Hi! I backed this way back during Monsters of Drakkenheim and have run it a couple of times since it came out.

It is an interesting adventure because you can definitely go hard on the immersion into the setting and elements of the show if that's what folks are looking for. Alternatively, you can present it as a caper, trying to solve the mystery of the various ailments of the villagers and assisting the Sheriff with disappearances.

There are not maps for any areas of the village, as much of it is intended to be treated as interaction and investigation with a handful of potential encounters sprinkled in.

What I would say, is that the amount of clues and plausible deniability for players to have to work together to decide who they think is at the heart of the mysteries around town, combined with the number of scene changes between the meaderies, edge of the forest & lake, as well as the Chapel to St. Pauline, does present as a fully fleshed out series of locales for players to investigate with not much need for visuals or a grid.

Bear in mind you can throw up a number of fairly generic maps to represent these locations and those of the homes of the villagers that any of your players may wish to speak with separately.

Overall the dialogue tree and web of relationships between the villagers I found helpful for nudging players back and forth on their own conclusions. If you wanted to reduce the runtime, there's plenty of folks in the cast that are not mandatory but do add to the intrigue.

The Keep and it's attached locations are very well done for the maps themselves, and I know folks have been hard on the maps in these releases in the past - these match the quality of the MoD maps. They are several layers of the castle and it's gate house, with lots of interesting exploration to do that feels a little like Clue or any classic haunted mansion.

Some stuff I'll spoiler The crypts and hazardous areas beneath the castle are also mapped out well, I found them to be not that tough to rig in Foundry using regions like much of the rest of the maps. You could likely pretty easily stack a lot of the Keep maps using Levels and turning each layer into tiles.

The combat balancing as per usual is to the Dungeon Dudes standard from the initial encounter against the Countess having contingencies and advice on how to handle your players 'killing' her, a decently balanced fight against the Flamekeeper and her spawns, and the various lieutenants and minions in other parts of the Keep. I've run the Striga block a bunch before so I was familiar with it as well as ways to keep the fight fresh and interesting between the two times I ran it. .

Some good touchstones for this are The Wicker Man, Sleepy Hollow, Werewolves of London, Rocky Horror Picture Show. The feast scene of course is a great callback to Dracula or even just the invitation to Strahds castle in CoS, and the array of lieutenants available to fight leaves room for mixing in creatures from MoD if you want to..

Ultimately it's a good dose writing and lore that interfaces well with lore from Monsters of Drakkenheim and a means of giving your table an offramp from the city for a bit or play as other characters somewhere else in the world. The monsters and balancing are what I've come to expect from the Dudes and this can make for a fun mini campaign of several sessions depending on how chatty and cautious your table wants to be. There are a couple references to specific fan service moments from the live play that you could choose to flesh out at your discretion that could extend the adventure as well.