Castle Ravenloft is frankly a BRUTAL dungeon, especially if you make your players go into it mostly blind (which I do) and don't allow them to rest. Then, because the woman he wanted to creepily possess fell in love with his younger (well-adjusted) brother, he murdered his brother, chased his beloved Tatyana off a 1,000-foot cliff, and made a pact with the mysterious Dark Powers to become the unholy terror he is today. I picked Barbarian because I wanted to be the tank for the group. That means by right-clicking you can change the appearance of that characters token. Its easy to see whyunlike easy-to-use bosses in other modules, a single mistake can lead to Strahds near-instant death, while an unintentionally optimal strategy can turn the final battle into an unpleasantly excruciating experience. This would be a fine and wholly satisfactory answer if the book gave players ways to level up to those challenges. A Comprehensive Guide to Strahd's RAW Final Battle Tactics Which only now gets them level 5 but they have been fighting CR 5's most of the way, with the occasional CR 1-3. Use of this option does not change Strahds CR. [] It was always my wish that at some point we could put a version of the adventure together that actually had the cards with it, and it's out of that idea that this boxed set emerged. Then, he built a gigantic gothic monstrosity of a castle because of his gigantic (gothic) unresolved mommy issues. It then attacked them back. Why did US v. Assange skip the court of appeal? If you use this option, leave Strahds CR unchanged if employing Cant Use Charm (see above), and increase Strahds CR by 1 if not. There are many shapeshifters in Barovia, from vampires to hags to werewolves, and each has a rollable token on the Roll20 virtual tabletop. Privacy Policy. Van Richtens Guide to Ravenloft, which expands the Domains of Dread for fifth edition, has an excellent sidebar on the importance of cultivating hope in your Ravenloft games. Polymorph (Frog). For more information, please see our Curse of Strahd DnD 5e Summary and DM's Quickstart Guide Final Boss Music For Strahd. Share them with anyone. They haven't yet been to the werewolf cave, the Amber Temple, Ravenloft, or Yester Hill. The ghasts and the mound are tough, but certainly doable if the characters play smart. Be forgiving when they run, chase and play with them like a cat would, for the fun of it, but let them escape. Let me start off by saying that Curse of Strahd certainly has some very challenging encounters, many of which can be stumbled into at points when the party is woefully under-levelled.
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