All day, every page on the Fraternity of Shadows mistipedia has been down... which is certainly not the greatest for someone trying to do research in advance of starting up a campaign, haha. Get the same error on my phone too, so it's not just my ISP or whatever.
Is there another equivalent or better online resource for this stuff?
I am gearing up to run my first Ravenloft campaign in many years, for a player group that is relatively experienced with the game but none of whom know anything about Ravenloft beyond that it is "the spooky setting." I gave them an option between a couple different settings and they voted unanimously for Ravenloft, which is fine by me since I have always liked it.
I would like the characters to be natives of Ravenloft rather than pulled in from elsewhere. However, I'm grappling with how much to tell the players about the various domains. I do want them to have a fair amount of info on whatever domain they choose to be from that a character from there would probably know, BUT I don't want to give away stuff like the darklords and other major players, major adventure sites and their secrets or gimmicks, etc. So I don't want to just give them my 2E Ravenloft books or the 5E Van Richten's Guide, since either would just spill the beans on basically everything. I have a good rapport with them and know I can probably trust them not to go researching the setting's secrets on Youtube behind my back or something, but I also don't want to just give everything away myself by accident.
I guess what I am asking for, is whether there is a good resource online for player-facing information about the domains. I'm fine with it being based on either 2E or 5E, I'm going to be taking what I consider the best from both anyway like some of the updated 5E domains but still unified in a continent as opposed to isolated islands. So I know I'll have to do some rewriting either way... but I'd rather not have to write the whole damn thing from scratch on top of everything else in my life as both a person and busy DM with too much other stuff to prep lol.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can guide me here. 😄
