Hey, it worked against Old King Cole! No one ever talks about what happened to Old King Cole AFTER he cut open that pie. It might explain why his reign over his vaguely-Western European nation ended so soon. I think about this stuff too much.
For gamers of a certain age (mine), the following can send chills up your spine: "After being swallowed up by dense mists, you suddenly find yourself in the land of Barovia. In the distance, high on a mountain peak, sits Castle Ravenloft." After a long absence from D&D, the gothic horror world of Ravenloft is back! I played in a Ravenloft campaign exactly once, but that one time was memorable: we were all turned into living marionettes and were later hunted by packs of werewolves. This was during 2nd Edition, and I was running a psionicist (yeah, I'm THAT player) named Rasag the Incredulous, whose personality, dependability, and speech patterns I based off of Ed Chigliak from Northern Exposure. It was a ton of fun, even though I was the only character not freaked out by being sucked into the Demiplane of Dread.
Tread carefully in the mists,
~Rob
In our D&D group, Plan B is used quite often. Not that it’s any more successful than Plan A was… ^_^
Right after the last of the 5th ed core books came out, i ran my group though an adaption of the original Ravenloft module. I’ve found that 1st and 2nd ed modules adapt really well and pretty easily to 5th ed.
i don’t imagine their update is going to be too difficult. I’ll be interested in seeing what sorts of things they do to expand upon the original.
Eh, the closest I get to D&D is Neverwinter, put out by ARC Games. Still, it wouldn’t surprise me if Castle Ravenloft appears in the game at some point.
@Strykor: I’ve heard rumors that the next batch of adventures for the Adventurer’s League (successor to RPGA’s Living campaigns) set in the Forgotten Realms will involve Strahd. So it’s not inconceivable…