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I used to think the same thing, but it is inconsistent due to how magic items in 3.5e reach a critical threshold where they can only be found by adventuring. Yet that doesn't actually justify the gold price. If the largest communities in the game cannot muster the strength to produce even one...

Its entirely just speculation that changes with each iteration of Ravenloft. From what I've gathered over the years, Barovia's homeworld would have been a setting embracing a very romanticized kind of fantasy compared to the standard D&D setting. The world was without a doubt low-magic in the...

I'm still of the opinion that the 3.5 healing paradigm is worse than 4th edition's healing surges due to a tangental issue: There were a number of other easily created, low-cost wands that could eliminate many of the conditions a DM could use to make the near infinite healing wands irrelevant...

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D&D definitely deserves top spot on this list. On the other hand, I'm somewhat frustrated with Pathfinder from a marketing perspective. Paizo sustained a successful campaign long enough to develop an amazingly supportive fanbase and create the first real competing brand for D&D. They should be...

I just want an excuse to serve the great and benevolent space flumph. May his noodley appendages ever guide you and your enemies receive redemption in his laser eyes' divine radiance! He'll even grant you a free flumphy-comfy space pillow! What's that? Only the most comfortable pillow in the...

This and moving them away from the vancian system, perhaps something like the warlock, but with heavier firepower and more squishy. Sorcerers were originally just a spontaneous caster variant of wizards in an edition with so many spells they could feasibly represent almost any bloodline. The...

When they say "gain 1 renown for each of your characters" do they mean the players' characters? Edit: Ah, nvm. I get it. They mean each of your characters receives one renown. It was just some weird wording there.

I was getting confused with a different condition from another game that slowly turns the player into a vampire. So when a player has contracted vampirism in this game, he is already a full vampire? Everything is good then. I was afraid they were removing the fun part about losing control of...

There is a good reason why Vistani PCs are not allowed, but it does involve spoiling something, so unfortunately I can't say it openly besides that it would give the player too many benefits. All the vistani native to Barovia are servants of Strahd, and, due to a pact, all vistani can move...

So I'm reading through the DM handout for Curse of Strahd and came across their Vampirism and Lycanthropy ruling. Vampirism and Lycanthropy Vampires and lycanthropes are not included in the allowed rules for character creation...

Probably cleric, bard, or druid with a focus on spell casting. The choice comes down to party makeup, but the idea is to make sure there is some redundancy in restorative magic to avoid getting locked down with curses. A smart vampire or werewolf might try to dispose of an obvious healer type...

Yeah, my bad. I just generally summarize it to myself as Strahd hunting them down for sport since that is what it devolves into inevitably. :)

From what I was able to research about the adventure you are talking about, I don't think it would work well for the following reason. In Curse of Strahd, Strahd brings the PCs to his domain to kill for sport, which is the primary driving force of the campaign. If the vampire lord and Strahd...

Its not the damage that's really the issue so much as the complete absence of a given element. You can find a fire spell at almost every level, yet the only immediately recognized acid spell on the sorcerer spell list is the acid splash cantrip. So we have the option to play a sorcerer related...

That is true, but its not helpful in the mechanical sense. They both use the same kind of destructive spells, so they either have to make a unique acid spell specifically for the sorcerer to which the wizard has access, but no real use for given melf's acid arrow, or they give the sorcerer a...

I have a copy of the book. The presentation is as you can already guess, gorgeous. I was thinking of some alternatives to the opening adventure they have in the back (Death House) that would fit the adventuring hooks, which all involve traveling to Barovia as outsiders. Also, one particular hook...

And I have all of those sitting comfortably on my shelf.

Yeah, but the spell list needs to be rounded out a lot more to be effective. There aren't enough summoning spells to make the conjuration bonuses really that useful. Similarly, the core sorcerer spells do not include enough elemental damage spells to make any dragon element specialization...

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