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<blockquote data-quote="Greenstone.Walker" data-source="post: 8024797" data-attributes="member: 6788312"><p>Dark Powers? What are these Dark Powers? I've played I6 a few times and read I6 and I10 many times. I don't remember any references to Dark Powers. Did they get added in a later book?</p><p></p><p>I am curently in a game of Curse of Strahd. Our experiences are certainly different to yours, except for the "missing moral compass" bit - our party is a bunch of thieving bastards plus one character who has a strong reason to end Strahd. Combats have been nasty and brutish. We have no magical weapons, no magical armour, hmmm, we have I think one magical item total, at level 5. There are no pearls, so the item is currently unidentified (in other words, useless to us).</p><p></p><p>If I had to describe our experiences in one word, it would be "impoverished." Nowhere to buy scrolls or potions or the ingredients to make them. Normal equipment at 10× to 50× PHB price (but 1/10 to 1/50 sell price of normal gear, with nowhere to sell treasure). My 5th level character, who entered the game at the start of level 4, has never had "healing potion" written on the character sheet.</p><p></p><p>Our most important spell is goodberry, because without it we would starve. WIS (Survival) you wonder? It doesn't work when there aren't any farms or edible plants or huntable animals (this valley is seriously screwed).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greenstone.Walker, post: 8024797, member: 6788312"] Dark Powers? What are these Dark Powers? I've played I6 a few times and read I6 and I10 many times. I don't remember any references to Dark Powers. Did they get added in a later book? I am curently in a game of Curse of Strahd. Our experiences are certainly different to yours, except for the "missing moral compass" bit - our party is a bunch of thieving bastards plus one character who has a strong reason to end Strahd. Combats have been nasty and brutish. We have no magical weapons, no magical armour, hmmm, we have I think one magical item total, at level 5. There are no pearls, so the item is currently unidentified (in other words, useless to us). If I had to describe our experiences in one word, it would be "impoverished." Nowhere to buy scrolls or potions or the ingredients to make them. Normal equipment at 10× to 50× PHB price (but 1/10 to 1/50 sell price of normal gear, with nowhere to sell treasure). My 5th level character, who entered the game at the start of level 4, has never had "healing potion" written on the character sheet. Our most important spell is goodberry, because without it we would starve. WIS (Survival) you wonder? It doesn't work when there aren't any farms or edible plants or huntable animals (this valley is seriously screwed). [/QUOTE]
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