Eh. Some people favor the 2E products, some the 3E; it's all a matter of taste. People use Ravenloft in their games as best suits their own gaming groups, and choose which interpretations of the setting to go with, based on that need. It's not an argument that anyone will ever really "win", as to which version is "better".
That being said, I do hope that everyone -- 2E
and 3E fans -- will opt to take
Expedition with a grain of salt, should it grossly conflict with the Ravenloft setting as we've all come to understand and love it. I don't want to sound like a party-pooper, but the new book
could turn out to be totally contrary to what makes Ravenloft so fascinating; if that's the case, I should think we can agree to collectively ignore any such digressions. (For instance, if it
does include a chapter on the Core, but one that cuts all evidence of firearms out of the picture ... or if it up and tells us "The Dark Powers are actually XXXX."
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There are Planescape fans who loathe the 3E MotP because it leaves out factions, etc. There are die-hard traditionalist Greyhawk fans who pretend "Greyhawk Wars" was never published. There are Mystara fans who dismiss the Almanac products as an abhomination, merely because there's a copper dragon in one of them! Instead of yelling and whining and sticking our fingers in our ears while chanting "Not listening!", I should think that we
Ravenloft-buffs ought to agree that: A) we'll give the new product a fair hearing, and: B) if it's not compatible with the context of the wider setting, we'll not rant at WotC -- or worse, each other -- over whether it's "the
real Ravenloft" or not, but simply take what's useful and leave the rest.
"Who [u]cares[/u] what the Dark Powers are? They're [i]bastards![/i] That's all I need to know of them." -- Crow