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The last two chapters sound like they have general-purpose advice for when the Deck inevitably derails a campaign. Am I getting that right?

I made the mistake of buying this book first before the Campaign Guide and ended up stumped at the relative brevity when talking about the world at large or references to things in the main Setting Guide to which I didn't have access. "Oh, we're just jumping into races? Okay, but when are we...

Thank you for all those who answered. I think I'll wait until all 3 volumes are out; feels too weird when an adventure I'd be buying is "incomplete" in some way.

You said that the megadungeon isn't really a megadungeon. Are they actually fully disconnected from each other, or do they have a common geographical link of some kind? Like a bunch of caves in a larger tunnel network being technically the same underground system?

Chapter 17: The Wedding at Ravenloft. This is it,the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The finale to the Curse of Strahd Companion, when the PCs venture to Castle Ravenloft, save Ireena, and defeat Strahd! This chapter is meant to be used in conjunction with Chapter 4 in that one details the...

Edit: Normally I would let this thread fade into the ether, but with the recent post updating the thread I am inclined to point out that this book's publisher, Pulp Hummock Press, has come out in favor of the "anti-woke" side of the culture wars on their Twitter account. Not so much direct...

The Companion notes that the blights individually are very weak to send against 5th level PCs, and their large numbers make traditional combat with them a drag. Additionally, the book notes that with their silver immunity it’s highly unlikely that the wereravens would have been defeated by mere...

To clarify about Chuck Dixon, that person also worked with Vox Day on a superhero comic that portrayed QANON (a conspiracy theory that is reflavored anti-Semitic blood libel) in a positive light. "Where we go one, we go all" is a common phrase among QANON believers. Dixon is also known for his...

Cat Alunya's an anarchist. She's from a now-defunct webcomic called Political Ideology Catgirls. It's a play on words on Catalonia, a region that was anarchist-friendly during the Spanish Civil War.

Fascists and similar authoritarians are quite fond of casting their actions as a "grim necessity." They'll opine that they wish things didn't have to come to this, that they didn't want to have to enact horrific violence, that they didn't want to have to undermine democratic institutions. "I...

To elaborate on Theodore Beal/Vox Day... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Theodore_Beale Vox Day has pretty openly been a scumbag for years, ranging from Holocaust denial to other forms of bigotry. When Macris hired him to work on an RPG book this was...

Argynvostholt is actually a breath of fresh air in comparison to the prior chapters in that it adds to the place rather than restricts. Some of the revisions it makes include giving unique personalities, descriptions, and even weapons for the undead knights in the dungeon, along with...

Castle Ravenloft has always been an end-game dungeon for Curse of Strahd, and many genre-savvy players often put off exploring it until they tied up all the loose ends in the rest of Barovia. There have been non-lethal incentives to explore it prematurely, such as a Tarokka treasure or Destined...

Product Link Product Type: GMing Tools Cos-Required? Yes When reviewing the Barovia Gazetteer Collected Edition and more recently She Is the Ancient, I mentioned what I now dub “overhaul guides” for Curse of Strahd. While most are free plus or minus a few Patreon-exclusive perks, the Curse of...

Castle Ravenloft starts out by saying that the dungeon is bigger than it needs to be, although it doesn’t have any suggestions for making the castle crawl shorter or more concise. Most of the changes to the rooms involve backstory alterations, like the Vistani minions being general Barovian...

Thank you for that! And I certainly can't say no to seeing more reviewers and Let's Readers out there! If I had any advice to give, I'd suggest reviewing books or franchises you feel passionate about. That gives you extra energy in making it through otherwise large tomes. It doesn't have to be...

Old Bonegrinder is perhaps one of the most infamous TPK areas in Curse of Strahd. It was so bad that when running it Chris Perkins himself replaced the night hags with green hags. In SitA, the night hags are Morgon, Gregor, and Ophelia, the last of whom still retains her original gender. Also in...

Product Link Product Type: DMing Tools CoS-Required? Yes Curse of Strahd is a popular campaign; perhaps one of the most popular. But it suffers from poor organization, some encounters of questionable balance, and less-than-progressive holdovers in portrayal of certain groups, among other...

Is there anything explicitly saying that they can't fight in other ways than using artifacts? I mean, by using the traditional D&D magic system instead of the elemental colors, MtG 5e settings are already breaking the lore in another way. At some point something has to give in the conversion...

Unless I'm missing something in the card descriptions, I don't see why summoning spirits for historical purposes is something that breaks MtG lore. One of the cards is even named Spirit Summoning.