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Still on this, might even make something of it for my games, down the road.
Saw something on Reddit that echoes what I've been looking for:

https://www.reddit.com/r/horrorlit/comm ... ic_horror/

There was a writeup of an Ahab expy darklord/domain Captain Jacobi Robertson/Whal in the Kargatane's Book of Sorrows. It focuses on orca whales, however. Jacobi is cursed with orca whale lycanthropy. Meredoth's horror from QtR 9 might potentially qualify in a whale role, but it's actually a dire sh...

Aaaaaaah. Now I get the idea - I think. Thank you! I have been following the news on this, checked the artwork here and there, but really - couldn't make the proper connections, given that I skipped most of 4e and 5e. - Like, I recently bought the "Haven" box set by Gamelords (from 1982) o...

Thanks, mate! I'll probably write something later, in greater detail, but for now: If this was my campaign, I would probably make Queequeg another tattooed Hazlani - just because it plays towards an established trope within the setting. Also, I would probably make the whale the DL, not Ahab - if onl...

Thank you, Ron! How does this "Domains of Delight" stuff fit in with the other Ravenloft stuff, though? Is it at all related, or is it more of an "option" to place it in RL?

Hey, I'm asking all the wrong questions during my "Shadowborn"- and "Chapelwaite"-fueled journey back into Ravenloft, and so - I wonder, do we have a Ravenloft spin on "Moby Dick"? I believed there had been one, but it turned out to be this "generic" novel: ht...

Oh, of course! And I love them dearly! Especially in retrospect, they are pretty remarkable. I don't think there was ever a bigger love letter to the golden age of AD&D than those five booklets, even beyond the love that Greyhawk still gets. :) I mentioned the 2e stuff, though, because there we ...

On the risk of making a fool of myself: Can one of you that are less out of the loop than I am give me a breakdown as to where Ravenloft is, right now? Like, a "buyer's guide to 5e Ravenloft" perhaps? :) Posting this here because with all of the recent publications, I figured more folks th...

...Des Moines, Iowa, definitely a place to avoid, then.

Hey, found this on Facebook, is pretty rad: https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27292 https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fDcAAOSw6IVgxAkR/s-l1600.jpg More pictures where this one is from, didn't want to leech their content. The image link is to Ebay, though, so some of you more avid ...

A Ravenloft T.V.-series... What a concept. But would it be a cartoon or live-action? And who would they use as P.O.V.-characters? I think people have been pushing the envelope on that one, only quite recently, say, with Netflix' "Castlevania". Shows like that, industry standard, one of th...

Yeah, you pretty much nail it, as far as I see things: This is not a matter of valuating content on the readers' side. It's a simple matter of lazy and/or unmotivated writing. Not a big deal, really, if, as I say above, we at least get a decent adventure out of it. Like, how do you phrase it in Engl...

Thanks for the kind words, man. - The overall problem I have with the wanna-be-woke writing in the field of RPGs is that the respective authors - we have talked about Jessica Price in this thread already - use their political attitude to justify their bad writing. "Tokenism" happens when y...

Thanks, guys! Not mapping out the adventure, just yet, but rereading the "Shadowborn" novel. no opinion on the details yet, mainly looking how I can fit all of this into my own home setting. - Looking interesting so far, especially since the implied setting for the novel is so D&D-frie...

Not gonna lie to you, I'm as oldschool a D&D fan as you can ever be, and I don't mind updating the older settings according to more modern standards. (Still waiting for a version of "Dragonlance" in which women aren't generally presented as idiots, for example.) That said, this new tak...