The most successful D&D settings and stories are reprinted decade after decade, edition after edition, so that new players can enjoy the same adventures so beloved by their forebears, and old players can whine about the things that got changed. This practice of story-rehashing is especially salient in the stories of Dungeons & Dragons, many of which are embodied in physical locations with detailed maps. And this might be a good subject for analysis too. This is a rich subject for analysis-but the big money is in abandoning all but the merest pretense of originality and casting the same characters in the same conflicts in the same settings that the audience remembers from 30 or 10 years ago. In some contexts, the proposition refers to deep underlying structures to which storytellers inevitably return.
Perhaps you have even heard the idea itself multiple times. Perhaps you have heard somewhere the idea that all stories-sitcoms, epic poems, video games, This American Life vignettes-are fundamentally retellings of older stories. Unnecessary Abstract Introduction (JUST SKIP THIS SECTION PLEASE)
Here’s a third post about the castle itself.
Here’s a different post about locations in Barovia outside the castle. In this post we will look at the crypts in Castle Ravenloft and see how they changed from edition to edition.
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