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Ravenloft: Dark Tales & Disturbing Legends (Ravenloft d20 Fantasy Roleplaying)

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Being a collector as well as a player and fan of Ravenloft, I have seen every encarnation of the realm, from the lamest "belfry" mod, to the unequalled "roots of evil". If this happens to be the last hooray for official products, then the swan song for the realm is a bit of a plain jane.

In essence, this book tries too hard to do too much. The stories are rushed at times, and not as fleshed out as they could have been, had this been a collection of tales and legends, as the title claims. The game information is confusing at best, and absolutely unnecessary at worst. Dont get me wrong, any Rloft dm worth his/her weight in blood should be able to use a lot of what this book provides, but by giving an endless array of options on how to turn the legends into adventures, the authors take away from the legends themselves, and the most important element of any Rloft product, the gothic horror, gets lost amid shortened stories, lackluster villans, and a completly inexcusable myriad of spelling errors, run-on sentences, and gramatical aberrations. Quite frankly, the only horror within these pages is the one suffered by the reader as he tries to keep his/her inner monologue from sounding like a total illiterate.

Please forgive if I sound irate, but were the editors on strike when this product shipped? I have never seen a rloft book or module so poorly edited.

For this and the consistent lack of focus, I can only recommend this product as merely mediocre. Being a fan and collector of the genre, I could not stay away from it, but if your passion is not as intense as mine, I would suggest you look elsewhere for your Rloft fix.