Café de Nuit

However, the more magic you use, the greater the chance someone unpleasant will pick up on what you're doing.
Even if local evils (like the Darklords) don't care about grave robbery, they might see the corpses as meals on wheels or else try to extort hush money or try to muscle in on the operation.

'Red-nosed' snoops?

Fair. Let's see... He could engage the services of ruthless smugglers like the Red Vardo Traders, or 'resurrectionists' such as those who provide universities with cadavers. Those people have experience in this sort of thing, the contacts to bribe for unobstructed shipping, and the means to move res...

How about animating them on the spot and ordering them to walk to where they're going?

For starters, I recommend making this an Island of Terror.

What else can you tell us?

That might provide a link between the Shadow Rift and Falkovnia's 'shadow cities', provided ole Gwyd is 'punching' in the right direction.

PCs could probably retrain a rank in speak language/linguistics. Or they could 'pre-invest' a future rank in the same, gaining limited understanding at the price of having to roll Intelligence checks to make sense of things until they actually can invest the skill rank. That, or they can muddle alon...

To combine Pizza and Rock's suggestions, perhaps the all-nighter could be accomplished by way of the vampiric equivalent of Mountain Dew? Acquiring the components to brew such a potion might be what brings the vampire to the party's attention. Alternatively, an affluent vampire could hire the party...

And there is always the Mimic mortal-spell, which can be cast into a ring or brewed into a potion.

The Hook: There is an orphanage on the outskirts of Mortigny, "Granddad's Home". In a twist, the orphanage's general manager, Grandpa Ors, isn't trying to push his wards off on whoever's willing to pay. In fact, very few children are fostered out; the old Grandpa is adamant that prospecti...

In that case, I guess I'd raise the percentage.

A while back, I read another fan-made option. Henri DuBois was a rake and a wastrel, who went from one woman to another, using them until they had nothing left, until he finally wound up with Jacqueline. His last victim before her was a mousy young woman who loved him with all her heart - only for H...

Alternatively, the Weltaulkügel could be a Ravenloft take on the idea of the clockwork universe, or at least the variant thereof that precludes the need for a divine being to set the clock in motion.

I typically check the wealth-by-level table and adjust starting gold accordingly. Consider marking up the price for genuine magical items a bit, given that Ravenloft is mostly a low-magic setting, and make sure the players give a good backstory as to why they're packing magic gear ("granddad br...

As an ex-Kargat himself, von Kharkov was in a prime position to learn about the ways of "social control" as interpreted by Azalin. Heck, he may have been part of several operations.