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- Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:22 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: How do you feel about adventures where the PC's must die?
- Replies: 3
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Re: How do you feel about adventures where the PC's must die
I used the Horseman stuff from From the Shadows for the start of a game. I specifically told the Players that something like that was going to happen. It worked ok but kind of felt like I was just going through the motions of moving onto the real story. From this point out I will be using those thin...
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 7:38 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: How do you portray Van Richten, Watermay-Foxgrove, And VRS?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2121
Re: How do you portray Van Richten, Watermay-Foxgrove, And V
In my head, Van Richten is a lot like Kurt Vonnegut. Both amazing writers. Both have seen horror in their lifetime. Both relatively wise men. Van Richten routinely engages with the infernal forces of his world, Vonnegut engages with the eternal foibles of human kind. I think they both have a bit of ...
- Sat Jul 01, 2017 1:45 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: One World Ravenloft
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1956
Re: One World Ravenloft
Right. My Ravenloft is a real world as well. How do you represent this to your players though? One way is to give them a CIA fact book https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook of domains. I don't go that far but I do give the players something like this. http://i78.photobucket.com...
- Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:05 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: One World Ravenloft
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1956
Re: One World Ravenloft
I wouldn't worry too much about creating a timeline that holds hard and fast. Remember that Ravenloft doesn't work like the real world. Realms pop into and out of existence. People living there have an idea of other domains and trade between them. They also know that traveling from domain to domain ...
- Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:03 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Unsolved Mysteries: Ravenloft
- Replies: 116
- Views: 21449
Re: Unsolved Mysteries: Ravenloft
I wouldn't worry too much about creating a timeline that holds hard and fast. Remember that Ravenloft doesn't work like the real world. Realms pop into and out of existence. People living there have an idea of other domains and trade between them. They also know that traveling from domain to domain ...
- Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:56 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Alternative Vistani Interpretations?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 18142
Re: Alternative Vistani Interpretations?
I think treating Vistani as a 'race' is silly. They are a culture of people with traditions and they're not special outside of whatever knowledge they have. If you can throw an evil eye or read the tarroka then it is because you learned it from someone else who can do it. Vistani are just another hu...
- Sat Jun 28, 2014 1:51 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: doveloft?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3910
Re: doveloft?
Probably a bit like an Ibsen play.
- Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:23 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: One Shot Vampire Session?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1944
Re: One Shot Vampire Session?
I've done this to great success, though I broke my 'absolutely no bait and switch' rule to do it. In fairness, I had the players roll up secondary PCs. I told them that we would use them on off sessions and warned them in advance that I was going to mess with them. The day came when only two players...
- Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:37 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: What's to be done about the languages problem?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8544
Re: What's to be done about the languages problem?
My favorite story involves a Barovian PC who could not speak Borcan and was in Borca. Now, 90% of all Borcans can understand Balok, but would not speak it to the rest of the group (who understood it). When he would ask for them to speak Balok, the Borcans tended to say something along the lines of,...
- Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:36 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: ravenloftian demi & para-elementals?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 16860
Re: ravenloftian demi & para-elementals?
To take a page from some pseudoscience, I would look to things like aether, ectoplasm, orgone or miasma for inspiration.
- Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:26 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: food based terron track(silly)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2545
Re: food based terron track(silly)
I remember that! Man, I haven't thought about that adventure in a while.
- Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:19 am
- Forum: Role playing games
- Topic: Shadows of Esteren
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10145
Re: Shadows of Esteren
I am very happy that you only had to wait seven days or so. They are lovely, aren't they?Jester of the FoS wrote:Envious. As a Canadian I think I'll be waiting many weeks before mine arrive...Chaot wrote:Just got my hard copies of Book 0, Book 1 and Book 2. Seriously beautiful.
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:23 pm
- Forum: Role playing games
- Topic: Shadows of Esteren
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10145
Re: Shadows of Esteren
Just got my hard copies of Book 0, Book 1 and Book 2. Seriously beautiful.
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:52 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: accordians in ravenloft?(silly)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2759
Re: accordians in ravenloft?(silly)
Powers Check? Accordians are one of the abilities you GAIN when the Dark Powers bless you with awesomeness.
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:42 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Assault on Castle Ravenloft by my kids! Pic included
- Replies: 2
- Views: 791
Re: Assault on Castle Ravenloft by my kids! Pic included
Looks like a good time. How did the game end?