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De Montour wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:00 pm I really enjoy Ravenloft using the Savage Worlds rules. There are several pdfs on this site of Ravenloft Ressurrected which is SW version of the setting. My own experiences are pre the availability of this using the White Wolf Books and mining the SW Rippers setting and SW Horror Companion for appropriate rules variations.

Rippers Resurrected also channels some of the SW Deadlands setting rules.

We mostly played a homebrewed adventure called Blood Moon over Borgu and a variation on Dark of the Moon.

It is an entirely different beast though and there are no CR ratings to tell you when your PCs are outclassed. It's pretty deadly.

Rock of the Fraternity wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 6:15 pm The best system to run Ravenloft is the system you prefer.
Ravenloft is a story; use the system you and your players prefer and just go and have an adventure in the Demiplane.
Use D&D. Use Anima Prime. Use Advanced Fighting Fantasy. Use 7th Sea. Heck, use the Amber Diceless TTRPG or homebrew something! Use whatever you like and enjoy the adventure.

Mephisto of the FoS wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:49 am Rock is right but since you are asking I have played only, 1e, 2e and 3e D&D, so I have no experience with other systems whatsoever. I can say that with the people I played with we were always trying a way to make the rules as more "realistic" as we could, which lead to nothing actually since we would have to change everything. Personally I prefer 3e (or 3.5e) to 2e as it gives more creativity and uniqueness to character creation in my opinion as well as finding it more realistic than 2e, as for instance the damage reduction power instead of just the hit by +1 or greater weapon of 2e, as well as others. When we played 2e we were really excited with the Critical Hit optional rules as they could make a 1HD monster or character kill a 20 HD one (if they were really lucky...) which brought this element of more realism to the game. I would also use that same rule in 3e instead of the X2 (damage) and also have a dice for that, it was always fun to see what kind of injury had occurred during battle.

I have never played 4e or 5e which I always found the stats from Dungeon Magazine adventures or other official products adventures too simplistic for my taste, but have not actually ever read the rules. My favourite system so far (although still unexperienced and ignorant) is 3e (or (3.5e) the downside compared to 2e is that it takes a lot of time to design NPC's and monsters.

Rock of the Fraternity wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 6:39 am I freaking love PF 1E. ^_^

Mistmaster wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:37 am

Rock of the Fraternity wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 6:39 am I freaking love PF 1E. ^_^

Which is the edition I yse, coincidently.

• I like my RL very grounded, maybe even a little 'grimdark', and I guess 5e is too OP for my taste (And with the recent OGL debacle, I don't want to run D&D for a while).

• Thought on running with PF2e. I love the system, but it's even more OP than 5e.

• Was considering running it on Chronicles of Darkness, but I'm a little overwhelmed with the amount of nitpicking I'd have to do to.

• I'm also considering BRP... I guess I'd try to combine Mythras and Call of Cthulhu, but it's a system I'd have to learn from zero.

De Montour wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:00 pm I really enjoy Ravenloft using the Savage Worlds rules. There are several pdfs on this site of Ravenloft Ressurrected which is SW version of the setting.