High sense of mystery and horror. A quick adventure to run that doesn't feel like it has no substance. Scott M. Run this quite a few times now. Was a good one for my son to start DMing at the local store. It's quite straight forward, but has some interesting elements to it that can throw the players in a loop. William F. This adventure almost always runs long. The adventurers are new to Barovia in this module. The RP in the village will take more than the 15 min allowed if you don't totally railroad it.
It's fun to play up the cuteness of the wolf pup to make the chara [ I ran this at a convention and we had fun with it, although I definitely recommend running this when you aren't on a time crunch.
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Chris Lindsay. Alan Patrick. Matthew Sernett. Travis Woodall. Wizards of the Coast. Suits of the Mists. Fans: 0 Become a Fan. Record a Play. Nick: PDF Version. Size: Description Edit History. From the introduction: Strange things are afoot in the Moonsea. See more later. In the meantime, hope this helps. Thank you for the information : I'm sometimes retentive about grammar and spelling, but it sounds like it won't cause me too much angst.
For those asking for updates, please note that since we are not individually published, OBS uploads our updates on a specific schedule. I run AL at a store where it's very popular so I'll wind up buying stuff pretty much no matter what. That said, I think it's worth seeing how the update process works.
The author of this responded to enough angry tweets, emails, and reviews on here that they produced edits and uploaded them fairly quickly. It's possible that other authors will either learn a lesson from that or do the same. So it may be worth it to wait a week, see the reviews, and then decide to buy them. I agree that if you are expected to pay for adventure league material it should be of better quality as far as continuity of story and detail like Aya's hair color changes from previous episodes even though the rest of the block text is copy and paste.
Proofreading is a must to ensure critical information like the number of goblins is included and correct. I will most likely buy the next module since the adventurers are now in Barovia and the continuity of the Moonsea area is no longer important. It will be interesting to see how consistent to the original material they stay for the village of Barovia and the surrounding area.
Quick clarification: the author did not reply. A member of the AL staff replied. I agree with other reviewers about the lack of proof-reading and confusion over goblins, orcs and orogs. I'll be giving my players full xp despite there being no orog.
I'm also disappointed in the story logic of pursuing 4 different people some a day away, one a day and a half away and yet always catching up with them. It's not a show-stopper but it certainly doesn't help with immersion into the story.
When I wrote a 4E adventure for organised play a few years ago the amount of attention to detail from my editors was huge painfully so. Hopefully it will be fun to play but it doesn't bode well for the quality of the rest of the series. I've never been one to read real world stuff into fantasy stuff as far letting it bother me.
At some point, with as much world history we have, a written group of people will be similar to what's been seen in the real world. It's going to happen, intentional or not The problem of comparing the Romani to this adventure is what most people know comes from the crappy reality tv show, which no reality tv shows portrays people in a good light, most on that show don't show the best judgment to every day life issues.
I wanted to respond to Aron B. He is absolutely spot on that the analog for the Romani people are portrayed very negatively in this adventure. I can assure you that that is almost certainly going to be the case throughout almost all of season 4, just like it is in Curse of Strahd. The Vistani are a group of wanderers very clearly inspired by the Romani. The distrust, superstition of them, their magical abilities, different cultural norms, names, and nomadic lifestyle are all based on them.
They have been a key part of Ravenloft since its inception and play a pivotal role in the plot due to their connection with Strahd. I won't go into spoilers but I will say that they intentionally use the stereotypes to establish that the Vistani are not trusted by the villagers, that the lack of trust isn't completely unwarranted, and to make the ones that are different stand out.
Given how integral they are to the story of Strahd, I don't know how a Ravenloft module could be made without including them See more and I don't know how they could be included without being at least kind of offensive. The most generous thing that I can say is that it is worth noting where the story takes place. The Vistani do not represent all nomads in the realms. They are the groups of Vistani that are deeply connected to Ravenloft, the Domain of Dread.
The entire demiplane is an extension of the will of an extremely evil being that they have been connected to for generations. It is also worth noting that the most recent season had a theme in the tier 1 track of the dangers of racism. The big bad was a leader who implemented the law of humanity which was basically just s Germany. Everyone teamed up and defeated him. I think that the choice of having the juxtaposition was intentional.
The people playing in this would have probably run killing king racism in the past month. So, hopefully, they will pick up on that and be sympathetic to the oppressed group. But then, that sympathy is betrayed and the players will feel a bit uneasy as racism suddenly starts to seem justified after spending the past few months fighting against it.
That uneasiness and quick turn to embracing something that you so recently condemned and were willing to kill for adds to what Ravenloft is supposed to be. It is not a lighthearted setting about killing monsters, it's a horror story. The setting is full of corruption, people doing wicked things, and no good guys. It is ultimately the story of an abusive stalker with nigh unlimited power that turned violent when he was denied and how no one could stop it.
There seems to be missing information in Mission 3: Swords that breaks the entire mission. The first encounter starts by mentioning a pair of orcs, then when it comes time for combat it talks about goblins being involved in the first encounter, but does not mention the number of goblins.
The writing indicates that it is more than just a pair of goblins. The courtyard encounter mentions 2 orcs, but in the adjust encounter box it mentions replacing an orog with an orc to make the encounter weaker for smaller parties. But no mention of an orog in the original encounter layout. I will probably have to make my own adjustments, but this reflects poorly on the proofreading of the adventure and should be addressed as an addendum as well as reviewing other adventures for these types of obvious errors before publishing them.
The proofreading has always been atrocious on the DDEX stuff.
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