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I was kinda laughing at this because what else does the DM do but make stuff up and why does it matter if you do it during the game or before but then I saw who posted ... the guy who BUILT RAVENLOFT CASTLE and how amazing would it be to play at that table? That's Masterwork DMing. My style...

You know, a lot of these suggestions remind me of Curse of Strahd. If you are into getting adventure books, there are a whole bunch of corrupted druid/hag/treant scenarios you could use if you wanted to just ignore the vampire stuff.

Death House was escaped in my home game the other night. I had switched out the Mound for a high HP Gibbering Mouther, but the players kept making their Wisdom saves and it wasn't much of a threat. Much worse was when the house started doing 2d10 everytime they went through a doorway...

He said on Twitter that it got pulled as "spam" and he has to wait a few days for it to be reviewed. I use that site all the time too!

I've had Death House be at the edge of Barovia in my game. After the heroes escape the place, they will be lured in through the gates.

I like it. It definitely makes Vallaki more interesting, and the potential of awakening hope in the abbot becomes a huge thing. Redeeming the Silver Dragon becomes huge as well. Maybe Lysaga has stolen the Wine Gems because she thinks alcohol is depressing people. To do this, the Tarroka...

I ran session two of Death House tuesday. They were in the basement. I have to admit I held back a bit with the Ghouls (tactically0), and again with the Ghasts (lowered hp) The Shadows made the party fully run away, which hasn't happened in a long time. They are scared to go back to the...

Yeah, its one of my favorite things about these WOTC mods. They may be a mess but everybody gets into breaking them down and playing them.

I prefer to start them at 1st, but last night my players lobbied to play new characters at 3rd. They wanted the hp cushion and the extra stuff.

It may be helpful to think in terms of a timeline. Here's a timeline I made for Vallaki. Day 1: PCs arrive to see work underway for the next festival. They will probably visit the Church (and discover the bone theft, possibly visit coffinmaker), and the Tavern (patrons are savoring their wine...

Vallaki will be ruled by a conspiracy of ravens.

Great write-ups, great discussion. I ran the house part of Death House last night (dungeon next week). They found the secret room with the Deed to the Windmill, and a character was possessed by Thorn. It makes me think of a possible scenario in which the characters roll up to the Old...

I ran Death House last night. We ended with the discovery of the stairs to the dungeon. The players basically picked up on all the implied backstory stuff. It was really great. The fighter got knocked out by the Animated Armor but survived. The wizard was possessed by Thorn. As far as...

Highlighter on the module. Take out the trash. Get some beer.

I dig the Monster Hunter. A little more dynamic and flexible than Champion, but less fiddly than Battlemaster. This is the next Fighter I'll play. I like the Revenant idea for bringing back a dead character. The "subrace" stuff is a bit weird mechanically, but I actually see it as a way to...

Great post Lancelot ! Really good point about using the Windmill as a hook to bring characters deeper into Barovia.

As an above ground side-quest, the Gravenhollow Library sequence could be reset in a mountain stronghold somewhere, even a cloud castle.

Whoa, 3 Night Hags at the Bonegrinder is brutal! Green hags will make a tough enough challenge for my games I think. All those Coven spells...

All you have to house-rule remove is Death Saves, and Hit Dice healing during rests. That makes it plenty lethal.

A couple of prep things that will help (so far): A table of book titles (there are a lot of these around the nets) A timeline for visiting the Village of Valleki. This is another of these chapters where you have to read the whole thing to figure out what the actual stories are. The various...