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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 7033797" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Fully agree with you except for the "easy fight" with Strahd. So far, I have had one group in 5ed doing CoS and they almost died. It's been a few months and they still talk about it. I ran that fight for an other DM and wiped the group without modifying a iota to Strahd (and they had previously killed him in quite an easy manner.)And now my second group is going after Strahd themselves. They just met him outside the Death House (from which they almost died) and they were quite impressed by him. Maybe the fact that the other group discussed with them about their fight with Strahd is having a bigger impact on them than I have anticipated...Again I must stress that Strahd will not fight fair. He will send spawn, zombies, skeletons and even Vistanis against the players. Nothing prevents him from going out and getting some help. Gargoyles, wolves, more Vistanis, ghouls and god... DM knows what else! Strahd will not stay in place waiting to be killed. He will move, hide, come back, strike once or twice, charm if necessary. Strahd is as easy as you make him.An other DM asked me on how I ran Strahd. I showed him how I ran him and he said:" No way my players can beat that guy with your aproach..." They are four level 12 PCs... Yes in a white room situation, Strahd is weak. I mean really really weak. But in his own turf he's not that easy to beat. He will use everything in his arsenal to beat the players. Players must somehow force Strahd into his coffin and they must kill him there. The best time to kill Strahd is during the day. And yet, searching the castle will take a lot of time. Unless the players are lucky, it could even take two forays into the castle to do that. The second foray might not happen as Strahd will learn of it and prepare his defenses with traps and additional guards/minions. He will even hunt the players up to where they sleep. And if they sleep on hallowed ground, Strahd is not above throwing a fire ball or two at a church to set it ablaze. He will send in his minions (vistanis, wolves or other) to disrupt the players efforts to quench the fire. Strahd is deviousness impersonated. Drows could learn a thing or two from him.So far all those that I have heard saying Strahd was an easy kill had caught Strahd alone in a room waiting to be killed. Yes there is a room in which you can always find him. That does not mean that he will stay there to be slaughtered like a lamb...</blockquote>

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