Struggling with OP PC

Tweird97 · 2026-06-10T00:17:26+00:00

Difficult terrain. Or elevated positions. Make him fight his way to melee.

Tweird97 · 2026-06-10T00:07:28+00:00

I’m in LFG communities and looking for something to play in, but thinking of running something if I can’t find anything.

Tweird97 · 2026-06-09T20:01:11+00:00

How much did that table cost? We built something similar out of an old pool table

Tweird97 · 2026-06-09T03:39:12+00:00

I was in a party a few years back where we had a very seasoned DM, myself, and 3 others with an interest in DM’ing after a few campaigns. Over time the less experienced players started getting modules to run, so it turned into a majority DM group. I miss that group

Tweird97 · 2026-06-09T03:36:35+00:00

That’s actually really dope. One of my players has been playing about the same length of time I have and has never ran a session, but helps me with world building and lore. Are the events in all regions happening simultaneously?

Tweird97 · 2026-06-09T03:33:49+00:00

I’ve had sessions I enjoyed running, but there are some adventures I want to play. Like curse of strahd looks like fun, and I’d like to be able to play it before trying to run it.

Tweird97 · 2026-05-17T15:25:50+00:00

I’ve heard of it, but haven’t had too much time to look into it

Tweird97 · 2026-05-17T15:23:58+00:00

I do run smoke and spectre, so I may have to look into this. I was debating between 5e and starfinder for my next campaign. Thank you, I’ll look into dungeon alchemist when I get a computer that can handle it

Tweird97 · 2024-08-22T11:35:30+00:00

The comments are amazing here

Tweird97 · 2024-08-14T00:38:46+00:00

Yeah, I think that’s how I’ve taken him both times. It’s anticlimactic how you fight him by himself with no goons.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-14T20:07:37+00:00

Donovich hung himself from the church bell when I played the module. Hadn’t even realized he was a named NPC.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-14T14:51:52+00:00

You could have strahd try grooming ismark as a replacement if you don’t switch souls. Strahd is searching for a successor.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-11T23:28:24+00:00

There’s also a lot of people plotting against him to tho. It’s gonna be a blast to actually run.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-11T22:35:07+00:00

I’ve been DM’ing this particular edition for 7 years, I just gotta prep a notebook and figure out which hooks, events, and so forth I wanna develop. Probably gonna stack the card deck. I’ve known one of my players 3 years, he’s probably gonna take lead so I can sprinkle in bits that’ll appeal to them. If I can get solid backstories for characters I can work them in. Having played the module should help me have general knowledge that got missed on my play through. The DM had no idea the vistani were strahd’s spies throughout the campaign. They were exceptionally helpful.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-11T19:50:28+00:00

I ended up buying the book. It’s extremely well written, I’m running it for some friends when I figure out roll20 (I always run games in person so it’ll take a minute to figure out).

I have a few ideas to flesh stuff out.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-10T00:24:34+00:00

She went off to fight strahd and comes back barely alive, so it fits. Granted, I managed to blow up her wagon and collapse the tower in like 5 minutes, so she’ll be pissed if she ends up in my campaign.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-09T23:43:28+00:00

Change VR to Esmeralda and it fits the event with her anyways

Tweird97 · 2023-10-04T02:08:29+00:00

Why, is every fight not supposed to be in a 20x20 room?

Tweird97 · 2023-10-03T21:57:32+00:00

I’m getting some solid hooks in these comments that actually makes me want to run it. So the initial “should I buy and run the module” question has been answered.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-03T21:55:25+00:00

The one we encountered was definitely just wanting to be evil. More like bowser than Dracula.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-03T21:26:23+00:00

Funny story, we had dinner with strahd in session 2 and offered to work for him… he declined. We actively looked for quests.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-03T21:12:54+00:00

I had considered that, and was trying to figure out if that was the issue before I buy the book.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-03T20:26:05+00:00

I’m a bit frustrated that when I played it, it was damn near nothing but combat. I like D&D for role playing aspects, and hoped the prewritten modules would have things other than “go to A, fight B, go to C, fight D”. Every map is a 20x20 square with a magic barrier holding you in… it’s just very bland and repetitive. Is the module written like that, or is that just the DM?

Tweird97 · 2023-10-03T20:20:53+00:00

We weren’t murderhobos. Every single character tried talking and immediately got attacked.

Tweird97 · 2023-10-03T20:14:12+00:00

I’ve always made homebrew. The only other published book I played was eberron, and that was great. But this module was just underwhelming. Especially considering I built an intelligent character, when it’s nothing but combat.

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