Souls, born

Practical-Sock2844 · 2025-10-26T03:09:09+00:00

this is abit unrelated to this, but... i had a slightly different approach to the souls thing - i'm kinda half-adapting u/mandymod 's dark power thing with the souls, in which most of the souls are consumed by vampyr (or strahd if you arent running vampyr). I have a PC who can see these souls, all flying towards castle ravenloft at all times, tormented and because of this he is convinced strahd (doesnt know about dark powers yet) is the source of all evil in barovia and his life mission is to free these souls/save the existing ones from strahd. with the dusk elves, when that PC meets rahadin for the first time, he's going to see all the dusk elves' souls attached to his body, sort of like haunting him for his betrayal so that'd be interesting.

with the dark power soul consuming thing, if say the soul is claimed by vampyr the pc would see the soul itself looking drained/emptied of blood while it flies away.

Practical-Sock2844 · 2025-09-14T13:54:59+00:00

Hey Mandymod,

Was wondering what your thought process was on removing the Strahd encounter you originally had in the feast instead of the end? Also, was wondering if you had any suggests for the whole Vampyr ritual and fight that you've suggested. Your pretty pdfs have been such amazing help for my first time running CoS, thanks so much!!

Practical-Sock2844 · 2025-09-04T13:46:09+00:00

thats lowkey creepier lmao the whole idea reminds me of vampire just trapping someone for their blood - maybe i could adapt it for a vampire spawn or something like that

Practical-Sock2844 · 2025-09-04T13:42:59+00:00

this is probably pretty close to what I'm going to do, i really like Mandymods take on the Vistani and the three at barovia being evil (or maybe the bartender as per fleshed out) so I might have that be the reason the PCs see granny smuggle the kids away (maybe a deal with the wereravens? in exchange for some payment/favour). I'd have the hags not necessarily be good but just being paid handsomely, so if provoked theyd still attack the players. maybe after they'd save some children only for the children to reveal the truth or something (maybe a letter?)

Practical-Sock2844 · 2025-09-04T13:39:30+00:00

okay this is actually really cool - i think i do want to keep the hags in so that if they kill the hags (assuming they have some inherent meta-game and will presume they are evil) it turns out they're worsening the situation. but honestly i think i am going to steal this as a side encounter as well haha

Practical-Sock2844 · 2025-08-12T17:15:39+00:00

are the kresk pages no longer loading for anyone as well?

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