It has a mortality and a peril and a cost.

The other thing is, some of those powerful magics and instant heals, it kind of goes against what we’re trying to make you feel, which is that adventuring has a cost.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it just that there are so many RPGs out there doing that. A lot of those things - even traditional high fantasy didn’t really guide - I suppose it guided us a bit in the sense that we knew from the beginning we didn’t want to do fireball spells and healing potions. Definitely played some Ravenloft in the past, in my pen and paper days, but it never came to mind in our discussion.

Really, the central idea was to try to bring Lovecraft into the Middle Ages, to get him out of the 1920s. I never really learned how to play D&D properly, but I read it cover to cover several times. Did you guys play that at all?īourassa: I had a Ravenloft module. I think about Ravenloft, from Dungeons & Dragons. GamesBeat: Of course everyone keeps saying Lovecraft when they talk about this game.

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