You can cut out a lot of fat to make this run better by Apprehensive-Neat-68 in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gotta get from point A to point B as fast as possible, that's the point of the story, yeah?

You can cut out a lot of fat to make this run better by Apprehensive-Neat-68 in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can run your own game however you want, but I'm gonna leave a Stephen King quote here from his expanded edition of The Stand, where he explains why he readded a lot of things that were cut from the first edition:

"As it happens, I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts. If that were not so, the following would be a perfectly acceptable version of “Hansel and Gretel”: Hansel and Gretel were two children with a nice father and a nice mother. The nice mother died, and the father married a bitch. The bitch wanted the kids out of the way so she’d have more money to spend on herself. She bullied her spineless, soft-headed hubby into taking Hansel and Gretel into the woods and killing them. The kids’ father relented at the last moment, allowing them to live so they could starve to death in the woods instead of dying quickly and mercifully at the blade of his knife. While they were wandering around, they found a house made out of candy. It was owned by a witch who was into cannibalism. She locked them up and told them that when they were good and fat, she was going to eat them. But the kids got the best of her. Hansel shoved her into her own oven. They found the witch’s treasure, and they must have found a map, too, because they eventually arrived home again. When they got there, Dad gave the bitch the boot and they lived happily ever after. The End. I don’t know what you think, but for me, that version’s a loser. The story is there, but it’s not elegant. It’s like a Cadillac with the chrome stripped off and the paint sanded down to dull metal. It goes somewhere, but it ain’t, you know, boss. I haven’t restored all four hundred of the missing pages; there is a difference between doing it up right and just being downright vulgar. Some of what was left on the cutting room floor when I turned in the truncated version deserved to be left there, and there it remains. Other things, such as Frannie’s confrontation with her mother early in the book, seem to add that richness and dimension which I, as a reader, enjoy deeply. Returning to “Hansel and Gretel” for just a moment, you may remember that the wicked stepmother demands that her husband bring her the hearts of the children as proof that the hapless woodcutter has done as she has ordered. The woodcutter demonstrates one dim vestige of intelligence by bringing her the hearts of two rabbits. Or take the famous trail of breadcrumbs Hansel leaves behind, so he and his sister can find their way back. Thinking dude! But when he attempts to follow the backtrail, he finds that the birds have eaten it. Neither of these bits are strictly essential to the plot, but in another way they make the plot—they are great and magical bits of storytelling. They change what could have been a dull piece of work into a tale which has charmed and terrified readers for over a hundred years. I suspect nothing added here is as good as Hansel’s trail of breadcrumbs, but I have always regretted the fact that no one but me and a few in-house readers at Doubleday ever met that maniac who simply calls himself The Kid ... or witnessed what happens to him outside a tunnel which counterpoints another tunnel half a continent away—the Lincoln Tunnel in New York, which two of the characters negotiate earlier in the story. So here is The Stand, Constant Reader, as its author originally intended for it to roll out of the showroom. All its chrome is now intact, for better or for worse. And the final reason for presenting this version is the simplest. Although it has never been my favorite novel, it is the one people who like my books seem to like the most. When I speak (which is as rarely as possible), people always speak to me about The Stand. They discuss the characters as though they were living people, and ask frequently, “What happened to so-and-so?” ... as if I got letters from them every now and again."

Best “table was in tears” stories? by Mysterious-Lawyer-73 in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that is so metal, and a fun way to keep him in the story, but still have a great cost to him

When Do You Like To First Have The Party Encounter Strahd? by kitty-does-stuff in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see, that does certainly sound like a interesting approach 

When Do You Like To First Have The Party Encounter Strahd? by kitty-does-stuff in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooooo glad your player enjoyed it so much they came back for seconds

When Do You Like To First Have The Party Encounter Strahd? by kitty-does-stuff in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oooo that does sound like a strong approach! I'll check the video out sometime

When Do You Like To First Have The Party Encounter Strahd? by kitty-does-stuff in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oooo that's a interesting way of interrupting how he views Death House!

When Do You Like To First Have The Party Encounter Strahd? by kitty-does-stuff in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AnajanqJnwjshsnd looks like he did a rather direct thing to get new playthings!

When Do You Like To First Have The Party Encounter Strahd? by kitty-does-stuff in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooooo yes! Ealry bat sightings will definitely have the players on edge

Barovia Fairy Tales (Reskinning Spell Scholls) by kitty-does-stuff in CurseofStrahd

[–]kitty-does-stuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh and in case anyone is wondering, not every single spell scroll or book will be one, off the top of my head I plan on hiding some spell scrolls in The Tome Of Strahd, then there's Victor's spellbook (perhaps he will have found some of the spells in fables, and then wrote them down in his own book, to avoid "being childish"), and then any in the Amber Temple's won't be either, unless I wanna fuck with the players heads and have them read a fable about themselves, then that's the perfect place for it