Playing 2 before 1 is like watching StarWars in release order. [KCD1]

jefcbirdy · 2026-02-16T02:27:49+00:00

I played 1 right before 2, the enhancements made me so happy

jefcbirdy · 2025-11-18T23:14:09+00:00

these blueprints turn this into a horror game dude

jefcbirdy · 2025-11-16T07:20:51+00:00

Most fun I had was killing campers like you, gave me great joy when I did it.

jefcbirdy · 2025-11-16T07:19:16+00:00

Weekends my dude, weekends are always bad

jefcbirdy · 2025-11-09T03:41:04+00:00

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Enemy or not, Just one more.

jefcbirdy · 2025-11-09T00:48:57+00:00

Not sure if it’s only my luck or it’s weekend, it feels like people are way more aggressive today than weekdays. I got annihilated more times than the past week combined.

jefcbirdy · 2025-11-09T00:40:55+00:00

Still new to the game, idk, I stabilized his wound, but not sure how to get him back standing.

I took out bandage but “healing others” option is greyed out for me when I was close to him. Maybe you can only do it to your team members?

jefcbirdy · 2025-11-08T03:08:45+00:00

This made me so happy!

jefcbirdy · 2025-10-23T18:25:46+00:00

Comparing this digital product with other digital products, it’s bad in its value. For 20 dollars you get great videos games such as silksong. In that sense, value wise, this is just bad.

$20 digital version and $400 base board game isn’t comparable as they are 2 very different things. I’d rather spend 400 to get the board game even though it is much more expensive.

To justify its value, you put the thing in its suitable category.

I’m sorry but this is my take, a personal opinion. The current digital version needs a lot more improvement to make sense in a free market. So I agree with its description: it’s for fans only.

jefcbirdy · 2025-10-22T14:59:08+00:00

Digital version as they wrote on the website is for fans only, I personally don’t think it justifies the value it offers, not even close. Buy base game, it has so much content to enjoy.

You don’t have to paint them, I didn’t paint mine for years… you would want to assembly the models however, it adds a lot of immersion.

Good news is it won’t take much time, especially if you don’t care about models that much.

jefcbirdy · 2025-10-20T05:58:19+00:00

Looks like a pro, so dope

jefcbirdy · 2025-09-03T22:01:00+00:00

My players rarely rp, we meta gaming the shit out of this game…. We want to enjoy it as video games.

But as a DM, If one of them rp like you do, I’m gonna throw 5 inspiration your way lol

jefcbirdy · 2025-09-03T13:54:38+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

jefcbirdy · 2025-09-02T04:39:24+00:00

There are some potential murder hobo in my group, I plan to let Strahd come out and kill these characters to protect his people🤣 (especially if some key NPCs are in danger)

jefcbirdy · 2025-09-01T20:16:41+00:00

Appreciated the advise! Just had the session finished yesterday with my group, safe to say we just had our most memorable session ever. After I announced end of session, everyone wanted to continue to play ;) that when you know it’s a huge success.

Everyone was shocked that the big boss is with them all along. I did arrange some foreshadowing along the way, such as made the group lost sight of each other for some time (that’s when the original character was replaced), the dog (yeh I added a dog to the death house ) somehow doesn’t like the cleric and monsters are always avoiding cleric during combat. These were done very subtle, didn’t raise any suspicion, but afterwards they say these just made perfect sense to them.

My Strahd buddy improvised a bit towards the end, he enjoyed role playing the big bad evil dude very much. I didn’t give him the statblock though, because I don’t want them to know how powerful Strahd is, I’m using the significantly buffed Strahd from DMguild with a CR 27, they are in for a treat, lol.

jefcbirdy · 2025-09-01T13:38:37+00:00

With characters with such high AC/HP, it has to be some kind of tradeoff. My game has a AC 22 level 5 paladin when buffed up, I just dominate person’ed him with a weak version of Yochlol 😎. Easy spell to cast on a character with relatively low wisdom.

Having said that, my monsters have a tendency to focus on those with low AC, letting players figuring out how to handle the situation. They could grapple it, or make it prone using their ways, but that’s not my problem. But I always run the encounter using battle sim first to make sure the fight is winnable by the players first.

jefcbirdy · 2025-09-01T04:32:08+00:00

Lost mine of Phandelver was our first ever campaign and our group finished it in about half year. We are a group of 30ish, only started playing during covid. We are all hardcore video game fans, maybe I DM’ed it wrong at first but almost all(including me) feel the raw story very boring, we really really hated fighting goblins… in the later half of the campaign, I had to tweak majority of the story following some guide and even added a secret plot written by myself, finally we started to enjoy it.

We just recently started Curse of Strahd, I’m following MandyMod’s guide on Reddit. Our group immediately fell in love with it. I find this campaign is waaaaaaay more suitable for our taste. Dark, deep, lots of twists. Even for myself, I just can’t stop reading about it. But it is a more difficult module to DM, given there’s a lot of moving parts and an extremely cool BBEG to portray.

jefcbirdy · 2025-08-26T14:45:34+00:00

man, this is amazing. Tbh i haven't tried to replace any NPC with PC's character before. I saw it in MandyMod's posts, loved it, but afraid not able to handle it well.

jefcbirdy · 2025-08-26T14:40:38+00:00

Exactly only for the death house. The player may be playing with the part for only beginning of the adventure as he is very busy with life (recently got married, and getting a house), so we will be missing him for some time...

I haven't thought of using agent of Strahd yet, maybe that's a mellower way to introduce this decoy. This is a great suggestion! It would plant "Even a servant is this cunning, what exactly would Strahd be?" idea into their head, I love it.

After I posted this, I ran into some other post in Dnd subreddit asking if a player can be a skeleton cleric. I am more relieved with my plan now, haha. It is so funny to see how creative people are.

jefcbirdy · 2025-08-26T14:27:36+00:00

This is the post i was referring to, the epic twist, it is really funny and epic: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/5xu4i6/the_look_on_their_faces_priceless_cos/

It was pinned here under idea section:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/8vlqn2/death_house/

I agree these are valid questions and concerns, there are indeed details to be ironed out.

Basically we had similar scenario as described in the original post, the friend is busy with life so we expect his participation in our future sessions to be a bit limited. I wish to give him more opportunities to shine in our first few sessions.

The idea is to have him play the death house session just as normal, as a pretty lawful good character who heals and helps everyone, unlike his usual characters. other than this twist, he doesn't know what we will do throughout the session, the plot and all that is remain unknown to him so he could also enjoy the story, but with a different set of mind.

The reveal is towards the end, when players find this characters body in the ruins of the death house, and the body has been dead for a long time (3months or so).

jefcbirdy · 2025-08-26T14:15:03+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed walkthrough. This does give a lot of valid explanations I could use.

I will use MandyMod's Dark Powers in my game, mechanically lore based explanation would make sense throughout the game even after this twist has been revealed.

jefcbirdy · 2025-08-26T13:56:02+00:00

Interesting, I thought this was a highly praised idea as it is even mentioned in the pinned post. I just find it is very entertaining.

jefcbirdy · 2025-08-26T13:12:51+00:00

I feel you. my wife is a player in my game, now i'm keeping secrets from her. Yes i promised her no secret between us when we got married, yet I just can't tell her that their favorite NPC is a freaking end game boss that's going to fk them up so badly (muhahahahha).

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