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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 6857805" data-attributes="member: 9789">So, back to the main thread:  let's talk about that tiger more.  First, it is just a weird situation that a character who is trying to fight vampires has a tiger that is trained to kill humans.  It's also not a very lawful good solution to the problem.  It seems wildly out of character, and suggests to me that Van Richten is going mad - except he would have been going mad before even getting to Barovia, since tigers aren't exactly native.  The writing here just seems scattered and doesn't follow very well.  I'm wondering if it's worth trying to re-write the tiger into something else.  Maybe a captured vampire?  I mean, I get that they are trying to throw something completely out of left field at the party just to shake things up (can't just fight undead every day) but the tiger is completely unbelievable.Second, there is an entire "special event" dedicated to the tiger - which will never happen.  They put in a lot of interesting plot but #1, any players who find a colorful carnival wagon that makes a snarl of "something inhuman" and has dried blood on it are GOING to investigate (likely taking the tiger out of play early), and #2, thanks to the town's layout, this is the first thing they'll come across when they come to the town!  The numbering on the map - and the way the plot is laid out - seems to indicate that the game expects them to come from the west, but unless they specifically skip the town on their way to Krezk, of course they'll come from the east.  I'm thinking of making the town map flip - or at the very least, swapping the position of N1 and N5 - depending on which direction the characters come from.(Also, here's the link from the post above:  <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?480924-challenge-rewrite-Death-House-to-avoid-a-key-feature-%28spoilers%29" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?480924-challenge-rewrite-Death-House-to-avoid-a-key-feature-(spoilers)</a>)</blockquote>

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