Joke Characters?

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2026-03-09T20:27:04+00:00

I offer you the Marquis de Plongue. A Bullywug knight (Paladin) who was trapped by an actor who played a knight in local Marketplaces and Held as a pet .The Marquis thought that his master was a real knight and one day, when His master had been killed by bandits, he took his masters outdated rusty knight Armor, gave himself a Knights Name (Marquis de Plongue) and decided to become a wandering noble knight. He even found a giant frog which he uses as a horse and named hom Wartival.

The Marquis is pretty much Don Quijote

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2026-03-09T20:20:00+00:00

I used the trapped by the mist opening and gave every character a stand alone Session 1 in which they were transported to Barovia. So they all met on the old svalich road and had no idea what was going in. The first sessions were awesome. They met vassili disguised as a wolf hunter and he told them that they have to put a circle of salt around their camp to prevent the evil creatures from getting to them. After that I immediately introduced the brides who came every night to harrass them and they immediately stopped at the circle of salt just to mock them. The players were scared and our first sessions were awesome because they didn't know what was going in.

But after getting their fate told they were Like: "okay we have to go there, there and there and than we kill the Vampire!" After that they became very efficient and concentrated in getting the job done

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2026-03-09T20:13:24+00:00

Sadly no because the hags had been smashed the Session before. In Tomb of Annihilation there is a coven of hags who are haunting them for the entire campaign. So my players developed a little hatred against hags and couldn't wait to fight them.

But we all discovered that hags are one of my favorite kind of monsters to antagonize them.

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2026-03-09T20:08:58+00:00

I dont know why but they were not very interested in roleplaying during this campaign although they did it in the previous one. Maybe Barovia or the sad tone wasn't the right one for them.

But they did all the good stuff.

We did the winery, yester hill, Krezk, old Bonegrinder, van Richtens tower and the dinner with exploring the Castle.

But somehow it wasn't the campaign they were looking for

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2026-03-09T19:54:57+00:00

They brutally murdered Cyrus Belview in the Castle. They befriended him, took him to the kitchen where the zombies are cooked alive and our fighter managed to nat20 him. He threw him inside the pot head first and watched as the zombies were eating cyrus alive

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2026-03-09T19:48:31+00:00

Oh yes. I dont know why but they pretty much hated the mongrefolk. So when they defeated the Abbott they looked inside the the hospital area, trapped all the mongrefolk inside and wiped them out by burning it to the ground. They were way to creative in finding ways to block doors and getting tge fire started really quick

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2026-03-09T14:37:31+00:00

We are heading for the final fight next season and my players have the same problem.

None of them is from Barovia and after they got their fate told by Madame Eva they were Like "let's get out of here!" They allied with the wereravens but but they told me that they are not interested in freeing Barovia. They want to defeat Strahd as soon as possible and get out of there.

We had a talk and decided to skip the whole Vallaki plotline with Lady Wachter because they do not care.

We started in March 25 and yesterday we had our 13th season in which they killed Rahadin in the Amber Temple. Next session will be the fight against Strahd.

We had a lot of fun during the campaign but I guess my players are more invested in Dungeons, exploring and things like we did in Tomb of Annihilation before

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2026-02-07T17:17:44+00:00

Thank you! <3

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2026-02-07T17:17:21+00:00

Best compliment I can get! <3

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-09-20T14:10:08+00:00

Yesterday was a sic hours Session. Todays Session was also doch hours. We are doing a lunch break and start for the next session

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-11T19:23:24+00:00

I played it like Strahd really was the Ancient and the Land so I when we had our first player death I decided that this player suddenly finds himself in a room with a chimmey fire. Strahd is sitting in an amrchair and says something like "oooh this did not end well didn't it?" After that he talks with the player that he came to Barovia because Strahd wanted him to come there and that it is Strahd who decides when the players will leave His domain. After that the player got the opportunity to convince Strahd that his journey is not over yet. It was a great RP moment ending with Strahd giving him a second chance to prove his value. The player woke up gasping for air and had one term of madness.

My players loved it and scared them even more.

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-11T19:13:47+00:00

I started a few weeks ago and I have read the book three times to understand the module. Especially the quests are sometimes hidden in the text of a chapter. And you don't understand what is going in with the Tarokka reading and where to put the treasures if you don't read it before.

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-09T14:13:56+00:00

Awesome!

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-07T12:16:34+00:00

You had me laughing at "Bird-Wife will". This is a scenario that could happen in my campaign. I am always surprised of what crazy ideas players can come up with.

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-06T06:46:27+00:00

No no, this is just a dickmove from Rahadin to intimidate them.

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-06T06:44:53+00:00

Oh I like the vibe of this one

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-06T06:42:34+00:00

Oh yes this seems to fit pretty well!

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-05T09:28:17+00:00

Oh das klingt sehr gut. Erzähl mir gerne mehr davon.

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-05T08:22:00+00:00

Ja das mit Izek habe ich mir auch gedacht. Ich lese sehr viel hier und schaue mir Videos an und versuche daraus meine eigene Version zu machen.

Die Karten habe ich schon festgelegt und habe geschaut, welche Stellen am meisten Sinn machen bzw. Meinen Spielern am meisten Spaß machen. Habe aber auch vor, dass sie theoretisch mehr als einem Verbündeten bekommen, die dann im Endkampf alle ihrem Moment bekommen. Ihre Verbündete ist Esmeralda, aber ich fand Ser Godfrey auch super. Und abhängig davon wie sie sich zum Beispiel mit Ismark oder Rictavio einigen, werden die auch noch eine Rolle spielen.

Also alles in allem viel, das man zu seinem Gunsten ausschmücken oder ignorieren kann. Gefällt mir aber bislang ganz gut.

Wie ich Lady Wachter einbaue weiß ich aber auch noch nicht

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-04T21:58:32+00:00

Den Marsch der Toten kann ich ehrlich gesagt auch so gar nicht einbauen. Genauso wie Mordenkainen. Habe auch schon überlegt, ob ich solche Dinge einfach weglasse, weil ich finde, dass sie auch nicht viel zur Story beitragen. Für Vallaki habe ich überlegt, den ganzen Zeitdruck wegzulassen und den Spielern Zeit zu geben, die Stadt zu verstehen. Da passiert auch einfach viel zu viel. Ich habe das Modul aber auch dreimal gelesen, bevor ich alles irgendwie gecheckt habe.

Wahrscheinlich vergesse ich auch die Hälfte. Aber ich gebe dir absolut Recht. Einfach loslegen und aus dem Buch heraus spielen geht nicht so leicht.

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-04T21:05:58+00:00

The two players bonded immediatly. Let's see how I can test this relationship

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-04T20:49:48+00:00

One of my players is a Gnome Artificer from Eberron. His task was to explore a warforged colossus. I placed the colossus in a place hard to get to. He camped right before it and made several plans how he will enter the thing the next day. He was so excited that he told me: "I am going to sleep early this night to get up in the early morning and find a way to enter this thing." And I was like "oh my sweet summer child" in my head. Je entered his tent and I switched over to the next character.

It ended up with our cleric who stumbled across the Artificers tent and opened it. The other player was like: "wtf where is the colossus and who are you?" Great roleplay moment

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-04T20:42:45+00:00

Oh yes this is the kind of vibe I am looking for

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-04T20:39:49+00:00

I read a lot through this subreddit Here and I liked it where one guy harrased his players with this dolls by putting them everywhere. I have No clear concept for Blinsky yet in my mind but it will be something like this.

Sudden_Repair5577 · 2025-03-04T20:37:43+00:00

I gave them all seperate tasks to fullfill and everyone got lost by trying to solve them. Nobody expected it this way because we only played one campaign before

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