#curse of strahd spoiler

[nessafae]

[airinn]

little red riding kaz... now who's that wolf following you 🐺

[monstersovka]

Fallen from the sky with grace ✷

[curse-of-dming-strahd]

Oh right... The curse. The curse of Strahd. The curse chosen specially to torture Strahd, Strahd’s curse.

[eliotbaum]

Assortment of Curse of Strahd doodles. context but spoilers in alt text/img description (major spoilers for Rictavio, some for Yester Hill)

[tantaliart]

you can’t catch me now

a short strahd and tatyana animatic

[arichtelus]

comm for my DM, CoS token.

Jander Sunstar, the Abbot of Krezk. some homebrew changes from my DM.

[beetlebabby]

there's something strange about our friend vasili

comic i did based off of recent happenings in our campaign!

[elliottexists]

its feeding time for the vampire gays come and get it. poster i made for our current campaign of curse of strahd [click for better quality]

[elviragrey]

Here's my piece for the @mementomoristrahdzine! I HAD to draw Victor again. Please check out the rest of the zine, it turned out AMAZING.

[yarrow-leaf]

A kindling of a swordless bloodshed,

The creaking of a voiceless door —

Another piece inspired by something @mincemeat-the-warforged said that absolutely altered my brain chemistry (the same 1 am conversation that sparked this in fact!)

[thefruitypebblescastleoftorment]

Ask game for CoS DMs (because you know we all want to talk about our campaigns)!

How much of your campaign is RAW, how much is other people's homebrew, how much is your own homebrew?

How long has your game been going? Is it finished or unfinished?

What did your players do with Doru?

How did things shake out in Vallaki? Who's currently in charge of the city (if the city is still standing?)

What's the biggest curveball your players threw at you? Or just something wild/funny they did?

Did you make any NPCs more sympathetic than in cannon? Or less sympathetic?

What's your named character death count so far? (Players, friendly NPCs, villains.)

Did your players try to romance any NPCs? (Successfully or unsuccessfully?)

Did you genderflip any characters, or make anyone more queer?

Is there an NPC who's minor or forgettable in cannon that ended up playing a huge part in your game?

What, in your opinion, is the wildest change you made from cannon?

What is your favorite part of the RAW module? (Or one of them, if your favorite part is something big like "the tone" or "all of it.")

How did you play Strahd? What's his attitude towards the party, Ireena, the world in general?

How did you play Ireena? Did she stay with your party much of the time, or did they stow her someplace while they went off adventuring? (Or did she get kidnapped early on?)

Did your party attend dinner at Ravenloft? How did it go?

Did you leave in or take out some of the more unpopular parts? (i.e., Mordenkainen, Something Blue, Strahd always coming back after being killed.)

How did you handle the more problematic content?

Which NPC (or NPCs if its multiple) is your favorite to play?

Who is your party's fated ally? Did they successfully meet? How do they feel about your party?

Did your party reach the final fight yet? Who was with them? Did Strahd die, or did the dark lord of Barovia prevail once more?

[ninawolv3rina]

Players met The Abbot last night so I get to share this where they can see it! :3

(Bloody sleeves under the cut for Extra Suspicious Vibes)

[monstersovka]

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[curse-of-dming-strahd]

there are so many things in Strahd's "how to do combat good" section I want to pick at but let's start with some of my notes on his spell list

Mage Hand: Sometimes Strahd is lazy and doesn't want to pick things up. Combine with Greater Invisibility for shenanigans.

Prestidigitation: This is for instantly cleaning whatever drink some PC has tried to throw in his face.

Ray of Frost: The damage is ok but more importantly as long as he hits, the target's speed is reduced by 10 with no save, very nice.

Comprehend Languages: If my party gets clever and tries to talk in code or something I think he can pop this off to fix that.

Fog Cloud: Imposes disadvantage to attack for everyone in the cloud, does technically break line of sight. so against a higher-level party I think this is to give his allies a chance to get out of melee without having to waste an action disengaging (still a gamble), or use this if he's out of Invisibility, or toss this in a room the party is trying to bunker up in, forcing the party to decide between sitting in a disadvantage cloud, wasting time dispelling it, or leaving their safe space.

Sleep: On the worst possible roll and aimed at only one target, this is guaranteed to affect a creature with 5HP or less. It averages about 20-22HPs but that number's not assured. Best use is putting someone on watch to sleep at early levels, or targeting low HP NPCs where he actually wants to avoid doing damage, like Ireena.

Detect Thoughts: Fantastic for interacting with NPCs in a non-violent encounter but it's an obvious casting and only lasts for 1 minute so he's got to be strategic about casting ahead of time.

Gust of Wind: Priority should go to Mirror Image because Gust of Wind is not guaranteed to succeed, but if a player is dumb enough to stand within 10 feet of a 100ft drop I say go off queen (off the side of a building, GOODBYE)

Mirror Image: CAST ASAP the only thing worse than one Strahd laughing at you is four Strahds laughing at you and it's not a concentration spell.

Animate Dead: listen everything at 3rd level is going to have to compete with Fireball. but possibly might be worth it to give him something to do with his bonus action if Animate Objects isn't working out. skeleton with a ranged attack and partial cover is better than zombie that'll get ripped apart in melee immediately. he's got to keep that skelly within 60ft though. and if the party takes Counterspell it's.... listen this slot's probably going to get used for Fireball.

Fireball: FIGHT OPENER. CAST CENTERED ON SELF. EAT 30 DAMGE FOR BREAKFAST. FALL THROUGH THE FLOOR LAUGHING. HE DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT WELCOME TO HELL MOTHERFUCKERS IT'S FIREBALL. but seriously cast early when the floor isn't crawling with allies and then reserve one 3rd level spell slot for when the party has killed off most of his allies. doesn't require line of sight so he can cast this from a separate floor.

Nondetection: Might use this if the party gets tricky or he needs to hide something he stole from them but on Boss Fight Day this slot goes to Fireball and that's just how things have to be.

Blight: I mean this is basically Fireball with worse range, only one target, and it makes all your houseplants die.

Greater Invisibility: God the shenanigans I could get up to with Invisible Strahd. Oooh the possibilities. Ooooh they're so delicious. Anyway fuck yeah this spell rocks. Get out of sight, go invisible. Think Rahadin is bad? Now he's invisible! NIGHTMARE HORSE? WHAT HORSE? I LOVE THIS SPELL OK

Polymorph: I want to love polymorph but if they make their wisdom save you've wasted a slot you could have used to make yourself invisible. I can't even pretend he'd be gay and use this to help Rahadin one of his nebulous allies turn into a bird to get away from certain death or something bc it's a concentration spell so if the spell drops early it's like well fuck he got 50ft and then turned back into a guy :/ He ain't above turning a low-level PC into a bat though. That'd be fun.

Animate Objects: POP OFF IMMEDIATELY get that action economy on your side, animate a gargoyle, a suit of armor, and like 6 candelabras you tacky bitch. Again, gives him a bonus action and as long as he stays within 120ft he's solid. Earlier is better because later in the fight he needs that concentration for Greater Invisibility.

Scrying: I mean non-combat obviously but he's using this every damn day to spy on the party through NPCs he's familiar with that he knows are near the PCs, or locations he knows they're staying in. I'm sure that's his like, before-bed routine. Brush his teeth. Exfoliate. Scry on the party. Soothing.

[ilariel]

“More eager than I would’ve expected,” Strahd said.

“Silence.”

@saladcannibal’s fanfic that details the consequences of seducing a deranged angel has changed my brain chemistry

Read here