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[CoS] Ecology and Economy of Ravenloft/Barovia
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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 7409211" data-attributes="member: 1003"><p>It's not completely closed. The Vistani are able to come and go more or less at will, and also travel the roads between the towns. The villagers mostly live and die in their towns, but there is some contact and trade. Maybe less than an average medieval village, but not zero.</p><p></p><p>The are though the soulless and the ensouled, and the soulless are more or less simulacra. It's definitely fair to represent them as a simulation of village life.</p><p></p><p>I did have a few NPCs with institutinal memory (the ravens in particular) tell the PCs that adventurers came to Barovia from time to time to battle Strahd, and usually they died but sometimes Strahd died for a while and the adventurers were able to escape Barovia. But Strahd always came back.</p><p></p><p>I ran Saint Markovia as one of those old adventurers from the very earliest days of the curse. The cards revealed that the Tome of Strahd was at the Abbey, and I recast it as Saint Markovia's notes on what she learned about Strahd and committed to paper "in case her assault on Castle Ravenloft was a failure".</p><p></p><p>Another change I made was that the Abbot was a drow warlock using Mask of Many Faces, and the fallen angel (which I bumped up to planetar because the PCs were 11th level by then) was at the Amber Temple. The angel was the Angel of Death that Strahd initially struck his bargain with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 7409211, member: 1003"] It's not completely closed. The Vistani are able to come and go more or less at will, and also travel the roads between the towns. The villagers mostly live and die in their towns, but there is some contact and trade. Maybe less than an average medieval village, but not zero. The are though the soulless and the ensouled, and the soulless are more or less simulacra. It's definitely fair to represent them as a simulation of village life. I did have a few NPCs with institutinal memory (the ravens in particular) tell the PCs that adventurers came to Barovia from time to time to battle Strahd, and usually they died but sometimes Strahd died for a while and the adventurers were able to escape Barovia. But Strahd always came back. I ran Saint Markovia as one of those old adventurers from the very earliest days of the curse. The cards revealed that the Tome of Strahd was at the Abbey, and I recast it as Saint Markovia's notes on what she learned about Strahd and committed to paper "in case her assault on Castle Ravenloft was a failure". Another change I made was that the Abbot was a drow warlock using Mask of Many Faces, and the fallen angel (which I bumped up to planetar because the PCs were 11th level by then) was at the Amber Temple. The angel was the Angel of Death that Strahd initially struck his bargain with. [/QUOTE]
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