Café de Nuit

Troile wrote:

Sounds like a paradise for Dracula's Renfield.

Renfield would clear up the problem I would think.

Of course he'd just make a whole new problem...

True, but it wouldn't be so bad once his little zoophagous pyramid scheme escalated up to cats. You can't get a mouthful of cats when you breath in.

Sounds like a paradise for Dracula's Renfield.

A dragon of mist would be scary.

Don Fernando wrote: I would like to add that I agree with the Kargat, dragons are not gothic at all.

Perhaps not an actual dragon, but used as a title, symbol, or in dreams a dragon could find itself suitable in a gothic setting.

The idea of the pc's playing the roles of original victims is great. Although it may be tricky balancing the players' actions with the ghosts' thoughts. Having a npc companion that the players have grown to know and like becoming the jealous lover would be a nice touch as well. Especially if the npc...

Perhaps the ghost of a long dead undertaker who had the habit of whistling while working. Now his whistles foretell a death soon to occur.

Witnesses to a death that happened after a whistling could have linked the two and blamed the spirit causing the legend.

Just curious, those of you who dislike Strahd for doing little in 400 years. What would you do if you were in his shoes? Trapped in such suffering?

I'll admit he is a bit cliche, but I can't help liking him.

I wouldn't see Lovecraft as forgotten either. Most people are probaly more familar with things influenced by his work, than his work itself.