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Ravenloft reference in Stormwrack.

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#1
tykus
Sep 29, 2005 16:00:59 Don't know if it's been mentioned. If it has, I humbly prostrate myself before the Kargatane!

Anyway, check out the Tamorean Vast on p. 199. There is even a sidebar that hints it on p. 201.

Tykus
#2
sabbattack
Sep 29, 2005 18:49:16 I think that it isn't a direct mention to Ravenloft. I have found countless other mentions like that in sea-based campaign settings. If you look at 7th sea by AEG, you'll find not one, but myriad RL-like mentions and places. It even has mist creatures and mist realms.

As much as i'd love this to be one, we're stargazing one more time....
#3
Jer
Sep 29, 2005 20:40:24
I think that it isn't a direct mention to Ravenloft. I have found countless other mentions like that in sea-based campaign settings. If you look at 7th sea by AEG, you'll find not one, but myriad RL-like mentions and places. It even has mist creatures and mist realms.

As much as i'd love this to be one, we're stargazing one more time....

I think at least part of it is probably a direct mention of Ravenloft, at least in the sidebar:

If sailor's tales are to be believed, ships that disappear in the mists are pulled into another, darker world of terror from which nothing escapes. Of course, most such disappearances are the work of Tamoreus and Galoril, but it is noteworthy that they are not responsible for all the disappearances.

And, of course, the title of the sidebar is "The Dread Mists of the Vast", which is a nice nod there too. I think in this case, it actually IS a Ravenloft reference, if only a really obscure one.
#4
tykus
Oct 22, 2005 10:55:19 I look at it this way with the loss of RL as a main WOTC supported setting. The developers still love RL, if they can't support it by name then they can at the very least support it by using the word "dread" a lot in the span of a couple pages. If the frequency of one particular word goes up (such as "dread" and not "the"), especially if the word has a distinctive connection, then it is. Once, maybe chance, multiple times is choice.
#5
zombiegleemax
Oct 22, 2005 15:39:23 There's another reference in Heroes of Horror, but a more blatant one:

Heroes of Horror, page 41=
An isolated setting. The setting itself somehow traps the PCs in deadly circumstances... or even mystical or planar in nature... a demiplane that entraps all who enter within an impassable border of mist.

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#1 tykus Sep 29, 2005 16:00:59	Don't know if it's been mentioned. If it has, I humbly prostrate myself before the Kargatane! Anyway, check out the Tamorean Vast on p. 199. There is even a sidebar that hints it on p. 201. Tykus
#2 sabbattack Sep 29, 2005 18:49:16	I think that it isn't a direct mention to Ravenloft. I have found countless other mentions like that in sea-based campaign settings. If you look at 7th sea by AEG, you'll find not one, but myriad RL-like mentions and places. It even has mist creatures and mist realms. As much as i'd love this to be one, we're stargazing one more time....
#3 Jer Sep 29, 2005 20:40:24	I think that it isn't a direct mention to Ravenloft. I have found countless other mentions like that in sea-based campaign settings. If you look at 7th sea by AEG, you'll find not one, but myriad RL-like mentions and places. It even has mist creatures and mist realms. As much as i'd love this to be one, we're stargazing one more time.... I think at least part of it is probably a direct mention of Ravenloft, at least in the sidebar: If sailor's tales are to be believed, ships that disappear in the mists are pulled into another, darker world of terror from which nothing escapes. Of course, most such disappearances are the work of Tamoreus and Galoril, but it is noteworthy that they are not responsible for all the disappearances. And, of course, the title of the sidebar is "The Dread Mists of the Vast", which is a nice nod there too. I think in this case, it actually IS a Ravenloft reference, if only a really obscure one.
#4 tykus Oct 22, 2005 10:55:19	I look at it this way with the loss of RL as a main WOTC supported setting. The developers still love RL, if they can't support it by name then they can at the very least support it by using the word "dread" a lot in the span of a couple pages. If the frequency of one particular word goes up (such as "dread" and not "the"), especially if the word has a distinctive connection, then it is. Once, maybe chance, multiple times is choice.
#5 zombiegleemax Oct 22, 2005 15:39:23	There's another reference in Heroes of Horror, but a more blatant one: Heroes of Horror, page 41= An isolated setting. The setting itself somehow traps the PCs in deadly circumstances... or even mystical or planar in nature... a demiplane that entraps all who enter within an impassable border of mist.