I would love to show it to them, but one of them is actually a traitor to the party and I don’t want to give them such a clear hint that’s an option he could’ve gone with
That Charm/Frighten resistance on Monks is a pain in Strahd's a$$. Back in the day taking a Palladin into Barovia was an almost guaranteed PC death. Even farther back I believe it was mages that were the most screwed.
they say the monk is not optimized but killing them is a heck of hard, you could end up having a PK if not for the pesky monk who miraculously survives for some reason
In case you wanted the lyrics: Welcome to Barovia! Have a look around Evilness is lurking in this valley that you found We've got plenty of plot hooks, some evil some good, If you're still feeling hopeful here you've misunderstood Welcome to Ravenloft! Come and take a seat! Would you like to try a glass of wine or some suspicious meat? There's no need to worry you're my humble guests (ha ha) Until you start to bore me then your blood I’ll ingest Welcome to Barovia! What would you prefer? Would you fight for peasant rights or be a party saboteur? Be happy! Be thirsty! Be bursting with rage! We've got a million different quests to engage Welcome to Ravenloft! Put your cares aside Here's a tip for draining plasma, here's my love who sadly died We've got zombies and werewolves and magical swords And a bunch of colored pencil drawing that me and Ireena Kolyana are getting married and staying together for fo... Welcome to Barovia! Hold on to your soul Cause you've just escaped the death house so you're under my control It's foggy and depressive, I'll give you a tour! You'll never leave here of that I ensure See a man beheaded, get dejected, have a drink Bring me paintings of Ireena, tell me every thought you think Form a party, start a fire, just don't mess with this vampire Give you all that you desire till you find that I’m a liar then you Here's a healthy breakfast option "you should kill your monk" Why don’t women ever love me "here's a dagger kill your monk" What type of hero are you take a card and see! I've brought you to this dandy plain to be play things for me Could I interest you in visiting for all of time Insanity and suffering for all of time Fratricide's a tragedy and I’m bored all the time You are here to entertain me for all of time Could I interest you in visiting for all of time Insanity and suffering for all of time Fratricide’s a tragedy and I’m bored all the time You are here to entertain me for all of time
For my party, kill your monk was strahd fortelling his own death. Our warforged monk 1v1'd him in his castle after being warforgenapped while the rest of the party tried to catch up and dealt the killing blow right when the paladin got there with the sunlight sword. He should have tried harder than a dagger lol!
The one who was dm for our curse of stradh played him like some lonely dude that just brought us there so he’d have friends. Legit the invite to his house for the big fight said “I have a feast prepared for you and some Mario kart too I hope you guys come”
@@GhostPaprika they don't pay attention to much. Dropping clues is so difficult. I more have to drop big red signs and offer a ghost to hold a hand. Lol
I sent this to my party member who is currently working with Straud, with the text “you should kill your monk.” And the best part about it is the monk picked up the ice staff in the amber temple and is obsessed with becoming extremely powerful, which caused a problem or two with the party.
Lyrics: Welcome to barovia Have a look around Evilness is lurking in this valley that you found We've got plenty of plothooks Some evil some good If you're still feeling hopefull here you've misunderstood Welcome to Ravenloft come and take a seat Would like to try a glass of wine or some suspicious meat There's no need to worry you're my humble guest Until you start to bore then your blood I'll ingest Welcome to barovia what would you prefer Would you fight for peasant rights or be a party saboteur Be happy, be thirsty, be bursting with rage We've got a million different quests to engage Welcome to Ravenloft put your cares aside Here's a tip for draining plasma here's my love who sadly died We've got zombies and werewolves and magical swords And a bunch of colored pencil drawings and me and Ireena Kolyana getting married and staying together forever Welcome to barovia, hold on to your soul Cause you just escaped the deathouse so you're under my control It's foggy and opressive I'll give you a tour You'll never leave here that I ensure See a men beheaded get ejected have a drink Bring me paitings of Ireena tell me every thought you think Form a party start a fire just don't mess with this vampire Give you all that you desire till you find that I'm a liar Then you'll Here's a healthy breakfast option You should kill your monk Why don't women ever love me Here's a dagger kill your monk What type of hero are you Take a card and see I brought you to this demiplane to be playthings for me Could I interest you in visiting for all of time Insanity and suffering for all of time Fatricide's a tragedy and I'm bored all the time You were here to entertain me for all of time Could I interest you in visitting for all of time Insanity and suffering for all of time Fratricide's a tragedy and I'm bored all the time You are here to entertain me for all of time
Lyrics Welcome to Barovia Have a look around Evilness is lurking In this valley that you found We've got plenty of plot hooks Some evil. Some good If you're still feeling hopeful here you've misunderstood Welcome to Ravenloft Come and take a seat Would you like to try a glass of wine or some suspicious meat There's no need to worry You're my humble guest (Ha Ha) Until you start to bore me Then your blood I'll ingest Welcome to Barovia What would you Prefer? Would you fight for peasant rights Or be a party saboteur Be happy Be thirsty Be bursting with rage We've got a million different quests to engage Welcome to Ravenloft Put your cares aside Here's a tip for draining plasma Here's my love who sadly died We got Zombies and Werewolves Some magical swords And a bunch of coloured pencil drawings of me and Ireena Kolyanna getting married And staying together forever Welcome to Barovia Hold onto your soul Because you have just escaped the Death House So you're under my control It's foggy and oppressive I'll give you a tour You'll never leave here Of that I ensure See a man beheaded Get dejected. Have a drink Bring me paintings of Ireena Tell me every thought you think Form a party Start a fire Just don't mess with this vampire Give you all that you desire Till you find out I'm a liar Then you. Here's a healthy breakfast option You should kill your monk Why don't women every love me Here's a dagger kill your monk What type of hero are you Take a card and see I brought you to this demi-plane To be play things for me Could I interest you in visiting For all of time Insanity and suffering For all of time Fratricide's a tragedy And I'm bored all the time You are here to entertain me For all of time Could I interest you in visiting For all of time Insanity and suffering For all of time Fratricide's a tragedy And I'm bored all the time You are here to entertain me For all of time
As a DM who almost exclusivly runs Ravenloft, I WHOLY support this parody and animatic. The Wolfweres of Kartakaas will be singing it in the woods as they hunt you tonight!
Yeah, my whole party is neutral/ good. We got in a consensus that there's no one in barovia worthy of salvation. Right now the DM is panicking because he leaned too much to the grim dark side that even the lawfull good paladin thinks that is an act of mercy to purify the whole of barovia with fire.
@@GhostPaprika the only good persons alive were Irena and her brother, the brother got kidnapped by stradht and Irena got kidnapped by Izek. The rest of the good persons, either we didn't meet, or the DM twisted their minds, or they committed suicide.
@@theglassman1284 I just hope that he won't shower us with good people to drag us back to the adventure because of guilt and pity. I wish you guys could see the face that he did when we decided to kill the burgomaster, lady Fiona, all their families and put the priest on charge of the city, just to discover that stradht might have a plot to kill the priest after the coffin shop encounter and leave the city leaderless. Welp, he already "created" a shortage os alchemical fire on vallaki, should've kept my wits to myself when I voiced my thoughts of suicide bombing with 15 alchemical fires on my bag
There's like whole towns of people, it's a small country...maybe it's more of a note on your party and how they play than it is on the DM because I literally can't imagine a scenario where one of my characters would be like "yup just kill the whole country", but then again that's just me I guess.
Why do I picture while Strahd dances and sings, there's rahadin and the current 4 consorts in the background either playing the instruments and Ludmilla just chugging down wine cause she hear this song over and over again when a new batch of people enter barovia Also... That hot werewolf better not awaken anything in me or my group
I'm running curse of Strahd and they are in the Post Strahd. Like, the window where he is dead before he comes back. I am Excited to have him return. Last time they saw him they had pissed him off so he had Rahadin write a passive aggressive ransom note disguised a wedding invitation. They immediately picked up on the fact that the note was written by a Rahadin was being dictated to by a very angry man. The ransom separated the party by necessity, but they were still 2v1 against each of the brides (excluding Escher because he was caught being a double agent) and the Abbot. The monk fell off the stairs and Strahd was mauled to death by a hell hound... when the Bard and his pet... levitated up the central column of the stairs, on an animated church pew. It was a scene.
This song is so accurate. The players in the CoS game I’m running sacrificed the paladin in the party by session 3. Now the druid is being manipulated by strahd to help his ends, in exchange they will be his successor and he’s starting to make all the party members think the are special and is already starting make them plot against each other. All it took was him taking them skeet shooting and the seeds were planted lol.
Just wanted to let you know I thought about this comment every day. Strahd??? SKEET SHOOTING? A very different game indeed XD I hope ya'll are having fun!!
@@GhostPaprika well’s it’s an evil party. The paladin was the one good guy (one must die in the death house and well you know what happened) So during the dinner with strahd they were able to convince him to do skeet shooting. So they went to one of the towers of ravenloft and he had this ballista dmg cross bow. They drank wine they stole from wizard of wines and shot strahd zombies (since he hates the zombies and tortures them for fun). He took the opportunity to “befriend” them. Harder to believe it when your best bud strahd who took you skeet shooting betrays you for his own fun and/or means. It’s harder to run CoS for an evil party but they seem to be having fun so it’s all good so far.
My DM and I love this video so much. We finished our campaign last year but we're starting a new one with some folks who havent experienced CoS yet. Im playing a questionably cursed monk native to Barovia and I just can't help but think "Kill your monk" every time I look at his sheet lmao
I’m about to start this campaign soon and with my friend and she shared this with me and I was like oh he’s an immortal shithead isn’t he? This was lovely! I’m getting so excited!
The insanity and suffering bit is so on point XD this was the first campaign I ever played, and my happy go-lucky just wanted to see the world tabaxi ended it having died twice, lost her best friend, turned into a werewolf, and went insane.
I have watched this so many times. the artist put so much love and detail into this. it tells a really tragic story of what feels like a very personal strahd game. thank you so much for sharing. 11/7
My group I started has a merfolk from Barovia, at first I was annoyed having to fit his family in the valley, but then I realized…literally everyone he’s ever known lives here!
in the group i'm with we accidentally (note: ACCIDENTALLY!) sent a ghostly assassin after strahd. in response he invited us to dinner, and then released his courtiers and spawn to hunt us for 3 days and 3 nights. if we survive, we'll have his favor. the "you should kill your monk" line hittin particularly hard this evening, lads. pray for my monk 🙏🙏🙏
"For all of time" is not a reference to Strahd being immortal. The campaign is a time loop. He only needs to practice once every few millenia, and he'll have had eons of practice by now.
@@AgentSteffi so my main annoyance, and don't get me wrong I love the monk class, is the stunning strike feature. Use a ki point when you hit a creature and they have to pass a Con save to not be stunned until the end of the monk's next turn. Factor in the Monk's flurry of blows and multi-attacks then all it takes is one failed save for your boss to get beat down in an embarrassingly small amount of time. I love the class and I dont have any malevolent feelings towards it but I do feel like a sitcom arch nemesis when it comes to dealing with the monk Immunity to poison damage and being able to end certain status effects at will is also annoying
@@inyrmind oh, so Strahd wants to kill them because of stunning strike. Yeah, they can probably get really annoying. Especially thinking about the main tactic Strahd uses for fights in the castle. I was so confused because I was trying to think of something special monks could do to undead, lol.
@@AgentSteffi some other things to consider, very few things in the game are immune to being stunned. So unless you homebrew an immunity, your best bet proficiency in con saves Also, monks become proficient in all saves at a certain level
@@AgentSteffi If you have a monk with a base of 16 dex and they dump two of their score increases into dex, give them a staff of striking and watch as they constantly beat the ever living shit out of everything short of a tarasque. Oh and if the manage to avoid rolling a 1 after burning all the staffs charges, they can and will dump all those charges into oneshotting the mini boss of the encounter
I’m going to run Curse of Strahd soon. So far, our party has a gnome wizard who we might end up remaking as a druid, an elf fighter, and someone who wants to try a homebrew fairy race and hasn’t picked a class yet.
brb making a character sheet for a dhampir monk. Aside from the bite/martial arts synergy, and general monk-ness, I bet you could do some fun things with spider climb and step of the wind.
I know my favorite fact about Curse of Strahd is that you can call Strahd a simp and be entirely accurate. Like sure, Slavic horror is great (though the book's Vistani is a really bad misrepresentation of the Romani people), but I wanna T pose over Strahd to assert dominance while calling him a simp and telling him to give me his throne.
The Vistani aren't Romani. That's like complaining Barbarians are really bad misrepresentations of Scandinavians. They're INSPIRED by Romani. It's fantasy.
Welcome to Barovia! Have a look around. Evilness is lurking In this valley that you found. We've got plenty of plot hooks, Some evil, some good. If you’re still feeling hopeful here You’ve misunderstood. Welcome to Ravenloft! Come and take a seat. Would you like to try a glass of wine Or some suspicious meat? There’s no need to worry, You’re my humble guest! Until you start to bore me, Then your blood I’ll ingest. Welcome to Barovia. What would you prefer? Would you fight for peasant rights Or be a party saboteur? Be happy! Be thirsty! Be bursting with rage! We’ve got a million different quests to engage! Welcome to Ravenloft! Put your cares aside. Here’s a tip for draining plasma. Here’s my love who sadly died. We’ve got zombies, And werewolves, And magical swords, And a bunch of coloured pencil drawings of me and Ireena Kolyana getting married and staying together for forever- Welcome to Barovia. Hold on to your soul. ‘Cuz you just escape the Death House So you’re under my control. It’s foggy and oppressive. I’ll give you a tour. You’ll never leave here, Of that I ensure. See a man beheaded, Get dejected, Have a drink. Bring me paintings of Ireena. Tell me every thought you think. Form a party, Start a fire, Just don’t mess with this vampire. Give you all that you desire ‘Till you find out I’m a liar, then you- Here’s a healthy breakfast option. You should kill your monk. Why don’t women ever love me? Here’s a dagger, kill your monk. What type of hero are you? Take a card and see! I’ve brought you to this demiplane To be playthings for me. Could I interest you in visiting For all of time? Insanity and suffering For all of time. Fratricide’s a tragedy and I’m bored all the time. You are here to entertain me For all of time. Could I interest you in visiting For all of time? Insanity and suffering For all of time. Fratricide’s a tragedy and I’m bored all the time. You are here to entertain me For all of time. This song is great. This might single-handedly convince me to run Curse of Strahd.
Just looking I feel like there are a bit too many/too deadly encounters for levels 1-2. Literally there is a monster with multi-d6 of max health dmg that could potentially outright kill a Pc. In my mind not conducive to a good campaign start
@@wargrizzero5158 I ran the Death House for my family, who are admittedly not the most strategic players, and they did perfectly fine. A few things to keep in mind from one DM to another: 1. Bahrovia is deadly, let your party know to use their resources. I think a lot of parties worry about saving resources for big fights, but CoS has the opinion of "few and deadly" when it comes to encounters. If parties know that every fight is important and deadly, spells start flying and encounters become more fun as there's a good balance of tension. 2. Running is an option. I was very lucky that my step-daughter is very emotionally driven, and so when she took a hit that left her at 1 HP, she just booked it down the stairs to get away, leaving the rest of the party to do the Fighter's job. While everyone did freak out that their tank had ditched them, it gave everyone else an "ah ha" moment that running is a viable and necessary option in Bahrovia. 3. Bahrovia is a strange land. Death should never be the end. If you're fortunate enough, I would recommend picking up Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. A lot of the templates are great "curses" to bestow on dead party remembers. The PCs are Strahd's toys, he's not going to want them broken so soon...
I’m running Curse of Strahd right now, and the party currently consists of a forest gnome druid, a fairy rogue, and a human monk. I bet you’ll never guess which one decided to seduce Ireena and thus earn Strahd’s personal hatred…
Our characters have amnesia too! Mine is a reborn made using St Markovia's body. (no spoilers in replies plz we're still playing). I love that your DM made you Ireena, that's so cool.
Sadly, I play as Vladislak, the way of mercy monk. He was killed by a shadow, then was revived and got a dark gift (living shadow). He was silent about shadow's cravings for people's death to multiply... until our DM decided to RP 3 fails on death saving throws as my shadow finishing off character. Which got our domain of light cleric Camelia thinking that I am a danger to the party, which got my char almost killed, since I didn't say that my shadow wanted to kill. "Kill your monk" part made me chuckle because of that))))
Curse of Strahd is currently being my first time playing DnD, and I'm very excited for it, as I finished my Session 0 and will be introduced to the rest of the party at Vallaki, since I'm joining late. I went and picked a Halfling Oath of Glory Paladin, faith of The Morning Lord (not sure if that'll be a good or bad thing), made her an outsider with hot-blood and a foul mouth, full of ambition, something to balance out the other depressed PCs, especially since they don't have a healer too. My best moment so far is when fighting some evil druid and his barbarian bodyguards, getting caught in a lightning AoE by an ally then hit by a greataxe for 1/3rd of my max HP, one hit away from death, then I channel my rage into a Nat20 Divine Hammer Smite right into the enemy barbarian's balls. That shit did half his max HP while making sure he's ready for No Nut November.
0:55 I remember that moment in game (might have been pastels, not colored pencils iirc) and I shouted out in realization “the bbeg is a Nice Guy Incel!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
This is really good, the rhymes are well done. Strahd feels very in-character as well, which is fun. Well, an interpretation of his character. Very CE.
For those curious, the song is a parody of Bo Burham's "Welcome To The Internet" song from the Neflix special "Inside", and I absolutely adore both versions
The back to back "kill the monk" implies the reason women never love Strahd is because he enjoys killing monks
Maybe Sergei was a monk
I feel concerned cause I’m playing a Cleric & we have a Monk in our crew
@@castbet9183 please inform us if something… “strange”… happens to the Monk…
Im also doing curse of strahd as a monk and so far nothing bad has heppened to me so far
I thought it was cause the monk thought about draining Irene 🤔 he only said that after seeing her thoughts.
Can't wait to show this to my group I'm DMing especially the monk that's in my party lol.
Same, I'm currently in the process of dming a Curse of Strahd game. The party is still very early on, but I can't wait to show this to them.
Ditto!
I would love to show it to them, but one of them is actually a traitor to the party and I don’t want to give them such a clear hint that’s an option he could’ve gone with
I'm the monk. . .
im monk in my party
I feel like I'm the only who finds the "bring me paintings of Ireena" part drop dead hilarious.
I'm assuming it's a Spiderman reference based on the desk and pose, and if so it's genius.
You are correct, it is based on the Spiderman meme! :) Im so glad someone noticed, haha.
The part "You should kill your Monk" is so funny to me, my groups Monk is trying to date Ireena .... I think this will be canon very soon xD
"Why don't women ever love me!? - You should kill your monk."
I think you answered your own question there Strahd old buddy old pal.
I mean, have you ever FOUGHT a monk? Them shit’s annoying, especially the gun toting ones.
~Me, A giff monk.
Have you ever DM'ed? Fuck monks! I am with Strahd on this one.
That Charm/Frighten resistance on Monks is a pain in Strahd's a$$. Back in the day taking a Palladin into Barovia was an almost guaranteed PC death. Even farther back I believe it was mages that were the most screwed.
@@shanerasmussen5225 So essentially Monks became the go to after Paladins made you DM's #1 most loathed PC in CoS?
Haha omg this is perfect. I'm the DM and I feel like half the campaign I'm trying to kill the monk.
they say the monk is not optimized but killing them is a heck of hard, you could end up having a PK if not for the pesky monk who miraculously survives for some reason
1:10 Now *THIS* caught me off-guard….
A Dhampir Monk Maid? That's some unhinged shit. I love it.
I love this so much! The insistence on killing the monk at 1:24 killed me
LOL! Im glad you enjoyed that, it's actually half the reason I made the animatic.
@@GhostPaprika What was the other half?
@@ryanterry4268 so...im guessing you play monks?
@@ryanterry4268 the love of my friends? Lmao 🤣
Strahd: Why doesn’t women love me?
Also Strahd: (Ignores the women who actually love/care/obsess over him cause he only wants Ireena.)
In case you wanted the lyrics:
Welcome to Barovia! Have a look around
Evilness is lurking in this valley that you found
We've got plenty of plot hooks, some evil some good,
If you're still feeling hopeful here you've misunderstood
Welcome to Ravenloft! Come and take a seat!
Would you like to try a glass of wine or some suspicious meat?
There's no need to worry you're my humble guests (ha ha)
Until you start to bore me then your blood I’ll ingest
Welcome to Barovia! What would you prefer?
Would you fight for peasant rights or be a party saboteur?
Be happy! Be thirsty! Be bursting with rage!
We've got a million different quests to engage
Welcome to Ravenloft! Put your cares aside
Here's a tip for draining plasma, here's my love who sadly died
We've got zombies and werewolves and magical swords
And a bunch of colored pencil drawing that me and Ireena Kolyana are getting married and staying together for fo...
Welcome to Barovia! Hold on to your soul
Cause you've just escaped the death house so you're under my control
It's foggy and depressive, I'll give you a tour!
You'll never leave here of that I ensure
See a man beheaded, get dejected, have a drink
Bring me paintings of Ireena, tell me every thought you think
Form a party, start a fire, just don't mess with this vampire
Give you all that you desire till you find that I’m a liar then you
Here's a healthy breakfast option "you should kill your monk"
Why don’t women ever love me "here's a dagger kill your monk"
What type of hero are you take a card and see!
I've brought you to this dandy plain to be play things for me
Could I interest you in visiting for all of time
Insanity and suffering for all of time
Fratricide's a tragedy and I’m bored all the time
You are here to entertain me for all of time
Could I interest you in visiting for all of time
Insanity and suffering for all of time
Fratricide’s a tragedy and I’m bored all the time
You are here to entertain me for all of time
I vote for this comment to be pinned so that we may all sing it ourselves.
It's demi-plane not dandy plain
He really wants the party’s monk to disappear.
1:10 She may or may not have been flirting with Irrena in this scene so... that may be cause enough for strahd to want them dead
For my party, kill your monk was strahd fortelling his own death. Our warforged monk 1v1'd him in his castle after being warforgenapped while the rest of the party tried to catch up and dealt the killing blow right when the paladin got there with the sunlight sword. He should have tried harder than a dagger lol!
As an avid Curse of Strahd dm, this really does encapsulate everything about the game.
As humorous as this song is, it also makes sure that Strahd is still threatening
The one who was dm for our curse of stradh played him like some lonely dude that just brought us there so he’d have friends. Legit the invite to his house for the big fight said “I have a feast prepared for you and some Mario kart too I hope you guys come”
I starting running Strahd in a couple of days and trying to decide whether or not to play this for my players as like an opening theme.
That'd be cool! But might give them some spoilers if they pay attention to it.
mild spoilers but may be fun
Sing until "here you've misunderstood"
Had a vistani sing it
@@GhostPaprika they don't pay attention to much. Dropping clues is so difficult. I more have to drop big red signs and offer a ghost to hold a hand. Lol
this song for curse of strahd is more satisfying and better than some songs made by people with no restrictions to their music
Yes OMG! Listen to this all the time!
I sent this to my party member who is currently working with Straud, with the text “you should kill your monk.” And the best part about it is the monk picked up the ice staff in the amber temple and is obsessed with becoming extremely powerful, which caused a problem or two with the party.
Lyrics:
Welcome to barovia
Have a look around
Evilness is lurking in this valley that you found
We've got plenty of plothooks
Some evil some good
If you're still feeling hopefull here you've misunderstood
Welcome to Ravenloft come and take a seat
Would like to try a glass of wine or some suspicious meat
There's no need to worry you're my humble guest
Until you start to bore then your blood I'll ingest
Welcome to barovia what would you prefer
Would you fight for peasant rights or be a party saboteur
Be happy, be thirsty, be bursting with rage
We've got a million different quests to engage
Welcome to Ravenloft put your cares aside
Here's a tip for draining plasma here's my love who sadly died
We've got zombies and werewolves and magical swords
And a bunch of colored pencil drawings and me and Ireena Kolyana getting married and staying together forever
Welcome to barovia, hold on to your soul
Cause you just escaped the deathouse so you're under my control
It's foggy and opressive I'll give you a tour
You'll never leave here that I ensure
See a men beheaded get ejected have a drink
Bring me paitings of Ireena tell me every thought you think
Form a party start a fire just don't mess with this vampire
Give you all that you desire till you find that I'm a liar
Then you'll
Here's a healthy breakfast option
You should kill your monk
Why don't women ever love me
Here's a dagger kill your monk
What type of hero are you
Take a card and see
I brought you to this demiplane to be playthings for me
Could I interest you in visiting for all of time
Insanity and suffering for all of time
Fatricide's a tragedy and I'm bored all the time
You were here to entertain me for all of time
Could I interest you in visitting for all of time
Insanity and suffering for all of time
Fratricide's a tragedy and I'm bored all the time
You are here to entertain me for all of time
... I'm sensing some unresolved aggression towards your party monk.
In the words of Mica Burton, "No! Please, I don't want to go back to Barovia! Don't make me go back!"
Lyrics
Welcome to Barovia
Have a look around
Evilness is lurking
In this valley that you found
We've got plenty of plot hooks
Some evil. Some good
If you're still feeling hopeful here you've misunderstood
Welcome to Ravenloft
Come and take a seat
Would you like to try a glass of wine
or some suspicious meat
There's no need to worry
You're my humble guest (Ha Ha)
Until you start to bore me
Then your blood I'll ingest
Welcome to Barovia
What would you Prefer?
Would you fight for peasant rights
Or be a party saboteur
Be happy
Be thirsty
Be bursting with rage
We've got a million different quests to engage
Welcome to Ravenloft
Put your cares aside
Here's a tip for draining plasma
Here's my love who sadly died
We got Zombies and Werewolves
Some magical swords
And a bunch of coloured pencil drawings of me and Ireena Kolyanna getting married
And staying together forever
Welcome to Barovia
Hold onto your soul
Because you have just escaped the Death House
So you're under my control
It's foggy and oppressive
I'll give you a tour
You'll never leave here
Of that I ensure
See a man beheaded
Get dejected. Have a drink
Bring me paintings of Ireena
Tell me every thought you think
Form a party
Start a fire
Just don't mess with this vampire
Give you all that you desire
Till you find out I'm a liar
Then you. Here's a healthy breakfast option
You should kill your monk
Why don't women every love me
Here's a dagger kill your monk
What type of hero are you
Take a card and see
I brought you to this demi-plane
To be play things for me
Could I interest you in visiting
For all of time
Insanity and suffering
For all of time
Fratricide's a tragedy
And I'm bored all the time
You are here to entertain me
For all of time
Could I interest you in visiting
For all of time
Insanity and suffering
For all of time
Fratricide's a tragedy
And I'm bored all the time
You are here to entertain me
For all of time
Perfect! One thing though, I think he says "Some suspicious meat" instead of mead. Otherwise it seems perfect! :)
Good song.
And the random derpy moments make it so much better.
That how I’m gonna introduce Strahd
As a DM who almost exclusivly runs Ravenloft, I WHOLY support this parody and animatic. The Wolfweres of Kartakaas will be singing it in the woods as they hunt you tonight!
There is no enchantment powerful enough to make me simp for Strahd over the hawt vampire maid monk
Yeah, my whole party is neutral/ good. We got in a consensus that there's no one in barovia worthy of salvation. Right now the DM is panicking because he leaned too much to the grim dark side that even the lawfull good paladin thinks that is an act of mercy to purify the whole of barovia with fire.
even the innocent people? jesus christ he must have fucked up real bad.
@@GhostPaprika the only good persons alive were Irena and her brother, the brother got kidnapped by stradht and Irena got kidnapped by Izek. The rest of the good persons, either we didn't meet, or the DM twisted their minds, or they committed suicide.
@@deni140492deni welp.... burn it all I guess
@@theglassman1284 I just hope that he won't shower us with good people to drag us back to the adventure because of guilt and pity. I wish you guys could see the face that he did when we decided to kill the burgomaster, lady Fiona, all their families and put the priest on charge of the city, just to discover that stradht might have a plot to kill the priest after the coffin shop encounter and leave the city leaderless. Welp, he already "created" a shortage os alchemical fire on vallaki, should've kept my wits to myself when I voiced my thoughts of suicide bombing with 15 alchemical fires on my bag
There's like whole towns of people, it's a small country...maybe it's more of a note on your party and how they play than it is on the DM because I literally can't imagine a scenario where one of my characters would be like "yup just kill the whole country", but then again that's just me I guess.
I'M OBSESSED AND WANT TO SHARE WITH MY PLAYERS BUT THEY HAVE NOT STARTED YET AND I WON'T BE ABLE TO DO SO UNTIL THE END OMG, THANK YOU
GODS I was just thinking the same!!!
RIGHT ?! Be strong friend♥ @@RaptorMother
The monk player: *intense sweating*
I WANNA SHARE THIS SO BADLY GRRRRRR
@@zoboothemafoo I'm going to share the first part f*ck it
"B-but Strahd, I AM the monk!"
Strahd: ...I don't believe I tripped over my words, _monk...._
Why do I picture while Strahd dances and sings, there's rahadin and the current 4 consorts in the background either playing the instruments and Ludmilla just chugging down wine cause she hear this song over and over again when a new batch of people enter barovia
Also... That hot werewolf better not awaken anything in me or my group
hahahha that's hilarious!! XD definitely telling that to my DM
LOL I didn't think I drew them hot but if that's what your eyes see >w>
Not even joking this just popped on my recomended, then went to buy the curse of strahd premium edition on amazon
lol same here
Yeah the monk in the party has sure been trivializing a lot of the fights. I need to throw something bigger at them.
Monsters that force Con/Wisdom saves will be good for taking down a monk
I'm getting the sense that you don't like my monk very much...
This song is dope.... But as the monk of my party-
YOU SHOULD KILL YOUR MONK
I'm running curse of Strahd and they are in the Post Strahd. Like, the window where he is dead before he comes back. I am Excited to have him return. Last time they saw him they had pissed him off so he had Rahadin write a passive aggressive ransom note disguised a wedding invitation. They immediately picked up on the fact that the note was written by a Rahadin was being dictated to by a very angry man. The ransom separated the party by necessity, but they were still 2v1 against each of the brides (excluding Escher because he was caught being a double agent) and the Abbot. The monk fell off the stairs and Strahd was mauled to death by a hell hound... when the Bard and his pet... levitated up the central column of the stairs, on an animated church pew. It was a scene.
This song is so accurate. The players in the CoS game I’m running sacrificed the paladin in the party by session 3. Now the druid is being manipulated by strahd to help his ends, in exchange they will be his successor and he’s starting to make all the party members think the are special and is already starting make them plot against each other. All it took was him taking them skeet shooting and the seeds were planted lol.
Just wanted to let you know I thought about this comment every day. Strahd??? SKEET SHOOTING? A very different game indeed XD I hope ya'll are having fun!!
@@GhostPaprika well’s it’s an evil party. The paladin was the one good guy (one must die in the death house and well you know what happened) So during the dinner with strahd they were able to convince him to do skeet shooting. So they went to one of the towers of ravenloft and he had this ballista dmg cross bow. They drank wine they stole from wizard of wines and shot strahd zombies (since he hates the zombies and tortures them for fun). He took the opportunity to “befriend” them. Harder to believe it when your best bud strahd who took you skeet shooting betrays you for his own fun and/or means. It’s harder to run CoS for an evil party but they seem to be having fun so it’s all good so far.
I can’t believe a vampire has a skeet shooting range
Jack I just wanted to let you know that your Skeet Shooting Strahd is now a meme in my party and we all love you very much
@@GhostPaprika I told my party this and they laughed. Enjoy your skeet shooting Strahd!
Strahd - 0:30 Me - Dies of laughter, comes back as a udead, and then dies again.
My DM and I love this video so much. We finished our campaign last year but we're starting a new one with some folks who havent experienced CoS yet. Im playing a questionably cursed monk native to Barovia and I just can't help but think "Kill your monk" every time I look at his sheet lmao
im so glad you enjoy it! :D lol, then your monk should be careful this time around! ;p you never know!
I’m about to start this campaign soon and with my friend and she shared this with me and I was like oh he’s an immortal shithead isn’t he? This was lovely! I’m getting so excited!
Now I feel the need to have Strahd break out into a musical number when my players meet him
I'm going to use this as the backgrouns music to introduce Stradh.
The insanity and suffering bit is so on point XD this was the first campaign I ever played, and my happy go-lucky just wanted to see the world tabaxi ended it having died twice, lost her best friend, turned into a werewolf, and went insane.
But seriously how do i like this video more than once
lol, if you like it you might like my other stuff! ;w;
Oh no... the poor dhampir monk looks so confused-
honestly some of the best fan dnd stuff out here
I have watched this so many times. the artist put so much love and detail into this. it tells a really tragic story of what feels like a very personal strahd game. thank you so much for sharing. 11/7
My group I started has a merfolk from Barovia, at first I was annoyed having to fit his family in the valley, but then I realized…literally everyone he’s ever known lives here!
Me sending this to my Dnd group inspired the dm to make our next campaign curse of strahd thank you.
Just DM'd the first session and my player is a monk...
Exited to show him this for the foreshadowing
Now he's said kill the monk twice so I'm tempted but if he said it like one more time it'd be verging on a compulsion
Kinda salty no one mentioned Strahd twerking..
sometimes the best things are implied, lol
Or the Gremlin Dance
in the group i'm with we accidentally (note: ACCIDENTALLY!) sent a ghostly assassin after strahd. in response he invited us to dinner, and then released his courtiers and spawn to hunt us for 3 days and 3 nights. if we survive, we'll have his favor. the "you should kill your monk" line hittin particularly hard this evening, lads. pray for my monk 🙏🙏🙏
Anastrasya killed our monk before the party could. Believe me, we were tempted
Really really debating on whether I should actually make a scene where Strahd invites the player in his castle and sings this for them
Strahd practices this everyday and yoy can't convince me otherwise
"For all of time" is not a reference to Strahd being immortal.
The campaign is a time loop. He only needs to practice once every few millenia, and he'll have had eons of practice by now.
That DM feeling where you really want to kill the monk...
Could you explain? First time DM, no monk (but two paladin multiclasses)
@@AgentSteffi so my main annoyance, and don't get me wrong I love the monk class, is the stunning strike feature. Use a ki point when you hit a creature and they have to pass a Con save to not be stunned until the end of the monk's next turn. Factor in the Monk's flurry of blows and multi-attacks then all it takes is one failed save for your boss to get beat down in an embarrassingly small amount of time. I love the class and I dont have any malevolent feelings towards it but I do feel like a sitcom arch nemesis when it comes to dealing with the monk
Immunity to poison damage and being able to end certain status effects at will is also annoying
@@inyrmind oh, so Strahd wants to kill them because of stunning strike. Yeah, they can probably get really annoying. Especially thinking about the main tactic Strahd uses for fights in the castle. I was so confused because I was trying to think of something special monks could do to undead, lol.
@@AgentSteffi some other things to consider, very few things in the game are immune to being stunned. So unless you homebrew an immunity, your best bet proficiency in con saves
Also, monks become proficient in all saves at a certain level
@@AgentSteffi If you have a monk with a base of 16 dex and they dump two of their score increases into dex, give them a staff of striking and watch as they constantly beat the ever living shit out of everything short of a tarasque. Oh and if the manage to avoid rolling a 1 after burning all the staffs charges, they can and will dump all those charges into oneshotting the mini boss of the encounter
I CAN'T STOP WATCHING THE DERPY STRAHD DANCE!!! HELP!
I’m going to run Curse of Strahd soon. So far, our party has a gnome wizard who we might end up remaking as a druid, an elf fighter, and someone who wants to try a homebrew fairy race and hasn’t picked a class yet.
well, those are easy races to traumatize😈
there is an official fairy race now, so that might be an easier option instead of homebrew! Either way I hope they all have fun :)
Ooh, which book is the official fairy race in?
It's in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight! I think you can also buy it individually as a race on DNDBeyond :)
@@GhostPaprika Thanks!
Didn’t know I wanted to see Strahd twerking until now
I didn’t realize this was the same artist who did the Vecna betrayal animatic until I checked. Definitely keeping an eye on this channel.
I didn't realize gremlin!Strahd was something I needed in my life but there we are.
I need the lyrics! This is simply amazing dude. Just love it!
Song is by Denkles, a music maker here on youtube and tik tok! :) I think his video has the lyrics posted.
brb making a character sheet for a dhampir monk. Aside from the bite/martial arts synergy, and general monk-ness, I bet you could do some fun things with spider climb and step of the wind.
you are correct! and our dhampir monk adeline agrees with you :P
I lost it when he started twerking!
Currently playing the campaign for the first time, totally blind, and well... after this I'm kinda scared for my monk? xD
How have I missed this for so long? Excellent work.
I know my favorite fact about Curse of Strahd is that you can call Strahd a simp and be entirely accurate. Like sure, Slavic horror is great (though the book's Vistani is a really bad misrepresentation of the Romani people), but I wanna T pose over Strahd to assert dominance while calling him a simp and telling him to give me his throne.
The Vistani aren't Romani. That's like complaining Barbarians are really bad misrepresentations of Scandinavians. They're INSPIRED by Romani. It's fantasy.
@@g0lddustt29 I mean fair, but even then they are not shown in a very good light. And it feels a little different between a class and a people.
@@johnfolmer5412 of course they aren't shown in a good light, they are agents of strahd and just a general roving band of jackasses
@@g0lddustt29 In the original, they were literally called gypsies.
Y'all really gonna ignore the second half of this comment?
what did the monk do
Pause at "tell me every thought you think" and you'll see that Strahd isn't Ireena's only bloodsucking stalker in this video.
Sun soul monk
I can't get over how catchy this song is! Can you please put this song on soundcloud???? I'm begging you!!!!
Hi! I did not make the song! The song is by Denkles, here on RUclips and on Tiktok. Please ask him! :)
I lost my shit entirely with the twerking, oh my god. You have a rare and special awful gift.
I think I've seen this video bout 20 times, and the running at 1:01 gives me chills every single time.
Thank you I'm so glad you enjoy that part! It's one of my favorites as well :)
@@GhostPaprika Thank you for animating such a beautiful segment!
The scariest creature in Curse of Strahd is that daam goat,pure evil
Welcome to Barovia!
Have a look around.
Evilness is lurking
In this valley that you found.
We've got plenty of plot hooks,
Some evil, some good.
If you’re still feeling hopeful here
You’ve misunderstood.
Welcome to Ravenloft!
Come and take a seat.
Would you like to try a glass of wine
Or some suspicious meat?
There’s no need to worry,
You’re my humble guest!
Until you start to bore me,
Then your blood I’ll ingest.
Welcome to Barovia.
What would you prefer?
Would you fight for peasant rights
Or be a party saboteur?
Be happy!
Be thirsty!
Be bursting with rage!
We’ve got a million different quests to engage!
Welcome to Ravenloft!
Put your cares aside.
Here’s a tip for draining plasma.
Here’s my love who sadly died.
We’ve got zombies,
And werewolves,
And magical swords,
And a bunch of coloured pencil drawings of me and Ireena Kolyana getting married and staying together for forever-
Welcome to Barovia.
Hold on to your soul.
‘Cuz you just escape the Death House
So you’re under my control.
It’s foggy and oppressive.
I’ll give you a tour.
You’ll never leave here,
Of that I ensure.
See a man beheaded,
Get dejected,
Have a drink.
Bring me paintings of Ireena.
Tell me every thought you think.
Form a party,
Start a fire,
Just don’t mess with this vampire.
Give you all that you desire
‘Till you find out I’m a liar, then you-
Here’s a healthy breakfast option.
You should kill your monk.
Why don’t women ever love me?
Here’s a dagger, kill your monk.
What type of hero are you?
Take a card and see!
I’ve brought you to this demiplane
To be playthings for me.
Could I interest you in visiting
For all of time?
Insanity and suffering
For all of time.
Fratricide’s a tragedy and I’m bored all the time.
You are here to entertain me
For all of time.
Could I interest you in visiting
For all of time?
Insanity and suffering
For all of time.
Fratricide’s a tragedy and I’m bored all the time.
You are here to entertain me
For all of time.
This song is great. This might single-handedly convince me to run Curse of Strahd.
I just started. It’s pretty fun.
P.S. Maybe tone down the number of encounters in the Death House…
my DM straight up skipped death house and plopped us in at level 3 instead, lol
Just looking I feel like there are a bit too many/too deadly encounters for levels 1-2. Literally there is a monster with multi-d6 of max health dmg that could potentially outright kill a Pc. In my mind not conducive to a good campaign start
@@GhostPaprika yeah same
@@wargrizzero5158 I ran the Death House for my family, who are admittedly not the most strategic players, and they did perfectly fine. A few things to keep in mind from one DM to another:
1. Bahrovia is deadly, let your party know to use their resources. I think a lot of parties worry about saving resources for big fights, but CoS has the opinion of "few and deadly" when it comes to encounters. If parties know that every fight is important and deadly, spells start flying and encounters become more fun as there's a good balance of tension.
2. Running is an option. I was very lucky that my step-daughter is very emotionally driven, and so when she took a hit that left her at 1 HP, she just booked it down the stairs to get away, leaving the rest of the party to do the Fighter's job. While everyone did freak out that their tank had ditched them, it gave everyone else an "ah ha" moment that running is a viable and necessary option in Bahrovia.
3. Bahrovia is a strange land. Death should never be the end. If you're fortunate enough, I would recommend picking up Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. A lot of the templates are great "curses" to bestow on dead party remembers. The PCs are Strahd's toys, he's not going to want them broken so soon...
the Internet steals your productivity. Barovia steals your soul
He REALLY hates Monks.
Can’t blame the man XD
Monks are either very underwhelming or absolutely game breaking. A single successful stunning strike can change a TPK into a cakewalk.
I’m running Curse of Strahd right now, and the party currently consists of a forest gnome druid, a fairy rogue, and a human monk. I bet you’ll never guess which one decided to seduce Ireena and thus earn Strahd’s personal hatred…
the monk
Bingo!
@@tsifirakiehl4250 this is my shocked face
>:3c
Can't wait for my party to finish the Curse of Strahd so I can send them this jewel! :D
My DM made my character (who got kidnapped as a kid and lost every memorie about it) to actually be ireena kolyana and now Im confused XD
that's an interesting choice! I hope it makes the stakes feel more personal and fun
Our characters have amnesia too! Mine is a reborn made using St Markovia's body. (no spoilers in replies plz we're still playing). I love that your DM made you Ireena, that's so cool.
Sadly, I play as Vladislak, the way of mercy monk. He was killed by a shadow, then was revived and got a dark gift (living shadow). He was silent about shadow's cravings for people's death to multiply... until our DM decided to RP 3 fails on death saving throws as my shadow finishing off character. Which got our domain of light cleric Camelia thinking that I am a danger to the party, which got my char almost killed, since I didn't say that my shadow wanted to kill. "Kill your monk" part made me chuckle because of that))))
i rewatch this frequently. currently running curse of strahd and it inspires me 😄
Currently playing Curse of Strahd with my group! Sent this to them right away when I found it!
That song is such a bop! I would love to show it my players, but right know it would spoil some details. Can't wait til I can.
This is now the canon voice for Strahd for me.
Oh god that is my campanion finale. Sthrad singing before he...
Seeing this made my day immeasurably better
Curse of Strahd is currently being my first time playing DnD, and I'm very excited for it, as I finished my Session 0 and will be introduced to the rest of the party at Vallaki, since I'm joining late.
I went and picked a Halfling Oath of Glory Paladin, faith of The Morning Lord (not sure if that'll be a good or bad thing), made her an outsider with hot-blood and a foul mouth, full of ambition, something to balance out the other depressed PCs, especially since they don't have a healer too.
My best moment so far is when fighting some evil druid and his barbarian bodyguards, getting caught in a lightning AoE by an ally then hit by a greataxe for 1/3rd of my max HP, one hit away from death, then I channel my rage into a Nat20 Divine Hammer Smite right into the enemy barbarian's balls. That shit did half his max HP while making sure he's ready for No Nut November.
Bro's ready for next NNN already 😂
me and my comrade managed to finish "The curse of Strahd" recently... after 3 months we finally killed that fucking bastard!
Every time I hear this song I really wish we had a monk in our party
0:55 I remember that moment in game (might have been pastels, not colored pencils iirc) and I shouted out in realization “the bbeg is a Nice Guy Incel!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
OMG this is hilarious. Wish I could show it to my party, but it's too early in the adventure, so there'd still be spoilers XD
Goofball strahd is best strahd☺️
This is really good, the rhymes are well done. Strahd feels very in-character as well, which is fun. Well, an interpretation of his character. Very CE.
love strahd twerking
Beautiful. Not an easy song to cover well.
Well does he want the knife back after I kill the monk.... or
The visuals of Strahd vibing are great 😆
For those curious, the song is a parody of Bo Burham's "Welcome To The Internet" song from the Neflix special "Inside", and I absolutely adore both versions
I'm actually addicted to this- I watch it at least three times a day
Only three? Pathetic
As someone who played a monk in CoS, jokes on you, I did a martyr build, HA!