D&D General Unprofessional spoilers: it's not like it was hard to figure out but still...

Paul Farquhar · 2026-01-02T07:26:29+0000

humble minion said:
'Everywhere' is pushing it. I'd certainly managed to avoid the plot point in question without too much effort up to that point.

Maybe, if you know you need to avoid spoilers. But if you didn't know you were likely to be playing it then it was mentioned in most reviews. And the reason that's such an issue is the adventure lets the PCs fairly easily uncover the Traitor if they choose to investigate at all, it even has an NPC come up to the party and say they are suspicious of X, but then it doesn't know what to do after they are exposed.

W'rkncacnter · 2026-01-02T07:45:15+0000

humble minion said:
Yes, agreed - in general terms. But the plot element in question is (spoiler!) 'evil NPC A is disguised as friendly NPC B', and they've not done that by having miniatures of both A and B in the set, which would have been perfectly fine and actually useful if you were running the game. They've done it by having a miniature in the set called 'A disguised as B' which depicts A with their magical disguise only half in place, and not including a regular miniature of B at all. So yes, I think I stand by the 'gratuitous' here.

dms looking at that mini hoping for something they can use to represent the disguised character in play:

pawsplay · 2026-01-02T08:04:56+0000

It's been forty years. We all know Strahd is John Travolta playing Dracula, ok? There's even a boardgame.

TiQuinn · 2026-01-02T14:08:13+0000

I get it but at this point it’s like a kid watching Empire Strikes Back for the first time - there’s still a very good chance they already have heard from their friends that Vader is Luke’s Dad.

aco175 · 2026-01-02T14:17:41+0000

I was hoping that the actual ability and what the text says would have been posted so I do not need to go look it up. I found it under the paladin description for those like me not sure what was being talked about.

Charlaquin · 2026-01-02T14:43:54+0000

There’s a reason they decided to have Strahd’s vampiric nature be common knowledge in Barovia in the 5e adaptation of the module, despite it having been a secret in older versions. Strahd being a vampire is like trolls regenerating unless damaged by fire or acid. It’s such a well-known D&D ism that only new players are likely to be surprised by it anyway, and for them it won’t be such a shocking reveal that it’s worth making all the other players try to pretend they don’t know. Better to write the new version of the module in such a way that the experience isn’t ruined by knowing he’s a vampire.

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