Café de Nuit

Yes, my thoughts on humans were not to add any kind of ability score modification, merely something like the WoT setting offered, namely regional bonus feats, class skills associated with each region, and bonus starting equipment that reflected the person's background in some way.

Hmm, the elven OR as a good thing wasn't something I had considered. Very cool, especially if what seemed like a good thing initially ("Finally, a village where they're not going to chase me out of town with a pitchfork") turns into an irritance when you realize you're like a zoo animal to...

Wheel of Time's background system offers what I think is the best way to handle the regional thing, with the exception of it being a little lame having your extra human feat taken away at first level to be replaced with a region specific one (it does add a nice bit of flavor, but plays merry havoc w...

I haven't done it yet, but Cage of Delirium from Goodman Games' dungeon crawl classics series is basically a ravenloft module by another name. Plus you get a Midnite Syndicate cd with it.

http://www.goodman-games.com/5033preview.php

Every Halloween, a small group of gamers and I get together and I run a Ravenloft game of some kind (this is the only way I can get them to play in the setting, a tragedy.) This year, I have selected Bleak House, partially because I think some of them know enough to be excited at the hints of meetin...

It's always the little things that work the best, and I don't just mean children. A mansion I had built inspired loosely from the Rose Red (Winchester Mansion) story was filled with horrible traps, vile monsters, and malevolent ghosts. You know what scared my pcs the most? When a little girl's ball ...

While running hour of the knife: The characters have spent the last four days on the trail of the infamous Bloody Jack, coming up short night after night as he continues to kill the ladies of "ill repute" that he is so famous for. They retire back to the inn on the fourth night, puzzled as...