Save for the summoned ones I think each one should be born of a great evil. One that at least creates a level 3 sinkhole of evil. Then again I almost feel these fiends need to really reflect the evil that created the sinkhole.

Just out of curiosity do you use fiends and half fiends in your campaign? If you do how do you use them? To be honest I'm timid about adding something so high fantasy into the setting without understanding their role. Even as simple as something as transposition intimidates me. I'm leaning towards a...

My problem is that I don't want to make the salient powers too powerful. On top of that some of these salient powers are passive or used out of combat. I'm not stacking all twelve onto my lich all at the same time of course. To be honest I need to look at a 5th level spell to make bleeding purge ser...