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If you want to add something like G'Henna, you could include an inbred Wendigo cult led by Yagno Petrovna. Instead of an evil high priest in robes, ruling a starving country from his dark temple, he's a crazy mountain man. A scarecrow figure wrapped in moldering pelts. His clan started out as settl...

In my Curse of Strahd game, I've been working to flesh out Barovia and make it seem like a dying land, struggling to survive under the dark weight of Strahd. But more importantly, the module wants the players to see what Strahd has done to the land and feel compelled to do something about it. Some o...

So I've had a small realization. I've been thinking that the PC has to be a distant relative of Strahd, down the generations. I couldn't, for the life of me, come up with a good reason that Strahd would have been unable to track down his relatives over the centuries or why he would not have done so....

The passage that I find seems to indicate differently (Curse of Strahd p. 236, under Rahadin's description): Rahadin was exiled for refusing to bow down to a dusk elf prince whom he considered weak and corrupt. When the dusk elves later declined to pay fealty to King Barov, Rahadin helped Barov con...

Since the characters are also aware of Fiona Wachter, how much do they know about her diabolist cult "book club"? If I was Leo, I would clue the characters in on that, and the conspiracy to upset the Vallakovich family. Perhaps he pulled some demonlogical texts (there was at least one she...

Off the top of my head, and not necessarily related to the memory/vision. What if Strahd orders his new sheriff to do something completely morally repugnant? (maybe it's not obvious at the time the order is given, but when he goes to carry it out, he learns the true nature of what he's been asked t...

So one of my players in my heavily-modified Curse of Strahd game is a Barovian native that was a member of the militia and was a true believer. That is, he hasn't yet seen anything to directly pit him against Strahd. In his eyes, Strahd is the rightful ruler and he is, at worst, a neglectful ruler. ...

Random thought I had yesterday: vampires can't go out in the sunlight, which is the Morninglord's domain, but are perfectly fine at night, which is Mother Night's domain. If these deities are somehow tied to Strahd's parents, that would make for an interesting meta-comment in his relationship with t...

So Leo captured Ireena and a friendly party NPC (former PC). He's currently trying to work some dark magic ritual on the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind to make him immune to its power so that he can use it against Strahd without reprisals. The party has just entered into a temple to Mother Night / The Rav...

Make it a singular skin thief. A man, possibly a hunter, that never felt comfortable in his own skin and began to fantasize about wearing someone else's . He envied someone close to him that actually cared for him and had been trying to help him with his emotional troubles; maybe a family member or ...

Mistmaster wrote:Lights in the Darkness; a panoramic of the forces of good in Ravenloft.

I like this one.

An update: So Leo managed to escape Vallaki, with Father Petrovich now a vampire spawn. The rest of his followers were killed in part by the party and in part by Ezmerelda, who showed up looking for Rictavio. Leo is on his way to the village of Barovia to kidnap Ireena and then intends to take the H...

So I'm running Curse of Strahd and, to be honest, this is the first time I've ever actually sat down and read through the layout of Castle Ravenloft. I have a copy of I6, a copy of Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, and a copy of Curse of Strahd. In going through them... something really stands out to ...

You could stat a coven of Halan witches as druids. There seems to be numerous possibilities for them to get involved- Van Richten Monster Hunter's Compendium III says that the coveys of Hala are the enemies of unscrupulous "sorcerous witches" (arcane spellcasters/wizards with the witch ki...

Make it less about the crunch and more of the fluff. I suggest no changes to what the character would have based on what the PHB says [I'm assuming that he/she will be using Circle of the Moon?], but maybe add cosmetic changes such as having an intrinsic spiritual link to the pine barrens that may ...