Café de Nuit

What kind of information is it that you want to give your players when they watch the ceremony? So far I guess your players don't have any motivation, why they should NOT stop it as soon as possible. To get them interested in witnessing it, you have to manage two things: first, like Rotipher already...

How do you deal with the problem of forming and maintaining the tension and anticipation of horror in a game? How do you handle descriptions? What about monsters? Are they an element of the world or are they things alien and cruel? How do I maintain the tension? I don't. I don't believe it's possib...

Well, for me the question boils down to: do we want to give the new DM a guide to the existing books, or a guide to running a RL campaign without any of the books? I can fully understand your problems with those cross-references Ail, and I felt quite similarly when I started. DoD forced you to buy l...

Eidolon is right, we need something short to inspire new DMs, and to give them directions where to look if they hear something they would like to include in their campaign. However, I wouldn't restrict the document to Barovia, I'd rather use Gonzorons approach: a brief introduction to the most impor...

Is there any precedent for ruling out stakes as a means of destruction? Are there strains immune to stakes? Or can we simply say it must be a particular type of wood? According to VRGtVampires, the type of wood used for a stake is indeed important. Mostly, the type of wood has some connection to th...

Snow White as a plant? She sleeps in coffins, has a step-mom that wants her heart carved out, has skin as white as freshly fallen snow, can seduce woodsmen and dwarves with a glance and is betrayed by a mirror. She's so a vampire! You DO know the short story "Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil ...

Heh. You could always rule that Ivana Boritsi's Falkovnian is just as bad as the old TSR writers' German.... :wink: Unfortunately, the Falkovnians Falkovnian isn't much better :-). Especially the Falkovnian Primer in Gaz2 is very strange... Ludendorf German From laden + dorf, with various possible ...

I can see how that would be annoying... for some reason, it seems very clever to a non-french speaking english speaker like myself. Is translating into English an option? or do your players speak english as well? Or German? We could do a whole thread of name-changing for those of us whose main lang...

Firstly; precisely what "breeds" of Lycanthropes are there? You know, like Werewolf, Wererat, Wereraven etcetera. According to VRGtWerebeasts, any kind of mammal that also eats flesh on a more or less regular basis can become a Werebeast (or vice versa), although exceptions do exist, like...

I believe Rotipher is right, a Vintage 528 Barovia might be the best way to draw new players into the Mists. I started my journey into the Mists over a year ago, and I still consider myself a newbie, there is so much you have to read to get a half-decent idea of what is going on, let alone understan...

Now that I think about it, my NPCs seem to have a tendency to always turn their full attention towards the PCs once they enter the scene - they don't seem to like talking to each other when strangers are present :wink: Wow, how did your party acquire so many NPCs? Half of the constant party members ...

Oo, that's SO EVIL! I love it! Very much! I hope I don't get any nightmares tonight because I can't get that picture out of my head in time Thanks a lot, now I can't wait for my players to get to that house

According to wikipedia, boyars were part of the aristocracy in Russia, Romania and Bulgaria, "second only to the ruling princes" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyar). If I remember correctly, every large town in Barovia seems to have at least one Boyar (who rules over it? Gaz 1?). Furtherm...

Difficult question... Mostly I find it very difficult to try to get the feeling of love between NPCs across to the players - tried it once, but failed miserably. My villain did everything to save his love from death - even kill others - but somehow my PCs didn't buy it. My players never thought alon...

Thanks a lot for the hint with the Oubliette, Joël! I hadn't gotten around to reading VRGttM yet, but looked up the description of Oubliettes just now, they fit perfectly. I'll fit the way to open the Oubliette into the fairy tale the PCs find (like, "when the sun began to set, the whole path s...