Café de Nuit

Only now have I been able to commit to start reading the latest QtR, and boy am I glad I did. I have not yet finished it all. These are my impressions so far. Friedliches Königreich: It could have used some more player hooks. As new domains go, it’s pretty good. It could have been longer. Sithicus:...

Mistmaster wrote:I have my own version two, that you can find in Qtr27.

If you mean the Headless Knight you didn't give him much of a backstory. You could flesh it out here.

Does (the Headless Horseman) even have a RL backstory? I seem to recall there being one someplace. :? In there, he's not given a backstory beyond some legends of who he might have been when his head was still on (straight). From what I remember, one legend was a blurb about having once been a Falko...

Manofevil wrote:We haven't figured out the Headless Horseman either.

Does he even have a RL backstory?

:shock: :shock: :shock: HOLY CROW! THAT'S GOOD! Thanks, glad you like it! :) I kinda made it up on the fly, figured that rather than being a random, strange light in the darkness, it would be a random chaotic corruption. I based alot of it on the WhiteWolf book Night Carnival (or something like tha...

Does your Strahd have any control over how he will be next round? I feel like he ought to have some agency because that seems like the point of Darklords: they keep themselves jailed. And which Strahd was the elven pirate captain? He has a modicum of control on his appearance; his personality, thou...

I have been rather busy, so I am only now getting around to QTR27. Friedliches Königreich 5e primed me to see hobgoblins as more eastern, I remember the DMG mentioning them as an example wuxia plot and the art has samurai/ming-like spaulders/sode. They'd be special troops with flaming arrows ambush...

I really loved the operas, really adds more life to the land of mists. As for the Dominia article, anyone think the psychic conduit in room 319 connects to Nosos? Cause it "releases rats and belches noxious fumes" which fits the 2e description of Nosos. Wait, did it not say exactly where ...

It is an unusal domain by being heavily non-human but I like to go off the beaten path from time to time. Hobgoblins, at least my version of them, are very lawful. The whole society is run like an army. Hobgoblin soldiers would give Roman Legionaires a run for their money when it comes to order and...

Sithicus: The Land of the Prophetess - A very different take on the domain. This Inza is better than the canon one, at least in motivation, but I don't see much of Soth's Sithicus left here. It might be better as an entirely new domain, and that's ironic coming from me. ;) A lot certainly has chang...

Friedliches Königreich - This one comes into my personal biases with two strikes against it - it's a new domain, and it's heavily non-human. Again, I must stress, if that's your thing, by all means, enjoy it. It's just not for me, but not everything needs to be for me. With that caveat, it was nice...

My Forlorn, if you remember it is a bit different. http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10417 Rereading it , the history and culture is kind of vague or perhaps underdeveloped. I am not sure how the humans, the druids, the fey and the vampyres fit together in the big pic...

I allow almost any humanoid. Not all my players come directly from RL. The Mists can pull in anything for its inscrutable reasons. The most exotic one I have had is a dragonkin bard from Faerun. Note that this was only background. The game started in RL.

The way I would use it, if I did is treat everything that Azalin "knows" about the Dark Powers is merely from his perspective. what he "knows" about the Dark Powers is rubbish. The whole book is about one major mind-screw the Dark Powers are inflicting on Azalin, nothing more.

I like this rewrite and the map is great. My only complain is how Maligno is now a minor character. I would like to see him more prominent in the domain. Saving children from the pleasure island and creating communities of orphans under his dominion. It would be as abusive as the coachman. The two ...