QtR 27 review thread
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:56 pm
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Thanks you, and thanks to the artist, Raúl Ramos Melo!Rock wrote:First off: compliments on the cover art for this year!
Very well-crafted and eerie.
I don't recall cutting anything. Greek letters? Oh? Darn Word stylesSome text on page 32 describing the idol appears to have been cut, though... and I notice that some of the Greek letters have been changed into question marks.
Haven't read anything yet since I was working and then played some Castle Ravenloft boardgame with some friends. I am going to start now. But I have to say that I've messed up the chronology in Borcan Epic because I was confused with the different timelines in the various products and since I was writting until the last minute before the deadline ended, I forgot to correct the timeline that was changed in the last hours before sending it in most parts of the article. The first box in the article is the correct 710BC being the death of the Leskoviches, sorry about that I ll gather all the wrong dates and make some notes in this thread in the following days.KingCorn wrote:I really loved the operas, really adds more life to the land of mists.
As for the Dominia article, anyone think the psychic conduit in room 319 connects to Nosos? Cause it "releases rats and belches noxious fumes" which fits the 2e description of Nosos.
Mistmaster wrote: Conferences of Victor Gagné Part the Fourth:
Out of One, Many: Poor Victor, at least he is alive once again; Nice idea that of the Red Haunt; She needs more goodaligned personalities, however.
Thanks for the kind word. Working with Wolfglide was a genuine treat.Mistmaster wrote: The Tale of Ivar Skytte - A Companion to the Conferences A dark tale with dark characters, interesting.
It is an unusal domain by being heavily non-human but I like to go off the beaten path from time to time. Hobgoblins, at least my version of them, are very lawful. The whole society is run like an army. Hobgoblin soldiers would give Roman Legionaires a run for their money when it comes to order and discipline in my games.Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:
Friedliches Königreich - This one comes into my personal biases with two strikes against it - it's a new domain, and it's heavily non-human. Again, I must stress, if that's your thing, by all means, enjoy it. It's just not for me, but not everything needs to be for me. With that caveat, it was nicely done. I don't really know much about hobgoblins, but sure, if they are orderly, one could go darklord by giving into chaos. I do feel that we got more about this priestess than about the darklord himself. Maybe that was meant to be a misdirect to make us think she was the DL? And I do really like the idea of the DL's backstory getting written on the gravestones as epitaths. That was my favorite detail, which I might steal to use elsewhere.
A lot certainly has changed but the cities are the same and elves are still numerous as are incopreal undead. But yes, I focused on changing Inza into something interesting more than keeping everything the same as under Soth. There is not much you can do with canon Inza becasue she is so bland. Things can be done with Inza here as she has goals and motivations. You can't say the same of canon Inza.Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:
Sithicus: The Land of the Prophetess - A very different take on the domain. This Inza is better than the canon one, at least in motivation, but I don't see much of Soth's Sithicus left here. It might be better as an entirely new domain, and that's ironic coming from me.