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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tglassy" data-source="post: 7491463" data-attributes="member: 6855204">Curse of Strahd help (lots o’ spoilers)Hello all,I’ve been DMing Curse of Strahd for my family, including my mother, father and two brothers.  I’m 31, and my brothers are in their 20s. Anyway, I got them all into DND with Mines if Phandelvar, and they continued their characters on to Curse of Strahd. I made a few changes in order to make things a little more interesting to my players. 1.  I deleted Ireena and made my mom’s character into the reincarnation of Tatyana. She loved that. She loves those old romantic ghost stories and such. And since her character didn’t know where she came from and was found by a Wizard and raised in a tower, it worked. 2. My dad is a Human Noble Fighter, and I made him descended from Strahd’s family.  As in, Strahd is a cousin or some such to one of his ancestors. He recognized Strahd’s crest as an ancient version of his own family’s and a few other things. He also looks a lot like Strahd’s brother. 3.  My brother, the older one, wound up becoming a werewolf and taking over the werewolf clan. He then took every single gift from the Amber Temple.  Including becoming a Vampire if he can find someone to love him and then kill them and then be killed by people who hate him. I don’t mind evil characters. 4.  My other brother has declared that it is his goal to take over Barovia. They are currently in Castle Ravenloft, level 10, and trying to find Strahd. Oh, one of them had a Staff of the Magi. It got stolen from him, and now Strahd has it. What I want to do is make it so that it is possible to replace Strahd.  I’ve already laid the groundwork, suggesting that Barovia must have a ruler. This made them all think of Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean, which to be honest, makes sense. Whoever strikes the killing blow has to take his place. However, I’ve got two players who WANT to take over Barovia, and two who don’t, but the only one that makes sense to replace him is my Dad’s Fighter, who is related to Strahd. And he doesn’t want it. But I’m not sure if that’s what I want to do. I think it would be interesting for them to have to make this decision, but I’m not sure how to accomplish it. Thoughts?</blockquote>

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