Make up your own reasons to string the sub-plots together, rather than just letting your PCs wander and encouraging them to grind levels.Įven if you want a loose sandbox adventure, it's a very difficult setup. I honestly think that the best way to play D&D Curse of Strahd is to make your own plot and just use this as a setting book. It's so directionless in fact, that the key items that the PCs are told to get for defeating Strahd are randomly distributed throughout the map in a slew of random locations.Īll of this is a real shame since the book is filled to the brim with memorable characters, challenging fights, and intricate dungeon maps that harken back to the early days of high-danger dungeon crawls.
The SUBplots get incredibly interesting and involved, but there's no direction. I can sum up the entire adventure with "The PCs are tricked into coming, they have to grind for a while then fight the vampire lord, Count Strahd Von Zarovich to leave." There are a few NPCs that have ancillary roles around the main plot, but that's really it. It's framed as a sandbox-style adventure, which I love, but there's barely any plot threads to stop even that from falling apart. I LOVE the setting, but as an adventure path, it's barely holding together. Curse of Strahd 5e is filled with classic horror tropes, from werewolf packs and vampire spawn to haunted dolls and even the equivalent of Baba Yaga, complete with walking hut. Around every corner of the map is some horrible conspiracy or innocent clue that will lead towards an entirely new adventure. This really exceeds the original Ravenloft adventure box set from back in 2e days. Every inch of Barovia has been lovingly crafted with deep lore, rich visuals, and exciting encounters. Now don't get me wrong, the setting is fantastic. To put it simply, there isn't really an adventure path in this campaign book The Curse of Strahd is a setting book, and somebody has tried to frame a skeleton framework of an adventure path inside it. I have to combine the setting and adventure path here, and the reasons for that are at once the strongest and weakest elements of the book. 18 new monsters/NPCs with lore and stat blocks.The Curse of Strahd adventure path / Ravenloft Setting, progressing from 1st to 10th level.The bulk of it is devoted to the setting/ adventure path, but it's also got a couple extras. The Curse of Strahd clocks in at 256 pages, which seems to be the norm that these official adventures have settled on. The strahd campaign adventure works for characters levels with 1st, and culminates at 10th level. The PCs must adventure throughout Barovia, gain power and acquire unique magic items if they're to have any hope of surviving castle Ravenloft, defeating Strahd, and escaping this land of endless gothic horror. Barovia is cursed and hidden away from the rest of the world, trapped in the constant mists and endless machinations of its cold merciless vampiric master, Strahd. The Curse of Strahd inexorably drags the PCs from the forgotten realms into the dark and foreboding land of Barovia with thunder, rain, ancient walls rising to castle spires, and a tarokka deck telling foreboding futures.
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Does the Ravenloft 5e update hold up? And finally if you are a dungeon master, will your players love this gothic horror adventure for the world's greatest roleplaying game? Lets brave the untold horrors together in this Curse of Strahd revamped review.
The Curse of Strahd: Horror Classic or Cheesy B-Movie?ĭ&D has had " The Curse of Strahd" sneaking around since the 80's, taking players on a dark journey through "Ravenloft" a setting filled with horror tropes and an overbearing sense of dread.
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