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Started STK last week. Higher level, post Strahd as I said above. We had a great first session, mostly a lot of rp, then a big battle. The "Goldenfields" guide on DMsguild was really helpful. BASICALLY, I focused on dropping a lot of hints and foreshadowing, started with Goldenfields, and am...

I'm starting tomorrow. The group is 9th level, emerging from the Barovian wilderness. They want to visit Waterdeep. I'm thinking of just letting them start there with a "casino boat party" to casually drop the kraken reference, then have Cloud Giant Castle show up over the city, looking for...

Would you mind expanding on what you've done to modify it for a higher level group? What caught you by surprise? What worked what didn't?

Really? I haven't analyzed it too closely, but it seems like if I just add a couple giants to which ever town and dont pull punches I should be able to knock them around a little.

Thoughts on Storm King starting at 8th level? We've just finished Curse of Strahd and want to continue. I'm thinking we'll just get right into it and I'll just add a couple extra giants to every encounter, especially the big town fights, just do away with the Player NPC shenanigans...

Finished the campaign last night!! Huzzah! Such an accomplishment having a stable dedicated group, wow! They heroes had been in and out of the Castle for awhile, having collected all the artifacts, but they did not at all feel confident of tackling Strahd himself. For a couple sessions I...

Well, all bats will say is "Strahd, Strahd, Strahd, Strahd, Strahd, Strahd, Strahd, Strahd."

XP for gold works great for certain types of campaigns. I use it in a Barrowmaze game I run. XP for gold is never quite enough so players supplement it with carousing. It's become a super fun tradition in the game. I also run a Curse of Strahd game. In that one I just sort of generously...

This is interesting... http://wizkids.com/assault-of-the-giants-board-game/ Using the map, some minis, might be a neat parallel game to play.

"...my group, having already encountered such coins on the party barge in Yartar, immediately guessed where they needed to go next." Well played, DM. That kind of closing of the circle in a campaign is worth its weight in diamond dust.

The Mythic Battles boardgame pimped above has as its premise that the order of the gods and titans has crumbled. Titans escaped Tartarus, attacked Olympus and now everything is up for grabs and now you can have skirmish battles with any combination of Greek gods, heroes and monsters. It's made...

My players have lit the beacon of Argynvost, established a new settlement there, and decided to waterwalk across the Lake Zarovich to find the Mad Mage. They found him and battled him, defeating the Mordenkainen!!!!!! The players just keep exploring new corners of Barovia, its really cool, I...

I've backed this boardgame on kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/mythic-battles-pantheon It's full of giants sized god minis that I will use for this module. Looks like a fun game to. Painting minis for days.

I like all these ideas. Prakriti's ideas would be good as rumours for my established PC group. One player played Phandelver years ago. It wouldn't be a bad idea to bring that back at some point...

Its definitely shorter. There's not the same need to play through 8 dungeons. Most of the various locations end up as session length episodes. The story is strong, so players seem less intent on exploring every room. It's more about achieving an objective (like steal the silver dragon skull)...

A lot of DMing is feeling the room. Table feels outweigh game logic. So, when it's getting late, fast forward to a good stopping place and skip the wandering monster rolls. Keep descriptions brief unless players ask for more info. RP can be taken care of with a silly voice and a catchphrase...

It looks like I've been running this since April! Weekly two hr sessions. It's up there with my all time campaign/adventures. The heroes have gone from 1st to 8th level. They've been in the Castle 3 times now. Last time they were teleported into the Amber Temple, which I had not planned on...

While I disagree that writing "Roll on treasure table B" instead of "444gp and a solid bronze" cat is a good thing (adventure writers, please don't make me go on a surprise dmg tour in the middle of a session), I do appreciate the heads up that the NPC set up in the giant attack scenes is...

I actually found my transparency hexes the other day.

If they have or get the key items they'll kick Strahds butt, I imagine. Another option would be to use it as more of an RP location. They could get an invite from the curious Baron, explore around and escape or get chased out.