Curse of Strahd: Opinions?

[alhoon]

Well, there are several as far as I've seen. The Amber Temple is the most obvious IMO.

[dead]

Nowhere has it ever been said that he is one of the most powerful in the multiverse. He was very strong for Greyhawk, moderate power for Forgotten Realms, the planes, etc. Some of the Circle of Eight were as low as 12th level if I remember correctly. Mordenkainen is (in)famous, that does not necessarily equate to actual power. He had a lot of connections and allies, not to mention a personal army to back up his ne in Greyhawk.

Mordenkainen is a 27th level mage in the 3E Epic Level Handbook. This would be around 591 CY on Oerth.

[Resonant Curse]

Nowhere has it ever been said that he is one of the most powerful in the multiverse. He was very strong for Greyhawk, moderate power for Forgotten Realms, the planes, etc. Some of the Circle of Eight were as low as 12th level if I remember correctly. Mordenkainen is (in)famous, that does not necessarily equate to actual power. He had a lot of connections and allies, not to mention a personal army to back up his ne in Greyhawk.

Mordenkainen is a 27th level mage in the 3E Epic Level Handbook. This would be around 591 CY on Oerth.

Apparently he power leveled since 2nd edition.

[alhoon]

Since Gygax made epic levels to continue leveling his character... I would say he was always an insanely powerful, world-bending powerful, wizard.

[Joël of the FoS]

Got my taroka deck this afternoon

Cool object, cool drawings, but ...it is small! The images on the cards are barely bigger than CoS's appendix.

Joël

[alhoon]

What?
You just saved me from a lot of money...

[Guardian of Twilight]

Got my taroka deck this afternoon

Cool object, cool drawings, but ...it is small! The images on the cards are barely bigger than CoS's appendix.

Joël

It's a shame that they're so small. I guess it's a good thing I ordered mine for a little over $7 on eBay.

[Dreamakuma]

I'll probably bite the bullet and pick up the tarokka deck tomorrow at my FLGS. Can you give the cards measurements? A smaller deck might suit my needs.

[Joël of the FoS]

I'll probably bite the bullet and pick up the tarokka deck tomorrow at my FLGS. Can you give the cards measurements? A smaller deck might suit my needs.

8,8 cm x 6,3 cm, or 3,5 in x 2,5 inch

[Mortavius]

WotC's Mike Mearls just posted that Curse of Strahd is currently #6 on Publishers Weekly's hardcover fiction list. That's a damn impressive accomplishment -- and it shows that there's a hunger for non-FR material.

Here's the link: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/niel ... ction.html

I was on a mini-vacation last week visiting family, and they live in a bigger city center than me. I couldn't find a single copy of the Curse of Strahd anywhere in the town of roughly 40,000 people. So I went to the next closest town of over 100,000 people, and had no luck. Sold out, everywhere.

Oddly, I found two copies for sale in a town we passed through on the way home, of only 3,700 people. But by then I had already ordered it at a good discount from Amazon and got it in two days.

So if any of that is anything to go by, it's selling well enough.

[The Lesser Evil]

The book doesn't make any mention of the Dilisnya family or Leo's betrayal, does it?

[Jimsolo]

Nope. From what I can see, the connections to the larger setting have not been explicitly included. (Although there seems to be more than enough wiggle room to include them if you want).

[Drinnik Shoehorn]

It does say that the Watchers have Leo's bones.

[alhoon]

It also drops the name somewhere... I can't remember where.

[Zilfer]

The Watcher's have Leo's bones in one of the rooms inside Vallaki, so that he could not be ressed as a punishment for betraying Strahd. (I'd really like to make Leo an ally against Strahd in this campaign just need to figure out how to convey the information, that it might be a good idea to resurrect him....) Though my players just got to Vallaki and have not quiet gotten to the politics.... They were amused by Blinsky's shop however....