A high quality and thorough review. Can see you put a lot of effort into it and that makes it highly enjoyable to watch. Hope to see more Ravenloft or even Dark Sun adventure reviews by you in the future! (Also quite curious how you run games, should you ever be short a player let me know 😉 )
Since early nineties I thought Ship of Horrors is just a high-level garbage, unsuitable for horror campaign, but the part with ghosts on a cursed ship caught my interest. This is actually something I would like to incorporate into my Ravenloft campaign! Thanks for the tip!
That's exactly what I ended up doing in my reboot. I made a haunted, reef-like island made from the bones of ancient titans, and that's where the bodies drifted and gathered.
Great overview! What I'm struggling with is how dead bodies could be such a scarce commodity in any D&D universe that a wealthy family could profit by trafficking them to an overseas necromancer. In the Victorian era, the business of digging up bodies and selling them to inquisitive surgeons was a low-class, locally-sourced enterprise.
Yeah - I can’t recall how populated that particular Ravenloft domain was but it felt like a stretch. In my reboot, I said that the necromancer needed noble blood to make more lebentod vampires, which were obviously much less common.
@1ShotJC oh, no, I'm talking about the actual name "Lebentod". Auf Deutsch, thats literally what it means, albeit in the common fantasy "I only know the two words, so just staple them together." Leben: Life, to live. Tod: death
I really enjoyed this review, but the mispronunciation of a German compound word really sticks out. Lebentod. LAY-bin-TODE Leben = Life; Tod = Dead/Death; = Living Dead I probably would have just passed over this adventure if not for the review though, so it was otherwise a great video.
A high quality and thorough review. Can see you put a lot of effort into it and that makes it highly enjoyable to watch. Hope to see more Ravenloft or even Dark Sun adventure reviews by you in the future!
(Also quite curious how you run games, should you ever be short a player let me know 😉 )
I had zero desire to play Pirate Borg....until this.
Great review and incredible reboot! Thanks for all the great work and creativity you bring to these games.
Since early nineties I thought Ship of Horrors is just a high-level garbage, unsuitable for horror campaign, but the part with ghosts on a cursed ship caught my interest. This is actually something I would like to incorporate into my Ravenloft campaign! Thanks for the tip!
I love this adventure! It's pretty easy to incorporate into a campaign. I remember my players liking Graben.
Would you suggest rewarding a ship upgrade (Ghosts Saltmarsh) for Meredoth? ⚓
This was my favorite Ravenloft scenario in the 1990s. Thanks for the coverage.
I would have put the bodies on a small island inhabited by danger as opposed to being under the sea.
That's exactly what I ended up doing in my reboot. I made a haunted, reef-like island made from the bones of ancient titans, and that's where the bodies drifted and gathered.
@@1ShotJCBodies, right!? Not skeletal remains....🚣♂️🧜♀️⚓
Great!
Didn't pirates were golden earrings in order to pay for their funerals?
Sounds like they take those things seriously
Not sure… but I know they did have a form of health insurance that reimbursed for lost limbs!
@@1ShotJC interesting
That one's new to me
Great overview! What I'm struggling with is how dead bodies could be such a scarce commodity in any D&D universe that a wealthy family could profit by trafficking them to an overseas necromancer. In the Victorian era, the business of digging up bodies and selling them to inquisitive surgeons was a low-class, locally-sourced enterprise.
Yeah - I can’t recall how populated that particular Ravenloft domain was but it felt like a stretch. In my reboot, I said that the necromancer needed noble blood to make more lebentod vampires, which were obviously much less common.
So the family of noble undead are called "Living Dead." A bit on the nose, innit?
Haha yes - More my description than the author’s but that’s the best way to sum them up.
@1ShotJC oh, no, I'm talking about the actual name "Lebentod". Auf Deutsch, thats literally what it means, albeit in the common fantasy "I only know the two words, so just staple them together."
Leben: Life, to live.
Tod: death
@@SamuraiMujuru ohhhh hahaha - that IS on the nose
@@1ShotJC If you think thats on the nose, the island name, Neblingtode is a play on the german for "Misty Deaths" :)
This review seriously makes me wish my players hadn't voted against a pirate campaign after our 0-level funnel Creep, Skrag, Creep. 😢
Well I’m surprised they survived that adventure to even hold a vote 😀
I really enjoyed this review, but the mispronunciation of a German compound word really sticks out. Lebentod. LAY-bin-TODE
Leben = Life; Tod = Dead/Death; = Living Dead
I probably would have just passed over this adventure if not for the review though, so it was otherwise a great video.
Haha you should probably not watch my Vaesen reviews then….
@1ShotJC No worries mate. Can't expect everyone to know every language. Just giving a tip for later.