Café de Nuit

Thanks for the great replies! My DM responded instantly to a couple of the suggestions. I'm looking forward to returning to Valaki, even though we're wanted fugitives there.

My DM needs some new ideas for the weekly festival held by the eccentric mayor of Vallaki. He's already used the starting theme of wolves' heads and then used the sun. An element of hope should be included. We're playing through the Curse of Strand, so themes are good for this topic while spoilers a...

This Reddit news inspired me to leave lurk mode. More CoS tidbits from Chris: "There are new rules in Curse of Strahd, specific to adventuring in the land of Barovia. For example, there's a rule for "resurrection madness." No "power checks" specifically, but CoS has somethin...

I don't often return to the Cafe, but I ran across a Kickstarter that strongly reminded me of Ravenloft (5 days left). It's a boardgame with strong narrative/RPG atmospere called Folklore: The Affliction . It's loaded with gothic horror miniatures--the translucent ghost versions of the hero characte...

Back with a quick update, 17 days to go. Here's the link to the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... on-scenery

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10583905_691929917554168_8014779536302697350_n.jpg?oh=3f207a1cc3d106ab84f2776b069177aa&oe=54BC5B9A&__gda__=1421040710_fd7f01df04495f570a6fcad5ecc0670c This kickstarter is scheduled to start Oct. 1st or shortly after. It is comp...

Back in the early 70's Rod Serling wrote a show called Night Gallery. It consisted of a few short stories of horror that filled an hour and scared me silly as a tot. I remember a show about a 'sin-eater' at funerals, another about a witch and voodoo dolls, and still another about a deadly mermaid th...

An old (Rod Serling's) Night Gallery episode from the early 70's had a short about a sotted old salt telling a tale of encountering the most beautiful thing he ever saw, a mermaid. Nobody in the tavern took him seriously. Angered in the face of their mocking laughter, he swore he would see the beaut...

Joel, great addition to the Mausoleum. Hope it bears some more bitter fruit. Ali, I was hooked in the low threat of the opening minute. The later raising of tone to pathos reminded me of Midnight Syndicates Vampire CD. Personally, I liked the more sparse opening with the bass and cello sounds. Somew...

The rules in total are heavy. Even just the basic skill rules on p. 2 aren't for everybody. A lot of the options are there to reflect my experience with language. I'm an English as a Foreign Language teacher living in Taiwan, so this extensive description was to work out a challenge and see it throu...

' . In an old thread started by doctor-evil, house ruling for Ravenloft language proficiency was put forth based on a MotRD web enhancement by Rucht Lilaviat. http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3427&highlight=languages The basic premise was 1 skill point for a rank of flue...

Thanks for the lead. Too bad I'm overseas, trapped in an isleand of terror call Taiwan, and have to wait until summer to get to Gencon for a preview.

I'd like to adapt an article from one of the Secrets of the Kargatane Book of S downloads, but I can't relocate it. It concerned 2nd ed. Player's Option rules for traits and disabilities. An example I remember included addiction. I want to use them so as to expand available feats for a solo RL campa...

There was a Dragon article two or three years back that contained a cool house rule for attempting to understand and use a new language almost immediately. To my horror, I never could find it again. It probably used a Charisma-based skill in a new way, but I never could figure out a substitute to em...