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Heh. It's not going to happen (too picky a detail), but it'd be amusing if the LoB book(s) eventually cleared up the question of how so many of the people from the old family trees -- including those who, it seems, are 100% "false history" -- wound up buried in the crypts under Castle Rave...

The whole vampire thing may not be the best option for a d20 Modern domain, IMO. If the DPs are going so far afield as to choose a darklord from a modern-day setting, why not pick a creature-type that's more archetypal of *contemporary* horror novels...? The "modern vampire", apart from be...

I may've said it before, but I think the Horseman converts to 3E better as a *trap* than as a monster. His number of attacks is limited and he's not supposed to be something the PCs can fight back against, so why not design him with the traps/hazards rules and avoid all the confusion of what his cre...

Personally, I see the "dread companion" issue as primarily a character-development device for the PC-familiar/mount relationship. Too often in D&D, this relationship is neglected or ignored, with the PC's animal being treated like a pet or, worse, a mobile magic item (i.e. tool). In a ...

While I don't personally subscribe to the "lab rat" hypothesis, those who do might be interested to hear that behavioral experiments on rats and other animals show that they respond better to conditioning (= training) if rewards for obedience are provided only *some* of the time. Slipping ...

To add a little thematic depth to the domain, perhaps you could add in a second academic-type -- perhaps even one based on Sir Charles Darwin himself -- who'd actually *invented* the concept of "natural selection", but who realizes that the darklord-scientist has grossly misinterpreted the...

Three hags- Did they EVER do anything? They do lure people in so they can eat them, that counts as something nasty if you ask me even if it is part of their nature as Hags. Except that they didn't start out as hags. They're once-human women who killed and ate people because it provided them a few l...