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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 8207532" data-attributes="member: 7261">For my playthrough of Curse of Strahd, I staged the adventure as the mid-point of the larger campaign set in a variation of Masque of the Red Death where 1890s Earth nations were replaced with Core Domains that saw the PCs are friends of Alanik Ray following the trail of his letters about an investigation into a growing madness throughout Gothic Earth. Instead of Death House, they started with a conversion of the 4e Keep on the Shadowfell that replaced all the Nintir Vale stuff with Lamordia, Mordenheim, and Adam. After that was finished, they got pointed to Barovia, so they bought tickets on the Orient Express. So, naturally I broke out the Call of Cthulhu adventure and ran it backwards. I had the antagonist be a cultist of an elder god whose ultimate goal was to complete a ritual releasing an Oblex on the train, where it could assimilate all the passengers, reproduce, and slip into Constantinople to slowly overrun the entire city. It was the first hint we were headed toward cosmic horror as the capstone.</blockquote>