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License Killer Suggestion: Strahd von Zarovich | Wizards of the Coast
Ravenloft is Dungeons & Dragons most popular adventure campaign setting.
It just so happens that Count Strahd von Zarovich, and the village of Barovia, are perfectly sculpted for Dead by Daylight's adaptation.
"The wind's howling increases as Strahd turns his gaze back to the village. Far below, yet not beyond his ken, a party of adventurers has just entered his domain. Strahd's face forms a twisted smile as his dark plan unfolds. He knew they were coming, and he knows why they have come--all according to his plan. [...] The master of Ravenloft is having guests for dinner. And you are invited." - (Curse of Strahd, 2016, p. 5)
"Eerie mists surround Barovia and bind its inhabitants there." - (Curse of Strahd, 2016, p.9)
"By the will of the Dark Powers, the sun never fully shines in the lands of Barovia. Even during the day, the sky is dimmed by fog or storm clouds, or the light is strangely muted." - (Curse of Strahd, 2016, p.24)
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A vampire would be a neat character. I feel like Oni is, essentially, a rethemed vampire in terms of his power set.
Now allow me to put on my REALLY NERDY LORE SPECS HERE and counter with: The whole nature of Ravenloft and the Dark Powers would preclude one of their toys getting taken away by some other entity. The Dark Powers are, for all intents and purposes, a DBD Entity equivalent (a very vaguely defined malevolent force and jailer that the DM can use to handwave stuff) in Ravenloft, and they occupy a similar "all-powerful and nothing can overturn them" role as the Entity does. And beyond that, I think this would be pretty far down on the list of recognizable mainstream horror licenses.
That said, "The Ancient" would be kind of a cool killer. 😀
(EDIT: Also, if they went the vampire route, I think something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be way more recognizable and appealing from a marketability standpoint.)
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...and actually, you just made me realize that the whole of Dead by Daylight is essentially a recontextualized Ravenloft, what with all of these evil monsters having crossed some terrible moral event horizon, and being spirited away into the fog and imprisoned by a vague eldritch force.
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@Rydog while Ravenloft might not have the mass audience that traditional horror films (and their icons) do, it does have potential to produce a noticeable impact on the game's growth. ...and if the price is right, it might even be great for BHVR's bottom line.
Tabletop gaming and video gaming occupy a shared space--people who play one are more likely to play the other. The same cannot be said about people who watch horror films because film occupies a different space in pop culture. This is all conjecture, but I'm fairly confident there is correlation in my argument.
As of a 2019 IGN article, WotC reports an estimated 40 million people to have played D&D since the late '90s. If this number is to be believed, they're nearly 4 times as popular as DBD (more or less, depending on active player count).
Ravenloft has a cult following which, given the shared space that tabletop and video gaming occupy, would attract a large amount of new players purely in the interest of playing as or against Strahd.
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*laughs in Soth*
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