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Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales
Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales, subtitled "Terror in the 1890s", was published by TSR in 1994 as an alternate campaign setting for the horror fantasy role-playing game Ravenloft, which itself uses the rules from the 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
Masque of the Red Death, which takes its name from the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is set on an alternate history Earth in the 1890s in a setting called "Gothic Earth."
Red Death refers to a malevolent entity spawned in ancient Egypt during the "golden age of magic." It has slowly gained power through the centuries, promoting violence and catalyzing disasters using the undead and the insane. By the late 19th century, Gothic Earth is tottering on the edge of the abyss. The characters, as members of the secret society called "Enlightened Age", fight avatars of the Red Death
Masque of the Red Death is set on Earth in the 1890s in a setting called "Gothic Earth." There is a strong connection to the supernatural as well as characters mentioned in legends and literature. For example, necromancers practice dark arts among the slave traders of New Orleans, while spirit creatures stalk the settlers of the American West, and Sherlock Holmes shares a railroad car with Count Dracula.
Although the game uses rules similar to the previously published Ravenloft, this is a completely new setting, with no carry-over in characters or storylines from the original setting. Also, unlike the basic Ravenloft setting, where mysterious mists divide the realm into distinct settings, the Gothic Earth setting has no divisions.
Since sword-bearing warriors and robed wizards would be out of place in Gothic Earth, the usual character classes of AD&D (fighter, wizard, cleric, thief) have been modified to soldier, merchant, adept and mystic, with several subclasses for each such as athlete, detective and explorer.
Players can also select character kits from a list of vocations such as Cavalryman, Journalist, and Laborer. Nonweapon proficiencies, optional in the standard AD&D game, are required here; among the choices are Chemistry, Photography, and Criminology.
The boxed set includes
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Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales
Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales, subtitled "Terror in the 1890s", was published by TSR in 1994 as an alternate campaign setting for the horror fantasy role-playing game Ravenloft, which itself uses the rules from the 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
Masque of the Red Death, which takes its name from the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is set on an alternate history Earth in the 1890s in a setting called "Gothic Earth."
Red Death refers to a malevolent entity spawned in ancient Egypt during the "golden age of magic." It has slowly gained power through the centuries, promoting violence and catalyzing disasters using the undead and the insane. By the late 19th century, Gothic Earth is tottering on the edge of the abyss. The characters, as members of the secret society called "Enlightened Age", fight avatars of the Red Death
Masque of the Red Death is set on Earth in the 1890s in a setting called "Gothic Earth." There is a strong connection to the supernatural as well as characters mentioned in legends and literature. For example, necromancers practice dark arts among the slave traders of New Orleans, while spirit creatures stalk the settlers of the American West, and Sherlock Holmes shares a railroad car with Count Dracula.
Although the game uses rules similar to the previously published Ravenloft, this is a completely new setting, with no carry-over in characters or storylines from the original setting. Also, unlike the basic Ravenloft setting, where mysterious mists divide the realm into distinct settings, the Gothic Earth setting has no divisions.
Since sword-bearing warriors and robed wizards would be out of place in Gothic Earth, the usual character classes of AD&D (fighter, wizard, cleric, thief) have been modified to soldier, merchant, adept and mystic, with several subclasses for each such as athlete, detective and explorer.
Players can also select character kits from a list of vocations such as Cavalryman, Journalist, and Laborer. Nonweapon proficiencies, optional in the standard AD&D game, are required here; among the choices are Chemistry, Photography, and Criminology.
The boxed set includes