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@tombirmingham7033

27 күн бұрын

I very much appreciated your walk through. "you will die" is the vibe and i really liked how you noticed the psychic fatigue. i thought it was just me. Dealing with this all consuming evil is a big thing.

@HowtoRPG

27 күн бұрын

@@tombirmingham7033 You are welcome 😊 Thanks for the kind words.

"Please remember the DM is your friend." That's so important to keep in mind. My players have mentioned a time or two that they feel I'm trying to kill them, they have no idea the punches I've already pulled just to keep them alive. Barovia is just that hostile and miserable a land. But it's my favorite module.

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

Curse of Strahd really strains the player and dungeon master relationship. Part of the reason I will not run it again.

@christiantaylor3877

4 жыл бұрын

You have to play this game with players who trust you. Players who don't trust what their gym is doing do not appreciate the sheer amount of work we do for them. I've been lucky enough to run it with players who are really good role players and it's my favorite module hands down.

@FreddieMercurytheSharkWrestler

2 жыл бұрын

Hey I know this is old but I’m running CoS with good friends of mine and it’s exactly as you said. They are convinced I am trying to kill them and enjoy them dying. I enjoy seeing them struggle but I pull so many punches that they don’t even realize.

@komicczz3211

Жыл бұрын

@@FreddieMercurytheSharkWrestler I wanna play curse of strahd so bad, how did the campaign go

@FreddieMercurytheSharkWrestler

Жыл бұрын

@@komicczz3211 It's still going. They're maybe about 40% done the campaign. If you can, definitely find a group.

Generally what I've heard is that players won't get TPKed if they approach cautiously, roleplay, and avoid rushing straight into combat

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that helps.

@obsidian2404

2 жыл бұрын

Unsure if Strahd is the “Hardest” campaign but so long as you approach all the modules that way everything is totally do able. “Slow is fast and fast is slow.” Take your time, ask questions and be cautious of every encounter and take it one step at a time. You’ll come out the other end every time.

Fred is not kidding when he says a shorter play. Or a play session divided up by several breaks is a good idea! The tension he talks about is created both by the player's imaginations and a Dungeon Master doing his job. I have many times while running this adventure had my players tell me they are trembling or their hands are shaking! Great guide, and a great adventure that you will enjoy thoroughly I promise!

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for backing up my guide.

@dubiousdevil9572

Жыл бұрын

I love the long sessions

Me alone in a room, on a computer, with nobody else around, planning my character..... 8:28 LMAO Well damn lol

@Misspanda2020

3 жыл бұрын

Sameee 😂

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

You are always better to do the final character draft with the group, but research is fine.

When I played it we were a glamour bard, an arcane trickster rogue, a hunter ranger that died and after that we got a hexblade/battlemaster and my dex-build ancients paladin. We ran away A LOT until lvl7 and then (and only then) we started actually being able to stand our ground in most fights. When I DMd afterwards it... Yeah, there are things quite worse than death for the characters

@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

Your experience highlights a feature to the adventure. The players characters might be fleeing,scared or dying for much of the adventure, but eventually they will get Strahd and conquer Barovia.

Thank you for this! I am a player that will be playing soon and just wanted a general overview without spoilers so I can make sure my character that I'm building makes sense. I really appreciate this video!

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome. Have a great time :)

@Elementroar

4 жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPG Likewise, Curse of Strahd is going to be my 2nd longhaul campaign so I just wanted a non-spoiler peek into what I can expect and what I should build my character for. Thanks for this :)

My buddies and I are several sessions into this great campaign as our maiden voyage! You're not kidding when you say it's not easy. I think someone has died or come close to dying nearly every single session (I blame booze lol). Nevertheless, still a very fun campaign that definitely puts your teamwork to the test. Liked for "down in the doobly doo" shoutout to MCDM!

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

All the best with your game group. Persistence beats resistance.

Taking notes is essential particularly for a sandbox adventure. Thanks for the vid mate :)

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome :)

About to start this module for a new group. This only proved to boost both mine and my player's excitement through the roof. Thank you so much for this!

@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

lol. You are welcome. At the end of each moth I have a Curse of Strahd Live Stream Q&A and focused topic.

Everything he talked about just makes me excited to play

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

Then it's the right adventure for you.

@Bain6969

4 жыл бұрын

It really is THE best campaign i have played. I recommend it

@whocares1364

3 жыл бұрын

I'm starting it tomorrow and I'm so excited for it

@sebcigala273

3 жыл бұрын

This is gonna be my first campaign

@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

@@sebcigala273 All the best. Make smart choices.

This was awesome. Besides my DM, I’m the only one who has DnD experience. And I’m usually the one talking to the party, fun ways to use abilities so the DM can focus on story telling. This helped

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

I am glad it was useful Patrick. Thanks for the kind words :)

I played my first session today and it was great! Normally I DM but I finally got to play again and its just awesome. I keep a notebook and used your tips. I checked and looted about everything in the death house, giving stuff to the party as I went through it. My character is a tiefling cleric... With 8 AC after I lost all of my equipment. But when I was in the haunted house, I picked up plate armor and a shield so thats great

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Have a great time.

@Bain6969

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like those were a gift from ur dm. I gave my players nothing extra in Death House and killed 1 of them 3 times (beyond saving) before they managed to escape.

@jeffw7382

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bain6969 But there's a shield and long sword almost immediately upon entering the house, and loads of other stuff in the house. The point of taking their stuff is to make them scavenge.

My session 0 is today, and this video got me so exited! Thank you for this great guide!

@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words. Have a great time.

long rests can be difficult to come by in a dangerous land going to sleep in the inn is usually a handwave to full HP; in a horror campaign, not so much... if you can get some recovery that comes on a short-rest it may very well save your lives

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

For sure.

oh man my party really fucked up on the strong connection between players point, we are a party of 6, where 3 of us had a really strong connection while the other 3 had no connection to any of the other characters. It created so many big conflicts within the group based on things that happened in Barovia, and by the end the party were so split up that my character would have no issue sacrificing half the party to save the ones she actually cared about.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

That is a shame. I am sure next time that will be something people don't repeat. Every group takes time to figure out the best way to play.

My character going into this has the Keen Mind feat so technically speaking the DM is my notes :) (keen mind, among other things, grants your character a perfect memory of everything they’ve seen or heard within the past month)

@xAnonymousComedia

4 жыл бұрын

I know this is a joke. But honestly, as a DM there's nothing more obnoxious than players who show with 0 interest in the game and remember nothing of what happened.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Keen Mind is an odd Feat. I am sure your Dungeon Master loves the opportunity to take notes for you.

As a very experienced player, my DM let me have Strahd as a warlock patron, the Great old one. The character was unaware of his nature and would have eventually multiclassed into paladin.

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

lol. Blummy.

@avis199

Жыл бұрын

Why Great Old One? I mean I guess it sortof makes sense with the mind control stuff, but I'm just surprised you didn't choose Undead for Strahd. But to each their own I guess

I appreciate this player's guide video! I also like that you used Pathfinder 2e art.

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Garrett. I played Pathfinder, just not the new version.

Welcome to first edition! Life is hard, nothing is balanced, know your capacity to fight and know when to run, and as always the forest must burn!

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

lol

Thanks sir 🙏 going to show it to new players, going to run it again for third time. Love this adventure and yes it is challenging

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome. Thank you.

I've been playing strahd for about 7 months with my group. I wished we'd all watched this video before hand. The DM has done a great job, but the players all made seperate characters who had no connection to barovia, because our DM thought that was ok. We've made it through most of the campaign, but the big problem I've seen is that we've got zero reason to care about barovia. Our DM basically dropped a lot of the horror aspects because they weren't hitting right. i don't think anyone knew what to expect from the campaign at the begining. We're not new players, but I didn't research it as I wanted to be surprised. There's been like two people in Barovia we actually liked. Everyone else has turned out to be awful, so we just started assuming EVERYONE was awful. Our characters only motivations have been to escape which eventually just became kill strahd to escape. Day to day gameplay has been fun, but I really don't like the setting or the campaign. I think it would have been a lot better if we were barovians trying to fight against strahd, or someone with some sort of personal reason to want to be against strahd. Just being a "good guy" doesn't help, because everyone in barovai is so awful.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience. The adventure is not for everyone.

@truffeltroll6668

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately that doesn't really work either. Escaping seems to be the only solution and for more connected characters that is a hard choice to make. The writing in this module is kinda bad and has a lot of issues that a good DM should fix before starting

Thank you for the video!

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome. All the best with your game.

My very first D&D experience was coming in as a group was finishing up CoS (before they moved on to a new campaign that I was going to join), and they handed me the sheet for a character whose player wasn't there, and expected me to just pick it up and start playing, with very little guidance or help from the other players. Worst gaming experience of my life. There were a lot of problems with that group, but that should have been my first clue.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Sounds rough.

My group is the exact opposite from what you suggested. Two of the players are murder hobos who barely die. Their bizarre plans always seem to work. On the other hand, there is my friend and I who have the brains behind the party and yet die often. My character, a half elf cleric noblewoman, is who Strahd hates the most in the party as do most Barovians. My friend has even joked about me being the “perfect victim” because I am a cleric, of the nobility and a beautiful (conventionally attractive) half elf. We joke about how Strahd either wants to turn me or kill me so that the party will be less effective in our quest. This may also ring true considering our dm is my boyfriend. 😂

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

There is always an exception. Nice story. lol

@jillianh7565

2 жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPG My dm says that despite me being the classic victim, I am quite powerful and that’s why Strahd targets me often. Our party consists of a Dragonborn fighter who has PTSD, a human sailor who is drunk 90% of the time, a living vampire with anxiety (think Morbius) and me, a half elf cleric noblewoman who is both wise and naïve at the same time. I am also the only girl in the adventuring party. To add to everything our characters act more like coworkers than friends.

@dubiousdevil9572

Жыл бұрын

Your DM needs to step it up then

@jillianh7565

Жыл бұрын

@@dubiousdevil9572 Oh he did. As of now, my character has lost just about everything she cares about including her kingdom, most of her family and more. You see my boyfriend (GM) decided to bring the politics of the Sword Coast into the game. My character is the heir to Neverwinter. She was sent to Barovia as a political pawn similarly to the situation Sansa Stark was dealing with in Game of Thrones. The rest of the party have their own troubles including a kidnapped Dragonborn child, figuring out how to not be a monster etc. What makes my character’s situation more interesting is that she has the attention of Alexander Von Roeyen, (another PC) a vampire and younger brother to Strahd and Sergei Von Zarovich. In the approximately six months since Alexander has joined the party he has gone from being a chaotic vampire to an honorable prince. His relationship with the party is complex and his relationship with Zelda (my character) is the most in depth in the game. The other vampires Evelyn and Anthony also have undergone massive character development particularly because of Zelda. In a way my story has an uncanny resemblance to that of Tatyana, though this wasn’t my intention. 😊

Thanks for the warning! I'll try running something else first

@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome.

Thanks man, the video was awesome

@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome :)

The advice to make characters to resist turning to evil might be taken wrong because it is part of the engagement to struggle with the bleak and hopeless

i am excited now! i love a challenge and I have a CG character ... so that will be fun.

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

Have fun with your game.

Thanks for the video super helpful

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful, Lily.

Spoiler free guides for players are remarkably rare, but focus on dm assistance.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Yes.

Thanks for this guide Sir, would share to my players

@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help, Oscar. You have run this adventure so many times. Hard to imagine I can help you.

@AgoodITguy

3 жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPG hahaha, im going to learn new element because im going to use other tarokka reading

@AgoodITguy

3 жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPGi think this adventure has so much content and one can run different depending on the outcome of the group...i love this adventure

Good vid. Thanks for this.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome 😊

I am long years player of Vampire the Masquerade and this is going my 2nd adventure of DnD ever. I am hyped a lot after this video. Only think worries me is that I am not experienced, but we will see...

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you have done your training ;)

@truffeltroll6668

Жыл бұрын

This is a severe downgrade from the vtm chronicles

I disagree with the idea that the players can’t meet for the first time in a tavern. Some inter-player conflict can be great for RP and it fits into dark the world of CoS. My current CoS group started this way and the uneasy alliance they’ve built and worked on has been brilliant. That said, I’d agree with your statement if it’s a set of new players

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

We can disagree, groups are not all the same.

@jeffw7382

3 жыл бұрын

Having them be strangers having to survive when they first enter "The House" really plays to the horror themes, ups the tension and uncertainty, and leads to a lot of great roleplay.

@dubiousdevil9572

Жыл бұрын

Yeah in my CoS campaign some of our best RP we've ever had has been character/party conflict. Hell just last night my paladin freaked out on the wizard because he tried sacrificing an innocent person to get away from a monster, literally pushed somebody running away with us in front of the monster. My paladin insulted him, called him a coward, etc... about ready to just leave the party Afterwards everybody applauded the RP and we had an amazing session. People just gotta learn to separate game world from real world and not take it so seriously, it's not that hard.

Yep we got out of a very dangerous encounter by distracting the enemies and running away; no one died XD ... our characters are like a lil found family

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Good :)

Thanks for the video! I've just finished my 2-year tenure being the DM in my group (we just wrapped up Tomb of Annihilation last week) and one of the group is stepping up to run CoS, and I finally get to be a player! I was wondering a few things since I'm currently making my character, regarding background. I haven't looked into Barovia as a setting because I want to avoid spoilers, but from what I can tell it's in some sort of dimension of its own outside Faerûn, but it's still technically in the FR setting? As in, people can end up there finding themselves trapped. We played the Death House as a one-shot last year (gave me the week off DMing lol) and our characters all appeared in the grounds of the house, which was surrounded by mist that magically prevented you leaving, and then Strahd appears at the conclusion to welcome you to Barovia. We've been told to make different characters, that we can't play the ones we used in the Death House, and I trust the DM has his reasons for that! So, making a new character, I hadn't even considered making them from Barovia. I was going to have them somehow find themselves there and be unable to escape, and meet the other characters in session 1. As I said, I don't know enough about Barovia to have a character be a native, and I'd be too wary of spoilers to research it.

As a new DM and lifelong Castlevania fan I want to run this sooo bad! But I DO understand it's probably not the best thing to. Probably getting the book cheap right now, read it and play it when our group has a lot more experience.

Being a bodyguard in this campaign is what I'm currently dealing with. I was not warned of what I was walking into but as an Artificer, Warforged....This is starting to play a lot like Goblin Slayer or Doom. I must protect my master.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

All the best with your game.

@avis199

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully you enjoyed it atleast, assuming you're campaign has ended by now after 2 years

@grendelkhan3082

Жыл бұрын

@@avis199 Oh yes. But we did not succeed the campaign. Tragedy. But I did my job loyally until the end. I used myself as a shield countless times including spike pits. Almost died many times.

this is the first DnD 5e game i'm gonna ever play I'm gonna make a tiefling warlock with charisma main stat. I don't know what i'm doing but eh i'm sure i'll be okay with my party helping me learn

@Klaital1

4 жыл бұрын

Heh I just started playing in a new CoS campaign week ago and am also playing Tiefling Warlock.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

I hope all went well.

Ive always felt COS set a good standard for good playersense during sessions and should be the bar of expectation, not an outlier.

Not me, a lv 4 cleric, running off to Strahd's castle because he took Lucien, who I made my adoptive dad. By myself. I'm rerolling a new character right now, preemptively, in case I die.

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

Fair enough. That is a good idea.

Thanks, Fred!

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome. Sorry for the slow reply, KZread is sending nothing to me.

i threw a horse at a mugger, my dm was like .... how do i calculate horse damage

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

lol. Thank for the story.

so far on my group's venture - breezed through the death house that it completely ruined our expectations from then on lol - the term "the dark souls of dnd" has been thrown around - we've essentially almost had someone die or be close to dying every session - we've ran away basically every time since - my party have been kicked out of vallaki - about every week someone of random gets close to assuming the dm is trying to kill us, only for the dm in question to admit at the end of the session they pulled about 300 strings to save us or at least not get us to run into a brick wall - everyone has made at least 3 character sheets as backup

Lmao I'm a newer player in an experienced group except the dungeon master, it's their first time. This will be so much fun!

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

All the best.

20:38 awwwwee its strix!!!

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

lol

My fiance and I are doing this just me and him. I've made 4 characters and one of those is my main. Out of combat he will control the rest of the party, but it control all 4 during combat. I prefer doing it like this over with a party, I don't have the patience for other people 😅

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

All the best with your game.

i am playing a gold dragon bloodling scorcerer who is a changling... i have 20 hp at level 2, i crit the first enemy we fought with a firebolt and melted off its groin pad... i have only 3 less hp than our ac tanks hp

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

All the best.

My party and I shall be starting CoS soon, by the looks of it we are all already "dark side" so that side of the story could be fun. We are the new evil to overthrow the current lol

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

lol. The new Sith have arrived.

Jeez a year long campaign I’m a fairly experienced dm and my party made it to Vallaki already whoops Any more tips on how to trap the players or put them in more stressful situations?

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Ignore the adventure advice, the DMG, WotC and anyone else on KZread. Crank up the threats till the players feel it. Homebrew. Good luck.

I very good but vague anticipation of the campaign. Forewarned is forearmed.

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike. A difficult video to make.

i have a question, if a party member is drawn to the evil side, and he is now a follower of strahd as you said, how will the game work? Will the player of that character actually get seperated from us, but plays his character without us knowing what he does. Or will his character be taken away from him, and is controlled by the DM? So that player has to create a new character.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the Dungeon Masters decision and what is discussed with the group of people playing.

@viiy9429

8 ай бұрын

The guide gives actual tips for that. Like not many but idk I read through thr adventure a few times now (not played it yet currently preparing as dm) if you wanna know what I personally as a to-be-strahd-running-dm read spoilery below: Strahd gets bored by it. He finds the characters to be enticing and interesting when they enter but he gets quickly bored by "his little play things"

Because this is a reboot of a first edition module, players and DMs should NOT go into this lightly. CoS is a dark, dreary mess from a significantly more skewed point in the game's history. The deck is 100% deliberately stacked against your players. Some of this is intentional, some of it is a slog due to poor revamps. The story is heavily focused on, and... Well. Being honest, by nature, 5e is designed to drive combat; but CoS is not at all keen on this, as most of the content is hit and run Scooby Doo or tacky B rated madness. It CAN be a rich gothic adventure, I'd You have slow paced or level headed players. This is NOT a module for XP based levelling. Combat is not likely to be fair, or even viable to win at. Milestone leveling works much, much better because of all the above points. Absolutely do not spend silver. Trust me on this. CoS lends itself well to multiclassing. You'll always need more resources, so choose carefully. Given that it's a gothic survival horror, expect armies of undead. If you're new, bring radiant or fire damage to the table. Always bring light somehow (spells, torches, etc.) Find a way to barricade yourself.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I think I'll be fine against Strahd if he tries to shift my alignment, I'm Chaotic Impure (6x6 alignment).

@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

lol

I thought about making a Variant Human, with the Healer Feat., with the Hermit Background, and be a Path of the Zealot Barbarian. Is this is a good idea?

@poundtownlegend1564

4 жыл бұрын

Why the healer feat? I feel like while it might add some form of role play flavor (not that I know what your going for) ,but its pretty situational. I also feel like there are a decent number of other feats that might not be thematic in what you want ,but would make going variant human worth it.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Try it out.

Well, now I get why friends give me that look/sound when I mention that my dm wants to run us newbies through it. At time of writing our session 0 will be in a few hours and this is already sounding like a Reddit horror story lol.

@HowtoRPG

7 ай бұрын

Ask lots of questions about the adventure and what to expect. Honestly, reddit horror stories are not to be considered fact.

@JohnTalbane87

7 ай бұрын

@@HowtoRPG will do. Thank you for posting a spoiler free video, I’m not a fan of meta gaming but like I said my more experienced friends had me a little concerned. We’ve already had 2 players drop about a week ago which kinda put me on edge.

"Modern movies just go for jump skiiers. The jump skier isn't that scary"

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

Yep.

Strahd campaign: "Hey! Come to the Dark Side! We have cookies! My Rogue: "No thanks, I am already lawful evil!"

soo...if i play a LE character..the dm will try to twist my character into good? xD

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

Unlikely you will get to start with LE.

How would an artificer(current UA) do in this campaign?

@JoakimWaern

4 жыл бұрын

It works great! Barovia has a bit of the steampunk atmosphere (with a gothic touch) that surrounds the artificer. The Artificer Gnome in my campaign has heard of the inventor who's clockwork man haunts the castle Ravenloft and wants to find out more.

@Cbev1994

4 жыл бұрын

@@JoakimWaern fascinating. What what was the subclass? I was thinking battle smith, myself

@ThePoketroller

4 жыл бұрын

What is the optimal party number for this? The plan is just for us to have 2 players other than the dm

@Cbev1994

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePoketroller 4 is the general recommended size but there are NPCs in CoS that can fill party gaps

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Just try it.

You sound exactly like the youtuber Nilaus. Are you a different person?

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

I have turned myself into Agent Smith from the Matrix. I am everyone. lol.

Might be the DM... might be something else. Its been too easy so far in 5e compared to the original Ravenloft.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Yes the 5E version is easier.

Some good points, but I don’t necessarily agree with groups designing their characters together. While there are technical advantages, its not a computer game. Flaws in the group create role playing and its a role playing game. As said there will be character deaths and party changes so it the group will evolve through the campaign.

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. There are reasons beyond technical advantages when building characters together, that have more to do with managing player and party conflict.

I don't like that you tell people not to split the party. It a group wants to, it should be allowed. It's an element of horror. Seems too meta for me.

@BiologyIsHot

4 жыл бұрын

Or to tell them to avoid being evil.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

You can disagree with me but it changes nothing about my advice.

Ha my character has been chaotic evil from the beginning

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Good luck.

Okay, i won't hold back min maxing my character then

@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

No I wouldn't do that, lol.

And then there's me, who would run CoS 1000 times because it's that great and I love horror. At the end of the day it's game and your decisions have no effect on the real world lol

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

lol

Why the pathfinder artwork?

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Why not? It gets the message across.

@jaimetheone9150

Жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPG would it be too spoilery use COS art?

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

@@jaimetheone9150 Maybe, but I had used up all the Curse of Strahd artwork on 23 other videos. lol

@jaimetheone9150

Жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPG OIC variety. We're gonna be forced to use stable diffusion.

@jaimetheone9150

Жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPG Do you have any class-subclass suggestions to go through this nightmare? I'm somehow willingly entering that demonic realm in a couple of weeks.

If this is the best 5e has to offer, I will stay with the Pathfinder APs. It's not horror. It lacks everything that makes horror that.

What accent is this :)

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

New Zealand.

@yototrash

Жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPG beautiful

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

@@yototrash Thanks 😊

I just wanna go back in time and say to myself, don't play this!

@HowtoRPG

2 жыл бұрын

lol...

I really wanted to enjoy this adventure but after one TPK and three individual character deaths (other party members, I only died once in the TPK) I just couldn’t subject myself to it any longer. Heard tons of great reviews for the campaign but honestly it felt like a shallow D&D knock off of Dracula and every NPC/combat encounter did an excellent job of making the party feel unwelcome and feeble. I’ve not finished it and I’ll never touch the campaign again.

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

The adventure is not for everyone. Everything you describe is the designers intent. It requires a DM to approach character death very differently to the traditional, make a new character.

@toshomni9478

4 жыл бұрын

It is a meat grinder but can be lots of fun if approached with the right attitude.

@kestrel1234

4 жыл бұрын

@@RW77777777 Name calling? After 35 years? C'mon.

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@HowtoRPG

3 жыл бұрын

Don't read to much into it.

Lol I fail to see how a 56 minute video player’s guide isn’t a spoiler free environment.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

Did I really present Spoilers. I see more people posting Spoilers in the comments that I delete if I see them.

4:36 in This version of D&D does not play like a video game😂 😂😂😂😂😂 Jesus, is that what 5th edition did to D&D?

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

It start at 3e.

@mpalfadel2008

Жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPG I’ve been collecting since 1st edition Which was 3e? Was that the version that included the expansion for Dark Sun?

@mpalfadel2008

Жыл бұрын

@@HowtoRPG thanks for the reply btw

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

@@mpalfadel2008 You are welcome.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

@@mpalfadel2008 Not sure what you mean.

Strahd is only hard to kill, if you're bad. Played a Paladin who killed him in one round of combat, not even truly mid maxing. We just knew what we were doing and knew how to cooperate in character. We had a life cleric with Warding Bond, ranger who's favorite enemy was undead, an arcane trickster and a divination wizard. The module thinks dnd characters are scared of zombies and werewolves but because the module is poorly written (so much of the module is very pointless and has no relation to Strahd, and none of the quests gives you any motivation to do anything, in fact the module discourages you from doing any side quest except because you need exp and levels, which is bad writing). People say that you can't fight everything but with honest characters, no homebrew and no rolling for stats, its very easy and that's excluding initiative rolls and good/bad rolls. New players will have a problem but experienced players will just steamroll this module unless the DM heavily modifies the module. Again, Strahd is a bitch, disrespect him all you want, once you get your mcguffins which are not hard to find then disrespect him all you want, what's he going to do? Kill you because he can't do that.

@HowtoRPG

Жыл бұрын

We can disagree. Experienced players will find it easier, but there are a lot of factors.

I appreciate your work and all of those like you But I HATE anything after D&D 2nd edition I’m probably alone in this opinion Thanks for the vid Cheers

@HowtoRPG

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome.

@kestrel1234

4 жыл бұрын

Why even go on a 5e vid?

I just joined a game in progress, I'm 2 sessions in and my fighter is already about to die 🥲

@HowtoRPG

6 ай бұрын

With any luck your fighter will stay dead if they die. Death is just another door 🚪