Which trope it happens to be for any given villain is probably a matter of interpretation.
Blessed with Suck / Cursed with Awesome: Just about any darklord has inherited incredible power along with his punishments, with which to further inflict evil upon the denizens of Ravenloft.Bigger Bad: The Darklords can play this role in a game, or, depending on the GM, the Dark Powers themselves can be in this role.Although some parts are pretty much falling appart from age and neglect. The Big Easy: Souragne is a Southern Gothic Fantasy Counterpart Culture version of New Orleans/Louisiana.Big Boo's Haunt: Castle Ravenloft, Necropolis even more so, and given the nature of the setting, probably some other places as well.Heinfroth's asylum on the domain/island of Dominia. Battle in the Center of the Mind: What happens if the Nightmare Court decides your mind looks tasty.Audio Adaptation: I, Strahd got an audiobook release.When he came back, he returned to Krynn only an hour/a day/five minutes after he left, leaving him available for any Dragonlance events that came along in the meantime. Once he recovered, the Dark Powers let the White Rose take Soth back with her to Krynn, realizing that there was nothing they could do to Lord Soth that his own memories and haunting spirits couldn't do worse. After about a decade continually locked in his "happy place" caused his realm to literally begin falling apart around him, the White Rose appeared in Sithicus to snap Soth out of his reverie. The most common theory was that Soth really did get sucked into Ravenloft, where he spent several decades forming one of the worst Villanous BSODs on record.Despite that, Hickman still insists that Soth never went to Ravenloft, even plugging a non-action, non-dialogue cameo into Dragons of Summer Flame for the sole purpose of conflicting with the Ravenloft timeline, necessitating a fair amount of Fan Wank to deconflict the two. Tracy Hickman complained incessantly until TSR had When Black Roses Bloom made, removing Soth from Ravenloft. Armed with Canon: James Lowder wrote Knight of the Black Rose, which brought Lord Soth from Dragonlance to Ravenloft.Arc Welding: The six-module Grand Conjunction Story Arc was belatedly welded together into one apocalyptic plotline, using a poorly-worded Vistani prophecy as solder.Animate Dead: Where else did all those skeletons and zombies come from?.Heck, even the likes of treants and unicorns are evil there.Enforced even, for lycanthropes-normally nonevil lycanthrope types (such as werebears, who in other settings are Always Lawful Good) are evil in the Land of Mists.Don't look for Friendly Neighborhood Vampires. Exclusively Evil: Even if 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons moved a lot of monsters from the always Chaotic Evil to usually Chaotic Evil, the Ravenloft setting adamantly keeps its critters and other nasties in the always evil section.All There in the Manual: Like most other D&D settings, most of the setting info is in the sourcebooks.Affably Evil: Some of the Darklords can be like this, most likely so the PCs can sympathize with them, even if just a little.Adaptation Expansion: The game-setting itself is an expansion of an extremely well-received 1st edition adventure, also called "Ravenloft", and its sequel, "Ravenloft 2: The House on Gryphon Hill".As the Land of Mists is a setting built upon suspense, players looking for creepy surprises in a Ravenloft campaign should not read farther, lest they Be Disappointed By The Revelations. WARNING! There are unmarked Spoilers ahead. It features many of the above mentioned classic characters that Ravenloft drew inspiration from as villains. There is also the Spin-Off setting, Masque of the Red Death, which takes place on an alternate version of Earth that has been under the influence of some entity called the Red Death. Lovecraft, Pinocchio, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Shakespeare's Macbeth, and the historical Borgia family among many others comprise only a few examples. Dracula, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Many of the individual domains of Ravenloft, along with their inhabitants, are directly inspired by classic Horror and Gothic literature, infamous historical figures, and twisted versions of Fairy Tales and other stories. The enigmatic Dark Powers have cobbled together a patchwork land of diverse kingdoms, each hiding their own foul secrets and held in thrall by a hideously corrupt being-its darklord-for whom each domain is both a sovereign territory and a prison.
Events take place in a pocket dimension called the Land of Mists. Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game, focusing on themes of Gothic Horror and dark fantasy.
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