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I'd even buy the NORWEGIAN edition of OD&D with the printing date of 2005! *Well... I should better get the 3.5 ruleset first and stop playing with the nmad SRD...*

I'm originally from Australia, but I'm living in Vanersborg, Sweden. We play in English (my swedish isn't THAT good), and the bulk of my players are female. (3 our of 4).

I have to get all my books off Amazon. Mostly because I'm not willing to pay the STUPID book prices in scandinavia. Ironic, because my inlaws own several bookstores.

The only bookstores locally I know that sell any D&D (no Ravenloft) sell copies of say, the Book of Vile Darkness for like, US$35... not worth it. My players are into ravenloft. They're first time roleplayers all of them, so I had them play themselves, drawn into the land of mists...

Hm, it looks like I´m the only one from Czech Republic...
(How that come there is so much Greeks???? )

Not a big community of RL fans in Cz. Rep., but I just prepare RL dedicated web sites to bring more darkness in there. Hope it will help a bit...

Pacal wrote:I'm from the USA. Pennsylvania in particular

Just out of curiosity, where in Pennsylvania? That's where I am, too, in the bowels of Lancaster County (Columbia to be precise).

And Leighton Buzzard is the best name for an English town I've ever heard, followed by Market Rasen.

I was rummaging through the threads for info on a campaign and came upon this thread and couldn't resist answering.

I'm a West Island girl (only Montrealers'll get that ) who lived the last ten years in Ottawa and recently moved to Wiltshire, England. What IS it with the Canadian fascination with Ravenloft?!

It has something to do with our climate or our politicians

Joël

I dunno about the politicians; they strike me as Grey Powers rather than Dark ones. Which might actually not be so bad really- just boring.

The climate, now THAT could certainly be a cause! I just bought Gazetteer number three and got homesick while reading about Lamordia's environment.

I'll second that.

Ravenloft has often incorporated a lot of setting description into its works. The locals are usually very picturesque, very vibrant landscapes. Canada, or at least Ontario, is filled with similar sights - especially now in the fall. Every highway is surrounded by vast seas of forests, every little town is quaitn and picturesque.
I would suggest that the Canadian experience really makes a person receptive to the kind of details that Ravenloft writing tends to dwell on.

U.S.A here Cedar City Utah to be exact a small mormon po-dunk inthe middle of the desert.

As for the Ravenloft scene here. It's actually quite active there are three games running ravenloft at the moment in my area and I am only one of them.

Really, the number of Canadians and Greeks around here is preoccupant... Maybe an international conspiration?

With a little bit of imagination, the Canadian flag looks pretty much like the portray of a six-fingered hand to me...

It's kinda wild, seeing that I seem to be the only active Asian on the boards, hehe

@ Desdischado: A little bit of imagination...and a few glasses of spirits of choice.

@ ScS: I think another thing which makes it appealing to Canadians is the sense of the strength and prominence of the land. You only need to lose your power once during the winter to feel how vulnerable you are to the elements. The Ice Storm of '98 brought Ottawa to a halt for at least three days, and there were towns which didn't get their power restored for weeks. And while we have our trains, planes, and automobiles, you still can't get over how vast a country it is to cross.

@ Desertrising: THREE games?!

Dion of the Fraternity wrote:It's kinda wild, seeing that I seem to be the only active Asian on the boards, hehe

Yeah, the usual Asian RPGers play Sword World pendants to the Mists or really nasty stuff like the Resident Evil RPG... IIRC, there's also a pretty Silent Hill RPG out there... Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Llana wrote:@ Desdischado: A little bit of imagination...and a few glasses of spirits of choice.

So was I the only one who noticed that the first letters in the six first lines from the Gothic Earth Gaz article detailing the quabal of the six-fingered hand form the word CANADA reverse?

*Daisy, take your pills...*

I dunno how I missed this thread for so long...

I'm from the suburbs west of Chicago, near Snake and Grug. I know a LOT of D&D players, though outside our own group no Ravenlofters.