Well, I'm one of the players who generally doesn't like horror very much. I vastly prefer heroic/superheroic.
That said, I have tons of old Ravenloft experience. I own the original two Ravenloft modules, and have read them/run them many times with different groups. I could probably draw most of the Ravenloft castle map freehand. :) These adventures were superb, among the best ever written, IMO.
My college gaming group also spent an extended tour in the Ravenloft campaign setting, lost in the mists of the Demiplane of Dread. My memories of those adventures are almost universally negative. I appreciated the work my DM was putting in, but I just didn't like the setting or the tone (again, I like heroic, not horror).
So I have very mixed feelings about this campaign. The DM, Erilar, is a big horror fan and has been chafing over the overly metagaming, superheroic feel of our campaign of late, and really wants to take it back to a horror feel. I don't want to rain on his parade so I'm going to give it a shot, but I may end up sitting out this campaign so that Erilar can do his thing.
Fri, 02/16/2007 - 12:33pm
Well, I'm one of the players who generally doesn't like horror very much. I vastly prefer heroic/superheroic.
That said, I have tons of old Ravenloft experience. I own the original two Ravenloft modules, and have read them/run them many times with different groups. I could probably draw most of the Ravenloft castle map freehand. :) These adventures were superb, among the best ever written, IMO.
My college gaming group also spent an extended tour in the Ravenloft campaign setting, lost in the mists of the Demiplane of Dread. My memories of those adventures are almost universally negative. I appreciated the work my DM was putting in, but I just didn't like the setting or the tone (again, I like heroic, not horror).
So I have very mixed feelings about this campaign. The DM, Erilar, is a big horror fan and has been chafing over the overly metagaming, superheroic feel of our campaign of late, and really wants to take it back to a horror feel. I don't want to rain on his parade so I'm going to give it a shot, but I may end up sitting out this campaign so that Erilar can do his thing.
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