Ravenloft

There is a thing that happens with certain types of creative people. They encounter a thing. Fall in love with it, flaws and all. But they don't engage with the flaws.

Then they create something in response to it. They try to fix the flaws in that response. Try to make it right while still loving being in love with that thing as it was when they first encountered it.

I don't know if there is a name for it. There probably is. Ravenloft is one of those things I fell in love with, flaws and all.

I didn't come to Ravenloft via the adventure. That disappointing encounter would be years away. I instead found it, as I did many things at that time, in Waldenbooks. And I found it without even understanding what it was.

If you have been reading my newsletter for a while, you know I have an unhealthy obsession with Dragon Magazine. I have, in fact, already covered it in this series.