Ravenloft vs Orchard of the Macabre (Upper Necropolis)

[Kutalp]

What is your opinion other than the graphical comparison.

Which one fits your your favorite land of undead darkness fantasy, the best ?

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Other realms such as the realm of Xoriat compared to these two. Do you have another favorite with the dark dystopian setting ?

Thank you very much for your valuable time. :cool:



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[droid327]

Orchard, because its the only Slayer zone with enough mob density to actually be fun to play.

Running down the hill from Amber Temple is the only thing in Ravenloft that's even approachably playable for Slayers, and even that is a tiresome slog.

Also both kinda fail as "land of the undead", I think...anywhere thats still full of the living is not the land of the dead. Gimme dark, ancient corridors and barren, windswept fields, untouched by living feet for hundreds of years, where the bones of the restless dead rattle ominously just beyond the edge of the torchlight.

Honestly Thunderholme is the closest thing, and even that's still too full of cultists.

That makes me kinda wonder though - why dont we have dark quests? Rainbow is the only one that's not full visibility, though that shows that darkness is technically possible. Is it a lighting issue or something? I'd actually kinda like quests where you had a certain radius of "torchlight" (without needing to actually equip anything like in Rainbow) and you couldn't see or target anything beyond it - unless you were a race with Darkvision, then you could target objects and mobs out to 60' or whatever your darkvision radius is.

Hell, that'd also be a great way to address the "ranged is too good" problem. You cant shoot what you cant see.

[AlmGhandi]

Orchard.

Having pen and papered Ravenloft not exactly feeling it....
Too easy to get back to Stormreach.

The Orchard slayers and explorers have, however, helped me finish many a life when my guildy and running partner somehow got to 20 before me.

[thedip]

I would love to say Ravenloft, but I can't as the wilderness is so empty. The atmosphere is lovely, but all it is in essence is a large dark empty forest. There should have been graveyards and crypts to explore or a ruined church or abandoned fane - but thrre is nothing.

This means that I also have to go with the orchard. There are lots of different environments and creature types to play with and crypts delve into.