This gave me so much inspiration. The arrangement of bloody tears, the fluidity at the end was fun, and you captured Barovia beautifully. As of now my players just discovered Kolyan's body, Ireena being violated by Strahd, and Ismark alongside them distraught. They went quiet, I got them. They understood the gravity and reality of Barovia. Good people will die. Courageous people will die. They have a chance to try and change the valley. The ending I like on a lore level, Strahd is infinite, but since I'm running DragnaCarta's reloaded I'm thinking on ways that maybe they could return to Barovia.
My party and I broke the curse and got rid of him for good which lead to barovia becoming part of the main realm only for him to return later as a man that no longer wants to be with ireena but instead wants to take the whole realm over and become ruler of it all and his first target is my character due to being the one that made all the plans and tactics that helped defeat and end his reign forever especially finding a way for ireena to stay alive and helped train her up to fight and kill strahd with the team
And so the endless night begins once more. For Strahd will never rest until the impossible happens. Until he finally accepts that Tatiana will never be his.
Currently gearing up to run CoS. I was a player in a game a year ago, and mine will be a secret sequel to it. The parade of ghosts will feature the party memebers who, though they killed Strahd and escaped, died in Barovia, and so their souls are trapped.
So how is that going my team has had a great time playing it since the dm and I workshop a lot of the campaign together and I’m the best actress of the group so I help lead the team in some directions
@@Ian_Comics ahhhh memories would you like to hear how some of my group’s campaign went. My character is eerily similar to strahd in terms of backstory
@@Ian_Comics and to start off the city of valkeri has been burned so many times in the last few months of in game time that they have started to build their homes to be fire resistant my character got kidnapped and strahd to coerce her into becoming a fourth wife for him after the party killed the third one when the dm thought he had use cornered after hitting us with three encounters back to back to back the party was to scared to come get here even though she agreed to be a prisoner for strahd so he didn’t murder the party causing her to escape by herself by the way she also made slight friendship with his other wives well remaining two wives but yeah she leapt off the castle into a trench that was 1k feet in terms of falling before having to surf on ice in a river and meeting a new set of adventurers as she lead then to safety
Yep! or at least my interpretation of it :) In hindsight though I feel like this ending could've gone really poorly if my players didn't really enjoy tragic stories... I think this is one of the cases where even if this ending is *technically* cannon and whatnot, the DM should definitely read the room before doing it because it can either leave an immense impcat or undermine everything your players went through lol
@@Barbonyoi personally like the entirely cosmological irrelevance of the party's achievements in this story. Strahd can not be destroyed. The powers that be won't allow it. But you can simply omit that fact after the party goes on with their lives. Barovia will reset eventually. But maybe not in their life time. Nice flow in the animation! Got goosebumps.
@@yarion4774 "You know that, in time, Strahd will rise again, cursing the Dark Powers for snatching Tatyana from his grasp, and once more closing his iron first over Barovia to cloak it in endless night, watching for the reincarnation of his obsession. Maybe in a century. Maybe a decade. Maybe tomorrow. But you know that today, Barovia's people will have the joy of watching the sun rise in its full glory. And that is something no Dark Power will ever take from them."
Technically, the powers that trap Strahd will never let him rest. You can save the souls trapped in Barovia but not Strahd. This is his prison and the dark powers will let him suffer for all eternity. But that's kinda a bummer to tell your players sometimes. So,as a DM you have to know your players and whether they'd like such a tragic note or whether it would invalidate everything they feel they've achieved.
@@yarion4774 yeah I mean there was another alternate endings that some DM ive read had given to the Curse of Strahd but it had something to do with the God Vampyr in the amber temple, isn´t it?
@@zabdieltorresmartnez5607yes, defeating vampyr in the amber temple is a popular homebrew. But in my opinion it substracts from Strahd being the true final boss and allowing to defeat the mists and save Barovia undermines the tragic narrative theme of the story.
@@herman1francis Another possible way to break the curse that I've seen thrown around is to revive Sergei, Strahd's younger brother, either through the Abbot or a Dark Power's gift. Since the pact that started all of this was sealed with his blood, it still kinda makes sense. Plus it leaves Strahd as the final boss rather than Vampyr.
The way Ezzy was just waiting for it, she knew, and the rolling in of the fog, gods so incredibly done good job.
This gave me so much inspiration. The arrangement of bloody tears, the fluidity at the end was fun, and you captured Barovia beautifully.
As of now my players just discovered Kolyan's body, Ireena being violated by Strahd, and Ismark alongside them distraught. They went quiet, I got them. They understood the gravity and reality of Barovia. Good people will die. Courageous people will die. They have a chance to try and change the valley.
The ending I like on a lore level, Strahd is infinite, but since I'm running DragnaCarta's reloaded I'm thinking on ways that maybe they could return to Barovia.
My party and I broke the curse and got rid of him for good which lead to barovia becoming part of the main realm only for him to return later as a man that no longer wants to be with ireena but instead wants to take the whole realm over and become ruler of it all and his first target is my character due to being the one that made all the plans and tactics that helped defeat and end his reign forever especially finding a way for ireena to stay alive and helped train her up to fight and kill strahd with the team
I love how you did the light rolling in and then the dark returning. So grand and ominous! Wonderful work!
And so the endless night begins once more. For Strahd will never rest until the impossible happens.
Until he finally accepts that Tatiana will never be his.
There is always a Dark lord in the throne, the mists of Barovia can never truly be pushed back.
I started to cry when I saw Ireena grave 😢 fantastic job!
i love this so much. such atmosphere, such a feeling a hope and accomplishment, followed by such devastation. beautiful!
Im using bloody tears as strahds theme in my game so its so cool to see it here :D
Currently gearing up to run CoS. I was a player in a game a year ago, and mine will be a secret sequel to it. The parade of ghosts will feature the party memebers who, though they killed Strahd and escaped, died in Barovia, and so their souls are trapped.
So how is that going my team has had a great time playing it since the dm and I workshop a lot of the campaign together and I’m the best actress of the group so I help lead the team in some directions
@@shadowpup3016 We had the first session a couple of days ago and everyone is locked in and hype. Still in the Death House right now.
@@Ian_Comics ahhhh memories would you like to hear how some of my group’s campaign went. My character is eerily similar to strahd in terms of backstory
@@shadowpup3016 Go ahead.
@@Ian_Comics and to start off the city of valkeri has been burned so many times in the last few months of in game time that they have started to build their homes to be fire resistant my character got kidnapped and strahd to coerce her into becoming a fourth wife for him after the party killed the third one when the dm thought he had use cornered after hitting us with three encounters back to back to back the party was to scared to come get here even though she agreed to be a prisoner for strahd so he didn’t murder the party causing her to escape by herself by the way she also made slight friendship with his other wives well remaining two wives but yeah she leapt off the castle into a trench that was 1k feet in terms of falling before having to surf on ice in a river and meeting a new set of adventurers as she lead then to safety
This is awesome and so heartfelt! amazing work!
I was doing so well. And the 1:22 I fully burst into tears
This is super cool!
OMG Bloody Tears hell yes, good for you
Oh no I realised the ending
damn, did y'all get the bad ending? I gotta know what happened
Yep! or at least my interpretation of it :) In hindsight though I feel like this ending could've gone really poorly if my players didn't really enjoy tragic stories... I think this is one of the cases where even if this ending is *technically* cannon and whatnot, the DM should definitely read the room before doing it because it can either leave an immense impcat or undermine everything your players went through lol
@@Barbonyoi personally like the entirely cosmological irrelevance of the party's achievements in this story. Strahd can not be destroyed. The powers that be won't allow it.
But you can simply omit that fact after the party goes on with their lives. Barovia will reset eventually. But maybe not in their life time.
Nice flow in the animation! Got goosebumps.
@@yarion4774 "You know that, in time, Strahd will rise again, cursing the Dark Powers for snatching Tatyana from his grasp, and once more closing his iron first over Barovia to cloak it in endless night, watching for the reincarnation of his obsession. Maybe in a century. Maybe a decade. Maybe tomorrow. But you know that today, Barovia's people will have the joy of watching the sun rise in its full glory. And that is something no Dark Power will ever take from them."
Do you think you'll do any more animations of your campaign?
Is this what happens if you don't kill him all the way?
no, it happens even if you kill him.... although there is a way to finally kill him but it needs to be allowed by the DM
Technically, the powers that trap Strahd will never let him rest. You can save the souls trapped in Barovia but not Strahd. This is his prison and the dark powers will let him suffer for all eternity.
But that's kinda a bummer to tell your players sometimes. So,as a DM you have to know your players and whether they'd like such a tragic note or whether it would invalidate everything they feel they've achieved.
@@yarion4774 yeah I mean there was another alternate endings that some DM ive read had given to the Curse of Strahd but it had something to do with the God Vampyr in the amber temple, isn´t it?
@@zabdieltorresmartnez5607yes, defeating vampyr in the amber temple is a popular homebrew. But in my opinion it substracts from Strahd being the true final boss and allowing to defeat the mists and save Barovia undermines the tragic narrative theme of the story.
@@herman1francis Another possible way to break the curse that I've seen thrown around is to revive Sergei, Strahd's younger brother, either through the Abbot or a Dark Power's gift. Since the pact that started all of this was sealed with his blood, it still kinda makes sense. Plus it leaves Strahd as the final boss rather than Vampyr.
Is that how things turned out for your campaign?