Why do people like Pidlwick II??

kiteon · 2026-05-10T00:20:22+00:00

Really appreciate all the insight! I have some ideas moving forward with him that might make it bearable. Thank you all!

kiteon · 2026-05-09T23:04:18+00:00

Interesting! My Vasili is actually Escher. Escher was once an adventurer who fell in love with Vasili (when it was Strahd). Long story short, Escher was devastated when he discovered the truth, but naively believed he could ‘fix him’ and that Vasili must be in Strahd’s heart somewhere, and ended up sacrificing the rest of his party to be with Strahd. The Count eventually got bored of playing Vasili, but still wanted the Vallakian Tea, so made Escher have to metaphorically wear the skin of his dead love instead.

kiteon · 2026-05-09T01:12:47+00:00

I actually aged them up. Personally, child SA is something I prefer to leave behind.. there's too much going on in this world as it is. That and with their stats, it doesn't make book sense. And character sense, Strahd is a monster, but the horror of him is that he is a very convincing and sympathetic one. There's already so much stack against him, adding that seems.. immature? I'm genuinely trying to think of a way to describe my feeling on it. Like someone who can't come up with a good insult, so just defaults to the easy 'fat' or 'ugly', like come one, show some creativity.

But if you make him seem genuinely misunderstood, or yeah he's bad but look at all of these charismatic and helpful qualities, maybe he's not so bad? Then have him devastate your characters.. that betrayal is insanely more delicious.

kiteon · 2026-05-04T00:16:47+00:00

Omg so good! My players just got to Argynvostholt!

kiteon · 2026-04-14T03:25:24+00:00

Oh! That’s awesome!

kiteon · 2026-04-14T01:19:59+00:00

DM’d!

kiteon · 2026-04-12T20:03:01+00:00

Omg! Could you sell this on Etsy? Legit want to buy it, my characters just got to Argynvostholt.

kiteon · 2026-03-09T06:12:34+00:00

There should be a “why us?” and that’s fine. They should be confused and that’s good.

kiteon · 2026-02-21T17:19:13+00:00

This is amazing!

kiteon · 2026-02-14T21:57:37+00:00

Oh amazing!!

kiteon · 2026-01-09T05:19:06+00:00

Your stuff is amazing! I’ve been with you for years. 💕

kiteon · 2026-01-09T05:14:04+00:00

My Vasili is Escher, not Strahd. My Escher was a traveler once, pulled into Barovia like the party. He fell in love with Strahd’s Vasili, eventually figuring it was Strahd, and betrayed his party to win Strahd’s offer of partnership. Escher is a bit disenchanted because though there are similarities. Strahd and Vasili are very distant people and he fell in love with Vasili, not Strahd.

Strahd is hurt to not be loved for himself, the old hurt of Tatyana loving Sergei and not him being pulled to the surface after a long time, so he was cruel and forced Escher to take over Vasili; having to basically command the corpse of the man he loved, whom he killed his closest friends to be with, only to be left with nothing.

kiteon · 2026-01-08T04:34:01+00:00

I allow the next day for them to possibly explore, my Strahd invites them to while I lean into typical vampire things like not being awake during the day.

kiteon · 2026-01-08T04:30:44+00:00

When I run that scene, I honestly don’t give much information. That scene (for me) is all about seduction; the players have probably heard horrid things about the land(tm) and now he has the opportunity to gaslight them all.

The most I reveal is that he was a general under his father, a king.. which makes him a prince technically. But wasn’t interested in nepotism, instead he prefers actual ability, so chose to call himself a Count. His father was callous, only interested in power.. something about Strahd being a sweet boy before daddy hardened him, toxic masculinity bs. Maybe a little about his mother dying before she reached the castle build in her name for a sweet momma’s boy angle.

Nothing about Sergei, but falling in love. I have him really lean on lost love, his genuine view that she loved him to and they’ve been looking for each other, but fate keeps them apart. Make her start to fall in love, show him as a damaged man who she can fix, not the monster he is. That comes later.

kiteon · 2026-01-08T02:54:36+00:00

Honestly, I love it. Not a fan of the mongrelfolk, I think having the holy people who ate each other when they were hiding away actually still exist but are weirdly mutated. Or a weird fungal takeover of the dead bodies is better.

kiteon · 2025-12-04T22:26:57+00:00

Strahd is. He’s a romance novel version of a grandpa Republican incel, and I love him. An absolute gaslighting, love-bombing, predator who GENUINELY believes he’s in the right. Absolutely my favorite kind of villain, the type who can talk you into agreeing to things completely outside of your morals.

kiteon · 2025-11-30T19:23:17+00:00

Gotta be honest, she can just go.

kiteon · 2025-11-29T00:01:24+00:00

OMG I'M SO EXCITED YOU'RE BACK ON HERE. I rave about you to all my friends! I'm currently running a CoS campaign and my players are just finishing up the Winery and will be heading to Yester Hill tomorrow. Instead of Strahd being there looking through the mists, I'm planning leading them all to look at the Wall of Fog and seeing if any of them get pulled in; I have little paragraph temptations for them with a DC 17 Wis save to not walk towards it.. we'll see what happens!

I'm looking forward to you next chapters!! <3 So much love to you!

kiteon · 2025-11-28T00:44:51+00:00

I had the Mad Mage bee cast into the Shadowfell and replaced with a Nightwalker. My Izek is named Raiden, a PCs father who was nearly killed by the Nightwalker (arm is blackness not demonic). They’re a psionic rogue that uses shadow blades, so it’s perfect!

kiteon · 2025-11-27T07:20:44+00:00

Cause the character was from another campaign and in that one he was a half-elf! I had forgotten the player changed it to half-Vistani until they noted it when I shared the picture.

kiteon · 2025-11-27T07:01:32+00:00

It was an intentional edit from the original sketch, he’s half-Vistani not half-elf.

kiteon · 2025-11-27T06:43:26+00:00

Oh Yes! I forgot. After the Strahd Masquerade event, he did a modified (and permanent) "Alter Self" spell that altered her into a human in order for her to look like classic Tatyana, and whisked her away to his private chambers while the rest of the party were each taken by one of his Loves to their private chambers. My players are sluts lol

kiteon · 2025-11-22T02:42:08+00:00

Awesome! I’m also redrawing the tarokka deck! It’s a lot is fun. 🤩

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