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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6934483" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Sure, but what I mean is: are you planning to play Strahd extremely tactically?If a 15-20 wolves and Strahd zombies assault the party from one direction of a castle courtyard, so that the front-liners go charging off to meet them and the spellcasters start hurling spells like Fireball and activating Spirit Guardians... and then a round into that fight, suddenly the cleric vanishes with a scream as something yanks him around the corner (Strahd under Greater Invisibility, using his enormous Stealth +14 or so and high mobility to sneak into the back lines and grapple + isolate the cleric), and now the front-liners are surrounded by wolves and zombies while the cleric's screams echo off the stones (taking damage repeatedly from Strahd's Legendary Action attack) and the wizard doesn't even have a clear line of sight to whatever it was that took the cleric......it's going to be a bad night for the PCs, but that fact won't surprise you as the DM. The surprise will be if they somehow manage to survive.This plan of attack is within Strahd's capabilities to accomplish rather easily. There are others.</blockquote>