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Every GM I know follows the "Steal everything" motto.

Falcon's Hollow is in Darkmoon Vale and is a host of a few Paizo adventures. I think Paizo even put out a setting book for Darkmoon Vale but, I haven't read it. Falcon's Hollow is the setting for Hollow's Last Hope, Crown of the Kobold King, Revenge of the Kobold King, Hungry are the Dead, and...

The Shackled City Adventure Path is set almost entirely in the city of Cauldron and the surrounding jungle. I loved that setting as a GM and player. I'm currently running a small campaign set in Falcon's Hollow, a small town on the frontier that specializes in the lumber trade. Even when I...

And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling PC's and your animal companion, too!

I've always just assumed that your character has a helmet. But, I've also been laid back as a GM. It's your character. You tell me what s/he looks like! I recall a, now dead, webcomic where, after seeing the critical hit table, helmets became the party's main goal for questing. I think it was...

I vaguely recall having a wizard that made a custom divination spell. We called it Control + F for fun. It was first level, I think. It would let you search through a book for one phrase per casting. So something like this: Search (Control + F) Level: Wiz 1 Components: V/S/M Casting Time: 1...

@Eltab and @Tonguez you are correct. It is darkwood in that sense. The head of the lumber company is evil with a capital E. The company owns pretty much everything in town, he grinds his workers down to dust, and pays them in company script after altering their work records. Can't work? Then...

Suppose you're the evil dude in head of a lumber company. You want to expand deeper into a large forest full of darkwood. The problem is, there's a small clan of squatters in your forest! Now, you've been slowly bringing in mercenaries to your town for some time now under the guise of...

Now that you mention it, I do remember not being too scared of Strahd. Maybe it was because he lacked Energy Drain as an attack.

As I said, the campaign went from scary (How are we going to survive this!) to silly (Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!). And as the campaign progressed and it started to show that Strahd didn't care how much we wrecked his stuff we went from trying to be stealthy to just acting out in...

Will the final step of your plan be "Push the button"? ;)

I bought my then girlfriend now wife the colossal red dragon mini as a gift. It sits in our dining room. :)

I agree with @Shiroiken you can find some great stuff on r/battlemaps. imgur tends to have map dumps every now and then. Bookmark them and keep them for later. You can even search for a D&D tag to find results faster. Since transitioning to online play*, I've actually been running more written...

If I was the villain I would take the sword apart and scatter it all over Barovia. Put the blade in the Castle Ravenloft crypts, toss the hilt over the Tser Falls, and put the scabbard in the Amber Temple. Or, you know, give it to some of the Vistani and have them leave it somewhere safe outside...

What this discussion has taught me was that my expectations for this module did not match for what was in the box.

Should I ever be in a situation where I'm running something similar, I am going to shamelessly steal this idea.

We charged the sunblade up to max and then rested in the crypts, all the while laughing that this should not be possible. But it did. Somehow. Did the DM misread how the sunblade worked? Also, the DM emphasized how important our alignment was going to be during session 0. That it would...

@jayoungr we did go to the Amber temple with Kasimir (Earless the Elf). I remember we touched a few of the pillars and they all asked us if we wanted their gifts but we couldn't pump them for any information. The only deal that was made was when the warlock got a pair of hell hounds and the only...

Curse of Strahd seems to get universal acclaim. I was excited to play it. Yet, I found my experience lacking. I wouldn't say I hated it, that may be too strong a word, but I definitely found it disappointing. Now, I was a player and I have no idea what the DM altered, cut, or just simply forgot...

I'm running a campaign that is set near a darkwood forest. The town is run by the nearby lumber company. The lumber company is already disinterested with the welfare of its workers. (Profits over people) A few of my players have expressed an interest in dealing with the town leadership. I'm...