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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Incredibly obscure lore found on Forgotten Realms wiki
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1737
Re: Incredibly obscure lore found on Forgotten Realms wiki
Good find. I've long been keen to get a hold of the RPGA material before it disappears forever.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11235
Re: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
Considering how little I know about Wicca and that, at least IMO, Wicca is not a well defined religious movement, I have trouble with the Hala / Wicca thing Yeah. Just no. Wicca was founded in the 1930s by Gerald Gardner. It makes claims to connection to witchcraft, however, there is no connection....
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:29 am
- Forum: The Dark Beyond
- Topic: Saltburn
- Replies: 1
- Views: 300
Saltburn
I just saw this movie on Amazon called Saltburn. Plenty of potential inspiration for Ravenloft in that.
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 12:26 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11235
Re: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
[Still, it is interesting how the authors discuss the tensions between the "Gypsy"-identifying Romani and the "Roma"-identifying Romani. Either term could cause trouble in the wrong context. My larger point is that people are looking at documentation from the past which uses the...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 3:33 am
- Forum: The Dark Beyond
- Topic: Auditory Inspiration - Music and sounds with Ravenloft feel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21260
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:07 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11235
Re: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
Resonant Curse - do you have a page number for the Vistani homeland? Because from what I read (via Internet Archive) the protagonist is a "prince of the Vistani" which is new and interesting, but I can't find an indicator that it is the Vistani homeland.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:39 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11235
Re: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
After a bit of quick internet research, I learned that "Gypsy" is a term applied to the Romani people by non-Romani, based on a misconception that the Romani came from Egypt. Aside from that, it has gained more negative connotations by being used as the base for certain other unsavory wor...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:51 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11235
Re: Origin of Vistani, Ezra, Hala?
“Gypsy” is a derogatory, disparaging term and for many is considered an insult. I understand that we speak of earlier editions that writers at the time probably didn't have knowledge of this, so I am just mention this so we can be cautious of what we write. Its not a matter of "having knowledg...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 6:52 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Quoth the Raven #28 review thread
- Replies: 144
- Views: 25895
Re: Quoth the Raven #28 review thread
The High Arcanist prestige class is too much dependent/based on the moons of Krynn which makes it a bit not fitting to Falkovnia, but in general it has some nice aspects. Maybe a new prestige class is appropriate for Falkovnia, perhaps Arcanist of the Ministry of the Arcane (AotMA) or Ministry Arca...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:02 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Conjurers get the short shift in Ravenloft
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6050
Re: Conjurers get the short shift in Ravenloft
Semi-related, but how does this apply to Nightmares in the Mists? Nightmares are technically fiends, yet they seem common enough that they are said to roam Nova Vaasa at night, and many a villain seems to have one as a steed in the mists. How can this be squared? Are these just unique, a sort of ps...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Quoth the Raven #28 review thread
- Replies: 144
- Views: 25895
Re: Quoth the Raven #28 review thread
As a note I based the Teusten Society on the Teusten people found in the Adlatum Sourcebook created and published by a Dragonlance fan site, the Dragonlance equivalent of the Fraternity of Shadows, named Dragonlance Nexus . https://dragonlancenexus.com/adlatum1/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/A...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:54 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Conjurers get the short shift in Ravenloft
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6050
Re: Conjurers get the short shift in Ravenloft
Just as well, does that mean in your canon Isolde could leave at any time, but remains bound by her oath and sense of responsibility? Or did she break some taboo which both kept her bound to the mists, and trapped her in human form? Isolde is hardly without blame. Obsession is a no-no in the modali...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 1:45 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Spellscales
- Replies: 3
- Views: 863
Re: Spellscales
I think I would just let it work as it should. One of the problems with Ravenloft is the strictness of some of the rules. A good example is any spell with the shadow descriptor. In Ravenloft, shadow = "evil" because of course it is. So when you cast a spell with the shadow descriptor, ther...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:05 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: QtR 30th issue is out!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4077
Re: QtR 30th issue is out!
It's 2am where I am and I am eagerly downloading both!
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:01 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Dragonlance setting Vagros
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6008
Dragonlance setting Vagros
The Vagros people of the Dragonlance setting might be a related folk to the Vistani. They appear in the Dragonlance novel Renegade Wizards. They have wise women with mystical powers, although these powers seem to be sorcery instead of the more opaque powers of the Vistani.