A couple of unanswered questions about Season 4

[Granville]

Hey, sorry if I could not find this elsewhere but I tried my best. I had a couple of questions about this season.

1.) Are we going to have pre-generated characters from the AL like the previous seasons? I liked them, I felt they had cool tie-ins to the DDEX adventures.

2.) The same question as 1, but for season specific Backgrounds. I still bust out the Earthspur Miner from season 2 on occasion at home games. I love that one, would love to see more backgrounds like that for this season.

3.) Are the AL adventures getting a hub city/town/farm, etc? I've seen mention of an "Orașnou" but the season is pretty much is started and no blurb or information anywhere. I felt it really helped out to have a blurb in the past seasons. If we do have a new hub, is it in Barovia?

4.) Sorry I don't know how to make spoiler tags, as I'm new to enworld so don't read any further, or at least I warned you....





....The economy for Barovia is pretty messed up. You have a grand total of two merchants in Curse of Strahd. One of them sells any item in the Player's Guide that is valued at "Less than 25 Gold" for ten times the price and the other merchant sells items at "25 Gold or less" for five or three times the cost. (I forget but it's the storage group in Vallacki? Spelling?)

Are we to play with this restriction in the AL as well? I see no mention of it in the AL DMG or PG for this season.

What about spell components? Scribing into a Wizard's Spellbook (Or my Warlock's Book of Ancient Secrets) with "Expensive Inks"?

Will the "Hub city" open up "fair" trade?

Thanks for reading!

 

[skerritthegreen]

1) Yes, They are still coming.

2) I think so, but I'm not positive on that one.

3) Not all of them, but more of them are in the village of Orasnou in Barovia than anywhere else.

4) There might be a merchant/ general store in the new village of Orasnou.

 

[Pauper]

Will the "Hub city" open up "fair" trade?

Strahd must have his share of all trade in Barovia.

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Pauper

 

[Granville]

Strahd must have his share of all trade in Barovia.

--
Pauper

He has a population of 3000, but it does not specify if that includes the Vistani, certain were-critters, and the big batch of crazy people holed up in a certain someplace somewhere. Or his fellow vampire spawn. Is it just Barovians? Either way, his fiefdom is rather tiny, but still.....it seems like it's also a major one-way filter for "stupid adventurers" to show up and die at, which is displayed in the hard cover a few times. Right now I have a character working it's way to the exit of Death House which means level 3 if I can get her the door. Then she has the Identify Spell ala Book of Ancient Secrets. Where do I come up with a 100 Gold cost pearl to cast the spell? The merchants only sell items 25 Gold or less.

One idea is Jenny Greenteeth. While she's not a part of the Hardcover she is a part of the setting when playing in AL format.

 

[Cascade]

Where do I come up with a 100 Gold cost pearl to cast the spell? The merchants only sell items 25 Gold or less.

hmm...spell caster material components may be an issue.
How is diamond dust handled?

 

[kalani]

Valid point, I will raise that concern with the admins.

 

[Anthraxus]

Since she's already providing spellcasting services, Jeny would probably make a good NPC the characters could buy more expensive spell components from, at least?

 

[skerritthegreen]

I believe in 4-1 when someone tries to sell Jeny spell components, she even mentions that she has all she could need...

 

[Tyranthraxus]

Its all the stuff she was given in Tales Trees Tell. You wouldnt believe the stuff my pcs gave to her to get her favor.

 

[trigician]

I'm so glad you like the Earthspur Miner! You made my day!