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    Question Mailbox in Barovia, please!

    Why is there no Mailbox in Barovia? please add one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Talafar View Post
    Why is there no Mailbox in Barovia? please add one.
    How will they find their way there and back? They have no mailboxes due to lore. Ravenloft is surrounded by a mist that confuses travelers!
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    I could imagine Ravens as transport medium.
    At least within Ravenloft.
    They seem to be the only ones who have no problems travelling through the mist.

    Or ... what about transport via planes that are supposed to exist in any (A)D&D setting ?

    Edit : Wikipedia tells me that there are indeed very few options.

    The only other way I can think of is to do a mailbox *within* the mist in House Jorasco : Since the mist there seems / appears to belong to Ravenloft more or less, so to say, it can be seen as some kind of "outlet". If then a mailbox would be situated *within* this mist at the entrance in House Jorasco, it would - in this interpretation, if I follow it - still belong to Ravenloft.
    The same would be true for the mist within Eveningstar, then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yamani View Post
    How will they find their way there and back? They have no mailboxes due to lore. Ravenloft is surrounded by a mist that confuses travelers!
    +1 Well Said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yamani View Post
    How will they find their way there and back? They have no mailboxes due to lore. Ravenloft is surrounded by a mist that confuses travelers!

    A Vish fortune teller with a crystal ball peering into the mist for distance messages from beyond.

    You play D&D people. Use a little imagination for crying out loud
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cernunan View Post
    A Vish fortune teller with a crystal ball peering into the mist for distance messages from beyond.

    You play D&D people. Use a little imagination for crying out loud
    Strahd has seen what your Vish fortune teller was trying to do and now removed her ability to see the messages!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yamani View Post
    How will they find their way there and back? They have no mailboxes due to lore. Ravenloft is surrounded by a mist that confuses travelers!
    The mailbox got a tentacle beard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yamani View Post
    How will they find their way there and back? They have no mailboxes due to lore. Ravenloft is surrounded by a mist that confuses travelers!
    Yeah, this - by lore it should be nearly impossible to get out of Ravenloft in general.

    I think it should stay like this even if not convenient, especially when the bottle of mist + exit to guild ship/eveningstar options make Ravenloft kind of the easiest waypoint to get from anywhere to anywhere else (for those who have the bottle). The lack of a mailbox is at least a little nod to the lore that makes it feel a little less connected.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elfishski View Post
    Yeah, this - by lore it should be nearly impossible to get out of Ravenloft in general.

    I think it should stay like this even if not convenient, especially when the bottle of mist + exit to guild ship/eveningstar options make Ravenloft kind of the easiest waypoint to get from anywhere to anywhere else (for those who have the bottle). The lack of a mailbox is at least a little nod to the lore that makes it feel a little less connected.
    If you want to follow lore there is a lot of things ddo needs to correct.

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    I suspect WOTC won't allow a mailbox.

    They have to get WOTC blessing on just about everything they do.
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    I like the idea of putting a mailbox at the ES and Jorasco entrances to Ravenloft, because after all, the Orien postal workers union absolutely refuses to set foot in Ravenloft, as well they should. Negotiations with the Kobold workers union as an alternate supplier broke down, because 'Kobold STILL hate you', despite promises that kobold family would eat fresh rat tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loromir View Post
    I suspect WOTC won't allow a mailbox.
    And yet they allow branches of House Kundarak's banking enterprise!
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