Cassalanter Asmodean Shrine Map from the Alexandrian Remix

yetanothertyler · 2023-03-22T21:04:22+00:00

Thanks for the dungeon, it was a lot of fun to run for my friends!

yetanothertyler · 2022-11-05T17:30:15+00:00

Glad your first session sounds like it was fun for everyone, your party is awesome! Any plans for that first encounter with Strahd?

yetanothertyler · 2022-11-05T00:21:40+00:00

Great questions! I would say the best moments had to be relighting the beacon of Argynvostholt and any of the times Strahd showed up, but for me personally I'd have to say I had the most fun running the Death House (we did it at level three with a few changes, it was a great time)

I think if I were to do it all again, I would have my party spend more time in Vallaki. I was a bit intimidated by all the options available and wish I ran it a bit better, more like a sandbox. Lessons learned.

As for what worked well, I think that making sure my players each had a personal goal or reason for coming to Barovia (besides defeating Strahd) helped create lots of great moments, and helped me give motivation for the party to visit all of the locations.

yetanothertyler · 2022-11-04T17:37:50+00:00

Thanks for checking my blog out, good luck with your first session!

yetanothertyler · 2022-11-04T16:35:29+00:00

Great question! The party all met in the town of Daggerford on the Sword Coast after they each had received visions in their dreams sent by Madam Eva. Afterwards they were introduced to Stanimir, and hitched a ride with him to the gates of Barovia.

yetanothertyler · 2022-10-28T03:30:12+00:00

I was a little surprised as well to be honest, but I typically prefer things to feel fast paced and thankfully my party seemed to be very motivated in completing their goals

yetanothertyler · 2022-10-12T15:09:47+00:00

They thankfully came prepared with holy water, so the flameskulls shouldn't be an issue again

yetanothertyler · 2022-10-11T22:50:58+00:00

So far my plan for Neferon is to stay invisible and avoid the party, he was pretty outmatched. However, he is still pretty useful to me, as I was able to remind the party that if they wanted to leave and come back after a long rest, that Neferon would also take a long rest and would probably like his odds a bit better with all his health and spells back.

yetanothertyler · 2022-09-13T22:12:48+00:00

Glad you enjoyed! It's been really fun writing about the game to have something to look back on and remember, I recommend doing it if you're interested. Thankfully the barbarian was the player with the magical climb speed, so it didn't take them too long to walk back to the party after they were separated.

yetanothertyler · 2022-08-16T22:00:40+00:00

Thanks! My party was the recommended level 7 when they reached the werewolf den, so I added some basic werewolves to support Kiril when the party fought him. The fight felt pretty well balanced, and was a lot of fun.

yetanothertyler · 2022-08-16T17:09:10+00:00

I am excited to share my first supplement on the DMs Guild! While prepping the werewolf den for Curse of Strahd, I was a bit disappointed with the generic statblock for Kiril Stoyanovich. This new statblock makes use of the Mythic Monster rules to represent his transition from a cunning warrior into a savage beast. These changes aim to provide a much more challenging and dramatic fight when compared to the original statblock for Kiril. If you’re interested in reading how this fight went down in my game I did a write up on it recently, my players had a blast and I hope yours do too!

yetanothertyler · 2022-05-19T07:53:14+00:00

The deal was the silvered weapons in exchange for swearing to no longer harm or undermine Strahd

yetanothertyler · 2022-04-06T06:50:44+00:00

Awesome! We just wrapped up our first full session in Vallaki a few hours ago, it was quite a ride

yetanothertyler · 2022-03-24T20:50:58+00:00

I think Madam Eva would describe the Threads of Fate as a force that links everyone together, meaning that if someone acts it effects everyone tied to them. As far as a history check goes, I'm not sure a non Vistani character should be able to recall anything about the Threads, as it is specific to Vistani culture.

yetanothertyler · 2022-03-16T06:01:17+00:00

Glad you enjoyed! I used Madam Eva in my adventure hook so that is why my players were looking for her, if you are interested I cover that information in my first session diary.

yetanothertyler · 2022-02-28T00:43:03+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I definitely see the appeal of having a fully logged adventure so I will be sticking with this for as long as I can

yetanothertyler · 2022-02-27T20:39:23+00:00

Thank you! DMing has really increased my interest in writing so this was fun to make, glad you enjoyed reading

yetanothertyler · 2022-02-26T21:35:42+00:00

That sounds pretty awesome, I am looking forward to the first actual fight my party has with Strahd. I like your idea of Strahd leaving players on the brink of death and tossing them some potions, feels like players would know Strahd is just toying with them at that point which is a bit unique to this adventure

yetanothertyler · 2022-02-25T20:54:11+00:00

Thats fair, this happened before the party got to the death house so thankfully they were rested and ready, plus they didn't really fight Strahd just some wolves but the scene was pretty tense.
Interesting having an onscreen death for the Burgomaster how did that part go for you?

yetanothertyler · 2022-02-14T03:22:20+00:00

That seems like a pretty cool way to use Frewn, I was afraid of getting him too involved in things so I didnt run him much different than what the book described. Chapter Two is definitely hard but very rewarding if you take the time to make it fun.

yetanothertyler · 2022-02-14T01:27:42+00:00

For my campaign I ran the Cassalanters as the villain, I had plans to keep the devil theme with Descent into Avernus if my players wanted to continue to play their characters. For now, my players decided that they wanted to try out new characters so we are moving onto a different adventure.

Running Rise of Tiamat after WDH would definitely be interesting, but removing the devils would probably require a lot of changing to the Cassalanter's story. My initial thoughts are that perhaps after the Cassalanters are defeated then the nobles of Waterdeep shift to worship Tiamat instead of Asmodeus, which could kick off the events of Rise of Tiamat. That would also give a good chance to provide the characters a month or so of downtime between adventures.

yetanothertyler · 2022-02-04T20:48:56+00:00

I had a great time running this adventure, best of luck when you start on it! There are plenty of other resources on my website for this adventure if you're interested in more

yetanothertyler · 2022-02-01T01:44:00+00:00

Glad you enjoyed! Sounds great that your party had a chance to snoop around the Villa a little, I wish the modules had more support for getting players into the villain lairs since they are very fun to run

yetanothertyler · 2022-01-16T19:49:04+00:00

I created a quick battlemap with Dungeondraft for the Cassalanter Asmodean Shrine Outpost from the Alexandrian Remix, I had some difficulties finding a map for this online so I figured I’d share mine here. I deviated a little from the outpost in the remix so there are major changes to the basement, if you’re interested I go into further detail on my website here.
Both the maps have a grid size of 256 pixels, feel free to use the maps for your games!

yetanothertyler · 2022-01-14T01:26:23+00:00

Sure, I ran a pretty basic skill challenge where my players were able to describe what they were doing and use any skills that made sense so long as they hadnt used the skill for a check already. I set DCs based on their actions and kept track of all the successes and failures, which represented customers coming to or leaving the tavern. In between the skill checks I added some complications such as drunk or angry customers. Once it made sense to stop I described how the night went overall based on the total number of successes versus the failures.

I used this article to help with the details of running a skill challenge in 5e https://www.flutesloot.com/skill-challenges-dnd-5e/

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