The Dark Lord himself was, of course, undefeatableexcept for one thing. Still, they showed up just in time to join one last, desperate push to the Dark Lords castle. Ravenloft fog warps time and space, you see. Still, the rebellion itself almost fails when the PCs get caught in the Mist and spat out a few months later. That last one was run by a kid who made a wish that the carnival could last forever, and everyone in it needed to keep having funor else. ![]() Highlights included: a cynical elven Paladin who led the last failed rebellion (and participated in a few more before then, too), a Shield Guardian who twisted his late masters command to protect the town into unwitting cannibalism (did you eat the suspicious soup? Then roll Fortitude or be nauseous for the big fight), and a Twisted Carnival. It was actually the nature of the Dark Lords curse: he wanted absolute control and perfect order, but every generation would rise against him to be put down, brutally.įrom that start, most of what they did in Ravenloft was build support and organize the dissatisfied rabble into a functioning army. Of course, they would later learn that revolts happen fairly regularly here, and it was long enough since the last one that they were itching for a scrape. The party wont stand for this, naturally, but they get surprised when the populace instantly hails them as heroes and the Revolution gets a jump start just about immediately. So the way it starts is the party is dropped off in a small town on the southern edge of the Domain where they see some of the Dark Lords bugbears oppressing the locals. Still, we had fun, and thats what really matters (plus I at least had the decency to have the trip take place in an isolated Domain I made up myself). And if Im being honest, I was more influenced by Quest for Glory 4 than by the setting book. Given that the party was only there for levels 10-15, it was really more of a vacation in a haunted house, more of a highlight reel, than a dedicated look at gothic horror. Im afraid that I probably didnt do the setting much justice, especially considering the things Ive heard about the 3rd edition release of Ravenloft. I had just read the 3rd edition of the Ravenloft setting book, you see, and I figured it would be a good way to shake up the players a bit. So what happened was that a solar angel hijacked the spell, declared the party to be the Chosen Ones, and then dumped them into the Demiplane of Dread, a.k.a. Something else to remember is that this is the first time the party had ever used a Teleport spell, or plane-shifted at all. However, something to remember about Teleport spells is that they work by moving the subjects to the Astral Plane for an instant before moving back to another location in the original plane. So if you remember last time, the party was about to Teleport from the Lost World after a successful scientific expedition.
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