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How I use poison is solely on the means of the creature or creator. Snake bites really don't kill that often or will kill you in four hours if not treated. There are so few poisonous creatures that can kill a person that it does make some sense. Now a spider the size of a car... that poison will kil...

Rotipher has it right. The pc wants to become dark. The dice and the roll are just pointless. You are the dark powers, if the pc wants to invite darkness in there should be no role. Instead of a weapon have the pc acquire something else, a book or idol sounds great to me. All the pc needs is somethi...

Bleak House give the best info on the good Doctor, but to answer your question.... He was known, or at least his hospital was known. Amazing things and cures were found. Again from the outside looking in the world was wonderful but no one heard the inmates screaming and dying.

You wait and wait for your vistani to show... and then you find out you have a male, shoot there goes the great seeing and tarokka reading, unless of course you have the next dukkar and then he will be hunted down. Certain special abilities are great, but I would almost prefer a fighter or thief wit...

Please explain... I might be able to stretch it that they are trying to teach evil people a lesson by cursing them and making them suffer but I just can't see it. How are you seeing it?

Jackie is always good for any type of head, most young maidens with beauty are not high level pcs. As for why she would be out, just remember she is always looking for her original head and that is something personal to her, and her alone... Again, this does not have to end in combat but it seems th...

How about a close encounter with Montarri? She could very easily confuse your female pc with her unique situation... and at best no combat at all, just some pcs wondering what happened.

From what I remember her ship is a show boat, and that can appear just about anywhere. Heck it could be in Lake Zarovich putting on a show for the locals. A paddle boat can go just about anywhere.

Thank you Dion. Rats in the wall is by far my favorite of his works. I have used this story in lines with Van Richtens guide to the dead for a ghoulish society. Went over very well with my group.

I was waiting for someone to say it... The Shadow Rift. I have seen mountains, plains, monestaries, but never a big gaping maw of darkness with a "cthlulu" trapped in a gate.

Strahd has an Arcanoloth as an ancient enemy, they can still throw down. The wrinkles do not push anyone out. As with cirles of protection, if you force the circle over the creature the circle is broken. If you player walks within the limits of the domain lord it may feel something but nothing unfor...

Poisons for the npcs... like arsenic for example are meant to kill slowly. Now when an assassin is targeting one of my pc's I either use the ones in the book with a higher dc. for exceptional craftsmanship or I make my own. I am disappointed in 3e for what has happened to poison. As stated above PCs...

Jester has it right. I did this with my players for a number of years. They beat everything that I put them against and they grew to expect it. Finally I put them together with Azalin for a non-combat and they threw down. They didn't run and a campaign of five years ended with all of us having a lon...

Still on my to buy list, but somethings as we all have hinted to will be changing. I think the best one will be explaining to characters why the Strahd they nknew and loved has changed so much. "hey he fingered of deathed me last time.... what is going on?"

Most of the novels that contain Vistani have them knowing the nature of the creature and doing just as Rotipher says... warning them. The bluff aspect works great as the mysticism of the Vistani worries most creatures. Also the Vistani are always in possession of some truly interesting magic. Don't ...