Maybe giving them a couple points on their Outcast Rating, of course. I might give them a +4 bonus on Knowledge (Ravenloft) checks to show that, replacing the skill point bonus and otherwise keeping them as-is. It's just a culture that understands stuff like the Mists and curses and the general nature of the Demiplane. They're a human culture very much removed from the rest, but they're fully playable and have no inherent differences. Take it off-thread, please.ĮDIT: I've thought it over, and I think I'm going to just cut out the whole notion that the vistani are "human-but-not". Any ideas on how to shift the direction? They either need to be less Romani or more human, I think.Īlso, if your reflex on reading this post is any shade of "People get offended too easily these days" or "political correctness is really getting out of hand", this question is not directed at you. But I know my players aren't going to really enjoy them in this state. How to convert an alien planet (or a part of an alien planet) to a gothic horror setting?Īnd only half-related, but does anybody have any ideas on how to make the vistani a little less, uh, you know, racist? I get the idea of having a race that's basically how medieval Europeans saw the Romani peoples, but it's also kind of uncomfortable to have these pseudo-human-but-still-very-much-"other" people running around. The other two are trickier, especially Triaxus. Rasputin's territory should be easy, of course-he's the darklord of a portion of Russia, placed there after his "death" in punishment for some unknown but horrendous crimes. The areas of Triaxus, Iobaria and Russia are actually separate domains. The tragic nature of Elvanna's crime means that, if she is to be slain by the PCs, she might actually be reborn within a domain of her own.ģ. She makes her excuses and makes her preparations. She's upset that doing so means destroying so many other lives, but like any other tragic villain, she's clearly not upset enough to not do it. When Elvanna was very young, she learned that the best way to make others stop hurting you is to hurt them until they let go.Įlvanna intends to escape the Demiplane by doing just that. She just wants to damage the Demiplane of Dread. She doesn't want to remain a darklord, nor does she want to conquer the world. Elvanna in this story (and the original, really) is very much a classically tragic character: Someone who has turned to truly evil methods to both seek revenge and survive. It is ambiguous whether Baba Yaga actually broke free of the Dark Powers' influence, was simply allowed to think she had, or has actually become a willing agent of their will in exchange for a new, looser set of shackles.Ģ. Something is very, very wrong in the domain of Irrisen.ġ. And now it is time once again for her to remove the current darklord and install the next. Still, one's word must be kept in the Demiplane of Dread. That was quite a few hundred years ago, and Baba Yaga sorely resents her honorable oath. By regularly "switching up" the rulers, she expected the damage could be safely minimized. She knew that the selfish tinkering she had done could be exploited to potentially affect even domains outside her own, especially since her daughters were being trapped in a hell for Baby Yaga, not themselves. Cruel as Baba Yaga was, she did not intend to allow the powers she had worked so hard to hone to fall into the hands of an average corrupt darklord. She did this because she knew that the burdens of being darklord would quickly wear her lesser daughters away into mindless wickedness. Or I'll take a cell far smaller than that that's been given.' There must always be a successor.Īnd so many hundreds of years ago, the callous witch chose one of her own daughters to be the first, and swore then:īy the vast Mists that these realms e'er riven, Instead, she simply wanders from Domain to Domain, snatching up prey and generally doing whatever she pleases: Even without the power of a darklord, Baba Yaga is a mage of near godlike power, and nobody is exactly willing to challenge her. This makes her the only darklord to truly succeed at the task many destroy themselves pursuing, though she doesn't seem terribly interested in actually leaving the Demiplane itself. More importantly to her, the hut allowed her to truly break free of her own prison. The hut can do the unthinkable: Travel between any domain, even a closed one. This artifact is, of course, her famous hut. My players really love the idea, and I'm pretty interested in pursuing it.īaba Yaga is an ex-darklord who managed to devise an artifact that can circumvent the Dark Powers themselves. So I had the idea recently of doing a Reign of Winter set in the Demiplane of Dread, Ravenloft.
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