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<blockquote data-quote="spectre72" data-source="post: 2127299" data-attributes="member: 18885">Back in 2E days (around the time Ravenloft was released) I was running a campaign for my college gaming group and pulled out Ravenloft for use in the game.One of my players found out and I heard through the grape vine that they had bought a copy and were using it to plan and they thought it would be &quot;Easy&quot;.Well I then spent the next week preparing for the game by replacing the version of Strahd in the module with a more &quot;Ravanloft&quot; version and started setting more traps and such in the castle.They expected an easy adventure and I was going to make sure that was not what they got.Looking back they were way outgunned because moving from the original Strahd to the one from the Ravenloft boxed set just made him at least twice as dangerous.The party left for the castle without being invited (because of PC danger intuition) and went to the front door where the fighter proceeded to enter the castle without anyone checking for traps.When the greased pit trap opened up under him and shot him out the front of the cliff around the castle he fell screaming to his death.The group had strange looks on their faces but they pressed on to slay the evil in the castle.Things went downhill from there as they walked into illusion covered prismatic walls, delayed blast fireballs, and an opponent who could move around the castle with no restriction through spells like dimension door.I remember the 4 hour session ending with all but 2 characters dead and those were running for the next village.After the session they admitted that what they had tried to do and it never happened again....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spectre72, post: 2127299, member: 18885"] Back in 2E days (around the time Ravenloft was released) I was running a campaign for my college gaming group and pulled out Ravenloft for use in the game. One of my players found out and I heard through the grape vine that they had bought a copy and were using it to plan and they thought it would be "Easy". Well I then spent the next week preparing for the game by replacing the version of Strahd in the module with a more "Ravanloft" version and started setting more traps and such in the castle. They expected an easy adventure and I was going to make sure that was not what they got. Looking back they were way outgunned because moving from the original Strahd to the one from the Ravenloft boxed set just made him at least twice as dangerous. The party left for the castle without being invited (because of PC danger intuition) and went to the front door where the fighter proceeded to enter the castle without anyone checking for traps. When the greased pit trap opened up under him and shot him out the front of the cliff around the castle he fell screaming to his death. The group had strange looks on their faces but they pressed on to slay the evil in the castle. Things went downhill from there as they walked into illusion covered prismatic walls, delayed blast fireballs, and an opponent who could move around the castle with no restriction through spells like dimension door. I remember the 4 hour session ending with all but 2 characters dead and those were running for the next village. After the session they admitted that what they had tried to do and it never happened again.... [/QUOTE]

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