Curse of Strahd | DMs Guide | Krezk Special Events
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Krezk has some fun and some not so fun things going on in town. Lets dive into them and see what we can do to make this place come to life!
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0:00 Intro
1:00 Something Old
6:40 Something New
9:10 Something Borrowed
23:30 Something Blue - เกม
In my campaign Ireena had experienced traumatizing events. Enough for her to have flashback memories as Tatyana but not able to recollect how she knows them. Two sessions ago Ismark died and during her despair she saw herself falling off castle ravenloft to be free from Strahds grasp. For that moment on Ireena now believes she was this Tatyana. Gave her the "Haunted one" background.
I had Sergei come out of the pool as a soul and stands on the water. Sergei meets the players,who are now familiar with is background and who he is. This was a very torn scenario for my players to either let her go or have her stay. They let her go. The two embraced as her body turned into a soul like his. They dissappeared into the pool as the sun lord looked over all who was below him.
This is a very cool section of the book.
I like to play the whole "no soul" thing as a coping mechanism that they have created for themselves to explain why they can't bring themselves to care for their children, make emotional attachments, or bring themselves to have any sort of hope. In my campaign, there is no real curse preventing them from having any sort of emotions, but their situation is a hell of their own making.
now thats dark haha!
Very good, i want to run it like that but it's still a wip for now ^^
Lady Watcher won't move because of the whole, corpse in her bed situation.
I like doing the something blue right before the end fight with strahd . That way they don’t need to babysit ireena duirng the end battle, and ismark can help you and be fearless. Now he can die knowing he fullfilled his duty to his sister.
Man, what a tumultuous place Krezk is! I'm not crazy about the way Krezk is written from beginning to end but this, along with some of Lunch Break Heroes ideas on dealing with the Abbot I think makes the options here much deeper. Thanks for laying this out as written AND with your ideas to level it out and make it more interesting. I already have a character in my group who has mentioned becoming Baron of Krezk as their goal. Of course, the Abbot just simply needs to go for that to happen. How fascinating the options are when you see it laid out by people who have been through it several times. I think that one of the party becoming burgomaster of Krezk and another of Vallaki would be really interesting. Each member of the party becoming the leader of a settlement or place and eventually helping Strahd find his way out is interesting too.
that would be totally awesome! theres tons of late game and post game content to be had with becoming leaders here!
My party cannot get the bridal gown fron Lydia anymore. They caused unrest during the festival in Vallaki and the burgomaster and his family have been murdered by an angry mob. So? Go ahead and take the gown... well, yeah... their house burned down.
Your content is gold! I've been running strahd and i listen to your area breakdowns every week the day before I run the game while I prep. Thanks for the help 👍
thank you and no problem!
Getting that wedding dress will sure be an experience for my players, since
1) they spent all of their money to improve their armors and plate their weapons with silver when they were still in Vallaki
2) the rogue will be arrested on sight if he dares come back there, as he vandalized the wedding dress while exploring the mansion on his own...
2 years later, I’m listening to them all back to back to prep. Thanks for all the hard work dude!
The dress, IT'S ALIVE
This helps so much! My players skipped right over Valkaki after hearing about Krezk and decided to take the Wizard of Wines shipment to Krezk to be allowed in. The wedding gown special event gives me an excuse to lure them back to Valkaki XD lol
haha its great to get your players roped back in to a cool location whether they know it or not!
Maybe one of your best videos about CoS! Gave me a lot to think about. I am starting this campaign right now and we are starting from Krezk side of the map.
awesome stuff! theres tons of fun things you can do with switching sides of this adventure!
Thanks for your Series to CoS.
Your Style and your comments to improve or adapt certain things are very helpfull and inspiering.
I would be glad if you do this for other Campain Settings.
I have covered Tomb of Annihilation, Waterdeep Dragon Heist, Icewind Dale Rime of the Frostmaiden, Curse of Strahd, Candlekeep Mysteries, and The Wild Beyond the Witchlight!
Thanks for this!
Thanks for the video and explanation. Very interesting inspirations and tips :D
thank you so much!
So... funny thing....
My party is finally getting to Krezk only after having been everywhere else, and only ended up here because of Ravenloft’s teleporter.
They’ve cleared things up with the werewolves, obtained the dress, even attended the child birthing, but running a party full of spellcasters has thrown off the story somewhat. They have “fabricated” a second dress for the Abbot, the original being used for Blinsky and Lydia’s upcoming wedding. Lydia’s son teleported the three of them to Krezk when Vallaki was in revolt, but lost his legs in the process (Blinsky gave him prosthetic legs). Viktor will be instrumental in teleporting the party back the way they came back into the bowels of Ravenloft (as it’s the last place they need to finish) -but he’ll be using the wizard Mordenkainen’s help to make sure they retain all their limbs. Mordenkainen will also be leaving Viktor his “mansion” and spellbooks.
Anyway, where I’m stuck is this epic showdown in Krezk. They’ve decided to hide the townspeople with the werewolves during the dinner being hosted at the Abbey, where the Abbot will be presenting Strahd his “new bride”. It’s obviously going to go wrong, starting with the fact the Abbot has invited all the Burgomasters, the party, Ireena and Ismark. The party has for some reason or another decided they would troll Strahd by killing Ireena in front of him (Ismark doesn’t know), with the intent of resurrecting her once Strahd is gone.... except one of my players in secret has gained the knowledge from the Amber Temple to become a vampire. So he has decided he’s going to kill and devour her before the dinner away from the party, and send an illusion in her place. Having been with the party since the beginning, and having been routinely rescued from numerous encounters by the party, I’m allowing her to qualify as a “loved one” in regards to the vampire clause, but funny enough allows the character to somewhat safeguard himself against Strahd. If Strahd kills the player, he fulfills the second half of the clause, turning the player into a vampire lol.
One thing I may throw at them is a classic Frankenstein moment where the golem sees Ireena and in a jealous rage kills her during dinner. This might be enough for Strahd to lose his cool and attack the Abbot, and an epic encounter happens between the mongrel folk, vampire spawn, wereraven allies (accompanying the Martikovs) and the party. Allied Werewolves may also pile in to fight the mongrelfolk, accompanied by Esmerelda and Van Richten.
Once Strahd realizes he’s vastly outnumbered, he leaves Arrigal and Rahadin behind and flees to the castle. The party will attempt to resurrect the illusion and obviously fail, touching it revealing it to be an illusion.... Viktor will help the party give chase by teleporting the party straight to Ravenloft wear Mother Eva awaits them for one last “goodby speech”, but how do I keep the party from immediately suspecting the player of Ireena’s murder once the illusion wears off? He’s a transmutation wizard with illusion magic and the grey bag of tricks. He’s got plenty of options, but none that have “made sense” apart from making another illusion appear saying “hey I’m alive and well! Go on to fight Strahd without me!” (Her illusion would dissipate once the party leaves revealing to Ismark’s horror that Ireena is actually dead, and he could be the one to show up at Ravenloft and finally kill the murderous PC, completing the vampiric transformation).
Would I be missing out by letting them kill Ireena before going to Ravenloft? Is it bad storytelling to kill her and not let her reunite with Sergei? I haven’t yet read the full Ravenloft chapter, but Kasimir will be attending the party and will be trying to rescue his sister from the crypts. If that proves a problem, I may have the Werewolf imprisoned there help the party by eating Kasimir... haven’t decided yet lol
awesome stuff! it seems like a natural progression of things, so I say it sounds awesome! It sounds like this party is going to be one to die for haha!
@@NoFunAllowed heh... so I actually just had a thought after watching the “Lunch Break Heroes”.
Possibly have Abbot see and crave Ireena and not care about the dress anymore. Maybe set a trap for her to steal her face before the dinner. LOL MAYBE SHE SHOWS UP WITH IREENA’S FACE AT THE SAME TIME AS HER ILLUSION!!
-hooooly that’s funny
PC kills and drinks Ireena. Mongrel folk sniff out her body and bring it to the Abbot.
Dinner happens as planned, disguised Strahd sees Ireena’s illusion and waits for his moment. (Disguised as Vasili to attend dinner). The golem wearing her face sees Ireena’s illusion and rages. Ireena’s illusion “dies”, Strahd loses his cool, knows it’s a fake because he sees the golem, kills the golem, abbot Strahd and everyone fight, party goes what the hell!? Where is Ireena? Why does golem have her face and why is this one fake??? Shifts the suspicion from PC illusions to the Abbot.
@@praelorn that sounds incredible!
Great presentation as always man
You mentioned indefinite madness if someone is brought back from the dead in Barovia
How do you handle player character deaths ?
Are they brought back automatically with a curse or a burden ? Or handle it normally with back up characters?
I have a future video coming up on death in Barovia, but to simplify here, lvls 1-5 they get braught back with dark powers, after that, their on their own!
Instead of losing Ireena to Sergei, everything plays out the same Ireena disappears into the pool. Strahd is enraged and calls down the lighting but just as the lightning hits the water there is a burst of light from the pool and Ireena appears with a glow to her skin and a look of determination in her eye she raises the sun sword into the air as the translucent shimmering form of Sergei forms around Ireena a bright flash of sunlight engulfs Krezk the sunlight tearing into Strahd's flesh sending him flying, before Ireena collapses into unconsciousness. Ireena had to Sergei that she may have once been Tatyana but that she is not the woman he once loved. Sergei honors Ireena's wishes to send her back to the party and as a parting gift gives her the sun sword. With Strahd's attack Sergei releases the last of his spirits energy in one burst to send his brother back to his coffin and give Ireena and her friends a little more time. Ireena wakes up crying the next day knowing that Sergei sacrifice himself to save her.
So tragic!
@@NoFunAllowed this way you get the players with the thought that Ireena is gone and when Strahd appears that just cements it. Then boom Ireena is back and the players now have the sun sword. You get the emotional scene that the players would have missed if you do not want them to lose Ireena and it takes care of one of the weapons to face Strahd while I feel letting Ireena be her own woman and not Tatyana.