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Between the characters I've genderflipped (Victor, Exethanther) and the one I've made a wizard (Ludmila) all Barovian wizards are girlbosses in my campaign.

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The Last Son of Zaro

- Strahd von Zarovich from DnD for anon-

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Living with my players is great, because we can just bullshit about the campaign whenever. Tonight we spent like 30 minutes joking about a Friends-era sitcom with the folks in Ravenloft (currently they only know about Anastrasya, Ludmila and Rahadin.)

There are occasionally references to an adventuring party of outsiders who are basically playing Curse of Strahd in its entirety, but you never see them. Instead it just focuses on the characters inside Ravenloft and their mundane roommate problems.

The first minute of the first episode is Strahd talking to Anastrasya trying to figure out if it's more intimidating to turn into a bat or a swarm of bats. Anastrasya's lying on the couch like "so like, just one big bat?" and he's like "no, regular sized!"

The Dinner at Ravenloft episode teases the possibility that you'll actually see the adventuring party, but instead the entire runtime is dedicated to them panicking trying to get the castle ready in time. Trying to clean up, the rats running through the hallways with little feather dusters tied to their tails. The vampires running around like "does anyone remember how to make human food?" "Just get Rahadin to do it! He's alive!" "THAT DOESN'T MEAN I CAN COOK, LUDMILLA"

In my mind the series ends with an episode where they all get into a fight, and spend 90% of the runtime making each other as miserable as possible, then they have a big sitcom "emotional moment" speech where they talk about how they're all in this together etc, etc.

And the speech is interrupted by the still-never-before-seen adventuring party bursting through the wall with the Sunsword and Holy Symbol. And they all look COOL AS HELL, distinct character designs with interesting details that imply some things about backstories.

The paladin at the lead says something like "at last, your final death is at hand, Strahd!" The camera pans to the vampires and Rahadin all looking at each other and slowly smiling, nodding at each other. And the last shot is both sides leaping towards each other, cutting off just before any actual fighting. And it's great because it's got this "hell yeah COOL FIGHT" vibe but also it means either 1. the entire main cast is going to die or 2. someone's dnd campaign is gonna have a REAL downer ending.

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I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it

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The thing is, they know that I've changed the Vistani a lot so that they aren't loyal to Strahd/evil etc, so they are far less likely to assume that one of them will actually screw them over.

The trouble is 30% of people in Barovia will sell you to Strahd for a corn chip, Vistani or otherwise.

Heheheheh they're gettin suspicious of Arrigal. Very exciting. Love having players with good insight rolls.

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My interpterion of Exeanther’s full design for my campaign. She’s iconic.

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💀A Failure of Magick 💀

Illustration for @soulmuppet's Paint The Town Red ttrpg

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i am the yeast of thoughts and minds

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Gay people can never flirt normally, it's always gotta be shit like this.

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[me performing grounding ritual] okay name 1 person that would die to be you, 3 people that would die to fuck you, and 5 people that would die to kill you

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Strahd’s brides, but make them Slavic!

I’ve mentioned before, that I’ve changed their names, abilities, backgrounds and amount of screentime.

Also, at some point calling them “Brides” in our company stopped making sense, ‘cause through sessions and fleshing out Strahd himself, it turned out that our version of Strahd is more like a depressed monogamous widower husband who tries to deal with all this curse shit while still being a more or less ok ruler. I mean, it’s been 400 years, and bridges and roads are still in good condition, these taxes aren’t collected for nothing, ya know.

Also, Van Richten’s Guide to Vampires claims that there can only be one true vampire bride. Also, Strahd’s waifu in this story is not Tatyana. Because at some point the whole “Strahd loves Tatyana so much he sold his soul, pls notice him” thing stopped making any sense, too. Sorry, canon. Also, she is still dead. Hope you like that, canon.

So, these three (and Escher) are now more like his companions, and Volenta/Vera and Lyudmila/Lyubov are kinda adopted daughters, 'cause why not? Look at dis tiny murderous bun in a mask made of a scull. I’d definitely adopt her.

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Help, I’m giving vampires feelings in my CoS campaign. But there’s no one to stop me, and my players don’t mind, so whatever.

Strahd and Vera having father-daughter reading-before-bedtime time.

No-pun version. One of my players said that with that look book should do a Wisdom saving throw

I like that part of Van Richten’s Guide to Vampires, which claims that “vampires < … > yearn for the warmth of humanity and feeling of being alive“. And I like the “monster with a soft side” trope. So yeah, softcore Strahd nobody asked for ✨

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Masquerade costumes from our CoS campaign! Because what's a vampire adventure without a good Masquerade~?

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I’m just getting started! 💪👊💥💥

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The biggest villians in Curse of Strahd, from least to most evil:

5. Vargas

4. The baby-eating hags

3. Rahadin

2. Strahd

1. People who make Blinsky thin

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You folks ever heard of a Worm That Walks? Well, I hadn't when I drew this, but it's this nasty creature from Dungeons and Dragons that forms when a lich's body is entirely rotted away and replaced by a squirming mass of worms and maggots! Sick, right? Anyway, that's what I think Mannimarco (aka the King of Worms aka KW) would've been before he reached godhood during Daggerfall, but here he is as a particularly rotten lich with maggots infesting his body instead! Two different robe designs (people thought the first one was too glitzy), a couple different stages of decay in his face, and a poor, poor, foreign adventurer, not used to seeing this level of necromancy in her homeland of Morrowind.

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I'm reading the Ravenloft '83 manual. He's so fucking funny.