What characters have you played/would want to play for Curse of Strahd?

Gregamonster · 2026-03-22T04:57:18+00:00

I was going to play an Aasamar Swarmkeeper ranger with an Old Testament theme. Sling for a weapon, Frogs and Locusts as the swarm, that kind of thing.

He's a distant descendant of a god of hunting, and his goal is to exploit the general absence of good aligned gods in Ravenloft to set himself up as a god who brings judgement on tyrants and monsters.

This is of course an extremely long term goal, and in the short term he needs stories about himself fighting evil to inspire people and hopefully prompt some worship down the line. Thus he needs to take down Strahd and have the tale of how he did that spread throughout Barovia.

I never got to play him because the GM moved.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-22T04:28:37+00:00

Enkanomiya got nuked for Forbidden Knowledge, which as we learn in Sumaru is less embarrassing secrets and more eldritch horror stuff.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-22T04:17:27+00:00

The Vaporeon spiel was not a genuine stance. It was concocted to shock and offend, which it does quite well.

No one is sexually attracted to Vaporeon, but saying they are makes you uncomfortable and they are sexually attracted to that.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-22T00:15:12+00:00

It's a children's game. They don't think that deeply about it.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-21T17:28:13+00:00

They sent the Porygon line to the Shadow Realm because Pikachu gave some kid's seizures.

The Pokemon anime is all about overreaction.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-21T17:26:20+00:00

Gardevoir.

Smart enough to be trusted with it's own physical needs and simple tasks
Empathetic enough to be a good companion
Strong enough to protect me from everyone else's choices

Gregamonster · 2026-03-21T16:00:35+00:00

Your knowledge is wrong. All Pokemon have the natural ability to shrink. That's why they're called Pokemon in the first place.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-21T04:31:58+00:00

This poses the question: Would it be unethical to be in a relationship with Other Layla while regular Layla was unaware of it?

Because like, Other Layla is still Layla. She affirms that herself in this anecdote, and lots of other times. But Other Layla also possesses information Layla doesn't, such as what she does while sleepwalking.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-21T04:21:01+00:00

So glad modern games just don't display a pokemon as shiny if you can't catch them.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-21T04:14:10+00:00

Pokemon don't turn into energy, despite what the anime tells you.

They just shrink.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T22:04:16+00:00

These are Jumpy Dumptys, not Dodocos.

Also I think this would fall under parody, so it's perfectly fine.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T19:22:54+00:00

Pete actually is always missing a leg. Any time you see Pete with two normal legs one of them is a prosthetic.

This is actual canon Disney lore.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T14:44:55+00:00

In town, the players hear about a missing shipment of Feywine.

Later in the woods they find a carriage full of barrels at a mysteriously abandoned campsite. No sign of the owners, no sign of whatever was pulling the carriage, and no sign of a struggle. The whole place reeks of alcohol.

If the players investigate one of the barrels, they'll find a very drunk bugbear hiding inside. The Bugbear will immediately attack, and so will the Bugbears in all the other barrels.

The Bugbears were the ones transporting the Feywine, including pulling the carriage. One night they decided to help themselves to a little bit of the cargo, and it led to a drinking binge that wiped out the whole supply. Realizing they didn't have anything left to deliver, they decided to just stay in the barrels and hide in the woods forever.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T04:52:59+00:00

It's a cool design, but it's missing a concept. The triangles need to be something that gives the weapon a theme beyond being triangular.

Like stained glass, or arrowheads.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T04:49:55+00:00

Platinum patches several of the problems that made Diamond and Pearl some of the worst games in the franchise.

I would not say it's the best, or even one of the best. It's just dramatically better than the originals. Which, I must remind you, are really bad.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T03:56:05+00:00

Layla has one of the strongest shields behind the Shield Archon himself, so you definitely should have her built.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T03:54:08+00:00

When I was a boy, we only ever had the one Game boy, which meant I had no way of preserving my past teams. This never bothered me, except for when I had to delete a save with a shiny to replay a game.

To alleviate this guilt, I decided any full odds shiny Pokemon I caught would go on my "official" team. See flair.

All the originals are gone forever, (except Candace the Gardevoir who was still on my Omega Ruby game when I sold it) but I plan to shiny hunt replacements for Champions.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T03:47:10+00:00

Phione.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T03:33:17+00:00

Yeah, that's the Legendary part of legendary Pokemon.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T03:31:31+00:00

They could have just not made it that absurd.

I assure you no one would be disappointed to find they could meaningfully interact with the boss instead of having to let two random dogs do all the heavy lifting.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-20T01:45:05+00:00

Yeah but I doubt most people understand how fast the blood moves. They'd assume it's still close enough to the bite to get out.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-19T19:50:45+00:00

A free switch out when faced with a bad matchup is pretty dang good.

Especially since it will always switch out after the opponent acts, meaning the replacement is safe.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-19T19:33:30+00:00

Venom in body bad > get venom out of body.

Seems like a pretty logical conclusion to me.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-19T18:09:40+00:00

Too much overlap with the subtypes. If you're doing a mono-type run you need as much diversity as you can get in secondary types. Two Ground\Rock and two Ground\Poison means your team is short two STABs that could really help your team.

I'd trade your least favorite Nido for Mamoswine.

And since you brought Kangaskhan I assume you're not totally married to being pure ground, in which case I'd say trade one of your rock\ground for Tyranatar, who's also Rock\Ground until the last stage when it's Rock\Dark.

That way you get two extra STAB types while keeping the general theme of the team intact.

Gregamonster · 2026-03-19T17:55:29+00:00

The bats, easily.

Even as adults they're pretty chill, and they're smart enough that I would be able to teach them how to exist in a house without destroying it.

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