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The design intent of the module is to keep the party from beating him unless they fight him in the one place he won't retreat, as determined by the Tarokka reading. So in practice, the "passwall" ability is the one thing that keeps the party from curb-stomping him.

I wonder if this is more because these pre-millenial writers didn't write female characters well, or because they were too-closely imitating gothic period writers who didn't write female characters well?

How are the rule mechanics for the cooking contests? Are they sufficiently crunchy or more abstract?

The module doesn't make this clear, but the intent is to have the party stumble arount Ten-Towns looking for the bad guy, but not find him until they've done another quest or two. My party was 3rd when they caught him and the fight was short.

We discussed this after CoS - one of my PCs intended to stay and rule Barovia after Strahd's demise. I told him that, inevitably, he or his heirs would be corrupted by the darkness and become a wicked tyrant. And a couple of generations from now, a brave young hero would engage in a quest to...

Well, in theory, one could use the new material by combining it with the Arthaus maps. Depending on how much they changed the domains, of course.

Dementlieu didn't have the strongest focus in the original books, which I felt actually made it better as a campaign region. You could live there and not really grasp the depths of the darkness around you.

I have it, but haven't run it. I don't know how challenging it would be for a 10th level party - I was honestly thinking of starting at 8th. 5th ed. PCs are quite durable. Also, some of the new content is potentially a lot of fun.

Or open it when you're fighting an invisible foe. Levels the playing field - neither of you have advantage or disadvantage any more.

Honestly, I don't think it matters. No one language or creature is going to dominate the adventure in any particular way.

My party fought Strahd on the Overlook - try grappling a PC and throwing them off the edge. I wasn't feeling sadistic and did it to a character who could fly - you, of course, don't have to do that.

One of my players is running a tiefling Twilight cleric when we start Icewind Dale on Wednesday. I might have a Rune Knight but he hasn't committed yet.

In case you haven't heard of it: Slaver Sunflower

I do find it strange that Tasha's suddenly gives sorcerers the bonus spells they should have been getting ever since the Storm Sorcerer saw print and didn't have them (even though it was in the playtest).

Wednesday night has been D&D night for about 30 years now. I used to have other regular games, but now I am old.

I don't understand why WotC is so convinced that, before now, no one ever considered that the PCs might work for someone else. I suspect they're trying to give DMs more tools to get players to follow the plot railroad. But maybe I'm just cynical today.

As someone who was actively playing at the time, I remember it as being a solution to the "armored ranger" problem. Someone felt that rangers in plate mail was badwrongfun, and so decided to incentivize rangers to wear studded leather armor by giving them a benefit that only worked when they...

I once had an ancient faerie dragon wait until a PC had climbed up to their rocky cliff nest, and then polymorph them into a hippopotamus. The fun came in the knowledge that the falling damage was just enough to break the polymorph on impact, without carrying over excessive damage to the PC.

Well if you're going to make me google it again, it's Chaulssin.

I know that temp hit points don't stack, but I'm not clear on this: There's a fighter standing in the divine aura of a Twilight Cleric. This round he gains (say) 10 temporary hit points. On the ogre's turn, he hits the fighter for 17 HP, using up the fighter's temp hp and giving him 7 damage...