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#1 kalyb Dec 19, 2006 22:23:09	Hey, does anyone know where I can find some info about Ravenloft pre-Grand Conjunction? I'm running a campaign where the party is traveling through Ravenloft. As they get to different areas, they will go through the Grand Conjunction series. I don't know what the lay of the land is like, though, to chart their path.
#2 The_Jester Dec 19, 2006 23:04:10	You can find the Black Box on eBay or possibly download it as a .pdf The original Grand Conjunction modules can be downloaded for free from here.
#3 humanbing Dec 20, 2006 7:25:48	Alternatively some of us old duffers have been around Ravenloft since the 2nd edition (and arguably even the two adventures in the 1st edition) so if you have any specific questions you need answering, feel free to post them here.
#4 kalyb Dec 20, 2006 10:35:35	Thanks for the help, guys.
#5 kalyb Dec 20, 2006 10:39:10	I think the only other question I have at this time is.....How well-known is the Hexad to the general public? Do most people even know there is a Hexad?
#6 gonzoron Dec 20, 2006 11:08:10	I would say no. No cite on that, but just a gut feeling. post-conjunction, most people know of the Great Upheaval, marked by earthquakes, and land masses moving and/or disappearing, but they don't have any idea why it happened. I think in NotWD, it might say somewhere that no one knows what Luc is babbling about save maybe Mordu and Shaman Brucian (and I'd say maybe Chicken Bone, if you add him)
#7 zombiegleemax Dec 20, 2006 18:48:40	... some of us old duffers have been around Ravenloft since the 2nd edition (and arguably even the two adventures in the 1st edition)... Not arguably, I was already married with children when I6 came out. I think that actually qualifies me as a geezer rather than a duffer. :whatsthis
#8 gotten Dec 21, 2006 10:11:14	Not arguably, I was already married with children when I6 came out. I think that actually qualifies me as a geezer rather than a duffer. :whatsthis Have you began the collecting of needed material for your transformation into a lich?
#9 zombiegleemax Dec 21, 2006 12:23:38	Have you began the collecting of needed material for your transformation into a lich? Oh, I started that over two years ago when I became a grandfather!
#10 zombiegleemax Dec 21, 2006 15:16:20	So far, this thread pretty well excludes only Mangrum from my list of Ravenloft Board All-Stars, and as much as I want to be among that elite, I guess I'll kick in my 2 Darkonian shards' worth. Pre-Conjunction Ravenloft almost summarily would've dismissed any concept of the Grand Conjunction as a symptom of barbaric superstition; anyone that HAD known about it would've either talked about it as humorous table-talk at dinner parties or tortured any mention of it out of their subjects. To actually get the information yourself, you have only to scour your local game and/or used book store for copies of the Black Boxes or the Red Box. Out of curiosity, Catman, Gotten, Jester, HumanBing, Gonzoron: What do you consider to be your areas of specialty/domains/monsters/people of choice for the Mists? Me, I'm a Darkon/Necropolis/Falkovnia guy through and through who has also done some work on Hazlan, and I consider myself to be a reasonably serious student of speculative psychology for all post-human monsters (Lycanthropes and Undead specifically, but give me some other examples; I'd love to work on them). I'd love to catch up with the Masters of Kartakass, Forlorn, and Pharazia for some serious dorkspeak sometime.
#11 humanbing Dec 22, 2006 23:02:24	I'm a Darkon/Falkovnia/Necropolis expert too, with special focus on all things lich-like (which includes Azalin and also his vassalich Catman Jim). I'm also working on non-canon Falkovnia modelled a bit after a Stalinist state, e.g. North Korea. The final thing I'm working on is an East Asian flavored alternate Core for Ravenloft. There's a thread in Fraternity of Shadows about this but I can't remember it off the top of my head.
#12 gonzoron Dec 24, 2006 7:42:33	I'd like to think i'm a generalist, but i do shy away from a lot of the islands and stick mostly to the Core, and more specifically the modern northwest. (Gaz 2-4, basically) By necessity in my current campaign, I've had to become quite an expert on the good doctor VR and his doomed friends and family. And I've always had a soft spot for Strahd.
#13 zombiegleemax Jan 01, 2007 7:39:21	My interest in the modern-ish domains is almost nil; I just don't deal well with the idea of gunpowder and gunslingers and powders that go "boom." With that said, though, the occasional slide into Dr. Mordenheim's parlor can be fun; ripping the PCs out of their bodies (I adapted Adam's Wrath to 3.0, then 3.5, almost immediately after the rulesets came out) can be quite a blast. I had a player actually get up from the table in disgust when I described a world cast in green, and in front of him, a body that looked astonishingly like his own, but with the head brutally sawed open and empty...
#14 ivid Jan 02, 2007 4:36:56	In addition to the free stuff and the Black Box, you might want to get *Darklords* and *Islands of Terror* as well, to accessories to the Black Box that take a more in-depth look at some of the domains.
#15 maraudar Jan 02, 2007 12:45:37	In addition to the free stuff and the Black Box, you might want to get *Darklords* and *Islands of Terror* as well, to accessories to the Black Box that take a more in-depth look at some of the domains. Yeah but stay away from the section called Staunton Bluffs in Islands of Terror. Has to be the worst place in the world and only degerate freak would actually like it and try and base a campaign there. :P Ivid Maraudar
#16 ivid Jan 02, 2007 13:45:36	Yeah but stay away from the section called Staunton Bluffs in Islands of Terror. Has to be the worst place in the world and only degerate freak would actually like it and try and base a campaign there. :P Ivid Maraudar :D