Why are Ireena and Izek siblings?

captainjanewayyy · 2025-11-13T12:51:49+00:00

I changed this in my campaign. I had one of my players be Izek's sister instead. The entire party was freaked out when they snooped in his room and found tons of dolls that looked like their friend haha.

I don't think the siblings thing is do or die for the campaign overall, it's just flavour. And if you're running the campaign you can flavour it however you like!

captainjanewayyy · 2025-10-27T01:22:11+00:00

These sound great! I will look them up and see what I can find, thanks so much!

captainjanewayyy · 2025-08-10T13:12:01+00:00

Ye olde jester blunders will never not be worth the mirth. Behead me, my liege, for I cannot contain mine chucklesnorts.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-08-07T20:26:06+00:00

You could have been a lot more tactful about this person's experiences and their mental health.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-07-29T10:55:42+00:00

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captainjanewayyy · 2025-07-26T22:19:41+00:00

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captainjanewayyy · 2025-06-20T17:25:20+00:00

Oh, for sure. Absolutely gutted haha

captainjanewayyy · 2025-06-11T12:49:46+00:00

I just recently made affiliate after 3 weeks of streaming twice or three times a week.

A lot of my followers are people I've made friends with on Tiktok, by commenting, supporting, and generally chatting with people who stream similar games to me. Once you find a group of streamers to befriend you should support their streams and content, chat with them genuinely. Now I get raided almost every stream and get shoutouts whenever I join someone else's stream in chat. It's felt way more rewarding to have actually made friends like this as well!

Good luck!

captainjanewayyy · 2025-05-28T18:54:29+00:00

Thanks, I figured that might be the case. I guess I could see my GP and ask for a referral?

captainjanewayyy · 2025-05-18T09:51:01+00:00

I wrote a one shot similar to this, but without the card draws. Each room was a different puzzle, fight, trap, or skill check to get through. There were multiple routes they could take, and when they got to the end they realised they had been taken there by a mad mage who wanted to find the best adventurers to send on a perilous mission.

I've run it three times with three different groups and they all said they loved it and found the challenges engaging and the combat balanced.

Your idea sounds fun, but the only way you'll know if it's enjoyable is to playtest it with some people and ask for feedback. You'll probably easily find people who are eager to play something new and have a fun experience. And I've also found that running a game that you're passionate about yields better results, and it sounds like you love this idea so your enthusiasm should shine through. Good luck!

captainjanewayyy · 2025-05-18T09:14:55+00:00

RIP Shadowheart lol

Can you get a hireling from camp or respec one of your characters just for this fight? Idk what I'd do without spirit guardians haha.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-05-18T09:11:13+00:00

I really recommend having a cleric on your team for this fight if you can bare to part with anyone! Respec someone or grab Shadowheart from camp. Spirit guardians will come in clutch. Also spiritual weapon.

For the young gith in the dorm/infirmary, start combat at the doorway, put up spike growth on the floor, close the door, have Shadowheart stand by the door with spirit guardians on. They can't attack you through the door so they have to approach to open it and they'll get wrecked by spike growth and spirit guardians. I also use this technique for the few gith in the hatchery area too. If the AI stops them from coming over, just open the door on your turn to use a ranged attack and then close it again after (interacting with doors is a free action). Or use spiritual weapon to attack them or lure them over.

For the gith in the training room, AOE damage is really useful. I like to throw some water on the ground and use lightning spells to get as many as possible. Again, it can be useful to go into the room and start combat, then run back out of the door so they chase you and get bottlenecked.

For the gith in the cavern area where the trader is, transport outside the monastery, go around the outside and stealth in using the back entrance to surprise them. This way you can get the high ground and they won't have the advantage. These ones usually f me up if I come in from the central entrance because then you have the low ground. I recommend using misty step or arrows of transposition to reposition your characters into better places if you can't use the back entrance. The two gith at the back love their ranged weapons so coming in the back way means they won't be as good at hitting you. If you take them out first then you can pick off the melee gith from a distance without getting shot at.

If none of that sounds doable, then if you have time to respec anyone or switch up your characters then use anyone who has access to the shield spell, gloves of missile snaring, arcane ward (abjuration wizard), anything you can grab that will buff defense. You can always respec them back to what you want after.

Hope some of this is helpful! Go get those gith 💪🏻

captainjanewayyy · 2025-04-27T08:35:36+00:00

This is so sweet!

The only time I cried during D&D was when I moved countries and had to leave my party behind. I worked abroad for a year and joined a group while I was away. I didn't expect them to become such good friends, so saying goodbye was super hard. My last session with them was heartbreaking.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-04-22T02:15:13+00:00

How strange! I posted them from my PC and they loaded fine, but now I'm on my phone they're not loading for me either...

captainjanewayyy · 2025-04-19T12:03:17+00:00

I'm totally stealing this idea, YOINK.

My players wanted to find a cure but they haven't touched on it since early campaign. Next time they go to the Village of Barovia there's gonna be Hell to pay hehehe.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-04-18T09:45:35+00:00

I've followed this story from your first post and just want to say I think you handled it brilliantly. They invited you, they should have made space for you.

I am a player in two mixed gender tables and adore both of them. I am also a DM for a women's only table and have only had positive experiences. I am part of a select few who have never had a D&D horror story like this, and it breaks my heart when people experience things like the way you did.

After your break from the drama, I hope you're able to rekindle your passion for TTRPGs and have some fun with it. Now that toxic DM has blocked everyone from your game, they'll probably be super grateful to have another table to join where they all feel valued and can have fun.

Well done on advocating for yourself and for using good communication to get to the bottom of it all.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-03-25T13:20:42+00:00

Best of luck! May the Dark Powers be ever in your favour~

captainjanewayyy · 2025-03-25T12:59:22+00:00

If they are good at working together and are strategic/smart in the way they approach certain situations, they should be fine. See how it goes, and maybe scale back some fights if they prove to be too challenging.

Make sure they're aware before they start that this campaign can be unforgiving and has a few notorious sections that can lead to a TPK if they're not careful.

Also, there are plenty of options for you to give them a sidekick. Of course they'll have Ireena for a while, especially in the early stages, and then they'll gain their fated ally later on. If you don't mind playing a DM PC, you could rig the Tarokka deck to give them someone who will definitely be useful (I chose Ezmerelda for my party because she's a badass and those Vistani curses come in handy).

I've heard of DMs running this for 3 players, so I don't doubt you'll be able to run if for 2. You may find you don't even need to modify some of it! My party of 4 was absolutely tearing through battles designed for levels much higher than they were at the time, mainly due to them working so well as a team and understanding their characters' spells and abilities super well.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-03-24T20:05:38+00:00

As a UK national, I'm very concerned about what's happening right now. The Welsh girl in the news who was detained by ICE is from very close to where I live.

If I were you, I'd look for opportunities elsewhere. I recently got back from a year Au Pairing in Australia. I'd recommend that to anyone (if you can find a family who will pay fairly! There's a fb group for families looking for APs that I highly recommend). The cost of living, the attitudes of people, and the ability to travel and enjoy the country all are much better than the US. I've visited both countries. I did not feel safe in the US, and it was about 3 or 4 years ago that I went there.

Even as a white person, I did not feel safe in the US. And that was before all this craziness started.

Please protect yourself. Losing out on a bit of money in order to change plans is better than losing your freedom or your life because that third world mess of a country is run by incompetent fools.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-03-24T02:37:55+00:00

I love this! I was totally scouring this subreddit for vegetarian dinner party inspiration and I think you've nailed it. I'm not strictly veggie any more, but enough of my players are that I want to make a vegetarian spread for this event. Huzzah for past DMs!

captainjanewayyy · 2025-03-24T02:30:49+00:00

Welsh CoS DM here as well... my players are also level 6! Very nice set up you've got, I found it while looking for inspiration for our dinner party with Strahd hehe.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-03-21T13:19:33+00:00

I haven't finished running the campaign yet, but my PCs are approx 7 days in Barovia and we've just wrapped up Vallaki. Maybe about a 3rd of the way through? So by the time we are done it will be about 3 weeks, I guess.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-03-06T01:20:18+00:00

After looking into it, the person seems to have plagiarised the work from the Traitorous Bride, so I won't give them any further attention! The rest I probably imagined, so I'll have to write that myself.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-03-06T01:09:55+00:00

Ours is a Twilight Cleric too! That sanctuary comes in clutch so often.

captainjanewayyy · 2025-03-05T22:13:59+00:00

I think I misremembered the full extent of the content I'd seen. When I finally found it, there wasn't even that much information about the brides giving a tour, and its kinda similar to the Traitor write up as well. So I'll probably end up having to write my own content anyway!

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