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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 9829667" data-attributes="member: 1465">I finally got around to resuming our Ravenloft family game after a long break since the first session. The PCs had investigated the village of Barovia and started figuring out who the BBEG is, then moved on to confront him (the game is a 5e running of the original adventure so not nearly as long as the CoS remake). On the first meeting, one character uses an ability which detects certain creature types because they have a hunch... and there it is, in the PHB description of the ability the BBEG character is specifically called out and his exact nature is mentioned, even though the ability itself only lets you know the general creature type but not the specific creature <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😑" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f611.png" title="Expressionless face    :expressionless:" data-shortname=":expressionless:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />As I said, the players already had an idea but at least they weren't sure of it yet. And the PHB gave it away! Just in case someone missed it when the player read the text out loud, we also watched Stranger Things after the game, when the same BBEG is mentioned and its nature revealed. But at least Stranger Things doesn't have responsibility on this, while in my opinion WotC has, especially since they keep focusing on "new players" and they have published the CoS remake. I think putting the spoiler in the PHB was very unprofessional. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤨" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f928.png" title="Face with raised eyebrow    :face_with_raised_eyebrow:" data-shortname=":face_with_raised_eyebrow:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> At least my kids are not that dnd-lore-savvy to  know who the BBEG was by name.</blockquote>

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