I've always wanted to know how people responded to the changes for this domain, so I'll be watching this vid for sure, just a few thoughts before I do, you mentioned looking up the 2e material for Falkovinia so you know how it used to be. I find a lot of the 5e changes to be very abrupt and I often don't like the direction, and at first I was the same way about Falkovinia, but then when I thought about it, I honestly was never going to run Falkovinia as written anyway, like you can make a good story in that setting but the idea of taking a group of players through that experience is really not appealing to me, the biggest thing being the rampant SA and genuinely nazi levels of other evil shit going on. So on one hand, I'm excited for someone besides Vlad to be in charge of the domain, but on the other hand it's confusing to me just why zombie apocalypse was the theme, I mean Necropolis and Sourangne are both crawling with zombies, I always thought that it would be cool for the Vampyre "gangs" to have a potential darklord amongst them who takes over in Vlads place and it becomes something similar to original Falkovinia but kind of in the way the vampires in Blade use the humans as cattle, rather than the whole domain being a murder/r*pe survival room. But I'm interested to see your thoughts on what they did do with it so here we go!

@albertcapley6894

2 ай бұрын

The fact that Hyskosa is involved with the PCs sparing Gondregal is... Chef's kiss, the Mists have spoken. It's very appropriate that Hyskosa would be involved because the chain of events leads to the death of a darklord, I like that a lot. Reminds me of the Grand Conjunction meta plot from back in the day.

@DMoftheMists

2 ай бұрын

Honestly, it was a campaign highlight. 1 in 54 chance. Couldn't have written it better myself.

@DMoftheMists

2 ай бұрын

I see what you're saying. I didn't grow up with the older lore (I only got into D&D a few years ago, through 5E), so I didn't have the benefit of knowing what old-school Falkovnia was like, other than researching it. I probably should've made that clearer in the video. I'm obviously not trying to advocate for one over the other, but just that 5E Falkovnia was what I came across first - but for those who knew old-school Falkovnia, I can competely get that the changes were jarring. TBH, doing a zombie apocalypse domain didn't really appeal to me, either - zombie stuff is usually my least favourite type of horror to watch. But when my player and I decided their PC was from there, I had to commit to it - and I ended up really enjoying it. It works well as a D&D thing IMO.

@Azreal231916

29 күн бұрын

Honestly Vlad was pretty ancillary given that he was a clear expy of Vlad the Impaler. That said: I have incorporated Falkovnia's past and combined with Darkon's direction came up with a vast conspiracy that Falkovnia was never a true domain. Vlad was never a true Darklord. And Vladeska is his daughter and she isn't a true Darklord either. That's why neither could ever control their borders. If we recall: Vlad originally appeared in Darkon before being chased away by Azalin's undead horde. So I took the lore that Azalin has supposedly escaped and decided that he *had* Well, kinda. I decided Falkovnia is simply Darkon and Azalin's latest escape attempt had him wind up there and he is actually the source of the neverending zombie apocalypse. His motivation is, as always, escape. He's trying to push Vladeska to the true breaking point of becoming a true Darklord in the hopes that the Dark Powers will make her Darklord and by extension his chains to the Demiplane of Dread will be broken and he will be free at last.

@albertcapley6894

29 күн бұрын

@@Azreal231916 I really like that actually, because there's a lot you can do with the fact that Vladeska seems to have some good deep down inside, and it makes that struggle all the more compelling, gives a good reason for characters to care about someone the players have meta knowledge (and expectations) about being the baddie. Very cool.