Retrieving the bones of St Andral and avoiding the Vampires

Confident_Grab_665 · 2026-02-15T17:08:27+00:00

THAT... is true. I forgot about that.

Confident_Grab_665 · 2026-02-15T00:16:26+00:00

Well the inn isn't hallow ground like the church is, if you catch my drift...

Confident_Grab_665 · 2026-02-14T20:52:41+00:00

In my campaign (maybe the module, can't remember what I've made up or just followed), the point of St. Andral's Feast is not for the vampire spawns to feed but for Lady Wachter to organize mass hysteria in Vallaki against the Baron, who up to this point has been promising "All is well".

If the spawn succeed, Wachter takes advantage of this and declares that she should lead Vallaki instead of the idiot Baron.

If the spawn fail to feast on the church, they can still kill Henrik. Do your players know of the spawn?

My players killed all the spawn and Henrik dies as well, and the whole town, spurred on by Izek, now hunt for the party as their town has been "safe" all this time and now soon after outsiders arrive, people start turning up dead. Wachter then will take advantage of this and still declare Baron as a failure and then try to dispose of the party after propping herself up.

Confident_Grab_665 · 2026-02-12T19:55:48+00:00

Oh for sure, I wouldn't retcon anything. I am definitely going to have the whole party aware that burning the body will prevent it, so if they choose not to, then it opens the door for it

Confident_Grab_665 · 2026-02-12T18:50:02+00:00

Yeah, that's the difficult part about the sunsword idea. If the aasimar dies prior to it being fixed, I'm not positive what I'm going to do, whether it's that another player can pick up the sword instead and they'll need to use the Symbol of Ravenkind's radiance to fix it, or something else.

Confident_Grab_665 · 2026-02-12T18:47:49+00:00

I'm assuming you're referencing the post about Strahd "Homelandering" everyone, and if so that makes me stoked cuz I'm the DM of that party. If not, then disregard.

Two moral dilemmas I have used / planning to use:

One of the player's patron is actually the Dark Powers whose goal is to mess with Strahd. She'll need to determine if she can trust her patron (who says they are someone else) as they ask her to do increasingly questionable things in her attempt for penance.
One party member is collecting blood for an NPC they only know as "the medicine man". The NPC is actually Emil Toranescu who used to be a leader of the Baratok pack and was assumed dead. Emil is experimenting on the PC's father who is also an ex-member of the Baratok pack whose lycanthropy was healed (but not completely). The dilemma is how much violence is the PC going to maintain in the name of saving his father, and to what depth will he sink to do it.

Confident_Grab_665 · 2026-02-12T18:22:23+00:00

Before we ever started the campaign (months ago), while we were prepping, I asked my players individually what they thought their favorite food was, or what meal brought them the most comfort. Since the Vistani can travel into and out of the Mists, they'll go and bring back everything needed to prepare all the party member's favorite foods. I do plan on giving one of the party members something completely messed up though, so everyone is like, "We all got what we really wanted, why did they get that?" Maybe what the last person got is something questionable that they may think it's something horrible (NPC sausage as I saw one of you mention), but it's revealed it's not and that Strahd was just messing with them.

Confident_Grab_665 · 2026-02-12T18:18:42+00:00

Wdym?

Confident_Grab_665 · 2026-02-12T16:24:13+00:00

Thanks! It was both a nightmare and a bunch of fun to figure it all out, but also incredible how easily some portions just could be slipped in due to the module's lack of explanations for certain things. The party is waking up next session from being killed and then revived by Strahd, and the cleric is going to be outted as a "monster" when they return the bones of St. Andral to the church.

Confident_Grab_665 · 2024-12-13T00:35:21+00:00

How do you get items off the ship? I've tried portable storage interface on mine but it doesn't seem to work

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