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- Thu May 09, 2024 8:30 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: 2nd edition rules question, please help!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 215
Re: 2nd edition rules question, please help!
Is Strongholds and Followers any good? That's a loaded question really, as it all depends on so many factors. Let me drop some biases first, followed by a few quick thoughts or opinions: 1. Any pdf that's asking for at least half of the price of a physical book with an equivalent page count is not w...
- Wed May 08, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: 2nd edition rules question, please help!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 215
Re: 2nd edition rules question, please help!
Strongholds and Followers is another good supplement for 5E too. Reminiscent of Basic (Expert/Companion/Master) rules D&D. Nice touch. I thought anyway.
- Wed May 08, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: 2nd edition rules question, please help!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 215
Re: 2nd edition rules question, please help!
Thanks man. Yeah, World Builder's Guidebook was a great jumpstart. Of course, after we all took a crack at mashed settings like "The Elven Realms" (pretty much FR, though with its paint scraped and without humans), "Dragonburn" (a peace offering to our one buddy who loved Dragonl...
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: 2nd edition rules question, please help!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 215
Re: 2nd edition rules question, please help!
Man, I have forgot how needlessly complex 2e was. Never liked it. Only 4e was worse. I always thought 2E was, by and large, a piecemeal game system. DMs (along with player preferences) added only what they wanted to add in order compliment their game. Hell, every table seemed so unique, so homebrew...
- Thu May 02, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Falk-fury rages on!
- Replies: 152
- Views: 47351
Re: Falk-fury rages on!
I prefer Falkovnia being about the horror of militarism, and having more hopespots. The "hopespot" in my mind's view of Falkovnia (wherein also lies a good portion of abject horror) lies in the Freemen of Falkovnia, or, a Ravenloftian version of the Special Operations Executive. It's a st...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Falk-fury rages on!
- Replies: 152
- Views: 47351
Re: Falk-fury rages on!
I think Falkovnia is best served with a focus on the exploitation of human evil. Ravenloft, in general, as a setting that has Dungeons and Dragons under the hood, not a game of Dungeons and Dragons does horror. If the spotlight shines on (or, too much on) anything other than the wretched (every civi...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:22 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: What I would like for QtR#30
- Replies: 68
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Re: What I would like for QtR#30
I'd like to see fresh new ideas for Ravenloft. NPCs, monsters, organisations, locations, a ton of adventure seeds, things of that nature. Maybe under something like "Ravenloft: Legends", but featuring both urban and rural varieties, in which only the reader can determine fact from fiction....
- Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:32 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
- Replies: 81
- Views: 11386
Re: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
That's the part I get. It's brilliantly simple really. They "give" their game to their fans, but maintain a legally-binding option for quality control (it's not self-help if somebody else wrote the book all the same, so gifting the game like this is equally subject to the harsh judgement o...
- Fri Jan 20, 2023 5:55 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Best system for Ravenloft?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3286
Re: Best system for Ravenloft?
I haven't done it, but the thought did cross my mind that Free League's Vaesen RPG could be a cool system to run Ravenloft through. Especially if you want a more basic, grounded/mundane approach. https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/vaesen/ Casting the Runes (Design Mechanism) could be cool too...
- Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:24 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
- Replies: 81
- Views: 11386
Re: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
Nice optics/turnabout, but is any OGL truly necessary? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/beware-gifts-dragons-how-dds-open-gaming-license-may-have-become-trap-creators https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2023/01/19/dungeons-and-dragons-open-game-license-wizards-of-the-coast-explained/ Thi...
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:55 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
- Replies: 81
- Views: 11386
Re: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
I got the core books (and bunch of other WotC books that were questionable buys; gave up after RL though; KS is solid enough though), and together with the forever imaginations of others like me (imagination runaways) that's all I need. Great that 5E has minimal game go time online, especially compa...
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:16 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
- Replies: 81
- Views: 11386
Re: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
Yeah, I read about that subscription leak earlier this evening/afternoon. If it's true (there was a same/similar-sounding confirmed hoax some time ago?), the corporate Wizards are so detatched from the game that's it's both sad and hilarious. $30 bucks a month if I want to share my homebrew? I don't...
- Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:46 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Help ameliorate an end of story arc horror scene!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 935
Re: Help ameliorate an end of story arc horror scene!
A long time ago back in high school myself and a few buddies were taking an early lunch, when, we happened to come up on a guy and gal arguing in the middle of the sidewalk. It was very heated to say the least. Anyway, buddy grabbed missus real hard by the arm and threw her to the ground. I stepped ...
- Mon Jan 16, 2023 9:10 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
- Replies: 81
- Views: 11386
Re: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
Personally, I don't attribute any company with anything remotely akin to altruism. Business is self-serving by nature, and moms and pops are moms and pops for a reason. If Paizo is confident that the current OGL is a safe harbour for their expressions of D&D (my gut says they agree, at least in ...
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 6:36 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The OGL, Ravenloft and You
- Replies: 81
- Views: 11386