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OK I'm going to take this a stage further, and suggest that Barovia would function better, as a setting, as an adaptation of Dracula, and as an expansion of the original adventure, if Strahd was trapped, not just in Barovia but also within the choking ring of fog . I've been reading various article...

A big part of me wants this to be a spectacular victory for Strahd though, where there would actually be some kind of benefit to him for having these "vassal" darklords. This is where we diverge. :mrgreen: IMNSHO Strahd (and other popular Darklords) have been pampered waaaaay too much in ...

IMC gender inequality, and most other "issues", are something that is for story and NPC motivation, not something to hamper a PC, unless that PC has specifically wanted the role playing challenge of playing a character facing such issues. That being said, the death of Duke Gundar was a maj...

OK I'm going to take this a stage further, and suggest that Barovia would function better, as a setting, as an adaptation of Dracula, and as an expansion of the original adventure, if Strahd was trapped, not just in Barovia but also within the choking ring of fog . I've been reading various articles...

I tend to steer away from morality and towards consequences. It is true that almost all horror, gothic or otherwise, is rooted in the morality of the day, even if one can argue that Stoker and Shelley were reacting against conventional mores. The difficulty being that morality, now maybe more than e...

IMC with the exception of Madame Eva, Vistani are essentially normal humans with a strong tradition of divination magic that is inherited, but I come from a time before sorcerors, so I'd probably put it in those terms today. Madame Eva is the actual "Elminster" being exceptionally powerful...

It definitely wasn't the whole of the adventure, but it was far more than the taster/teaser that I was expecting from WotC, they are still selling this adventure after all. Yeah the end was kinda sucky, seemingly caused by a combination of streaming problems the week before and the need to end on sc...

This season of Dice Camera Action has now finished, with 31 (I think) episodes now available on twitch and youtube. On the whole I've really enjoyed the series, lots of good stuff, really enjoyed seeing Chris Perkins change up his DMing style from Acquisitions Inc., fun use of guest players as NPCs,...

He is certainly evil enough so what act would you have him do to have the DPs turn him into one, what would be his curse and powers? What would his domain be like? I'm guessing that you mean other than his stated aim of defeating Dominc D'Honaire and taking over Dementlieu? It's an interesting one,...

Teufeldorf would become the great crossroads joining east to west, north and south, growing into a major city (in Core terms) from the trade, the swiftness of the growth could lead to something of a sprawl, with many a back alley with lurking danger. Zeidenburg then might develop into the cultural c...

Had another thought (well, an extension of an earlier thought really) on Malken's motivation with regards the Tepestian conquest. I imagine it might be a point of pride for Tristen Hiregaard that he is regarded as a hero in Tepest. Sure, he is thought of very highly in Nova Vaasa, but in his home n...

Another pointer to the duailty sun/raven is the pair of holy items, the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind (sun shaped), and the Holy Icon of Ravenloft (raven shaped), both created by the Church, both interestingly, from a theological standpoint, of particular use against vampires, which might suggest that in...

My most recent campaign started in Darkon, I did a fun thing where I got each player to roll a d6 then minus a d10, if the got a positive result, then that number represented the number of living relatives living in the village and the PC was a native, if the result was negative then that was the nu...

Reading this set something off in my head, (that I thought I'd posted last night, damn you Morpheus) OK you know how in some religions (particularly state religions) the monarch is the representative of god on earth, in a ritual sense? What if in the state religion of Olde Barovia, the king (Barov) ...

My understanding is that EtCR is stand alone, and not really tied to the setting overall. That being said the people of the village of Barovia are generally portrayed as having awareness of at least part of Strahd's nature, I would suggest that as they are also generally trapped within Strahd's chok...