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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 thing that might be usefully marked on the map could be cataracts. Why can't you walk from the ruins of Berez to the Tsolenka Bridge? The bridge is over a gorge cut by a waterfall some distance above it, you could walk/wade to the waterfall and abseil/cliff dive down, but then when you got t...

I realised that the Tsolenka Bridge, as written, is almost as great a barrier as the choking fog, so the western section of the Tsolenka Road would probably also degrade over time into a trail

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Thought about this for a post war setup, it's rough and I haven't done all the border changes yet

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Hi all, I have some questions; 1) how does a mistway looks like? Is it like an hole in the Mist? Or what? How can I describe it to my player when they use them? 2) Islands of terror has a preciss geographical location or they just fluctuate into the Mist? What about clusters? And pocket domain (not...

Ok so, obviously Castle Ravenloft is central, in a thematic way, to the setting, and that's as it should be. But it is also central geographically, and I have more of an issue with this, which has become more clear to me as I have read CoS and been working out ideas in the War in the Core thread. To...

OK I'll admit it, it gets a bit sketchy here, Strahd returns to the castle in spirit form (?) to find it occupied by the Vaasi army, with the Tripartite Fang attempting to usurp DLship through some ritual. I'm thinking that there just aren't enough adventures based in or around Castle Ravenloft :lol...

The Iron Crusade It was Myar Hiregaard, Nova Vaasan ambassador to Darkon and son of Sir Tristen Hiregaard of Faerhaaven, who negotiated the construction of the road from Mayvin through Tepest to Liara, and he who arranged the contracts with the gnomish elders of Mayvin for the construction of the D...

Interlude: Inajira and the Tripartite Fang Harkon Lukas was not the only one to sense the weakening of Barovia's borders, the fiend Inajira, ever the foe of Strahd, was also aware and sought to use this to his own ends, putting several plans into motion. He had, for some time been aware of certain ...

Interlude: the Verbrekan Situation Canny business man Nathan Timothy, has been able to smell the war coming for some time. He knows that when the metal starts hitting the meat, people are going to want the basics, food and guns. He is also aware that come that time, there's a fair chance that those...

Assuming that the Barovian expulsion of Nova Vaasi is the final phase of the war, then it breaks down into basically three stages, with a prologue, some interludes and an epilogue. Prologue Somehow (this is something that we still haven't figured out, any ideas?) Mallochio frees himself from Madame ...

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 na...

If the castle invasion force loses some of the higher level priests (and associated loss of church power), it could cause the simmering between the Hazlani branch and the Vassi branch to explode into a full blown schism. Especially when spell slingers are shown to be rather effective against 'night...