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Based on my collection of official, personal, and fan-made domains, I did create a cluster based around the New World/colonialism theme that mixes several ideas, including native domains, domains built around colonization, as well as later-stage revolutionary themes. Provisionally named the Manifest...

Was I'Cath any good? Magnificent. We've gone from an uninhabited domain that's little more than a glorified Chinese dungeon crawl to a complex, fleshed out realm. I'Cath has been rewritten from the ground up, and is now a city that exists simultaneously in both the waking world and the plane of dre...

Only until one of them decided she wanted something the other owns. Not sure either could obtain something the other owned, though. Stirix is, in all likelihood, a genius with a will of solid mithral. She managed to find a way to enter and leave the Demiplane of Dread, presumably in defiance of the...

Rock wrote:Only until one of them decided she wanted something the other owns.

Not sure either could obtain something the other owned, though.

Depending on how much your players know, isn't the *very much alive and not secretly a lich* king of Darkon ostensibly non-evil?

For Ravenloft (and historical) purposes, I think the local lord didn't give a dancing dead rat about how many people were there but cared more about "manors" and "acres" and "herds" etc. I.e. what I mean is that Lord_22 in Hazlan, doesn't care if his 5 vassal lords had...

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Interesting that he fell off a building. Was it the Reichenbach Hall, perhaps?

Where's a rotten tomato when you need one?

Census in France in the middle of the 100 years war? How was that even possible with literacy probably less than 25% ? I see it in wikipedia that a census of shorts was made for fiscal reasons in France 14th century but "original" census is listed as 19th century thing. I don't know, but ...

The 'official' population numbers are significant undercounts because they don't account for all these little, hidden populations. It is also worth wondering which domain governments actually carry out a census. None, I would say. Census was not a thing you did in the Feudal society. The king knew ...

Drakov's case is one of the few instances where I think I can follow their reasoning. Since the writer didn't want Drakov to be Ravenloft's Vlad the Impaler any more I believe Drakov is closer to Stalin/Hitler/Pol Pot/Mao Zedong than Vlad Tepes Dracula. Especially in the 3rd edition were his title ...

If I'm not mistaken, in addition to the 'PCs as undead slash undead as PCs' rules found with the Necropolis adventure(s), there was another D&D product that made werecreatures PC playable: Night Howlers wasn't officially a Ravenloft product (or even a 2nd Edition product; its compatible with I t...

The reason this kind of thing baffles me is that splitting the difference like that is just about guaranteed to split the existing fanbase on a product, which for an already niche product is rarely a good thing. You have to appeal to new buyers, but a big part of that is endorsements and praise fro...

I'd also take a moment to consider familial abuse can be some of the worst feeling horror when I watch movies that just make you feel uncomfortable when someone is taken advantage of or abused in such a way where there is a power dynamic. (not sure it matches his initial write up completely but you...

I look at it and go 'good luck proving that.' This is a dark-to-middle-ages setting where there's little serious travel, where everyone is suspicious of everyone else, and the overwhelming majority of the population is uncounted. Entire villages of dozens of families you can wander into in the middl...

I saw somewhere that the new Hiregaard is the daughter of Sir Tristan Not so much, it would seem: An unparalleled warrior, Myar Hiregaard united the nomadic tribes of the vast plains of Nova Vaasa. But, while respected as a soldier, Myar made a poor peacetime leader. When brutal games could no long...