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I say a good way to go is to have the Druid draw his power from the corrupted land, and make his powers slightly askew. Elemental spells shoudl get subbed with Ravenloft elements. Let him shift into things like a swarm of rats at certain levels. Make sure he is seen as a sort of strange mystic with ...

That's pretty funny.
I wish Cthulhu was my pet.

In the face of the greatest enemy of Europe at the time, the Turks, Vlad did indeed fight valiantly. The Europeans would of course look up to him, as did those under him who benefitted from his defense.

Jakob wrote:Val Vigezzo, here in Italy, was looking awfully alike Barovia, this November.

Alot of Italy reminds me of game worlds. Especially the small towns.

If you want a good feeling of a palace, without the crowds, o to a city called Viterbo, and go to the Pope's Palace. A great place to dream up games.

5. Vistani are to be respected: Do not take offense if these nomads take a beet from your garden, or your bag of oats; Strahd has granted them protection, and to spill their blood is sucidie. However, the Vistani are more than willing to not bring us any major woes; any Vistani vagabond that violat...

An idea:

In the Time of Unparallelled Darkness, Ravenloft begins invading other planes and settings, taking them over and turning them into domains. Doing so begins to expand the power of the DPs to all new levels...

Out of curiosity, what did you watch the night before?

A note: Earl is not an anglo-saxon title, but a norse one, imported by the Vikings and Dane, coming from Jarl.

But yeah, Count works.

If you want more, go find the thread about the best modules; some good suggestions in there, too.

I like I, Strahd an awful lot; and tales of Ravenloft is also good, since it is fast and flavorful.

It might be worth noting that one should not reply to spam; on another board, I know people will make jokes and stuff after it, and its gets really annoying.

To really get at it, you have to decide, what is worse than the Darklords or Dark Powers? That is probably at the core of the ToUD, as it should scare both of those groups.

FWIW, if you have an NPC who NEEDS to die by poison, or the players are very good about setting it up, I say let it happen. Easier than overhauling the rules.

A good fact about the Ravenloft novels is that TSR often went out of house to good horror writers to pen the books, making their quality better than most of their other fare.

I think that they are still basically the same.

For example, roadwork spontanesouly begins, stopping all travel along roads out of the domain. Or Police patrol the borders as AMW puts out a notice on you.

Modern twist, same effect.