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Rivals like leeches, giant mosquitos (stirges) or giant ticks work, as a hazard and means of spreading some sort of illness or poison. Swarms of biting flies that are infected with a fast-acting illness, one that gives Disadvantage on saves vs Charm perhaps. Some forms of toxic gas, maybe, that does...

I didn't like Curse of Strahd much, myself. I cut the Amber Temple entirely, had Fear/Horror/Madness be tied to Wis, Int, Cha (in about that order, it's been a while), and cut the the ghost castle as well. There's enough still in CoS to run the campaign start to finish without needing those places, ...

It's up to the GM, they never state where it is. They do that quite a bit in that particular adventure. If it were me, I'd place it in the Abbey, you know the one, being used by the Abbot for his experiments.

Dynamite, firearms, and even something makeshift like a flour-bomb are all well and good but I mostly ask for non-combat ideas. Not weapons, but useful equipment like an early grappling gun, fake passports, hollow boot heels, or other such things. I find the simple Kodak Camera to be astoundingly us...

I've been a reader of the site for a long, long time. I grew up playing AD&D (a little halfling fighter/cleric, in fact) and it's still my preferred edition. I've been running/playing AD&D 2e for at least a decade now, unbroken, and longer than that with breaks. However, in all that time I'v...