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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9837906" data-attributes="member: 7635">The problem is that Gryphon Hill only works as a prequel, not sequel, to Curse of Strahd. Even the "official" explanation of it (In the War with Azalin) places the events before Mordent is a domain and places the events as the reason Mordent is absorbed into the Mists. It also absolutely makes it's domain lord, Godfrey, a bit player at best. There are two ways you can run GH that could make it work with the established bits of continuity that exist post CoS/VRGR. The first is to replace Strahd and Azalin in it with new characters rather than domain lord jam. Then upgrade Godfrey's role and layer on more of the ghost elements added in later books. The other way is to treat it as a time displacement to before Mordent was a domain and the PCs are reliving the events of it. Perhaps only Azalin and the PCs have knowledge of the situation and Azalin is trying to change it so that Strahd is destroyed rather than merged. But the events don't happen in 734 like CoS does, only the bookends do. But more than all of that, I'd prefer a new story over trying to make Gryphon Hill make sense.</blockquote>