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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6852258" data-attributes="member: 2067">I like this because I'm looking for a better hook for Death House, and that bit of the adventure has links to the coven of hags in the mill outside of Vallaki via the Durst family. NOW, there's a reason for Strahd to send them into the house - maybe the thing inside is actually something that the hags are brewing up using the ghosts therein. Also gives a reason for Morgantha to be in town - she's checking up on her gestating little menace. So consider that yoinked.And yes, my van Richten will be a rogue (come on, man, you don't give an expy of Van Helsing magic), my Madam Eva will be a Vistani (why does she need to be part of Strahd's FUBAR'd family?), and my &quot;pact with Death&quot; will be ambiguous (though the vestiges can still hang around just being captive and evil) and happen AFTER meeting Tatyana. I like the idea of Strahd being kind of a bastard even before he was a vampire (it's more believable to me if it was a steady descent rather than One Big Event, though that would definitely be the moment that sealed the deal), so the dead silver dragon is going to stay. And I'm not too worried about mashing together Ireena and van Richten - the way souls work, these don't even have to be the SAME Ireena and Van Richten (they die and reincarnate over and over again, which is a nice addition to the setting, I think). The small size of this place is bugging me a bit (the party moves twelve hexes an hour?!), but I don't know that that's not just some adjustment I'm doing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6852258, member: 2067"] I like this because I'm looking for a better hook for [I]Death House[/I], and that bit of the adventure has links to the coven of hags in the mill outside of Vallaki via the Durst family. NOW, there's a reason for Strahd to send them into the house - maybe the thing inside is actually something that the hags are brewing up using the ghosts therein. Also gives a reason for Morgantha to be in town - she's checking up on her gestating little menace. So consider that yoinked. And yes, my van Richten will be a rogue (come on, man, you don't give an expy of Van Helsing [I]magic[/I]), my Madam Eva will be a Vistani (why does she need to be part of Strahd's FUBAR'd family?), and my "pact with Death" will be ambiguous (though the vestiges can still hang around just being captive and evil) and happen AFTER meeting Tatyana. I like the idea of Strahd being kind of a bastard even before he was a vampire (it's more believable to me if it was a steady descent rather than One Big Event, though that would definitely be the moment that sealed the deal), so the dead silver dragon is going to stay. And I'm not too worried about mashing together Ireena and van Richten - the way souls work, these don't even have to be the SAME Ireena and Van Richten (they die and reincarnate over and over again, which is a nice addition to the setting, I think). The small size of this place is bugging me a bit (the party moves [I]twelve hexes an hour?![/I]), but I don't know that that's not just some adjustment I'm doing. [/QUOTE]

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