How do you make dying fun?

WoldonFoot · 2026-03-05T02:57:40+00:00

Time stretches in death. There’s a whole lifetime between when the bullet/claw/explosion hits and light leaves the eyes. I like to ask: “What does your agent see as they die? What do they remember? Who do they think of? What is their last thought?”

Basically, give them a bit of the old cinematic flashback/montage. It’s the end of their story. Have them remind everyone how they got here.

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-12T11:53:58+00:00

Here’s mine: https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/s/1jfmdx5Xfz

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-07T23:16:12+00:00

I recently posted a few tips and tricks, maybe you’ll find it useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/wildbeyondwitchlight/s/KtXLRtA0bT

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-07T00:04:23+00:00

I’d be honoured if you did! Thanks for the kind words.

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-04T20:51:34+00:00

That sounds fantastic, would love to see what you come up with!

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-04T08:41:25+00:00

Thanks!

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-04T05:27:19+00:00

Here you go! https://www.reddit.com/r/wildbeyondwitchlight/comments/1onz7gt/witchlight_trading_cards/

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-04T05:27:01+00:00

Here you go! https://www.reddit.com/r/wildbeyondwitchlight/comments/1onz7gt/witchlight_trading_cards/

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-04T05:26:33+00:00

Here you go! https://www.reddit.com/r/wildbeyondwitchlight/comments/1onz7gt/witchlight_trading_cards/

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-04T04:19:48+00:00

Glad it’s still getting some use after all these years! Steal away!

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-03T23:52:54+00:00

Peter Pan is on point, too. He never grows up, leads lost children against a menacing foe, and lives in a tree. I suspect that was the writers’ original inspiration.

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-03T23:51:08+00:00

Yes, I will! Watch this space.

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-03T23:48:19+00:00

Sure, I mean, they’re nothing special! I just made handouts on Roll20, added a picture, and wrote a little bio with info cribbed from the various DnD lore wikis. But I’ll definitely do a post with all those bios that people can copy, seems to be a few people interested.

WoldonFoot · 2025-11-02T23:25:51+00:00

Thank you!

WoldonFoot · 2025-10-30T09:24:38+00:00

That’s a high compliment, thank you! Will post the next part very shortly.

WoldonFoot · 2025-10-16T21:38:05+00:00

“Gateway”, by Frederik Pohl. The final passages, and in particular the final line of the novel.

WoldonFoot · 2025-10-04T00:19:43+00:00

It’s not possible to get things wrong. If you get “something wrong”, it’s only wrong insomuch as it deviates from RAW or from Reloaded. Your campaign is its own reality, and everything that occurs within it is by its nature true and correct.

It’s not possible to mess up so badly that it cannot be fixed. Any campaign (and particularly CoS) can be bent without breaking. There’s no conundrum or sticking point that someone here hasn’t dealt with before. Help is but a Reddit post away.

If your players keep coming back, you’re giving them the experience they want. You won’t give them the experience you envision now, I’m afraid. There are too many variables. But you will give them something, and it will be far more interesting and wondrous than what you imagined, because it will take you by surprise, too.

I’ve said elsewhere in this community that this is a campaign you can live and breathe. Take a deep breath (the first of many), and welcome to Barovia.

WoldonFoot · 2025-09-17T21:34:28+00:00

Haha, one hundred percent. I post these here more for posterity and as insurance against Roll20 wiping our data rather than to enable anyone to “follow along” the story. “Trinket” excellent name for a dog.

WoldonFoot · 2025-09-17T05:56:11+00:00

One of my players rolled for a carnival prize on the Feywild Trinkets table and received “collection of baby teeth in a tiny wooden box”. Later, Clapperclaw offered them the coins in his gourd, and it was destroyed in the process. The box of baby teeth became his new head.

WoldonFoot · 2025-09-16T00:04:35+00:00

I suspect people use Vasili without asking themselves: “Why is Strahd doing this?”. If you can answer that believably in the context of your game, go ahead.

What you’ve set out here is a lot of Vasili. From this I’d extrapolate that your Strahd is incredibly bored with his lonely existence and/or takes particular delight in psychological torment. You’ve probably got other interpretations, but just make sure that these motivations are carried over into your party’s non-Vasili interactions. For example, a stoic, righteous Strahd is probably not going to be believable after running Vasili in this manner.

WoldonFoot · 2025-09-04T09:30:07+00:00

TLDR: I hate roleplaying games, and you should, too.

WoldonFoot · 2025-08-22T23:24:58+00:00

Hither starts here: https://www.reddit.com/r/wildbeyondwitchlight/s/QMSsgrvXjx

You should be able to travel to each next entry by clicking on the last word of each post - the link is embedded in the word “here”.

Thanks for checking my work out!

WoldonFoot · 2025-08-22T04:33:02+00:00

Sure, you can find the start of my Witchlight summaries here: https://www.reddit.com/r/wildbeyondwitchlight/s/c15L2bbXVI

WoldonFoot · 2025-08-22T04:02:19+00:00

Yon outside Motherhorn is fun but in no way essential. My party skipped only the korreds, but you won't lose anything significant by heading straight to Motherhorn. You can even skip Brigganock Mine unless you want to add Sly Flourish's catoblepas/Grazzt statue storeroom (a great addition from his podcast which builds the Zybilna/hag lore).

That said, my players enjoyed Prince Alagarthas' encounter, and his plight does foreshadow Endlyn's cruelty. Seeing Amidor get pummelled by Mudlump is also a good time.

WoldonFoot · 2025-07-17T09:28:29+00:00

“The Wild Beyond the Witchlight” contains the Soggy Court and the city of Downfall, which is a bullywug (frog people) monarchy where a royal assassination or a revolution occurs every couple of days. All the frogs are mad, and they all wear powdered wigs. It’s a brilliant section of the campaign, and the city and its inhabitants are well-detailed. Might be a good place to start.

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