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<blockquote data-quote="texastoast" data-source="post: 7063128" data-attributes="member: 6873909"><p>I've seen it suggested elsewhere that the lost gem is in the Abbott's flesh golem bride. I like that idea and I'm leaning toward running with it. I don't know exactly what it's doing in there; maybe its magic makes her more believably human in some way than a regular flesh golem. (I actually don't know much about flesh golems at all yet.) I don't know how to hint at that fact, or how it might be rediscovered. The PCs aren't likely to fight the bride are they? </p><p></p><p>I'm not in love with the gem powering Strahd's Heart of Sorrow; wouldn't it be much older than the 10 years the gem has been missing? Plus I love the art in the book showing the spiral staircase with the heart at the top; that thing looks way too big and impressive to be powered by a magic pinecone. </p><p></p><p>I do like the idea that it's at Old Bonegrinder. Sounds like you're doing a Fewer Dead Children variant where the pastries are made from fruit not children's teeth? (In which case why is it called Old Bonegrinder?) I think that's an elegant solution to a couple of problems. In my case we whizzed past the windmill trying to get to Vallaki before dark, and we never encountered Morgantha in Barovia in the first place, so we will probably never even visit the windmill. I doubt they'll ever be east of the Castle again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texastoast, post: 7063128, member: 6873909"] I've seen it suggested elsewhere that the lost gem is in the Abbott's flesh golem bride. I like that idea and I'm leaning toward running with it. I don't know exactly what it's doing in there; maybe its magic makes her more believably human in some way than a regular flesh golem. (I actually don't know much about flesh golems at all yet.) I don't know how to hint at that fact, or how it might be rediscovered. The PCs aren't likely to fight the bride are they? I'm not in love with the gem powering Strahd's Heart of Sorrow; wouldn't it be much older than the 10 years the gem has been missing? Plus I love the art in the book showing the spiral staircase with the heart at the top; that thing looks way too big and impressive to be powered by a magic pinecone. I do like the idea that it's at Old Bonegrinder. Sounds like you're doing a Fewer Dead Children variant where the pastries are made from fruit not children's teeth? (In which case why is it called Old Bonegrinder?) I think that's an elegant solution to a couple of problems. In my case we whizzed past the windmill trying to get to Vallaki before dark, and we never encountered Morgantha in Barovia in the first place, so we will probably never even visit the windmill. I doubt they'll ever be east of the Castle again. [/QUOTE]
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