Editing Ravenloft Campaign (section)

==Demiplane of Dread==
<div style="float:right;margin:15px">http://www.tabcreations.com/rpwiki/barovia.jpg</div>Ravenloft isn't really an entire world so much as it is a finite demiplane, adrift somewhere in the astral.  Occasionally, it will touch upon other worlds in a process known as a masque, drawing in others from those worlds within its confines.

===The Dark Powers===
Unknown to most, Ravenloft is reigned over by some entity or collection of entities referred to only as the Dark Powers.  The Powers are terrible and dark and beyond the ken of mere mortals.  Their motive, or purpose, or even why Ravenloft exists is unknown.  They reign distantly and serve in some way as jail wardens, keeping eternally trapped the domain lords.

===Domains===
Ravenloft is sliced up into a number of domains--regions of land, some as big a country and other as small as a single structure.  In some ways, each domain acts almost like its own plane.  Each domain is perpetually surrounded by gray mists, impeding travel and communication between the domains unreliable at best... often downright impossible.  Somewhere in each domain exists a domain lord--perhaps an actual ruling figure, perhaps not.  Each domain lord is eternally trapped in their own domain, unable to leave.  Each perpetually seeking something they are never going to attain.  The Dark Powers see to it that they never achieve what they seek and that they never give up hope.  The domain lords are without exception terrible people.  And in some ways, every domain is something like their own personal hell.

===The Mists===
Each domain floats somewhere, surrounded by the mists.  These supernatural fogs make travel through them difficult.  Sometimes journeys through the mists seem to last for others, other times they seem to last for weeks.  And it is never the same feeling twice.  Navigation is impossible; even normally reliable beasts soon become lost and disoriented.  Sometimes travelers walk for days only to wrap back around to where they began, or another part of the same domain.  Other times they someplace else terrible and totally unexpected.

===Effects on Magic===
Some magic works different in Ravenloft, particularly magic that makes use of the planes.  Ravenloft is not on the Prime Material, and it is hard to escape from.  Summoned beings are may remain when a summoning spell ends and spells that make use of the ethereal or astral may have strange effects.  Also of particular note is divine magic.  Where as before the divine caster might have felt the presence of their deity, once in Ravenloft they feel only an emptiness.  Spells cast to speak to their deity are answered by a strange presence.  But the spells still come.  Perhaps they're just granted by... something else...  Maybe even the Dark Powers themselves.