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Message: <blockquote data-quote="H.Flashman" data-source="post: 4102418" data-attributes="member: 62451">Well its been several years since I last posted on this forum.  So long, in fact, that I forgot my previous password or even what e-mail account with which it went.I have gone from  Midnight to Iron Heores but mostrecently I have begun to run more-or-les tradtional 3.5 D&D under the auspices of "Expedition to Castle Ravenloft"I am  very familiar with the original adventure, its sequel and the 2nd Ed. setting as well as with many of the novels (though I admit that I never fisnihsed , "I, Strahd").Warning: SpoilersSo far I have dumped the Zombie plague idea as just  silliness that impeded roleplaying and any real sense of fear (though the  plague will come about later) for an asylum ran by the  famed Alienist Doctor Germain D'honaire (from Ravenloft II: House on Gryphon Hill)  but included the Priest's, Danovich, descent into madness as something palpable that the PCs can, are, and will witness.Also I have dumped the motivations for Strahd as presented in the Text form something a bit more sinister.  Strahd is ancient and he is  facing an eternity of  ennui so  he sets of games for his own amusement.  The PCs are one such game.  He is the Cat  and they are his mice.  He will terrorize his opponents, help them, hurt them, give them succor and then drain their levels.  He has no goals besides creating another fabulous  contest of wills that might invigorate him to the point of enjoying unlife again.  How have you , as  DMs, changed the  story, the rules and the plot?  What characters did you  introduce, inflate, or dismiss?Did you find Strahd to be a suitable enemy at the end of the Adventure for  10th level Characters??  What about after the Fanes were Destroyed/stripped?</blockquote>

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