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I thought Sunderheart was a pretty good article. Sure, it's not branded as a Ravenloft domain (more like a weekend in Shadowfell affair), but it has plenty of classic RL features. A darklord that is evil rather than emo, lots of atmosphere, and plenty of adventure opportunities.

Just finished reading this thread. Many good ideas, as always.

Are you guys going to put living people in Avonleigh? The game module that featured Avonleigh presented the place as a dark forest devoid of signs of forest creatures, IIRC.

Personally I always thought it would be cool to transplant ...

Given that human beings tend to be a mix of both good and evil, I can imagine that living in the anti-RL world can be as painful as living in RL. Assuming that the heroes are still humans while the anti-RLs are populated by saints with any mortal fallacies absent in their behavioral code, it will be ...

Yet they were all passed over in the ghost's favor, because he was the most dramatic villain left in the domain.

I can imagine the DPs munching on popcorns and watching from the... er, heavens or something... at all that drama unfolding in RL.

New domains, new darklords, new adventure settings... I can't wait. Either way, there is bound to be a surge of fan interest in Ravenloft, which could only mean good things.

Ooh, this is an excellent concept. Someone should compile this one somewhere for posterity, in case the post slips off the forum one of these days.

They changed much, but the past was still the past and everything that did happen still happened, just additional things occurred very long ago and recently.

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Just to give a few examples of massive retcons in FR - they changed the fact that the elves' triple goddesses have been Sune ...

This is going to sound really petty, sorry, but I don't like the name "Mistopia". It sounds like a theme park ride to me.

The other details sound good to me. One question though - why not make this a separate domain instead of a Paridon remake? I wonder about this because darklords, in my opinion ...

Interesting.

And keeping in line with WoTC's "redesigning" of the other campaign settings (core D&D, Forgotten Realms), this is 90% retcon and 10% "let's keep things simple for the newbies".

I'm really going to be following the developments with interest and, hopefully, open mind.

If they continue to put up Demonomicon articles as well as those of the Codex of Betrayal series, I may be tempted to put down $8 a month for them. But I'm also taking a wait and see approach. Updates have better be regular and good for me to pay for DDI. Their "regular" sourcebooks are expensive ...

It's not a silly idea, Guzrath. It's historically proven that the more "well-behaved" a society is on the surface, the seedier the underbelly is. Victorian England was known to be an exaggeratedly proper time, when you couldn't even expose the bare leg of a piano because that would be rude, but that ...

Certainly there's more than Gentleman Caller to fit the male heartbreaker that uses women for his own needs... Can someone remember any such Darklord?

I'd wager that Dominic D'Honaire of Dementlieu does this. (He's another fellow whose sins, in my opinion, don't seem "big" enough to warrant a ...

As far as I know, very little is written about Sanguinia - I should know, I tried searching for canon stuff on that place - apart from the fact that the darklord became one in an event that was heavily borrowed from Poe's Masque of the Red Death. But given that Mircea is supposed to be living in the ...

Thanks for the responses. I have to say: you guys have given me plenty to think about!

I'm toying of a campaign in Invidia, and I will certainly demote Gabrielle and promote her misbehaving son by the end of the campaign (the heroes will end up shifting the dynamics - have to think of the details ...

Had Gabbie been a guy, would people feel as strongly about her... err him holding the mantle of darklord?

Speaking for myself, yes. Because in this instance, my concern is not what she did but what she did not do. In this case, what she didn't do to warrant becoming a darklord and holding on to ...