#Curse of strahd dark gifts how to#

We don't have to worry about the hypocrisy of not killing characters the minute they step into Barovia. He's powerful but his goal isn't to just wipe the characters out. Based on his motivations and potential interactions with the characters, he's almost the perfect D&D villain. This article, however, will cover some larger overall thoughts and ideas on this large campaign adventure. These each cover specific pieces of the adventure and offer tools to help run Curse of Strahd. D&D 5e Bonds Based On Fiasco-Style Relationships (includes Curse of Strahd examples).Pool Table Dungeon Mastering in Barovia.

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#Curse of strahd dark gifts how to#

These ideas aren't for everyone and likely each DM will have their own thoughts on how to run it. This isn't a deep dive into the adventures. Instead, we're going to cover a few big thoughts and a few concepts that might make running Curse of Strahd more fun. For that reason, we're not writing in-depth coverage of the entire Curse of Strahd adventure.

The same is definitely true with his excellent guide to the Curse of Strahd also available on the DM's Guild. With more recent adventures, Sean McGovern over at the Power Score has written fantasic guides of each of the Wizards of the Coast published adventures that put our Sly Flourish chapter-by-chapter writeups to shame. When writing about the adventure Hoard of the Dragon Queen we here at Sly Flourish wrote chapter-by-chapter deep dives of the whole book to help DMs run this adventure. New to Sly Flourish? Start Here! Running Curse of Strahd