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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xombiemike" data-source="post: 7078796" data-attributes="member: 6874417">Thanks. The church session went very well. So plot modifications include the following and talking with some fellow DMs might get my creative juices flowing, so please share your thoughts. This is set in the Castlevania time line after Lament and before CV3. Dracula was "visiting foreign lands" after Lament and didn't start his war on humanity until Lisa, his wife and Alucard's mother, had been wrongly burned at the stake. Dracula encountered Madam Eva outside of Barovia. (I'm not using the sister of Strahd note.) She fortold to Dracula that he would find the reincarnation of Elisabetha's soul trapped in Barovia, the domain of a powerful vampire lord, Strahd who's power is equal to his own. Dracula makes a trail of victims for the vampire hunting Belmont clan to follow him into Barovia. His intention is to manipulate them into weakening or slaying Strahd. He arrives ahead of them in the village of Barovia and finds Lisa (who replaces Irena) is bitten by Strahd. He takes her and hides her away with him somewhere in Barovia. I'm thinking Amber Temple. The players arive in the village where Castlevania like skeletons and zombies sent by Strahd are punishing the town for hiding Lisa and searching for her. They meet Strahd who has just killed Ismark's father. Strahd leaves on his Nightmare and Ismark explains to the players that his adopted sister who was being visited by Strahd is now missing. Lisa looks strikingly similar to the female player character who is an adopted member of the Belmont clan. (Please brainstorm with me on where I can take that.)Dracula has informed powerful witches in the land on how to summon a great demon of chaos that will be able to attack Strahd. They wish to over throw Strahd. Once summoned, Dracula will convince the demon to instead possess the heart of the castle. This will change castle Ravenloft into the castle of chaos that is the eternal Castlevania. Please tell me what you think would be good for getting the players involved with the witches and how they can get these details revealed to them. Here are some things we can discuss I'd like to change. In Vallaki there is the evil sherif with the demon arm. What can I do with him? Without Irena in the story he seems even more blind and his motivations awkward. The Abbot is supposed to be the Dr. Frankenstein of this story. I like the mongrel folk, but I don't like the idea that he really believes making a bride of the monster for Strahd will fix Strahd. What can I do with him? I do like that he's a corrupted angel. Frankenstein has always been about making life without God's permission. I'd like this character to be deeper than the hard to believe motivation. I like that Strahd is responsible for his corruption. Strahd must be motivated to engage the players. Perhaps he becomes infatuated with the character that looked like Lisa? Perhaps he enlists them to find her? Perhaps he sends them after the witches that wish to over throw him? Sent from my SCH-I545 using <a href="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=93205" target="_blank">EN World mobile app</a></blockquote>

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