@@GreenDM thank you! I just discovered your videos today. Your brand of humor is fantastic and had me literally laughing out loud. I honestly think you should make this into a sort of series-it could do very well!
@Lunch Break Heroes I actually making a quickly explained for Yawning Portal right now! This Strahd video and Pandelver explained exploded over the holiday break. So I'm definitely making this a series and seeing how it is received!
@@GreenDM As someone who's new to dnd in general I watched this video and wonder why people keep referencing this grimdark funhouse. Can a first time DM run this ?
@@billymentalz3681 Technically speaking, yes, a first-time DM can run this, but it IS a lot of homework to run the campaign and most would suggest you start with something like Lost Mines or some one-offs to get yourself up to speed.
Omg, glad to see that my group was not the only one that got a beating from that broom. We had to spend 4 turns to kill it because the dices kept rolling lower than 10
I read the module fully and this made me laugh a good while. My favorite joke was the visual and sound effects for the wagon exploding. It is also funnier in context that the annoying Rogue went inside the wagon and set off the trap. Meaning he was atomized by failing his dex save. The party stood on the side as they watched their friend for 8 sessions have bits and pieces of his body rain around them. Then the vampire hunter showed up and cussed at the smoldering wreck. At least the party got a new friend NPC.
We went to the castle early, I think. My dragon-obsessed kobold found a random dragon skull in a room we presumably weren't supposed to be in and decided "This is mine now". Cue me dragging it around for the rest of the campaign until I accidentally completed a quest without knowing what it was. 10/10 would inconvenience my party again.
@@SuperJohncarter Bag of holding, I was an artificer. In retrospect my DM probably shouldn't have let me fit the skull through the bag opening. But in the moment it was such an impulsive decision I performed out of IC dragon-obsession and nothing else I think it slipped under the radar in the comedy of the moment.
I think the reason they tell you to do the reading before the adventure starts is in case the party doesn't go to Madame Eva right away, so if that happens, they'll still get the items (at least two of which are fancy looking enough that the party will be curious if they come across them).
Seems so strange to have the DM redo work, instead of finding a better way to incorporate the reading, but hey you can't design for what every group will do.
@@GreenDM I assume that the "official" reading that is roleplayed in front of the players is from a stacked deck. I don't know if that's the intention, but the guy who DMed Curse of Strahd for me said after the campaign that he did a random reading before he started the first session, then placed those cards on top of the deck when Madame Eva read our fates.
@@GreenDM I mean... so much. I think the most recent thing that comes to mind is the way they handled the elevator trap in Castle Ravenloft. Two party members were inside, two left outside. As it shot up towards the top of the castle, the two inside ("team mayhem" as they sometimes referred to themselves) decided to just start destroying the elevator from the inside using the Blood Spear and +2 Magic Greatsword. I used the damage DC/HP rules of inanimate objects in the DMG and they rolled ridiculously high. I described the sound of metal on stone, the shudder of something snapping and the box lurching under their toes. At the point where the elevator is almost at it's highest it came crashing down. The only reason they didn't splat from fall damage was very quick thinking and casting of Enhance Ability - Cat's Grace at third level to cover both of them. I was a very horrified and proud DM.
2:58 That was a detour along the way escorting Ismark and Ireena from Barovia Village to Vallaki. They were a real help for level 4 characters. 3:14 We never entered the mansion in-person before fetching the Skull. We sent a familiar in through the hole in the roof, snuck around with it for recon, and spammed Message at knights until they told us what we needed to know. 4:54 Our DM put the third wine gem in the giant bird's nest. 5:31 We took a gamble and our barbarian snapped in half a staff we got from a druid at the Winery. The giant tree monster instantly exploded. 6:02 We never visited the werewolf den. They tried to get us while we were on the road and got slaughtered. The fight took hours IRL. You didn't mention the Magnificent Mansion. We didn't go there either. Ismark and van Richten were so impressed/grateful at what we had been doing (especially installing Ismark as ruler of Vallaki) that they rescued Mordenkainen by themselves while we were busy at Krezk.
Argynvostholt is so ridiculously on point, and pretty much the same conclusion my players came to after chatting with the grumpy ghosts that refused to move out of their Dragon Dad's house. 😂
Can't watch since i'm a player in CoS. Just commenting for your referencing, seriously this channel deserves so many more subscribers. If you keep up the good content i'm confident they will come.
Lmao. I've run COS twice and unless you flavor it yeah this is spot on. Definitely going to keep an eye out to see if you cover any of the other models like this.
I played a little bit of COS, most I remember was the DM letting us beat up the Drug-pies lady and playing the lego yoda death sound every time she got hit.
@@shadowpup3016 halfway! Currently in Vallaki, which is under tyrant rule of Victor. Wielding the power of a posessed captain of the guard and a cultist monstrosity
@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas not bad not we are in crest and in the abandoned manor close to there where we fought clones of ourselves and kicked their asses
Curse of strahd was funnily enough my first dnd experience, i was a paladin halfling that started at about level 9. i had missed so much of the campaign already and was past halfway, I was around for the end of the paladin mansion, did the zap tower, and did the whole krezk and winery stuff, but missed the amber temple as we beelined straight to Castle raven loft to make sure strahd stayed dead. And somehow it was my character that managed to put the stake in Strahds corpse. How was strahd dead? Don’t ask me my party had apparently killed him at a way earlier level than they were supposed to. Honestly I wish I got to do this module again from the start now that I actually know how to play this game.
Or... or! We could burn the Death House to the ground! And the coffin shop! And the windmill! And... we might have a bit of an arson fetish or something. lol
Starting my second session of CoS tomorrow lol. My players carried Ireena’s dad’s coffin to the church at night, dumped it, ignored the kid screaming in the basement and refused to stick around for the funeral in the morning so they just dipped into the night again. Im so worried for tomorrow
Don't get me wrong it was definitely entertaining! I've just started reading Strahd today as I'm gonna try DMing this as my first campaign. This helps me know what I'm in for lol
@@smokey3031 good luck! Lunch Break Heroes has a good set of videos for more in depth curse of Strahd help. My main advice, make sure the characters your players make have at least 1 strong tie to the story and each other. That way they have a reason to stay together and engage with the campaign.
FY I spit my drink on the keyboard at the french pastry shop joke and now I'm watching the rest of the video waiting for the keyboard to stop dripping water XD
EVERY location has TPK potential. "Seasoned" 5ers will tell you that it's fine and that clever players will succeed with the right strategy. Yes, the Shambling Mound has a crappy movement speed and is ONLY AC15, so assuming you can kite it around then you'll be fine, but... CR5, your players are probably level 2. It can hit for 2D8 + 4 and gets 2 attacks, if both hit, it grapples the player and engulfs it, save a DC13 CON each round or automatically take 2D8 + 4... did I mention it has 136 HP and is +7 to hit.
There is quite a bit of danger in the earlier game. Guess the DM is supposed to shepard the party away from it or just sit back and say "That's Barovia!" if everyone gets killed.
The Cthulhu on the death house was fun. Our DM has 2 groups for curse of stradt. The 1st run away from it, while the second had a sucider barbarian dwarf and dices that apparently only roll a minimum of 16 hahahahaha. My god, I still remember the face of the DM when the fucking Paladin successfully managed to sneak around Fiona's house (4 stealth rolls, the lowest being 18). Btw, he found a bunch of old bones (not the saint ones) on a trap chest on Fiona's room and her set of clothing. We buried those old bones on a graveyard because we had no clue wtf they were for and the paladin said the clothing was evil and burned it. My player senses told me that those things were special, anyone can tell me what they were for? I really don't want to read the DM book and get too many spoilers
I played this with some home brew content to say the least strahd dies to me getting a priest to bless the drinking supply of barovia and i got an engineer to make a squirt gun I filled with holy water to shoot strahd with
my strahd campaign got indefinetly posponed after we did the wine gems and yesterhill and we finally said to strahd, ok ill have that tea (we just wanted the dargon skull) so we ended in ravenloft wet basement
As somebody that hasn't played the module, I'm only left to speculate the accuracy *Final edit:* I didn't realize until my third watch through I respond to your videos roughly every ten seconds or so with, aloud, "please stop". I believe it speaks to the quality of the content in question.
Is there any catch for if you get a high enough level character to where you can cast imprisonment, some how get a gem, and then trap strand in what’s basically a really expensive snow globe
The campaign is suppose to only go to about level 10, so might not be high enough level to do so by the end. But on the other hand that idea is incredible and there needs to be a way to do it! Perhaps the crazy mountain wizard Mordenkain can help with that!
Actually same! It is a very difficult adventure run well. Takes a lot of DM setup and a particular feeling the players are okay staying in far long periods of time. hope your next campaign lives!
5 game of CoS (3 TPK) and each time no ;ess than 2 items in the castle... MOTHEF - do not do those cards or rathe make 5 separate decks filled with just one card or better - whatever the card player pick you read the location you do before game
@@GreenDM "Theres a pool that gives the good ending to the video game", that was referring to Undertale? I had assumed it was referring to a Curse of Strahd game!
Been running the module for months and it really does just raise more questions than it answers. S2g I have to just improvise everything anyway cause it's so clunky and stilted 😭
Yeah that is unfortunate. I had to make a lot of homebrew when I ran this for my group. Very difficult book to parse and understand the overall flow of the adventure.
@@GreenDM on the bright side, we've had a lot of fun doing crazy shit the book would have never thought of. Last session my party decided the best place to get a wedding dress is OBVIOUSLY Castle Racenloft. So now they're planning a heist XD
Definitely put their character back stories into the Adventure. I would not recommend the adventurers all come from outside Barovia, unless you can tie them to Barovia from outside somehow.
The Card reading doesn't matter because you will do it again isn't ture, my party went the other road and never meet Madam Eve for the second card reading so the secret items and stuff stayed like they were in the first reading.
True this is a terrible guide 😂 Lunch Break Heroes has a very in-depth guide series for curse of Strahd on their channel if you want more help with the campaign.
I leaned pretty hard into the chaos for this video, so being confused is understandable. My apologies. Lunch break heroes has a lot of videos on Curse of Strahd if you want a more indepth understanding of the adventure ruclips.net/video/j7tlBi0c-yk/видео.html
It´s so sad that this is 100% the entire adventure. Best part of this book are the trigger warnings that aren´t even paid off. I was promised child abuse WOTC WHERE`S MY CHILD ABUSE?
I haven't laughed this much at a video in... Ever. Absolutely the funniest and most on-point description of Curse of Strahd in existence!
Thank you! Curse of Strahd is absolutely insane when boiled down.
Also I really like your curse of Strahd series! Lot of good detailed help!
@@GreenDM thank you! I just discovered your videos today. Your brand of humor is fantastic and had me literally laughing out loud. I honestly think you should make this into a sort of series-it could do very well!
@Lunch Break Heroes I actually making a quickly explained for Yawning Portal right now! This Strahd video and Pandelver explained exploded over the holiday break. So I'm definitely making this a series and seeing how it is received!
The Argynvostholt description must be completely incomprehensible to anyone not already in the know, yet is also fully accurate.
That is very true! I wonder what people would think of Curse of Strahd if this is the first time they heard of it.
@@GreenDM As someone who's new to dnd in general I watched this video and wonder why people keep referencing this grimdark funhouse. Can a first time DM run this ?
As someone who hasn't read or played it, I can confirm it's completely incomprehensible
@@billymentalz3681 Technically speaking, yes, a first-time DM can run this, but it IS a lot of homework to run the campaign and most would suggest you start with something like Lost Mines or some one-offs to get yourself up to speed.
The funny thing is that the way too far away kitchen and the food getting cold before it arrives is actually a plot point in I, Strahd
I have heard I, Strahd has hangry Strahd scenes 😄
Totally forgot about that. I may need to dust it off and have a good read again...
6:48 You forgot the TPK by the animated broom in the third floor.
True. Very dangerous broom.
Omg, glad to see that my group was not the only one that got a beating from that broom. We had to spend 4 turns to kill it because the dices kept rolling lower than 10
Yo I hate that broom. Took out two barbs in our campaign.
The real fun is after you barely beat the broom, when the animated armor throws someone down 3 flights of stairs.
Fortunately for my players, I rolled terribly with that broom
As a master just ending the death house introduction, I can really relate. This is quality content
"Like a French bakery if it had American foreign policies." That made my flag hurt.
* Sad American Flag noises *
I read the module fully and this made me laugh a good while.
My favorite joke was the visual and sound effects for the wagon exploding.
It is also funnier in context that the annoying Rogue went inside the wagon and set off the trap. Meaning he was atomized by failing his dex save.
The party stood on the side as they watched their friend for 8 sessions have bits and pieces of his body rain around them. Then the vampire hunter showed up and cussed at the smoldering wreck.
At least the party got a new friend NPC.
That wagon is a bomb just waiting for someone to explode😄! Hope the new friend doesn't demand they pay for all the stuff in that wagon.
We went to the castle early, I think. My dragon-obsessed kobold found a random dragon skull in a room we presumably weren't supposed to be in and decided "This is mine now". Cue me dragging it around for the rest of the campaign until I accidentally completed a quest without knowing what it was. 10/10 would inconvenience my party again.
How the hell did your kobold drag that skull around randomly!? It's like 250 pounds!
@@SuperJohncarter Bag of holding, I was an artificer. In retrospect my DM probably shouldn't have let me fit the skull through the bag opening. But in the moment it was such an impulsive decision I performed out of IC dragon-obsession and nothing else I think it slipped under the radar in the comedy of the moment.
This had me in stitches. I’m wrapping up a CoS campaign right now and can’t wait to share this with the players. Great work 😎
Happy to hear you liked it! I've had to hide it from my own players till we are done too!
I think the reason they tell you to do the reading before the adventure starts is in case the party doesn't go to Madame Eva right away, so if that happens, they'll still get the items (at least two of which are fancy looking enough that the party will be curious if they come across them).
Seems so strange to have the DM redo work, instead of finding a better way to incorporate the reading, but hey you can't design for what every group will do.
@@GreenDM I assume that the "official" reading that is roleplayed in front of the players is from a stacked deck. I don't know if that's the intention, but the guy who DMed Curse of Strahd for me said after the campaign that he did a random reading before he started the first session, then placed those cards on top of the deck when Madame Eva read our fates.
@jared Hite I like that approach as a DM. Keep it random, but give yourself enough time to make something from that randomness.
That was amazing. My players start the Amber Temple tonight. They will all enjoy this video after the conclusion of the campaign.
Thank you! I am excited to show it to my players when they finish the game too!
@@GreenDM We just watched it together tonight after the epilogue. Perfect way to wrap things up!
@@CCCeramics that's so cool! Hope you guys liked the adventure! Anything wild occur?
@@GreenDM I mean... so much. I think the most recent thing that comes to mind is the way they handled the elevator trap in Castle Ravenloft. Two party members were inside, two left outside. As it shot up towards the top of the castle, the two inside ("team mayhem" as they sometimes referred to themselves) decided to just start destroying the elevator from the inside using the Blood Spear and +2 Magic Greatsword. I used the damage DC/HP rules of inanimate objects in the DMG and they rolled ridiculously high. I described the sound of metal on stone, the shudder of something snapping and the box lurching under their toes. At the point where the elevator is almost at it's highest it came crashing down. The only reason they didn't splat from fall damage was very quick thinking and casting of Enhance Ability - Cat's Grace at third level to cover both of them. I was a very horrified and proud DM.
@@CCCeramics that elevator trap! Very dangerous for the wrong reasons 😆. My group also has a team mayhem.
2:58 That was a detour along the way escorting Ismark and Ireena from Barovia Village to Vallaki. They were a real help for level 4 characters.
3:14 We never entered the mansion in-person before fetching the Skull. We sent a familiar in through the hole in the roof, snuck around with it for recon, and spammed Message at knights until they told us what we needed to know.
4:54 Our DM put the third wine gem in the giant bird's nest.
5:31 We took a gamble and our barbarian snapped in half a staff we got from a druid at the Winery. The giant tree monster instantly exploded.
6:02 We never visited the werewolf den. They tried to get us while we were on the road and got slaughtered. The fight took hours IRL.
You didn't mention the Magnificent Mansion. We didn't go there either. Ismark and van Richten were so impressed/grateful at what we had been doing (especially installing Ismark as ruler of Vallaki) that they rescued Mordenkainen by themselves while we were busy at Krezk.
3:33
"Or unless the party has a dead PC the DM really needs resurrected so they can get this campaign back on track"
*So much pain in this sentence*
Sometimes it all goes off the rails lol
dude, my character died on 3 separate occasions throughout the campaign. I did not roll a single successful death save
Argynvostholt is so ridiculously on point, and pretty much the same conclusion my players came to after chatting with the grumpy ghosts that refused to move out of their Dragon Dad's house. 😂
😂 those ghosts really do need to move out! And those sound like good players!
This makes me realize how miraculous it is that my players are taking it so very seriously.
So good to hear players are taking it seriously! That is hard to come by and usually means they're having fun.
Can't watch since i'm a player in CoS. Just commenting for your referencing, seriously this channel deserves so many more subscribers.
If you keep up the good content i'm confident they will come.
Thank you! I took a break at the start of quarantine, but my group got back to playing and I got more inspiration! Thanks for the support!
This video has exploded! Thank you to everyone that has watched!
This is gold, I'm showing it to everyone omg.
When we're done with CoS I'm showing this to my players, well done!
Yes! Let the players see what they missed or remind them of the weird stuff they've done!
Im directing my first CoS campaing. I read the adventure once already, but somehow this is both inintelligible and perfectly accurate at the same time
As it should be!
Lmao. I've run COS twice and unless you flavor it yeah this is spot on. Definitely going to keep an eye out to see if you cover any of the other models like this.
Glad you liked it! I do have a running playlist of the other models I've done on my RUclips channel. Hope the future releases also catch your eye!
I saw the starter set video definitely going to check out any others and share them with my groups.
Omg I laughed so hard thank you for brightening my day.
Thank you for taking time out of that bright day to leave a comment! I hope to make as many people laugh with these videos as I can!
I played a little bit of COS, most I remember was the DM letting us beat up the Drug-pies lady and playing the lego yoda death sound every time she got hit.
That lego yoda death sound effect! I love it!
Currently Dm'ing this one and oh boy is this hilariously accurate. Loved it!
We are getting close to end game with ours but how is yours going?
@@shadowpup3016 halfway! Currently in Vallaki, which is under tyrant rule of Victor. Wielding the power of a posessed captain of the guard and a cultist monstrosity
@@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas not bad not we are in crest and in the abandoned manor close to there where we fought clones of ourselves and kicked their asses
I really love Curse of Strahd ...and you ain't wrong. (Hilarious!)
Thank you! The adventure is wild when boiled down!
Thanks I wish I saw this at the beginning before I read the module.
I better make these faster so that doesn't happen for the next module! Hopefully reading the whole module at least means less prep session to session.
This is pretty accurate actually
Thank you! Hard to be accurate to a long book in just a few minutes.
Curse of strahd was funnily enough my first dnd experience, i was a paladin halfling that started at about level 9. i had missed so much of the campaign already and was past halfway, I was around for the end of the paladin mansion, did the zap tower, and did the whole krezk and winery stuff, but missed the amber temple as we beelined straight to Castle raven loft to make sure strahd stayed dead. And somehow it was my character that managed to put the stake in Strahds corpse. How was strahd dead? Don’t ask me my party had apparently killed him at a way earlier level than they were supposed to. Honestly I wish I got to do this module again from the start now that I actually know how to play this game.
Paladin in Barovia is strong! And yeah, Strahd likes to try to respawn haha
Or... or! We could burn the Death House to the ground! And the coffin shop! And the windmill! And... we might have a bit of an arson fetish or something. lol
we played through this campaign a little bit ago and we were in maybe 4 of these places XD
I think this campaign can get pretty chaotic, so understandable you didn't go everywhere. Hope you got to fight Strahd at least!
Starting my second session of CoS tomorrow lol. My players carried Ireena’s dad’s coffin to the church at night, dumped it, ignored the kid screaming in the basement and refused to stick around for the funeral in the morning so they just dipped into the night again. Im so worried for tomorrow
Starting with some early chaos! Hope you can find ways to work with the players to tie their characters into the overarching story.
Good luck!
Running CoS on Sunday and this just popped into my recommendations. Hopefully it helps
Fantastic video, thanks for sharing you knowledge
I love every second of this!!!
Thank you!
Thank you, this was hilarious! The party I'm dming for should finish soon, I'm def gonna share this video with them after.
Thank you! Hope you and your group are enjoying the campaign!
I feel like I've learned something but I've also never felt so lost
An out of context explanation of this adventure is truly chaotic, so being lost is understandable.
Don't get me wrong it was definitely entertaining! I've just started reading Strahd today as I'm gonna try DMing this as my first campaign. This helps me know what I'm in for lol
@@smokey3031 good luck! Lunch Break Heroes has a good set of videos for more in depth curse of Strahd help.
My main advice, make sure the characters your players make have at least 1 strong tie to the story and each other. That way they have a reason to stay together and engage with the campaign.
@@GreenDM Thank you very much. I'll keep that in mind
1:09 PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS ACCURATE!
Also the fortune teller thing is 100% true.
One of the starts is chasing a pack of werewolves into the mists. So up to you if you think that counts :)
FY I spit my drink on the keyboard at the french pastry shop joke and now I'm watching the rest of the video waiting for the keyboard to stop dripping water XD
RIP keyboard. Maybe it will rise as a zombie later.
This is amazing. Bless you, sir.
Thank you!
Wasn't there, but definitely a game I was playing.
Someone experience why you never let the goat live.
oh god the goat?
@@GreenDM yes, the actual player character died to the goat
Well i thank the algorithm for this one
I thank the alogrithm for this comment!
That was great, thank you!
Thank you for watching!
Loved it, liked and subbed
Helll yeah!
Ooooh, I love it. Accurate af, my kind sir.
Thank you!
Bro, who needs to read through the module when you have this?
No one. This is the module now.
Lol, you right, man.
BTW, this is genuinely the funniest thing I've seen in a long time, great job.
EVERY location has TPK potential. "Seasoned" 5ers will tell you that it's fine and that clever players will succeed with the right strategy. Yes, the Shambling Mound has a crappy movement speed and is ONLY AC15, so assuming you can kite it around then you'll be fine, but...
CR5, your players are probably level 2.
It can hit for 2D8 + 4 and gets 2 attacks, if both hit, it grapples the player and engulfs it, save a DC13 CON each round or automatically take 2D8 + 4... did I mention it has 136 HP and is +7 to hit.
There is quite a bit of danger in the earlier game. Guess the DM is supposed to shepard the party away from it or just sit back and say "That's Barovia!" if everyone gets killed.
The Cthulhu on the death house was fun. Our DM has 2 groups for curse of stradt. The 1st run away from it, while the second had a sucider barbarian dwarf and dices that apparently only roll a minimum of 16 hahahahaha. My god, I still remember the face of the DM when the fucking Paladin successfully managed to sneak around Fiona's house (4 stealth rolls, the lowest being 18). Btw, he found a bunch of old bones (not the saint ones) on a trap chest on Fiona's room and her set of clothing. We buried those old bones on a graveyard because we had no clue wtf they were for and the paladin said the clothing was evil and burned it. My player senses told me that those things were special, anyone can tell me what they were for? I really don't want to read the DM book and get too many spoilers
The bones in the chest were a guy who pissed off Strahd, and a possible Fated Ally if you drag them to The Abbot or find another way to rez him.
This is gold.
feelsgoodman
-Be me
-Dad dies
-Mom dies
-Bro took my girlfriend
-MFW I kill him for waifu only to become darklord of mist world
Somehow this video helped me more than hours-long guides, huh
Thanks for this video. Im too lazy to read book
You're welcome! The book is very long. Over 200 pages!
auto subbed. The Rav of DnD
Ran Death House this past weekend... Can confirm it's the first TPK.
RIP
2:04 Aint that the effing truth.
That poor plot hook is trying it's best!
3:53 oooooh burn XD!!!!!!
lol, I did not like that remake.
@@GreenDM I thought it was ok but far below the original animated masterpiece. But man, that moment was a burn XD!!!!
I enjoyed this video.
I enjoyed this comment 😊
Can't wait to show this to my party. They've already survived the first three TPKs
Nice! Hope they can avoid the fourth one too!
@@GreenDM Well they seem pretty adamant about going to Berez at level 5 so....
Ohh no. Well hopefully Baba Lysaga cuts them a deal instead of just killing them. Or perhaps the scarecrow can explain the dangers of the ruins.
Spray bottle against cats??! I'm out.
It is true that it is an antiquated practice, but worked as a good analogy nonetheless. I'm not spraying water at my cat!
missed some TPKs, but still very funny :D
Many chances for tpks.
I played this with some home brew content to say the least strahd dies to me getting a priest to bless the drinking supply of barovia and i got an engineer to make a squirt gun I filled with holy water to shoot strahd with
A holy super soaker!
Yeah, this is accurate
Good to know it's accurate! Might be too accurate, since the video is so chaotic😁
I love this video! What is TPK?
total party kill. When every character in an adventuring party dies at once.
@@GreenDM Thank you!
holy shit this is amazing
Thank you!
My face hurts from laughing so much
Good!
Picking up on your sarcasm. Lmao.
Sarcasm can be hard to express over the internet, so I'm glad to see it was understood!
I laughed so hard I'm -
I think they died. Or walked into the mists and lost reception.
my strahd campaign got indefinetly posponed after we did the wine gems and yesterhill and we finally said to strahd, ok ill have that tea (we just wanted the dargon skull) so we ended in ravenloft wet basement
I escaped his castle alone after he kidnapped me
This is incredible lmao
It is a wild adventure!
Epic!
Thank you
As somebody that hasn't played the module, I'm only left to speculate the accuracy
*Final edit:* I didn't realize until my third watch through I respond to your videos roughly every ten seconds or so with, aloud, "please stop". I believe it speaks to the quality of the content in question.
That's...good? Is the "please stop" - "please stop its too wild of a ride" or "please stop I have completely lost all remnants of understanding."?
EXCELLENT
Ladies and gentlemen and otherwise, I present to you the most popular D&D module.
The RUclips algorithm agrees with your presentation. Highest viewed video on the channel as of a few days ago.
... Yes.
... Thank you?
Omg this is Hilarious. I know that the book cant possibly be made any better than this.
Thank you!
a real bruhvia moment
So it’s basically… Castlevania 2 Simons Quest
I am confidently going to say yes, even though I have not played Castlevania 2.
Is there any catch for if you get a high enough level character to where you can cast imprisonment, some how get a gem, and then trap strand in what’s basically a really expensive snow globe
The campaign is suppose to only go to about level 10, so might not be high enough level to do so by the end. But on the other hand that idea is incredible and there needs to be a way to do it! Perhaps the crazy mountain wizard Mordenkain can help with that!
The strahd campaign I was in died😔
Actually same! It is a very difficult adventure run well. Takes a lot of DM setup and a particular feeling the players are okay staying in far long periods of time. hope your next campaign lives!
5 game of CoS (3 TPK) and each time no ;ess than 2 items in the castle... MOTHEF - do not do those cards or rathe make 5 separate decks filled with just one card or better - whatever the card player pick you read the location you do before game
this was awesome mouhahahah
You mentioned a video game around 3:40? What game is that?
Undertale! An story focused indie game with really interesting characters. At least I thought so!
@@GreenDM "Theres a pool that gives the good ending to the video game", that was referring to Undertale? I had assumed it was referring to a Curse of Strahd game!
I haven’t played this yet and nothing made sense. Still laughed at how wrong everything sounded.
Good it still had some comedic value! Hope you can play in Barovia soon! Many people like the setting.
Been running the module for months and it really does just raise more questions than it answers. S2g I have to just improvise everything anyway cause it's so clunky and stilted 😭
Yeah that is unfortunate. I had to make a lot of homebrew when I ran this for my group. Very difficult book to parse and understand the overall flow of the adventure.
@@GreenDM on the bright side, we've had a lot of fun doing crazy shit the book would have never thought of. Last session my party decided the best place to get a wedding dress is OBVIOUSLY Castle Racenloft. So now they're planning a heist XD
I'm going to be DM for the first time soon and want to use CoS as the campaign. The players will be relatively new to playing DnD as well. Any tips?
Definitely put their character back stories into the Adventure. I would not recommend the adventurers all come from outside Barovia, unless you can tie them to Barovia from outside somehow.
Anyone who does that card reading "live" deserves everything they get (tip: fix the card reading)
I definitely predetermined the cards. Some DMs love the random possibilities a live draw might bring though. Those DMs are braver than me!
The Card reading doesn't matter because you will do it again isn't ture, my party went the other road and never meet Madam Eve for the second card reading so the secret items and stuff stayed like they were in the first reading.
That's good! Makes that reading feel much more impactful that way.
im onyl 3 session into DMing my CoS campaign and was looking for a guide. this was not it. this was fucking hilarious though.
True this is a terrible guide 😂
Lunch Break Heroes has a very in-depth guide series for curse of Strahd on their channel if you want more help with the campaign.
HOw did you know I didn't know how to read!!!
Saw you ordering off a menu purely by pointing at the pictures.
I was looking for an actual summary. This is so confusing.
I leaned pretty hard into the chaos for this video, so being confused is understandable. My apologies. Lunch break heroes has a lot of videos on Curse of Strahd if you want a more indepth understanding of the adventure ruclips.net/video/j7tlBi0c-yk/видео.html
You will not get this video at all unless you've DMd Curse of Strahd
Can you pronounce a single location in Barovia correctly?
No.
It´s so sad that this is 100% the entire adventure.
Best part of this book are the trigger warnings that aren´t even paid off.
I was promised child abuse WOTC WHERE`S MY CHILD ABUSE?
I mean my party ate pies made of kids
@@shadowpup3016 Ah come on that´s barely enough to make CPS come out.
@@Animefan1803 and then another kid got put into a bag and thrown into the lake