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alhoon wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:11 pm I don't see how this wasn't mentioned but... Paridon's adventure would fit very well in Masque of Red Death.

Are you talking about RM8 Hour of the Knife? Because that was in the OP.

Updated the original post with more information provided by people in similar threads I made in other forums.

I've actually played this one! I managed to get us off of the book in the scenario, as I had the idea to bait ghouls in the sewers and talk to them about what they had seen. The game ended kind of ridiculously, as one of the PCs introduced in the last session got shot by the doorkeeper of a tavern ...

Hmmm... very interesting approach; so you have access to a handful of supernatural powers, that you could use a few times per adventure. It is an interesting approach and I agree it is thematic.

I like that all archetypes are available to all classes, so if you wanted to play a Soldier, for ...

GAngsters! I'm not seeing Gangsters in the mix. There need to be Gangsters!

I'll be honest, I'm not a huge gangsters fan so I'm going to be the last person to be able to pin Capone or Meyer Lansky to a particular archetype. That said, I honestly don't know what Organized Crime looked like in the ...

Where did you find Red Death 5e? How do they deal with the atrocious rules for spellcasting of Red Death, that are, unfortunately, part of the game?

Also, is Mata Hari, (Sleuth Socialite) inside the time period?

Mata Hari didn't really get up to shenanigans until the 1900s, so a little too late ...

So, one of the things I really like about MotRD 5E is that, you pick a class and an archetype at 1st level, so you're some version of what you're going to be starting right at the beginning of your career. There are 5 classes and 16 archetypes, leading to 80 combinations. It occurred to be that ...

I figured I'd also compile a Jack the Ripper movie list for inspiration, but I had no idea just how many movies have been based on the Whitechapel murders. Nevertheless, I found a few that I thought seemed interesting and maybe good for inspiration; I wonder if, after I finally get to watch them, I ...

So, some of my friends group and I used to play the old Living Death Organized Play campaign, which was inspired/based on the TSR Masque of the Red Death box set. It was set in an alternate Victorian-era Earth, and was an excuse to use AD&D 2E with a host of modifications to do Gothic Horror. It was ...

I may have found a solution I like. So, since this will likely be a one-shot, I feel it's an appropriate time to use Jack the Ripper (1888 instead of 1890, but that shouldn't cause any problems). There are several Jack the Ripper scenarios I was able to find in various games, but the Ravenloft ...

As a newbie on the boards I can't speak to Dread Domains, but as far as Aztec seeds... I highly recommend David Schwartz's Aztec Mythos series in the back of Dragon magazines and concluded on the Paizo message boards .

"Aztec Mythos I”, Dragon #352
"Aztec Mythos II”, Dragon #354
"Aztec Mythos ...

Partially answering my own question, it occurred to me to check the Dragon Magazine CD Archive I have. I remembered a series of articles on folkloric undead by Tom Moldvay, that I thought were pretty good at the time. They seem eminently suited to Gothic Earth campaigns:

"Hearts of Darkness ...

So, I may be running a Masque of the Red Death game for some friends soon, and was looking at what I have available as far as resources. I was never a huge Ravenloft guy back in the day, but I enjoyed the Living Death campaign at conventions so I have some old books and modules I can use. But ...