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<blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 8964298" data-attributes="member: 42040">A disagreement my wife (who's also a player in the campaign) and I have had regarding the next campaign...All the players voted on Curse of Strahd as the next adventure. I think it will be challenging to run it as a horror game for this group. 1) They joke around. A lot.2) They are murder hobos.3) There's a lot of them, and it's difficult to challenge them.4) Easy encounters don't contribute to the dangerous atmosphere.The types of encounters that should work in 5e - eight encounters per day - don't work so well in most horror games. Of course, you can have waves of zombies in that kind of game, but you can't really do a war of attrition with a single challenging encounter - which is what Ravenloft is supposed to be. The werewolf that's stalking the town. The ghost haunting the ruined abbey. It's not often that I start a campaign knowing from the beginning it's a terrible fit and it's going to fail. But I know this going into it.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I was out-voted. So I guess that's that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retreater, post: 8964298, member: 42040"] A disagreement my wife (who's also a player in the campaign) and I have had regarding the next campaign... All the players voted on Curse of Strahd as the next adventure. I think it will be challenging to run it as a horror game for this group. 1) They joke around. A lot. 2) They are murder hobos. 3) There's a lot of them, and it's difficult to challenge them. 4) Easy encounters don't contribute to the dangerous atmosphere. The types of encounters that should work in 5e - eight encounters per day - don't work so well in most horror games. Of course, you can have waves of zombies in that kind of game, but you can't really do a war of attrition with a single challenging encounter - which is what Ravenloft is supposed to be. The werewolf that's stalking the town. The ghost haunting the ruined abbey. It's not often that I start a campaign knowing from the beginning it's a terrible fit and it's going to fail. But I know this going into it. But I was out-voted. So I guess that's that. [/QUOTE]

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