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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 7060480" data-attributes="member: 54629">[MENTION=6873909]texastoast[/MENTION]: Sounds like a tricky situation! I think you are right in that it is a case of knowing your players/family. I'm not sure I'd want to start my kids off with an adventure like Curse of Strahd myself, but then they're all under 12. I haven't really got anything more to add, but I agree with everything   [MENTION=40592]hastur_nz[/MENTION] said above. Just one thought: Have you tried talking to your wife about it? If not, I'd recommend doing that. She might have some insights that we would not be able to provide.I don't think he fears the burgomasters at all. I'd say he just regards them as his underlings, there to keep a semblance of order and normality. If Strahd allowed the people in his valley to descend into complete anarchy, not many of them would survive, which would have a negative impact on his ability to feed on them. Much like the robots in the Matrix, he needs to provide his food source with some kind of a "life" in order to keep it sustainable.  Sure.I was thinking that having Lady Wachter summon a bigger devil would be a genuine complication, especially if they *don't* kill her off in the next in-game day or two. It makes sense to me that if Lady Wachter and her cult are allowed to entrench themselves in the town that they would seek to grow in power. One logical consequence of that would be to summon more (and perhaps more powerful) devils to aid them in dominating the townsfolk.I dunno. I can't really see Lady Wachter allowing the Vistani into town. She's a noble, for starters, and they're gypsy scum. She's also lawful-minded. She wants to rule the town with an iron fist, not let it descend into chaos and anarchy. That said, if the PCs do succeed in killing her, I can see there being a bit of a power vacuum in town for a while, and maybe the Vistani just decide to come in since there's now no one to say they can't, and that results in lots of mayhem and violence (with the Martikovs doing what little they can to mitigate it).Strahd would probably find such a turn of events amusing for a while, and he and his spawn might indulge in a bit of a feeding frenzy as a result, but I think ultimately he would want to restore order to some degree, less the survival of his food source becomes unsustainable.They haven't yet got the tome from Lady Wachter's vault, and they need to reclaim the sunsword (which has randomly reappeared in Barovia at the Ivlis crossroads after the Vistani tried to remove it).Yes, that is precisely what I was thinking re: my comment about having him confront them himself if they continue to take paths that don't lead towards the castle. I am fairly confident that they will do so at least one more time, as they still want to take the wedding dress back to the Abbot in Krezk so they can get him to resurrect Ismark for them.</blockquote>

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