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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9033941" data-attributes="member: 2209">I really like a lot of the 2e Ravenloft modules, Gothic Horror D&D with investigation, atmosphere, and tragic stories but still D&D with monsters you fight with blade and spell and flasks of holy water/alchemists fire.<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17508/Howls-in-the-Night-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Howls in the Night</a> is a great ghost story/curse scenario with opposed NPCs who have sympathetic backstories and terrible aspects who the party can ally with or oppose and there are three different versions of the truth behind the current situation and who the true villain is for a DM to choose from. A great D&D investigation scenario that played out great at the table.<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17493/RQ1-Night-of-the-Walking-Dead-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Night of the Walking Dead</a> is a fun cursed D&D gothic horror intro with an atmospheric Louisiana plantation type bayou town with a curse going on and escalating bad things and revelations to be uncovered. I started off a year long Ravenloft campaign with this one and it was fantastic.About half of the Ravenloft line of modules were absolutely terrible autonomy removing scenarios or got the tone completely wrong, but there were a number that were just fantastic and hit high points in D&D adventures that I have run.I also had a lot of fun running the first two Pathfinder 1e gothic horror Carrion Crown Adventures in 5e, particularly as fleshed out with the supplementary Legendary Games adventures the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/133959/The-Murmuring-Fountain-5E?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">The Murmuring Fountain</a> and the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/133960/The-Fiddlers-Lament-5E?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Fiddler's Lament</a>. The fist Carrion Crown one, the Haunting of Harrowstone is a haunted prison that burned down fifty years ago scenario with five legendary executed ghosts and a fantastic children's rhyme about each one. The Murmuring Fountain integrates fantastically with the ghost themes and escalating hauntings in the adjacent town. The Fiddler's Lament takes a weird left turn with its background story that does not integrate well, but was easy to change to fit the actual AP story, and the events it introduces were absolutely fantastic to run at the table. The second CC module, Trial of the Beast, involves a trial, an investigation, and a lot of fun running around urban Lepidstadt and the rural countryside. It was going great until the pandemic shut down my going to the face to face group for a number of years so I did not finish running the AP.</blockquote>

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