Check Out These Peeks At CURSE OF STRAHD

Curse of Strahd is approaching fast. Here's a few quick, early peeks at the book itself, and of one of the miniatures from Gale Force Nine! These include the book, a glimpse of the fold-out map, Strahd's miniature astride is Nightmare steed, the full set of Tarokka cards, and some art from the book.

Folks out map at the back of the book

The book itself

Strahd on his Nightmare steed

Tarokka cards (separately from Game Force Nine)

Awesome art

More awesome art
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[dave2008]

isn't there a trope of "Hey shouldn't this room be bigger" or "Hey, where is the 4th floor" to make characters notice secrets...

Yes, but my question was not from a adventure design perspective, but from a why would you build it that way point of view.

 

[dave2008]

Part of the idea for the parents might've been that because they didn't want people to easily just notice the door to the attic based upon what they had secured up there. The stairway to the attic in the original design of the house might've been built open so you could easily get up there... but when the parents decided to lock the things away up there that needed locking, they might've changed and rebuilt the doorway to be less noticeable upon casual inspection. That way, if anyone came to the house to visit, they might have intellectually known there was an attic based upon the outside architecture... but since there was no obvious stairway to it, they might be more inclined to just consider it a storage area rather than a living space. And thus, the stuff locked up there would be less likely to be found. Plus, the parents still needed the stairway accessible as new "friends" would still have to be brought up there to reach the circular staircase to get back down into the basement. So the stairway couldn't be entirely walled off.

That is a plausible explanation.

 

[LoreMaps]

Yeah, that nightmare of his looks almost identical to the mounts warlocks in WoW get at level 20 (and then replace at 40.)

And I was wondering why this seems familiar! Seriously, the artwork is great I really like it!

 

[Delazar]

The Nightmare (steed) had this look since time immemorial, well before WoW even existed!

 

[Morrus]

The Nightmare (steed) had this look since time immemorial, well before WoW even existed!

Just ask Lord Soth!

 

[Zaran]

Has anyone noticed that this one isn't being done outside of WotC?

 

[Jabborwacky]

Gimme! I want it now!

 

[Morrus]

Has anyone noticed that this one isn't being done outside of WotC?

Nope, nobody has noticed that.