D&D Curse of Strahd Replay (Episode 13, FINALE): The Final Battle
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- This is episode 13, the last episode, in my Dungeons and Dragons Curse of Strahd replay. In this story the group is heading to Castle Ravenloft, to save Ireena, stop Strahd's plan to turn her into a Vampire, and escape from Barovia, ending the cycle once and for all. Madam Ava gives the players a difficult decision to make.
EDIT: Just to clarify. Garo didn't say Strahd's name on the way up to Ravenloft. In my notes I accidentally said it, but in character, we knew not to say his name.
The Characters: (11th level)
(The Players)
Garo- Wood Elf Monk Cleric
Gouda- Gnome Wild Magic Sorcerer
Boshack- Lizardfolk Warlock
Krusk- Half- Orc Paladin
(Other NPCs)
Ireena- Woman that Strahd is after. We're trying to protect her.
Esmerelda- Vampire hunter. Trained by the famed Van Richten.
Ismark- Ireena's Brother.
Mordenkainen- Famous wizard who fought Strahd von Zarovitch a year ago and lost. Was in hiding.
Van Ricten- Famed vampire hunter.
Victor- Son the Baron Vallakovitch. Was making a teleportation circle in his attic, trying to escape from Barovia.
Muriel- Our raven companion. Can turn into a human.
Shadowfane- Unicorn Gouda accidentally summoned and has now joined up with the party.
ENEMIES:
Ludmilla, Anastrasya, Vollenta- Strahd's Brides
Kiril- Werewolf supporter of Strahd. Ousted Emil to take over the pack
Gertruda- Girl turned hag by the Night Hags. I tried to kill her but she escaped.
Besta and Betta- A Minotaur and Dwarf. They were lives created through Maverous's power that are set out to kill Gouda.
Bucephalus- Strahd's horse. A nightmare that can fly.
Fiona- The leader of Vallaki. Cultist who works for Strahd.
Music Credits: (All music from the RUclips Audio Library)
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I love how the evil character boshack got the only really good ending
I mean, Krusk technically got what he wanted as well
Hey hey! Chaotic Neutral!
I mean his actions and alignments didn't fully add up to me
@@littletonoskill7550 intensely self-interested with no regard for the well-being of others or objection to hags cooking children... that's chaotic evil all day!
@@littletonoskill7550 Chaotic evil doesn't have to mean chaotic stupid, he acted solely in his own interests and showed disregard for formal structures. At least NE.
Boshack:
I just came here to die on the first hour
Also Boshack:
*Makes it to the end without actually dying and gets the only good ending*
The Dark Powers of Ravenloft have a sense of humor. Ironic, isn't it?
Krusk got a decent ending. He willingly chose to go with Gouda to fight evil. He isn't forced to stay in the planes of dread but chose to because he wants to.
@@comet-fy6pd 2? I missed onr; was it on the same axis or did he end up true neutral?
@@zemorph42 CE -> NE -> CN from what I recall.
"There is one among your group who could take the dark throne of Barovia."
Me: It's Gouda. It's obviously Gouda.
Definitely would have voted for her to rule Borovia
@@azarlgor I mean if she couldn't leave anyways, why not.
@@TKDragon75 to bad they didn't realize that till it was too late
Said that exact same thing
Ironically if Gouda had taken up the throne, her curse of having to die and be reborn as the hero might keep a lot of villains busy from trying to get a full strangle hold on the throne.
"Plus we have the Tome of Strahd..."
*Strahd:* That Garou is a true gentleman, letting me scry on his plans before crashing my wedding
thought the exact same thing
Is it really crashing if you’re invited?
@@trexdrew Yes, because they didn't get him a wedding gift 😛
@@KaiserAfini The wedding gift is Death. Actually considering Barovia, that probably isn't too uncommon.
"Oh he doesn't want to split his party....how interesting."
*ALSO HE WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE, but well we didn't know that at that point in the video*
"You're doing a terrible job, but I never said it was a bad thing!"
I love you, Boshak.
Never change Boshack, never change 😂
That's basically DnD in a nutshell.
I had to stop the video I was laughing so hard over that
20:51 start of the awesome speech
He was favorite out of everyone
So Garo and Boshack effectively had opposing character arcs. Boshack learned to trust others and the value of good deeds, while Garo learned to commit evils out of necessity and to see everyone as a potential enemy.
Need.... moar.... strahd....
okay, really, I just need more Boshak
It really has been like listening to a missing Buffy episode but one where soulless Spike goes along for the ride and has some of the best quips. Wait, that's episode ep22 of season 2 , lol. A classic. Boshak for the win!
Boshak is the reason my next character is going to be low-key evil
It looks like Boshak is the only one who wins in this campaign.
@@WingZX1103 He deserves it, he's a good evil snek boi
@@WillowMcPlier But he's not a snek, he's a liz!
Plot twist "Ottie Otterton" is the True Leader of the Dark Powers
Secretly Ottie Otterton pulls off his female disguise and laughs manically to himself. Now he’s got all the power in the world and has corrupted the party under the assumption it was just a dead sister who needed restoring.
Erm
That would be too rich
IT WAS THE OTTER?! of course it was
A voice in the distance: "I WAAAARNED YOOOOOOU"
Finally, a sensible, chaotic evil (okay chaotic neutral) president. Really Boshak is the best candidate....
> Gouda
Well, shit, Barovia's screwed.
> actual evil sister that didn't receive an insight check.
Well, shit, Barovia's... still... screwed?
Poor Garo, but that dovetailed well for his character arc.
Don't forget, at that point he'd shifted to Neutral Evil out of understanding the party needs a strong leader to help accomplish their goals. He'd already embraced politics!
I would vote for Garl, with Boshac as advisor.
@@Kereea and then just plain Neutral. He's a filthy Neutral now...
@@Supadubya Filthy Neutral... I do what I want!
"The sun rose for the first time in 400 years"
Every single life form in Barovia: *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
MY EYEEEEESSSSS
People who haven't ever seen the sun before* *FLOPPIN` FLOTSAM, WHAT`S THAT?!?!?*
Oh, the sunburns!
So Barovia is in Scotland?
Barovians: WHAT HELLISH NIGHTMARE IS THIS *eyes bleeding*
Garo: We need an adult
Gouda: I am an adult
Garo: No, No you are not
TFS Memes at its finest.
She can be treated as an adult when she starts acting like an adult. So in other words never.
I love it. Boshack, who stayed true to himself the entire story, ended up achieving exactly what he wanted to.
Same goes for Krusk.
Have to admit Kursk had more lines in that epilogue than the entire story. Kept forgetting he was in the party.
@@mikesands4681He was mentioned in all of the action. He was hard on the enemies.
Ahem, let me get this just right “I WAAAARNED YOOOOOOU”
You're gonna need to be mote specific, which one?
"Hooray we won"
DM: "Yes, but actually no"
There is no winning, in the curse of strahd. Only despair, only pain.
I guess it's good that all of us can find out that module is a heap of BS without having to experience it first hand
@@frederickthesquirrel It is also the most fun campaign I have ever run. There is a reason they have released this module in several forms over the years, made a board game out of it, and spawned an entire universe, the Ravenloft worlds, from the story of Strahd. Just as Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Spelljammer, or Hollow World have their own flavor, Ravenloft campaigns are going to be full of horror elements, evil characters, and dark powerful beings that seemingly never can be outsmarted/outmaneuvered. The best you can expect from challenging the dark powers that rule Ravenloft are death, or to irritate/amuse them enough they create your own mist shrouded prison, such as Strahd, Lord Soth, Vlad Drakov, Lord Godfrey, etc.
@@gjbehrendt6713 I get that some people like it, but I personally can't see the appeal of a story where your choices don't matter at the end
@@gjbehrendt6713 "(...) Lord *Godfrey,* " Oh. Ooh shit!
Ben: “We have successfully captured Strahd Von Zarovich”
*insert Pokémon caught theme*
Who's that Pokemon???
Strahd's data has been added to the Pokedex:
Whatever his goal, Strahd is a dangerous opponent, as he has powers of both a vampire and a wizard, making him far stronger than the ordinary vampire.
I'm so glad I'm not alone in that sentiment.
*Garo talks about how Patricia is the best option *
Me: Yeah unless she's lying
*epilogue happens, mentally plays Curb Your Enthusiasm *
Yeah, but it’s not like Barovia is full of people who would lie to you. /s
That's why you gotta roll Insight on people. Insight proficiency is vital in dark, RP heavy campaigns like CoS where the DM pulls shenanigans with NPC's left and right.
"I'm coming for your other leg."-Boshak
GIMMIE DEM TOES!
Best line of the entire campaign
This was a really tragic, yet oddly satisfying ending to this series. Especially Garo’s ending. I think if I ever run Curse of Strahd, it would actually take place after this one, with the Mistress of Darkness ruling instead. Could be an interesting twist. Hope that would be okay with you, Puffin.
We'll need to know how that campaign turns out when you do it. It would be very cool and creepy to see the horrors of this campaign referred to as past events.
Have one of the PCs be the descendant of the noble hero of legend, Boshak, who slew the green dragon of the swamp and then journeyed across the land vanquishing evil.
I hated this ending. For me, it felt so unsatisfieing. They win,yet they still lose.
@@tonyscaletty8705 thats very horror happy endings are unrealistic
The dark mistress would want to bring back Strad as her lover.
That feeling when the NE character is actually scared of what Gouda might do to Borovia.
I'm assuming it would involve cheese.
...Couldn't she have used the mist to pull her parents into Borovia? Presumably asking Boshack to tell them to stop by? Then they'd all be one big happy family! (Imagine that said in Gouda's voice)
The party seems to have forgotten the first rule of selecting a leader, one’s actual skill at leadership is typically inversely proportional to how much they want the job.
It's so perfect that the final episode of this dark series is #13
(sung) ALL THERE TRAVELS HAVE COME TO THIS, THE SHINANAGUYS MUST THE WITCH. OR IREANA WILL SUFFER A HORRIBLE WED, BRING END TO STRAHD AND REST TO THE DED!!!
P.S.: 9:25 The sound of an angry sorcerer.
P.S.2.: 13? Why?
P.S.3.: (finished the video) (Shattered glass sound)... That... that was terrible. My gosh, that was terrible! I was thinking about showing this to my siblings, how am I supposed to show them now! THIS IS WHY I CAN'T PLAY D.N.D., THERE'S A 60% CHANCE THAT THE STORY WILL END BAD! I CAN'T JUST LET THIS KIND OF STUFF HAPPEN TO CHARACTERS I LOVE! THIS IS MADNESS!!!
WHO CHANGED THE LIKES TO 70 WHO DID IT I WILL FIND YOU and calmly talk to you about the importance of the number 69.
It's a good, strong number. Strikes fear in people's hearts.
*...THIRTEEN!*
(Gasps in fear) Don't do that.
@@jjj9640 Ok butttt.... loving your characters includes having bad shit happen so they can grow
I'm surprised the party hasn't adopted a certain line of thinking during the campaign.
"If it's too good to be true there's something SERIOUSLY WRONG!'
Fortune Teller: "Its not me but the cards!"
Party: burns the card deck.
Secret ending unlocked: Barovia is no more
You can't railroad us.
That's how you end up annoying the dark powers and end up in your own new demiplane of dread. :)
The heart of the cards is evil, so just get rid of them!
Pick a card ...
From this deck ..
.
Of many things
47:40 1st rule of Berovia: Everyone is evil!
2nd rule of Berovia: Especially the heroes.
Ben: *Yells about not splitting the party*
They’re gonna split the party aren’t they...
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Thats my guess too.
I thought you were Vinny at first
I'm right at that part too, gonna come back when the inevitable happens to say something funny about it, if i'm not too lazy to be bothered that is.
@@Mazaroth it appears this has occurred
Honestly, I'd love to see a sequel. Another party ends in Barovia, and gets to interact with the old one (minus Boshak) as NPCs in their new role. Heck, Garou could be a boss fight!
Or maybe Boshak is the NPC that leads the group into Barovia after Krusk finds him to help Gouda leave Barovia.
@@Socrates458 or Victor and Stellas descendants return to Barovia. They got a raw deal. Some of the Strahd's consorts are still alive. GARO is alive and probably Gouda is at least a little old lady if not immortal.
The 5emple of amber is awesome concept.
@@elizabethlee2136 Ghoda is the hero remember?
Heros don't grow old, heros die young.
But Ghoda is _always_ the hero...
The No-Hitler's Rule: more a guideline.
Didn't say nuthin bout a "No-Stalin's" rule. Checkmate.
@@shino4242 that was perfect history truly does repeat itself
"Gouda, that's not how magic works"
...
That's *exactly* how magic works. You just need to kill the vampire and then resurrect the person normally and bing bang boom, back to life.
Gouda just becomes more anime as the episodes go on.
Spoilers sushh
oler777 Korega Requiem Da
@Tyler Coon I was hoping she would become BatGirl and rule over Barovia.
Fitting.
I'm posting this 15 minutes in: Gouda's only reason for wanting to not be the dark lord was she wouldn't see her family. I don't see why that is a problem. Yes she wouldn't be able to leave Barovia, but unless there is something stopping her family from going to Barovia, she and her family could still see each other.
My thoughts exactly, and then the dark lords would have to deal with a pack of annoying gnomes. Perhaps they’d flee and release barovia?
Except, that her family would DIE in Barovia in a Horrible way...not to mention... Gouda...she's no longer a Gnome anymore, If you remember she originally die as an gnome from a night Hag but came back as an Aberration of a Beholder, Then Die again and came back...Again as a Aberration(Beholder) + Tabaxi... and remember each time she dies she has to take a "new" form for her reincarnation in which in turn would make her MORE ABERRATION... Her family wouldn't want to see her in this way, they might consider her a Monster instead of her daughter.
PLUS, Let say that Gouda's family survives the lands of Barovia and all the dangers... What are the chances that her family intends to kill her when they find out she look like this... i seriously doubt she would welcome her with open arms knowing what become of her.
PLUS, PLUS EXTRA, Each time she dies and have to take a new form from 2 choices of race, and when she picks one, The other one that she didnt choose his also brought back to the living with the goal of killing her, And if they find her family in Barovia, there's no doubt in my mind that they would go and kill them.
No matter what angle or point of view you see for Gouda, She will get the worst ending, After all ("She's the Hero..." "She's gonna be the Hero that dies in battles") and she will always be the Hero...That "Dies in the Battle"
______
YEP, the way her Patron Beholder talk to her on that mansion made believe he was cursing her.
And the only one to blame is Gouda... she just too "DUMB/GULLIBLE"
@@minecraftbacon9620 "her family would DIE in Barovia"
If it's a life expectancy thing, Gouda would be dark lord, she should be able to protect them. If it's about an afterlife, I don't know how to solve that.
"Her family wouldn't want to see her in this way" I don't know where you got that from.
About the Gouda dying and being recarnated with an enemy thing. I'm not sure if that is true if she accepts the mantle of dark lord.
yeah, thats true... but they don't know where she went.
And even if they did, Her family would be trap there, also Barovia is really not good place to be, when the death rate is very high, Like really, Really High.
all of the people of Barovia want to escape those dreaded lands yet they can't cause the dark forces surrounding those lands.
Also lets be honest the people that live there are (TERRIBLE PEOPLE) u got Night hags that eat children, u got a Werewolf pack with a leader that wants to grow it packs numbers and rule them over, U got the Abbots that are corrupt (including "Ben's Character" Garou) and now the new vampire mistress thats is more powerful than Strahd.
Unless Gouda rejects the gift entirely or Trask finds away to remove it, she will still be dying...
and that's gonna be depressing for her family.
@@minecraftbacon9620 Gouda is a dark lord of borovia. You seriously think anybody in borovia has the balls to attack her family or that her family wont be protected at all times? Gouda also mentions how likable her family are, that gullible and optimistic personality in the face of horror and carnage says more about how "good" her upbringing was at home more than anything. I seriously doubt her family is that judgemental of her looks when they meet her; they are still gonna treat her like Gouda.
Not to mention isn't the ambience and environment of borovia the refelction of the current "dark" lord of borovia? I am pretty sure Gouda would make borovia sickenningly pink with a dash happiness and rainbows. Either the monsters play nice or they are gonna suffer from Guoda's lectures of how to be a good boi 101. Not to mention Goro is there to knock some sense into her if she is making a dumb af decision and also be her eyes and ears to protect her from possible invasions.
I am pretty sure it is easier to corrupt a person with a pure of heart than someone who is dumb as a brick. The Dark powers that be would have an even harder time to torment her than anyone else in the story.
Guoda is the hero, a dark lord of borovia. She has inherited the power of all of borovia + she is a high level spellcaster + daddy's favourite gal which make her extremely difficult to kill. So far there is only 2 people are gunning for her... It is gonna be a situation where Guoda would see them as friends that comes and "play" with her every now and then.
Gouda tick all the boxes of a perfect "dark" lord of borovia. She is too dense to be corrupted and too strong to be easily murdered by someone else.
Always check references and maybe do a second round of interviews before selecting a dark lord.
Nah they should’ve unabashedly thrown the damn title to Gouda and been done with it
"Where do you see yourself in five years? ... Darklording. Great, great. What would you say are three of your weaknesses? ... Cares too much... Hopes too hard... Rules too fairly... Greeeeat. When can you start?"
Should have pull out the whiteboard and asked her to draw a diagram of her plans for the kingdom.
Can we all petition for Puffin to start that kind of "Campaign Replay Series"? This was a blast to listen to at work while driving 🙂
8 minutes in and Boshack continues to be the highlight of this series
Boshack did not nothing wrong
Couple of things:
1. I love that your GM basically gave you the clarification that the Thanes weren't the Dark Powers but showed that didn't make them "better".
2. Gouda should have taken the throne. It would have been safest in the long run as her reincarnation curse would make it harder for potential threats to take full control.
3. Crusk walked himself into his own bad ending and I love it.
4. Boshak was brilliant and I'm so glad he got the "good" ending he deserved.
Garo realizing they can just leave Strahd in charge as the least screwed up choice is some real Lawful Neutral energy.
Forget about Lawful Neutral, that is straight up True Neutral.
I’d love to see the adventures of Boshack after leaving Barovia. I mean a chaotic neutral lizardfolk warlock, a flesh golem and a hag that wants to be good. The adventures that party would have….
Garo: *Says they need to keep Strahd in power*
Strahd: never have i needed something so little and never known until i received it
And Garo was right because the person who was chosen is Strahd, but worse and stronger.
basically Strahd but with less morals and honor.
Hah! DBZ Abridged reference.
Ahhh, the Sword of Warning would have a blast this session.
I think the Sword would've checked out after the cookie incident.
"Nope. No more. I quit. I WARNNNN YOU, but you dont listen."
I’ll miss these kinds of videos. Thanks for doing these puffin, it really helps destress whenever I go to work.
Edit: Just notice that this is an hour long. Hooooo boy, we’re in for a treat.
There might be more
He’s not done. He said at the start that this was just the first story.
These have been one of the highlights of my weeks during this fucked up series of unfortunate events we’re living in aka 2020
Man that's a real downer ending. Amazing story, though! I love how you didn't try to glorify your character or have 'main character syndrome' just because it was from your perspective. You actually took the time to describe each character's journey and how they developed over the course of their 2-3 weeks in Barovia.
2 minutes in, it's "There must ALWAYS be a LICH KING"
This is how every Demiplane of Dread works. There’s one down by Chult too.
I wrote pretty much the same thing. Watched the video then scrolled the comments. I see you are of culture as well lol.
@@KINFIN123 wait what?
"The Dutchman must always have a captain..."
otaco ordinario Yeah, Barovia is far from the only Demiplane that operates under those rules. There must be a Dark Lord in each.
You know what man? Massive shoutouts to boshack(?)’s character concept and his player. Especially given that he didn’t want to keep playing the character, he became a really interesting and essential part of the story with a great arc. The way he paralleled Garo was especially poetic. This basically helped me decide how I would want to run an evil character were I to ever do so.
Bloody hell, talk about ending where you started.
The circle is complete.
Finish the cycle of eternal return
I know that if a character of mine went through all that, they would be paranoid enough to be institutionalized. They would insist that a higher level cleric use divination to ask, in turn: "in your opinion, is (potential candidate) the best candidate to be lord of borovia?" In addition to 3 verified references, a probably unnecessarily thorough background check, and, if possible, magically binding vows about how they will behave as lord of berovia.
That was the best thing you ever published dude. Holy shit your storytelling was on point and from what I can hear your dm did a great job. Greetings and deep respect to everyone in the group.
The DM sounds brilliant
The Dm was secretly one of the Dark Lords
“you talk to the bad people, a fight breaks out, everyone targets you with their attacks, and i get to kill people. youre doing a terrible job, but i didnt say that was a bad thing” 😂😂😂
I kinda wanna run a campaign with Gouda as the BBEG now
good idea do it hue
@@FlyingFairyS2 Gouda idea*
Oh, but you can’t. Gouda will ALWAYS be the hero, remember? *insert scary laughter and thundering background*
@@Garaman257 Then run and "evil" campaign as those trying to take her place.
Gouda the Dark Lady with her faithful left hand enforcer Trixie Starbright. “You will be our friends and everyone will be nice, or else!”
Man, so Gouda being the new dark ruler would have been the right choice.
There was no right choice. The entire setting is basically the PCs playing three card monty with the Dark Powers. They want you to think that this time you know where the queen of hearts is, but whatever card you pick will be revealed to have been the wrong choice.
I'm a simple man, I see a new episode of the Strahd replay and I press like
Boshak is the best character story arc ive witnessed fully play out and he even got a good ending :).
Brings a tear to my eye how all the characters ended up in their particular situations with big realizations about the world itself even though they technically accomplished very little in terms of Barovia itself. Usually plot twists that negate everything that the players did are a terrible idea, but with the theme of everything being hopeless while also furthering the characters themselves this is how you do a great plot twist. Hard choices had to be made, battles had to be fought and ideals were followed , but ultimately the powers of the land are unrelenting and inescapable.
Congrats for a well played out campaign to everyone involved :)
I love how the good characters got bad endings but the bad character got a good ending. I think Boshak is a great character. I love playing lizardfolk when I play DnD.
Well technically Boshak is doomed by setting.
I appreciate the victor logic. He's the first character I thought about as being eligible, but that would honestly be so cruel...
You know why Strahd doesn't have any friends?
He's a real pain in the neck! :D
Kill me.
Roll with disadvantage
Rocks fall
No, I hail you as my lord
Really? I thought it was because he had "BAT BREATH" AHAHAHA
grundi gierheart you trip and take 5 damage
Damn, that was a blast to hear, despite the "You all got screwed!" ending. But fitting with the title.
I'm running Curse of Strahd for my own group and one thing I love about this series is just the little tit-bits here and there that can elevate the player experience which is something I adopted into my session prep and hoo boy does it make a more immersive experience for the players. Great job Puffin!
Same
I’m interested in what you’ve done and taken that has worked for you
I've been dancing around the idea of listening to this series for a while but kept putting it off; finally decided to sit down and listen to it all straight through in a single sitting; tremendous work recounting the story and interactions here for all of us; you are appreciated. :)
"Seems like we have a bunch of options and only one 'Gouda' option." Ah, in the end, even Garou couldn't resist the pull of the puns.
Well, I'm so glad all the characters got a happy ending that made them feel like they contributed to the world.
Puffin,
Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this new format. I hope you continue it with future campaign stories. It's nice listening to these while I'm working or doing other things. Keep up the fantastic content!
This. Exactly this!
I gotta agree here. I have greatly enjoyed this series, listening to them several times as I am doing my work. Thank you so much!
I kept expecting to hear "do i believe her?". Given EVERYTHING that they went through, to blindly trust someone they just met like that, they only have themselves to blame.
All you needed was a level 3 cleric to prepare "zone of truth".
@@danielknapp159 Honestly, when an elf, most of which are highly resistant to charm, who is also in a profession that values intelligence and/or wisdom, claims to have been vulnerable to being charmed, really should be a red flag.
Can’t believe it’s the final episode already.
Puffin. Your my favorite D&D content creator and I would like to take the time to thank you for making this series for us to watch. I really liked the style and think you should do another series like this one.
When the evil character got the best ending.
Guess no good deed goes unpunished.
Edit: Also what happened to Irena?
Thank you! I knew I wasn´t crazy thinking that Irena was oddly left-out of the ending.
(My guess is that she somehow died in the fighting.)
As someone who owns the book, what's supposed to happen is after Strahd dies, she sees Sergei, Stradh's brother, and recognizes him. The two hug and pass on to the afterlife.
That only happens if the PC's find Sergei's spirit in the pond though, right? By the abbey I mean. I could be wrong though
Ireena dies
Leo Vezina It's if she doesn't find his spirit there. If she finds his spirit in the pool, she departs with him there, if memory serves.
13 episodes and my heart feels like it's been pulled out and stamped on. Pouring one out for Garo, Barovia's patron Saint of the lost cause.
I Knew Gouda was going to be an option. this series was really good, I need MORE.
please do more of these between regular content
These were amazing, I'd love to hear more campaigns told like this. The emotion, the laughs, the sorrow, everything was just great. It was a truly tragic story of hope against despair
Saw this coming a mile away when you decided to not put Gouda in charge
Her patron would have likely corrupted her. The position in Barovia is called DARK LORD. All of the choices are corrupt the only Garo was right that keeping strand was the only answer.
And how he just tossed all his morals out the window as well. Once he did that I was like “Oh Garou...the dark powers are going to have A LOT of fun with you...”
@@ezekieleason4997 Or if not corruption, then she would have died at some point and been replaced by her patron's new champion--y'know, the ones that are hunting her...
Man, fuck barovia.
@@ezekieleason4997 her patron wouldnt even have had to try-
she's literally too naive/stupid to live on her own-
it'd take that thing maybe four minutes to coax her into turning her first orphanage into a puddle of rocks...
This DM is so great! I don’t know if he is just using a different edition, but I’m adding SO MUCH of this homebrew! I’m running COS shortly, so thank you for this series. Also good job with this RP
A lot of his changes are from the Curse of Strahd subreddit. It's a very active group with a lot of interesting changes and add ons
I get the sense that’s there’s no real “winning” this campaign. Every choice, or lack thereof, leads to a bad outcome.
Harsh. I wanna play it so bad!
You're in the plane of dread. Everything sucks for everyone all the time
When i ran CoS, by level 5 my players figured this out. Was fun (for me).
I dunno about you, but I get enough of depressing futility in real life.
Except for boshack he's too awesome
@@eddieramirez8292 But sometimes. You succeed, It may be bitter but you did the impossible made the demiplane of dread just a little bit brighter and by not succumbing you are thwarting the dark powers.
Puffin. You have no idea how much I've looked forward to this video series every week. It's been my favorite show all year out of all of RUclips and television. Thank you so friggin much my nickle.
Puffin: uploads
Me: *happiness noises.
Yep
Noah Curry yep
@@jazzyaz8634 Yep
Great story, I love how it was only the evil person that gets a good ending
The fun part when when the devil's tome Also includes his name
As I've watched through these again a year later i just want to say, Ben, your episodes had inspired me to run CoS with my group and they're loving it. Your videos as a whole got me heavily back into DnD. I love your stuff man, and I hope to be here when you reach 1 million subs.
Same here. Hope your game goes well!
That was one heck of a twist ending.
Puffin: I know we just met...
Me : Your not just a clown, your the entire circus
Thanks for the series. There's so many active D&D campaigns like Critical Role and such, but I just can't get into them the same way I can get into these re-tellings like you & Dingo make.
It's cuz these retellings and with their animations/stills are easily digestible.
CR almost has 3 to 4 hour sessions cuz you're actually watch the game. Which if you're not play that game it can lead to some fatigue just listening to it.
This here is condensed, and gets straight to the point. Likely with a few liberties taken by puff for entertainment sake.
@@Lockehart1289 Agreed. I like the idea of critical role, but I don't have time to sit down and watch a 4-hour session. I'd rather spend that time playing a game myself.
@@Lockehart1289 I don't have problems with Let's Play channels/livestreams that do the same thing (and my free time is plentiful and worthless).
I really loved listening to your Strahd Adventure, and it's got me looking into all sorts of stuff and homebrew for the campaign. I'm going to be a switch-in DM for my table top group and this series introducing me to Barovia has put Curse of Strahd in my list of adventures to run down the line.
Hands down, the run through of this campaign is my favorite content you've created my dude. Your animations are always excellent, but I didn't expect your long-form story telling to exceed your visual creativity. I would love to see another replay of this kind when you find the time/inspiration for it in the future! I have to go back through this one and pick out my favorite background images now, sooo.... time to binge all 13 vids again wooooo!!!
There truly was, only one Gouda option. This series was amazing! I loved listening to it and seeing the classic puffin art style.
I can't believe that the only evil character got a happy ending and the good ones didn't. Strahd 2: Boshack's electric boogaloo. Where Boshack becomes good and seeks to free his friends from eternal torment? I'll wait.
That wouldn't be Boshack like
@@vichodeivis1219 but he's chaotic neutral at the end, maybe he could shift again
@@r.r815 actually puffin said earlier that boshack shifted from ce to ne, but i guess it got forgotten ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@mel-burnes Wasn't that from CE to CN?
@@chelvo56 no, ce to cn was today, but i remember a dialogue between puffin/garo and boshack that went something like that:
- boshack feels boshack might've changed my alignment
- I can't believe you finally saw the light and want to be a better person
- yeah, boshack needs something more reliable in his live, so he's neutral evil now
but boshack is still referred to as chaotic so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Having failed to listen to other podcasts or summaries of campaigns previously, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself yearning for the next episode of this series.
I think that your storytelling is amazing, it's simple in the way that everyone can understand it. It has a good narrative to it and is easy to listen to. The voices are perfectly done, and those few moments when the listener can hear you snickering/smiling when saying certain things just brings so much more into it as those are your personal feelings towards that moment. I truly hope that you will do more series like this as it has been amazing to listen to.
Thanks for the great series! That ending... woof. Would love to hear more stuff like this. You have a very compelling voice and I hope it was as fun playing this campaign as it was listening to you. And thumbs up for your GM. They seemed to have found the right balance between a big adventure and the horror theme of Ravenloft and their inclusions were excellent. Good job!
PLEASE please do more things like this with 10 to 15 episodes with visuals and just telling old adventures I think I speak for everyone when I say we all love this type of content!
I loved this retelling with these characters and Ben's wonderful sense of humor. I do absolutely hate this module, though. If I wanted to engage in multiple hours of hopeless failure I would just go to work or try to balance my finances. I just don't get spending your free time taste testing all the flavors of suffering like some sort of gourmand of misery. Feel free to use "gourmand of misery" as a band name, by the way.
The thing is it wasn't a complete failure. Victor, Stella, and Van Richten all left to be happy, and Boshack left with the flesh golem girl and Gertruda to do their own thing. Strahd's soul was also finally freed from the Dark Powers, which means Tatiana's reincarnations can finally get what peace you can muster in Barovia. Some good did come out of this, but the PCs minus Boshack got the raw end of the deal at the end of it because they accepted gifts from sketchy otherworldly beings.
Ironically it was because Boshack was evil and selfish that he turned down his god's deal and was able to get a good ending.
PHENOMENAL wrap up! Been living these vids, and the epilogue was absolutely note- perfect.
13 episodes later, I STILL kept forgetting that Krusk exists. The other characters are memorable and serve a distinct role in the party both story-wise and gameplay-wise, but Krusk? Either that player was just really silent at the table or his contributions were largely glossed over. It likely also had something to do with him playing his paladin just like how EVERYONE plays their paladin. Come on, people. Let them break the mold from time to time.
Yeah, I forget him also all the time. I remember the raven on their shoulder more... My guess is that it's an audience member player (referencing Matt Colvilles view on player types). They are there more to experience the story than to form it.
To be fair I think Puffin just doesn’t like paladins
It’s possible he was just a new player
He totally should have gone oathbreaker when the orc patron offered more power, but I think there wasn't really a lot of motivators for him to denounce his oath and shift alignment besides "more power" so RP wise it wouldn't have made sense.
Amazing campaign!! Thank you very much for telling the story! It's a presentations like this that make me want to get into D&D or Pathfinder, but I don't have the group for it.
The end breaks my heart.
evil always wins in the end. for you see, while the forest may be burned down, a seed of evil to regrow it rests in the heart of everyone.
They made pacts with Dark Gods; they knew what they were doing.
@Bubba's Big Blast technically, Garo didn’t. Garo couldn’t be the next Dark Lord because the Fanes are not Dark Powers
Thank you for making this series. It's been amazing to listen to! Please continue to make more series like this! This is by far my favorite RUclips channel.
I thought Gouda's ending was sad, but damn... poor Garo! I need more videos like this.
What a strong and horrible ending, it´s the perfect final catharsis for the setting, this is amazing. Thank you so much for this amazing new type of narration
Garo: Gouda, thats not how mad=gic works.
Han Solo: Thats my line!
Thanks for a very entertaining listening! Went VERY differently from when I played it, love the campaign. Go Garo!
"we had fianlly captured Strahd"
Are you gonna use him like a pokemon now?
Can we make him a pet? How do we.convince him to be our pet?
Now I want to name one of my Pokemon Strahd....Strahd I choose you!
darn strahd wasn't shiny. welp time to reset and try to catch him again.
Nah. We're doing the equivalent of a PC release.
*hides glass box containing a feary fire elemental which I can release*
And Gooda hopes this final leap will be the last one home.
I love all the voices you do, it makes the stories so much more enjoyable
men i loved this, i want more series like this where you draw and tell cool dnd histories in a somewhat fashion and even maybe some og the other modules
Are you going to make more content like this? I really enjoyed listening to this long form style of video!
I just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work bringing us a complete campaign in this way. I would love to see more like this but I'm sure it is an incredible amount of work. Thanks Puffin