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- Fri Mar 03, 2023 8:30 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Children of the Night: Walking Dead
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2367
Re: Children of the Night: Walking Dead
Ideally, you'd want to have at least one of each of the three subtypes of the Walking Dead. Several Restless and Hungry Dead examples have been provided, so I'd like to see one the exemplifies the terror of the Obedient Dead: -a minion of some kind (a mercenary, hitman, assassin, or perhaps even a f...
- Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:55 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The Black Vault Haul
- Replies: 85
- Views: 611421
Re: The Black Vault Haul
On the item's reported destroyed discussion, the continued existence of Peace's Pin implies at least one of the stolen items escaped destruction. The pin's description in Dragon 272 mentions that it was pocketed by one of Dr. VR's fellow vault raiders and given to a lover. Thereby, we know that at l...
- Tue Feb 28, 2023 12:43 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: ultimate Helm
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2455
Re: ultimate Helm
My memories of the Cloakmaster series are a bit spotty, but weren't there numerous ultimate helms and only one true Ultimate Helm? I seem to recall a space-dragon character had an ultimate helm and was hoping that she could claim the Spelljammer, but the book suggested it wouldn't have worked. No, ...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The Black Vault Haul
- Replies: 85
- Views: 611421
Re: The Black Vault Haul
Peace's Pin was actually detailed in canon. https://www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Peace%27s_Pin
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 11:24 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Publication in the Domains of Dread
- Replies: 8
- Views: 623
Re: Publication in the Domains of Dread
Vecna had a scriptorium operated by several zombie scribes in Cavitius (Die Vecna Die p. 77) He does?! Checks copy of Die Vecna Die oh wow he really does! That has soooo many opportunities. Vecna could publish so many foul texts or debilitating secrets with that, all he needs is a courier service t...
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 5:56 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Publication in the Domains of Dread
- Replies: 8
- Views: 623
Re: Publication in the Domains of Dread
Gaz III (p. 30) mentions a haunted printing press in Chateaufaux as of 746 BC, printing perverse messages in the dead of night to make its owner Jules D'Aubigne abandon and brick up his home where it was held. The appropriately if uncreatively named Printer's Shop is a print shop in Paridon and also...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 11:30 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Children of the Night: Giants
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10947
Re: Children of the Night: Giants
Giants more than a lot of creatures will be dependent upon their environments for horror, particularly with spaces that can obscure their forms. Giant redwood forests, snow drifts, sand dunes, briny swamps, misty mountains, even dark waters, all might give the characters a brief glimpse of the giant...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:20 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The Church of Zhakata and heresy of the Provider
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1214
Re: The Church of Zhakata and heresy of the Provider
The notion that light is gradually disappearing from the material world to return to its origin is a bit frightening. It implies we who are still here are left with ever more evil and ever less good... There's the seed for a Ravenloft domain / cosmlogy in there, I think. The Church of the Lawgiver ...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Favorite Non-Darklord NPCs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1052
Re: Favorite Non-Darklord NPCs
Dr. Gregorian Illhousen was a favorite of mine, for a few reasons. He's a good example of how non-adventurers can make a big difference. He has several interesting storylines. Independent of them, I found he was, as an oneirologist and an expert on the maladies of the mind, easy to slot into a coupl...
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:01 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Paths of Corruption
- Replies: 4
- Views: 455
Re: Paths of Corruption
I wouldn't imagine that the Dark Powers would give somebody a pass and allow their corruption to be slowed b/c the individual in question was not picky in the ways of sin. I COULD see them afflicting the individual with a jigsaw puzzle like path of corruption reflecting the patchwork nature of the t...
- Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:51 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Heroes and Villains
- Replies: 9
- Views: 746
Re: Heroes and Villains
Here's a go for Irik and Azalin in Darkon: In Darkon, we could have a reversal of Irik and Firan/Azalin. Actually, we could have both Iriks be more villainous. The brother Irik could've been the one to lead young Firan astray in the demon summoning. Firan went along with it for a while, but realizin...
- Mon Sep 12, 2022 7:59 am
- Forum: Gothic Earth Board
- Topic: Why are the Darklords well known?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4711
Re: Why are the Darklords well known?
Is it established that the fictional works featuring them exist in GE? I don't recall that. I would tend to say no they don't. You don't see Barovians reading "I, Strahd" and "Vampire of the Mists". Similarly, Bram Stoker's Dracula shouldn't exist in Gothic Earth for foes of act...
- Fri Aug 26, 2022 5:29 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Norse or Viking theme Domain
- Replies: 3
- Views: 528
Re: Norse or Viking theme Domain
There was the Northlands from USS 2002 and 2003, in the netbooks section.
Edit: The Frat's Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer had elements of this in Graben Island, especially in its history/false history.
Edit: The Frat's Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer had elements of this in Graben Island, especially in its history/false history.
- Tue Aug 23, 2022 10:47 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Fitting Ogresh into Ravenloft?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 637
Re: Fitting Ogresh into Ravenloft?
Giants are relatively rare in Ravenloft, appearing in Daglan (various types, although dissolved in canon), Invidia (mostly ogres, ettins, and giant-kin), Hazlan and Sithicus (ogres both), Monadhan (death giants) and Kalakeri (stone giants). If they were violently inclined, I could have seen them wor...
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:44 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Culinary dark lords?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1488
Re: Culinary dark lords?
Cockaigne of medieval folklore might serve as a basis for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockaigne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockaigne