My own homemade idea is "levels of health" working like a mixture of "storytelling system" and "exhaustion levels". It would work for special damage like diseases, poisons, loss of blood or life-draining powers. The recovery would work in a different way because it wouldn't be about healing hit...
To frighten someone, you don't need to show violence, but rather cause surprise. For example,
- A girl returns from summer camp and waits for her parents at the station, but they are late. She picks some flowers to pin to her buttonhole and walks home, which isn't too far. She greets an...
The teleserie "Games of Thrones" had lot a lot of deaths but only some scenes were pure terror, while "the Walking Dead" was more survival drama than true horror.
The character "Ghost Rider" by Marvel comics is very overpowered, despised his relative nerfing, but the last season was very grimm...
Now I only play "Shop Titans", a fantasy shop-keeper simulation. In the past I played Fortnite: Save the World, the original mode, never the BR. Now my graphic card isn't enoughly good.
I would advice it. It is like a mixture of different genres. It is a shooter-RPG like Borderlands but with...
Some times I would like for 5.5 a mental-health system working like levels of exhaustion and borrowing some ideas from "Unknown Armies". Now Epic Games gifts "Stone of Madness" where if PCs (who suffer their own phobias: darkness, fire, death, mirrors&altars and gargoles statues) loses all their...
This makes me to remember a Spanish horror movie, "Dagon". It was the last role of Paco Rabal, a prestigious Spanish actor. I would publish the trailer here but maybe this wasn't for all audiences. It is easy to be found.
I don't mind if mr. Choochoo is the dark lord. Some members of the Marsh...
My suspects is Hasbro is very interested into Ravenloft for intercompany crossovers with horror franchises, style "Dead by Daylight".
Resident Evil 4 and Village are perfect for a crossover with Ravenloft. If Hasbro talked with Capcom..
How would be a dark domain designed by Junji Ito? And if...
I would rather Ravenloft with secret cults of yuan-ti guided by a linnord or a cobra-dragon (it was canon in 2nd) or infernal dragons. (the infernal dragonborns should be awesome).... or the creepy brainstealer dragon.
I guess Innsmouth has been chosen because Japanese market is too interested...
I agree somebody from the Marsh family should be the dark lord. Maybe some great old one can be summoned to Ravenloft but this is only a temporary effect. Even an incarnation of Vecna could appear but this is not wellcome because he would want to cause the highest number of troubles to the Dark...
The sith edition of Gamma World was licenced to Sword&Sorcery Studios.
I imagine this like post-apocalyptic but with a lot of vibes of 80 Saturday morning cartoon, with mutants, moreau(antropomorphic animals created artifically) and robots, like mixing "Highlander: animated serie" and "Kipo and...
I suspect there is an opened door for Gamma World but this would need a lot of previous playtesting, and this would spoil the surprise. Licenced to a third party? Maybe if this enjoys enough trust by WotC but other publishers would rather to start from zero with their own IPs to enjoy total...
Innsmouth doesnt need to be XX century. Maybe the dark lord is a cult-leader from XIX century (And choochoo would be only the "guest star" who appeared when was summoned. Let's remember this is not the original Innsmouth from the Earth but a "copy", like Barovia.
There are other places from...
We can remember Ravenloft in 3e age by "Sword&Sorcery"(White Wolf's inprit). My doubts are about who will be the owner of new content, like new characters or creatures.
My opinion is WotC is more focuse into publishing crunch and player options, and the lore, background or fluff to be created...
Hasbro would love D&D system allowed modern firearms with a right power balance because this could allow "collabs" or crossovers with no-fantasy franchises but the D&D classes weren't designed for encounters against gunslingers.
Magic is more expensive but most of D&D adventures would be...