I am completely intrigued and challenged by running a Kuthite/Nidalese campaign. Has anyone taken the leap? What was the experience like? Good or evil PC's? And if the PC's were good aligned, why did they stay? Or what was the hook to get them to stay?
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I ran a full adventure there as part of a much longer campaign, the PCs stopping in Nisroch on their way from Cheliax to Varisia.
I just gave a description in Realism of the city upon the PCs' arrival to Nisroch in order to depress them with the doldrums of hopeless despair and unemotional terror before drawing them into a revised-as-needed adventure through The Midnight Mirror, which I made darker, more depressing.
For me, after reading the exceptional 'Pathfinder Tales' novel Nightglass, Nidal revealed itself as the only actually Ravenloftian region in Pathfinder. Nisroch and Pangolais and the Uskwood are far more akin, fluff-wise, atmosphere- and mood-wise, to Barovia and Castle Ravenloft and the Baratoks & the Svalich Rd.
I emphasized the dark, hopeless terror as a comfort-blanket for the Nidalese; as though they are long used to the pall of their destiny and are born with the Stockholm Syndrome. ....Ever heard stories about how some Holocaust survivors couldn't leave the Concentration Camps after liberation; some had to be physically dragged away?