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I interpret it to mean: you use this ability and then for the next X minutes, you know whether or not each of the different types of creatures are within 1 mile of you. If there's a dragon around the corner and a hundred zombies 9/10ths of a mile down the road, your sense tells you: there are...

In nearly every location on the map, the party can meet up with one or more NPCs that want to come with them. This is in addition to the "special" NPC chosen by the cards that definitely comes with them, and Ireena, who no good-aligned, sane party would let out of their sight. There are groups...

Lots more spoilers. So, reading more of the book, the werewolves and the hags appear to be the only other places where there are dead children. The drunk guy on the lake is trying to kill a child, but it hasn't happened yet (the other places have specifically lots of dead children around...

I like this one, too. It also requires even less changing. Although the after-effects are more severe: what do you do with two children from two centuries ago who just woke up? Especially since this is likely the first place you'll visit in town. Honestly, reading through the rest of the...

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/177846/Dusk-Elves-A-Ravenloft-Subrace The link is to a free download of a preview of a 3rd party book that details that race and others. Only thing I found on google. Looking at the document, it basically can be summarized as: same as other elves, with some...

Spoiler-ish I'm not sure why people think Strahd needs to be boosted or that the boost wouldn't be enough; he's nearly impossible to kill. Unless you do 100% of his (possibly extended) health in one round, he'll just leave. Now, to be fair, I've seen parties that can nova for 200 damage in a...

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Can anyone who owns the copies you can buy on the website ( EthanSental ) describe what "players version" and "DM version" means? Does it mean they don't have all the numbered areas and all that? Also, how much different are these maps from the giant pull-out in the back of the book (other...

I wasn't going to respond, but I will respond once so that hopefully this side of the thread - which surprises me, frankly - can stop. I'm not sure how to say this nicely, but please stop being so monumentally insensitive. I envy your pleasant life that you have no idea why dead children would...

I know. Thank you, though. The werewolves are easy - just make them adults - but the hags will take some thought. That's a ways off, though, and I have time. Actually having Rose and Thorn being all grown up - but still ghosts - might work. That's a much tighter line, since they would...

My interpretation is that the world is just the normal world, and the demi-plane thing is just a standard player-counter. Strahd came in, made a horrible pact with "dark powers," and then the dark powers removed Barovia from the world - not because it was ambiguous where Barovia came from, but...

I thought that was saying that undead cannot be brought back again as undead using resurrection magic - like, you can't restore a vampire that has been killed into a vampire again using resurrection magic. In other words, "life magic" can't be used to restore/create undead. That seems like a...

This thread is now officially a "he said she said" which means no one is getting enough information to advise in a constructive way. But at the end of the day, if someone tore up their sheet and threw it away, some part of a situation wasn't handled correctly. Maybe "player A" was being a...

Any other ideas? The MIL one is a good one. I could see her ghost "explaining" things that indirectly give insights into what happened - like how her son explained to her that it would be better for her health if she had to walk all the way up to the attic each day, so that's why they were...

I've only seen a couple of CoS impression threads so far so I though I'd share my thoughts as someone who is VERY familiar with the 3.5 version of the book. First, as others have already hailed, the art is amazing. I've not gone through the book in fine detail yet, but some of the full-page...

I might be wrong, but I don't think we've ever had 6 encounters in a day. In any version of D&D. If we did, it was 4.0. But probably not even then. I find it to be an incredibly unrealistic standard, yes. Maybe if your group was full of people who really enjoyed the battle aspect of D&D the...

(Spoiler) You are correct on both counts. None of those details have changed.

Raise Dead should work, as long as it's been less than 10 days. Reincarnate sort of works. The spells you mention would work. I am coming at this from the perspective that "being a zombie" doesn't change anything and standard "return to life" spells will work.

Good ideas, thank you! I like the old lady and the cat because it doesn't take much adjustment and it's pretty similar. You could also change the main hall painting to be Mr. holding the cat with the Mrs. cutting her eyes at it. You could even confuse the situation by having it so that the...