Editing Powers Check (section)

==Act of Ultimate Darkness==
In [[Ravenloft]] canon, there are some acts so foul, so horrible, so monstrous, that no Powers Checks are required; those who commit them just automatically get the Dark Powers' attention. For PCs, this is generally an automatic failed Powers Check, but for NPCs, this could even cause them to leap from "normal person" to "[[Darklord]]" in a single fell swoop.

Precisely what counts as an Act of Ultimate Darkness is largely left to the DM's discretion. For example, [[Strahd von Zarovich]], in one night: turned himself into a [[vampire]] to try and preserve his youth, murdered his brother to take his brother's wife, murdered all the guests at his brother's wedding to disguise what he'd done, and tried to mind control the woman he "loved" so he could turn her into his vampire bride - which caused her to curse him and leap to her death from the parapets of [[Castle Ravenloft]].