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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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Probably a bit like an Ibsen play.

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...

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,...

To take a page from some pseudoscience, I would look to things like aether, ectoplasm, orgone or miasma for inspiration.

I remember that! Man, I haven't thought about that adventure in a while.

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Chaot wrote:Just got my hard copies of Book 0, Book 1 and Book 2. Seriously beautiful.

Envious. As a Canadian I think I'll be waiting many weeks before mine arrive...

I am very happy that you only had to wait seven days or so. They are lovely, aren't they?

Just got my hard copies of Book 0, Book 1 and Book 2. Seriously beautiful.

Powers Check? Accordians are one of the abilities you GAIN when the Dark Powers bless you with awesomeness.

Looks like a good time. How did the game end?