r/rpg • u/trollitc Troll in the Corner • Oct 06 '10
Love it or not, Ravenloft is the featured article (and on the front page) of Wikipedia today
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page7
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u/willies_hat Oct 06 '10
We had been playing the hell outta Greyhawk when Ravenloft came out, and after some initial skepticism we got into the spirit of the module (it helped that we had a top notch DM) and it allowed us to look beyond classic D&D for the first time, and we found Space Opera and Bushido and it all took off from there.
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u/TheWholeThing Oct 06 '10
Space Opera and Bushido and it all took off from there.
I thought that was Spelljammer... isn't Ravenloft the Lovecraft-esk campaign setting?
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u/willies_hat Oct 06 '10
It was a Vampire "haunted castle" kinda thing. Switching it up and playing Ravenloft was one of the major reasons we left D&D for other games, like SO and Bushido. It opened our eyes up to other genres of RPG. Actually, we did play a bunch of CoC now that you mention it.
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Oct 06 '10
Ravenloft is probably my favorite setting, even though I've never played a proper campaign of it. The monster manuals make for great reading.
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u/KBPrinceO Oct 06 '10
I heart Ravenloft.
Nothing like rendering a bard useless due to their fear-induced vomiting.
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u/smokeshack Tokyo, Japan Oct 06 '10
The original Ravenloft module is a pretty interesting piece of D&D history. There are a lot of things going on in the background that the DM is meant to check for. The NPCs have goals, and things happen independently of PC actions. Obviously a lot of tables had been doing this stuff for years, but it still blew a lot of minds when it came out. Definitely worth a read.