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When enough campaigns get to that point, I'll be interested to see how PCs handle Vallaki. It occurs to me that there's simply no one to take the job of protecting the town unless the innkeeper suddenly steps up. (Which seems out of character.)

I'm actually designing a campaign (for after CoS) that thematically focusses on the idea that adventurers are the only ones who come back from the dead.

I'm ignoring the "Strahd's sister" bit. While the Izek thing seems contrived, the idea of Ireena having a creepy stalker other than Strahd seems appropriate for the tone. Of course, this could be all wasted if the players never notice.

Not to disagree, but where in Barovia isn't there a place of nightmare and death?

Moi aussi. We had another conversation elsewhere about whether the windmill as-written is waaaaaaaaaay too high level for 3rd-4th level PCs.

My wife's character absolutely refused to step anywhere near the tiger skin rug. She had a bad rug of smothering encounter in the previous campaign.

The Teeth of Dahlver-Nar were in the original DMG as artifacts.

Scabbard?

Why do they never do a palate shift instead? All these goblins taste like chicken.

Thanks - I was actually wondering if changing them to greenhags was a better idea.

Nope, that's the whole point. These ancient jokes are almost incomprehensible to modern ears. But yeah, it's supposed to be some kind of reference to mercenaries.

I used this authentic ancient Babylonian riddle for a sphinx: "The deflowered girl did not become pregnant. The undeflowered girl became pregnant. What is it?" Ans: Auxiliary Forces. The trick was to find the other sphinx and ask them the riddle in order to get the correct answer, then...

Not to tell anyone how to run their games, but I felt that the writer didn't take into account the hag's coven spells when planning that site. It feels like something that would have been mentioned.

Well my party sure as the Dark Powers ran when they saw the Decayer. The only person who took an attack used a Dodge to keep it from following the rest of the party, and it missed her by one. She had Mobility, so she got away clean afterwards. They were quite quick to slam the secret door...

Here's the interesting thing - my college group was using Revivify (the 3rd level spell) back in 2nd ed. And no, I don't remember where we got it - it might have been a Dragon magazine article or something.

See, this is why it pays to keep your original set Tarokka decks around.

I actually pulled this in my first 5e campaign, before I knew CoS was coming. I stacked the cards with the PCs archetype cards and the main villain cards, and did the same force. I wasn't even subtle - just did it while they were talking about something. One of my players had his mind...

Well, if you can get their van to break down nearby, the teens and their dogs will come in to look for a phone.

I remember really liking I, Strahd - read P.N. Elrod's other vampire stuff if you liked it a lot - but my primary memory is how hacked off I got when she mentioned a character named Yssup Tew. I mean, seriously?

Am I wrong, or is this the plot of Wuthering Heights?