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Thank you, Speedwagon! Quite a few of the works I reviewed are on sale until the end of Halloween. If you had to ask me if there's any that I'd call "must buys," they'd be these ones: One Night Strahd, the Red City, the Barovia Gazetteer Collected Edition, Captain Snowman'e Guided Cruise T...

https://i.imgur.com/6cj9dig.png Chapter 17: The Wedding at Ravenloft. This is it,the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The finale to the Curse of Strahd Companion, when the PCs venture to Castle Ravenloft, save Ireena, and defeat Strahd! This chapter is meant to be used in conjunction with Chapter...

https://i.imgur.com/L6I35BZ.png The Companion notes that the blights individually are very weak to send against 5th level PCs, and their large numbers make traditional combat with them a drag. Additionally, the book notes that with their silver immunity it’s highly unlikely that the wereravens woul...

https://i.imgur.com/ko3jRqF.png Argynvostholt is actually a breath of fresh air in comparison to the prior chapters in that it adds to the place rather than restricts. Some of the revisions it makes include giving unique personalities, descriptions, and even weapons for the undead knights in the du...

https://i.imgur.com/jAsTzYm.png Castle Ravenloft has always been an end-game dungeon for Curse of Strahd, and many genre-savvy players often put off exploring it until they tied up all the loose ends in the rest of Barovia. There have been non-lethal incentives to explore it prematurely, such as a ...

https://i.imgur.com/LJa1guu.png Product Link Product Type: GMing Tools Cos-Required? Yes When reviewing the Barovia Gazetteer Collected Edition and more recently She Is the Ancient, I mentioned what I now dub “overhaul guides” for Curse of Strahd. While most are free plus or minus a few Patreon-exc...

https://i.imgur.com/kqQs1bu.png Castle Ravenloft starts out by saying that the dungeon is bigger than it needs to be, although it doesn’t have any suggestions for making the castle crawl shorter or more concise. Most of the changes to the rooms involve backstory alterations, like the Vistani minion...

https://i.imgur.com/DnI0BNR.png Old Bonegrinder is perhaps one of the most infamous TPK areas in Curse of Strahd. It was so bad that when running it Chris Perkins himself replaced the night hags with green hags. In SitA, the night hags are Morgon, Gregor, and Ophelia, the last of whom still retains...

https://i.imgur.com/KiTOQ47.png Product Link Product Type: DMing Tools CoS-Required? Yes Curse of Strahd is a popular campaign; perhaps one of the most popular. But it suffers from poor organization, some encounters of questionable balance, and less-than-progressive holdovers in portrayal of certai...

https://i.imgur.com/gQ613J4.png Product Link Product Type: DMing Tools CoS-Required? Yes Of the various innovative ideas in Curse of Strahd, one of the more notable ones is the concept of the Destined Ally, a randomly-determined NPC in Madam Eva’s Tarokka reading who will aid the party in their fig...

https://i.imgur.com/sXS7B56.jpg Product Link Product Type: DMing Tool CoS-Required? Yes Another Oliver Clegg* product, Barovian Nights looks to spice up Curse of Strahd’s overland travel with a lot more random encounters. The default adventure has 25 different overland encounter types, but the only...

https://i.imgur.com/hdn6ku5.jpg Product Link Product Type: Bestiary CoS-Required? No, but presumably meant to be used as a replacement for the default CoS Strahd of that book. As an iconic D&D figure who has existed across editions, the capabilities of Strahd Von Zarovich have differed between ...

https://i.imgur.com/r1MtFMN.jpg Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? Yes This one-shot adventure is designed for 4 5th-level PCs. But unlike other adventure products designed to supplement the base Curse of Strahd campaign, this one is a prequel where the players take on the role of K...

https://i.imgur.com/PCVhCTT.jpg Product Link Product Type: Adventure (Mini-Game) CoS-Required? Yes Besides being the largest population center in Barovia, Vallaki is known for its many mandatory festivals. While the Baron’s poor attempts at enlivening community spirit is a major part of resentment ...

https://i.imgur.com/lIrUhUX.jpg Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? Yes Dracula isn’t the only gothic monster Curse of Strahd deploys. Vasilka the flesh golem has a similar role to Frankenstein’s monster, but her creator, the Abbot, isn’t much of a mad scientist. He is closer to bein...