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by Shadowdragon
Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:13 am
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: [Savage Worlds] Ravenloft
Replies: 124
Views: 899173

Re: [Savage Worlds] Ravenloft

Sorry for the thread necro, but it's been nearly a year since the three expansion books went up on the site and I'm really interested in knowing if there's been any progress made on the other books? I've been a fan of Ravenloft for a very long time. I always thought it was a bad match for D&D, b...
by Shadowdragon
Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:55 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: I need a hook
Replies: 19
Views: 3208

Well, currently these are the adventures I want to do, in about the order I want to do them in. I may add some adventures of my own creation, but for the most part we'll be sticking to published adventures. I'm running the game using Savage Worlds, so level ranges don't matter. The heroes receive a ...
by Shadowdragon
Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:48 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: I need a hook
Replies: 19
Views: 3208

Actually, a "where in the world is Rudolph van Richten" campaign might work. The character can run around looking for information about where he's gotten to. The various leads can take them into each adventure, with the occasional side-track along the way.
by Shadowdragon
Sat May 29, 2010 4:17 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: I need a hook
Replies: 19
Views: 3208

They could travel in a hot-air balloon, somewhat at the mercy of the winds. That set-up would probably require a small party that didn't carry around a lot of equipment. :wink: "Around the Core in 80 days!" Right now I think I'm leaning towards something like what A G Thing suggested. I c...
by Shadowdragon
Sat May 29, 2010 1:59 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: I need a hook
Replies: 19
Views: 3208

I need a hook

OK, I recently started a campaign that will mostly be made up of published adventures. The problem is that, since all the adventures have completely unrelated story lines, I can't figure out how to get the heroes from one adventure to the next. I kicked off the campaign by saying that the characters...
by Shadowdragon
Tue May 25, 2010 2:09 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: New DM Seeking Advice
Replies: 7
Views: 1940

Re: New DM Seeking Advice

1) What system should I use? Savage Worlds is a pretty good fit with Ravenloft. I've been using it for my campaign and it's working out really well. The heroes still feel like Heroes, but it's not completely over the top like in D&D. Savage Worlds is great for low magic settings where the comba...
by Shadowdragon
Mon May 24, 2010 3:21 am
Forum: Role playing games
Topic: Broken Ones
Replies: 8
Views: 2514

Hrm... I don't know. I don't know anything about Savage Worlds. If you think it would help, I would like it. One more thing. Have you found that you had to update or reconfigure some of the events in the module? What I mean by that is, some of these adventures were less than ideal in terms of prese...
by Shadowdragon
Sun May 23, 2010 12:40 pm
Forum: Role playing games
Topic: Broken Ones
Replies: 8
Views: 2514

Shadowdragon: I plan on running Neither Man Nor Beast in a few weeks' time. Have you updated the stats to 3.5, by any chance? If so, would you give me a copy of what you've done? Much appreciated! - Mr Clever Sorry, the campaign I'm running uses Savage Worlds, not 3.5. If you want to see my Savage ...
by Shadowdragon
Wed May 19, 2010 3:33 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: Port-a-Lucine map?
Replies: 3
Views: 1275

Port-a-Lucine map?

Is there a more detailed map of Port-a-Lucine out there somewhere? I have the one from the Black Box, but I was hoping to find one that showed the location of a few more landmarks. I couldn't find on in Gazetteer 3, There isn't one on the Mordent Cartographical Society web site, and I can't remember...
by Shadowdragon
Wed May 19, 2010 3:19 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: DarkSun-style domain
Replies: 40
Views: 7657

Maybe something like The Hills Have Eyes? A blasted wasteland filled with cannibal mutants?
by Shadowdragon
Tue May 18, 2010 3:28 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: Night of the Walking Dead (NotWD)
Replies: 7
Views: 1461

I've run NotWD a couple times. I noticed that the undead element of the story is introduced way too early. Once the party found the zombie in the coffin all they wanted to do was go straight to the graveyard and "cleanse it". You might want to leave out the undead parts until much later on...
by Shadowdragon
Tue May 18, 2010 3:16 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: New to site. What edition are most people here using for RL?
Replies: 45
Views: 8262

If it has to be D&D then Pathfinder is definitely the best option. I'm not a big fan of D&D though, and I never thought it was the right system for Ravenloft. D&D is for epic, high fantasy settings saturated with magic and really big fights. Ravenloft is NOT that kind of setting. Ravenlo...
by Shadowdragon
Sat May 15, 2010 5:02 pm
Forum: Role playing games
Topic: Hour of the knife modifications
Replies: 0
Views: 2409

Hour of the knife modifications

This post contains spoilers for Hour of the Knife. I really like the idea of a Ravenloft adventure inspired by Jack the Ripper, but I have some problems with Hour of the Knife. There doesn't seem to be any gradual progression of clues that allow the players to figure out who the bad guys are. Each b...
by Shadowdragon
Fri May 14, 2010 7:49 pm
Forum: Ravenloft Forum
Topic: Old elves in RL
Replies: 29
Views: 4129

I always thought the whole "sailing into the west" thing was a metaphor for crossing over into the afterlife, like how the ancient egyptians thought people crossed into the afterlife by sailing on wooden barges. So elves still "sail away" in Ravenloft, it's just that no one knows...
by Shadowdragon
Wed May 12, 2010 9:56 pm
Forum: Role playing games
Topic: Broken Ones
Replies: 8
Views: 2514

The previous broken ones were created by a Lamordian mad scientist into grafting animal parts onto humans. I guess those broken ones would be very different from the Markovian ones. For a start they'd be much cruder as the Lamordian guy had only recently started his grafting experiments.