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- Subject: Re: Heart of Midnight, Ravenloft
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.134909.2306@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:49:09 CST
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- Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University
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- I have been able to get into the net for a little while. It seems that there
- are indeed role-players here.
-
- > HAS ANY ONE STARTED REAFING THE RAVENLOFT NOVELS,FROM TSR. THE BOOK HEART
- > OF MIDNIGHT IS ABOUT WEREWOLVES.
- > GIVE ME YOUR INSIGHT INTO THE BOOK,IAM A FAN OF WEREWOLVES AND THE HORROR
- > GENRE
-
- Yes, I read Ravenloft, and I also game in the setting.
- Ravenloft (a setting for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game,
- comparable to Dragonlance and the Forgotten Realms--but a bit more frightening)
- is a wonderful role playing setting, but as far as werewolves go, it relies a
- little too much on the typical werewolf bit. Werewolves in the demi-plane of
- Ravenloft (this doesn't look like prime material reality, Toto!) are inherantly
- evil, for one thing. Like all evil there, they are linked to the land, which
- is itself an evil entity of collosal power, so I guess the inherant evil bit is
- justified here without having to resort to a devil in the traditional since.
- Werewolves are affected by silver (or +1 or better magic weapons) and full
- moons. While normal people cannot become true werewolves, one can get a weaker
- form of true lycanthropy as a curse, gained from a bite from either a true
- werewolf or a cursed individual in lupine form.
- Ravenloft is a wonderful setting for vampires. Ehem, excuse me, vampyres.
- For werewolves it is pretty good, but I prefer Werewolf: the Apocalypse. I
- will admit that Werewolf makes some stuff up, but at least it isn't the same
- old stuff anymore. On the other hand, some time in 1993 there will come a
- Ravenloft suppliment titled Van Richten's Guide to Shapechangers. If it is as
- good as an equivalent one for vampyres, then Ravenloft should become a nice
- setting indeed. Before the guide to vampyres came out, the vampyres of
- Ravenloft were in the same boat that werewolves are in now. But the guide
- fixed that little problem quite well.
-
- Z_CoolidgeJS@ccsvax.sfasu.edu Jonathan S. Coolidge
- /| |\ You see before you in the darkness two beady little eyes
- / | O o | \ staring behind a thin slit between two giant panels. Below
- / | | \ is a tiny candle, flickering a faint orange light. The
- / | @ | \ being looks at you and says:
- / | T | \ Make a roll vs. your strength, and hurry up; I want to
- | | | | | finish this game by two.
-