yeah haha, ngl at this point I can't imagine myself running strahd any other way. As much as I love the original Strahd and his Dracula vibes, this matron version is way too fun to roleplay.
I've not played or run Curse of Strahd... but this video makes me want to do so. Using Carmilla as the model fiction for the campaign is incredibly intriguing.
Haa that absolutely delights me, curse of strahd is a lovely campaign. And the community has done awesome work adding wonderful things to it. If you ever end up running it, I strongly recommend Mandymod's guide, it's perfecttt
@@corkboardsandcuriosities I'll look it up, thanks! Careful, if you keep this up you're going to find yourself quickly becoming my favorite RPG RUclipsr.
@@sablephoenix Yesss! There are some amazing ideas out there, and to be perfectly honest, there are a lot of things that I ended up changing from the campaign as written. And aaaaaahhhh you are too nice!! Really all of this is hyping me up so much to get more going hahaha
Love it, love it, love it! My players have slogged through CoS and had a blast. But now I'm going to steal these ideas for my upcoming Mafia Matrona. Thank you for the inspiration!
I love your work! I’m also a teacher (high school) and I run the DnD club there. I’m just starting to run my brew of Curse of Strahd for the kids (while running a version for adult friends). Your teaching techniques and DMing video was amazing! I love your take on female Strahd!
Yes, at this point I'm watching all three videos in a row, haha. This one is amazing as well! I might implement this in my homebrew campaign, as we already played Curse of Strahd!
aaaah thank you! i'm happy you're finding this interesting! I've definitely gone on too many gothic rabbit holes on that one haha, which no lie, is always a pleasure.
Immediate subscribe!! I absolutely adore this motherly take on Strahd and will definitely be using that creepy bit about forcing a player to be “soothed” like a child by the Matron >:) Love the video-thank you for your two coppers on CoS!!
I love this idea for a villain. I wouldn't run this version as the actual module, but as a second playthrough for thsoe who have already expereienced the original module its great. Personally I will be using this concept as a villain in a city based campaign. Up until now I hadn't had a major undead villain.
Looking to run this for my friends and my brother (he sort of has run this one before) so I love this alternative and can’t wait to surprise them if I can make this work
Great video! I think this is an excellent take on the character, and you can even take it further with the character of Bab Lysaga, a twisted figure that Strahd herself is trying to please maybe there is another master manipulator in town
wow, i kinda love that idea, how it's all a cycle that keeps feeding itself, it's an opportunity to portray how the different generations impacted each other (and you can bet that imma flavour one of strahd's spawns in that same vein. hehe, get it? vein).
I did my own customized Strahd which worked realy well but left him male. The possibility of a female "motherly" Strahd and the personaility and themes you have suggested would play really well and get away from some of the tired dominating male noble tropes. Great video! Hope you keep them coming...
I used a female Strahd. My bi and lesbian players were all simping for her 😂. DM’ing her as a man was a bit awkward, but she made my players happy, so it was a good time 😊.
I'm starting the campaign this weekend and was going to use a female Strahd to subvert my player's expectations. This is a way more interesting and believable take than just a 1-to-1 gender swap. The domineering narcissistic mother makes so much sense, quite genius really! You should find a way to get Wizards to cut you a paycheck! Thanks for the video.
Well...I am not into DnD. Curse of Strahd was one of the modules I looked into and now I am stuck in a game of Strahd with a "pure" DnD GM who has no idea how to create drama or horror...besides letting us count rations and throwing gridded combat random encounters at us. I love your idea of a female Strahd, it gives the character so much more understandability, yet remebers me of the frustration of being a child and "hating" my mother for having to do things I didn't understand back then. This is AMAZING. (= I love it. I think I will convert CoS into an other RPG system and run it with Mother Strahd as the main villain. Besides that, I am very curious what that board on the background is, with all the sticky notes, index cards and strings. Is this a tool you use for your games? If so, would you make a video about it?
I can understand that haha, I tend to prefer DnD games that are less around the math and strategy, and more narrative oriented and character driven than anything. Horror and ambience is not impossible in DnD, but there are definitely better suited systems out there. I've seen a bunch of people online talking about running CoS with Call of Cthulhu? although i'm not sure exactly how they go about it, but that might be something to look into! And the board.. I love corkboards so much that it had to be part of the channel name haha, I use them not during games but as a brainstorming tools when writing scenarios, it helps me structure thoughts a bit better before i actually get to writing. I think I would like to make a video about it someday if people are interested! This one is the biggest board, though it's been on hiatus for a bit. it's for an Edwardian era lil horror mystery, which i should probably get back to someday haha, when i'm done with the one i'm currently working on.
haaaa thank you so much! perhaps someday! for now i have very limited time after work to piece these together, and shorter videos seem to be the easiest! but I'm also a very new channel, and I can see the process getting easier each time, perhaps as i move forward and it becomes quicker to make these, i'll be able to take on longer stuff!
Jeez this channel is just hit after hit, I keep coming back every time I need to recalibrate my dramatic skills as a GM! Fingers crossed my matronly mafiosa delivers half as well as you do it!
Damn, that evil matron take hit a spot I didn't know I had. I am currently DMing CoS and having a blast playing the manipulative narcissistic lying b*stard that is the Count, but ironically I feel like playing the Matron would actually reach way too deep into personnal territory for me xD Some of the worst people I know are just her with less immortality and more blood craving. Would love to be a player and live my dreams of cutting the old hag down though.
hahaha I'm glad you like her, she's definitely a lot of fun to work on. Although I absolutely love the dracula figure too. Strahd is such a good villain. I mostly made mine female initially just because i was spooked about roleplaying some deep voice intimidating dude haha, I was still a beginner GM back then and thought somehow voice acting was a necessary part of everything... A few years later in the end i'm really glad the matron of barovia idea grew into that !
I'm very impressed, I never would have thought to genderbend Strahd**, but it gives an entirely different perspective, not surprisingly, but extremely pleasingly. This video alone is worth the subscription
Hey I saw your previous videos, great job with the lighting and ambiance as well as your voice and the pacing of it but this video I could not finish because of the audio quality. Your content is original and enjoyable just little note on that so you are aware.
I promise i'm working on it! The audio on the next video should be a lot less distracting :) Be patient haha because I'm terrible with technology and a complete beginner with mics but it should already be an improvement I hope and until then... well, i'll add captions and all to the other vids haha Really happy you are enjoying the content though!
Great video! I've not had the chance to play CoS, but this vid sure makes me want to. Also I've learned a new word today, 'motherlogue' and I'm going to incorporate this into my vocabulary forever. THANK YOU, MOTHER.
The psychological quality of the horror you inspire with this character is something that is really quite terrifying! It cuts down to a very primitive level and therefore engenders a very primitive and powerful fear. Mommy is supposed to be good and loving. Mommy is supposed to protect me from the monster. OMG mommy is the monster!?!?!
hahaha i see comments from you on different vids, and am quite flattered that you went to check out more haha So happy you like her! that's one of my favourite types of fear haha, taking something that's familiar and comforting and messing with it to make it spooky hahah
Yeah, I have been making my way through your videos. I really think they are excellent and your methods are quite advanced. You definitely set the bar high for something to shoot for. Your videos remind me of my favorite college lit classes, where the professors would push my appreciation and understanding of a scene and story to a whole other level.
Fantastic idea. I've been looking at the game Vaesen. It looks really interesting to me. And taking your idea as jumping off point, it'd be neat to have a Mother Strahd figure (changing her name) that wouldn't immediately have the players know that she is the big threat and the one pulling the strings. But also not trying too hard to hide it. Rather, it starts off with her almost seeming like _their_ matron. A confidant and potential wealthy backer as they find themselves stuck in some dreary countryside and then becoming embattled with creatures of folklore and an oppressive atmosphere and all the while she's there to "help" ... but quickly making it apparent that she is quite dangerous and as the Baroness or Lady of the land she isn't just someone hoping for them to help with all the problems... they discover that the darkness and maladies and hopelessness has been woven by her hand. And they are not safe around her. And when they confront her about this (though powerless to really do anything just yet) she may just laugh in a pitying manner or scold with practiced motherly concern for their confusion about the whole thing. And make it clear that they are powerless to stand against her. She may allow them to leave while accusing -- in a manner that causes the heart to thump and the skin to prickle -- that they are breaking her heart by turning on her while she offers such gracious hospitality and dear love. I wouldn't have her be a vampire, at least not of the traditional sense. Maybe more like a witch of immense power? I just don't see the blood-sucking working for me, thematically. Although, maybe she does indeed bathe in it. While draining a person's spirit.
ooooh yeah, i like the idea of her being a matron, questgiver or handler, little by little wrapping herself around them so much that by the time they understand what she is, they're already so intertwined and she has already a lot of cards in her hand
coming back to this comment after a while because it piqued my interest into Vaesen and coincidentally, a friend offered to run it so now it's happening haha, loving the vibe of it, and yeah I could totally see this happening in Vaesen !!
"It hurts me to see you suffer, I hate that YOU make me do this to you, can't you see the agony your pain brings to your mother, I don't know why you keep putting me threw this, putting US threw this, you could at lest hold it together little better for me, I can't take any more of this, Count Rugen turn the Pit of Despair up to level 10 till he learns to quit crying. I am too distraught and mommy needs her cream puffs, and Count Rugen cover up that Six Finger no one wants to see that, something only a mother could love. Remember that you no one else NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU not the way I do, I am all you have we only have each other it's mommy and you forever. so keep mommy happy why is it not already at level 11 like I TOLD YOU quit dragging your feet, honestly both of you quite a pair of rascals, (with love): mommy's little rascals."
oh wow, I played DCC only once and though it was super far from my usual it was fun (the funnel was for sure a new experience!), running CoS in an OSR game sounds real intriguing ngl, if you do it please let me know how it went and how you went about it !
The _"Evil Mother"_ concept is, at least in my opinion, WAY more terrifying than the _"Egomaniacal Incel"_ thing that standard-Strahd has going on. Frankly this vampire-mother is good enough and different enough to stand on her own as an original villain for a campaign. Either way, VERY well done!
haha i'm happy you think so. Very different concepts, dracula-esque strahd will always be a classic. The reason I decided to run a female strahd originally was really just... a voice acting cop out hahahah, but she grew a lot from that and i'm delighted that people are liking it.
Hi! I have… kinda??? In the campaign, we still refer to her as Strahd (it seemed to me that it wasn’t necessarily a masculine name, and that it was iconic enough that I wanted to preserve the name for my players), but the tome of Strahd bears her birth name “Stasya Randinka Von Zarovich”. She simply took on the name Strahd taking the first syllabes of her names (ST-RAD) when she got turned and became the Matron. I’ve heard of other people running a female strahd that changed the name though, but I can’t recall what name they used haha
omg i'm so sorry hahaha, I was supposed to make subtitles for this video but it totally slipped my mind, i'll try to get it done tonight or tomorrow, I know my accent isn't the easiest haha I'm from france! But I moved around a bunch, and my accent keeps fluctuating out of my control hahaha, I think I need to make it a point to systematically make subtitles whenever I post a vid, this isn't the first time it comes up hahah
this was wonderful. being a man women always fascinated me. a lot of times id feel impulses stemming from a masculing urge/desire and it always made me wonder what a feminine personality would do. where a man is paternal how would a woman be maternal. where a tank takes damage for the team how would a healer heal the team. when i fantasise being the chief of a tribe i do it as a man, but i wonder in this fantasy if i were married what would my chieftess do, or if i was a warrior or a shaman of a tribe with a metriarch how would i be led. thank you for offering me the female strahd. in my darkness i could find hints of the male strahd. but thank you for personifying your feminine darkness. :) keep up the good work. this is going to be a great chennel. much love - pandeyjibalwaan
This is great stuff. Just please, (please please please) don't use Gothic horror sources as a model for Romani and Roma-adjacent characters (cough Vistani cough). Even the newer, revised CoS leans on some deeply racist tropes about us.
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Sounds like the Disney-MCU version of Ravenloft. Seriously, you didn't even change the name "Strahd"? And of course... she's also a lesbian. After all, having her lust after a man would somehow make her not as much of a girl-boss, and require actual storytelling talent from the DM to make the plot fit. You could have just as easily used Ivana Boritsi, and move the campaign to Borca, or used one of the many other (pre-gender swapped) female dark lords of Ravenloft. Before 5e, good female antagonists and heroes actually existed.
Well she did say she was using a Carmilla style vampire, who was a lesbian. Though I will admit I will be using a female strahd (new name though) and not using the lesbian thing. But at least it does makes sense in that way. However I do use the 2e version of the strahd and the lands surrounding. I love the idea more of a full land instead of 'islands in the mists.
@@Outrighttomcat5 - At this point in time, all gender-swapping is cliché. Even with the best intentions, it is, hands-down, the laziest attempt one can make to insert a plot twist, and it insults any audience with half a brain. But you are definitely right in using the 2e setting. Ravenloft didn't need a makeover, or even a 5e update. The WotC addition was a blatant cash grab, by hack writers, completely out of their depth, and obsessed with inserting their own nonsensical beliefs into the material.
@@fleetcenturion I do agree with the gender swap being a little too cliche. Though I like the idea of a devouring mother type character trope (Ala the pyscho movie). I will admit Wotc definitely scrapes the bottom of the barrel looking for paying content. Edit: the 2e full continent style setting with available travel is far better than misty 'islands' in a magical nonsense dark plane
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absolutely love the other mother vibes, that "i knew you would disappoint me" line is just so perfectly encapsulating!
yeah haha, ngl at this point I can't imagine myself running strahd any other way. As much as I love the original Strahd and his Dracula vibes, this matron version is way too fun to roleplay.
I've not played or run Curse of Strahd... but this video makes me want to do so. Using Carmilla as the model fiction for the campaign is incredibly intriguing.
Haa that absolutely delights me, curse of strahd is a lovely campaign. And the community has done awesome work adding wonderful things to it. If you ever end up running it, I strongly recommend Mandymod's guide, it's perfecttt
@@corkboardsandcuriosities I'll look it up, thanks! Careful, if you keep this up you're going to find yourself quickly becoming my favorite RPG RUclipsr.
@@sablephoenix Yesss! There are some amazing ideas out there, and to be perfectly honest, there are a lot of things that I ended up changing from the campaign as written. And aaaaaahhhh you are too nice!! Really all of this is hyping me up so much to get more going hahaha
I love that idea for a vampire in general and it fits so well into the setting of fear and terror.
Ho. Lee. Shit. I am so glad I found this channel right before I start running CoS. This is fuckin gold.
Holy crap. Is this the best D&D video on RUclips? Certainly feels like it... I can't imagine how much more terrifying this version would be.
Love it, love it, love it! My players have slogged through CoS and had a blast. But now I'm going to steal these ideas for my upcoming Mafia Matrona. Thank you for the inspiration!
I love your work! I’m also a teacher (high school) and I run the DnD club there.
I’m just starting to run my brew of Curse of Strahd for the kids (while running a version for adult friends).
Your teaching techniques and DMing video was amazing!
I love your take on female Strahd!
Yes, at this point I'm watching all three videos in a row, haha. This one is amazing as well! I might implement this in my homebrew campaign, as we already played Curse of Strahd!
your binging flatters me hahahha
Hell yeah me too!
These are really good videos. Snappy and funny and informative.
Cool video! Good insight here!
aaaah thank you! i'm happy you're finding this interesting! I've definitely gone on too many gothic rabbit holes on that one haha, which no lie, is always a pleasure.
this was soooo good omg, I don't even play dnd but this is something I could picture myself enjoying thoroughly
this is your sign to start playing 😉
Immediate subscribe!! I absolutely adore this motherly take on Strahd and will definitely be using that creepy bit about forcing a player to be “soothed” like a child by the Matron >:)
Love the video-thank you for your two coppers on CoS!!
I love this idea for a villain. I wouldn't run this version as the actual module, but as a second playthrough for thsoe who have already expereienced the original module its great. Personally I will be using this concept as a villain in a city based campaign. Up until now I hadn't had a major undead villain.
Looking to run this for my friends and my brother (he sort of has run this one before) so I love this alternative and can’t wait to surprise them if I can make this work
I see deconstruction of gothic horror tropes in D&D, I subscribe.
This is awesome!! If I ever run this module, I might do exactly this 😁
Great video!
I think this is an excellent take on the character, and you can even take it further with the character of Bab Lysaga, a twisted figure that Strahd herself is trying to please
maybe there is another master manipulator in town
wow, i kinda love that idea, how it's all a cycle that keeps feeding itself, it's an opportunity to portray how the different generations impacted each other (and you can bet that imma flavour one of strahd's spawns in that same vein. hehe, get it? vein).
I did my own customized Strahd which worked realy well but left him male. The possibility of a female "motherly" Strahd and the personaility and themes you have suggested would play really well and get away from some of the tired dominating male noble tropes. Great video! Hope you keep them coming...
I used a female Strahd. My bi and lesbian players were all simping for her 😂. DM’ing her as a man was a bit awkward, but she made my players happy, so it was a good time 😊.
Awesome ideas here, and I love the channel so far! Is it weird that I keep hearing "Strahd is a woman" sung to Ariana Grande's "God is a Woman?" 😂
🎵 You, you'll feel when I drain you
you'll feel it when I end you, my one
when blood is spilled and gone
you'll believe Strahd is a woman 🎵
Canon
Your channel is excellent and the presentation of your ideas is really nicely done too. You must be a great GM!
aaaaah thank you!!!
oops, don't say that to my players, I'm the kind of GM who always procrastinates running games hahaha
@@corkboardsandcuriosities I ran a session on Sunday. Our last session was December... I'm sure you're doing great!
I'm starting the campaign this weekend and was going to use a female Strahd to subvert my player's expectations. This is a way more interesting and believable take than just a 1-to-1 gender swap. The domineering narcissistic mother makes so much sense, quite genius really! You should find a way to get Wizards to cut you a paycheck! Thanks for the video.
Well...I am not into DnD. Curse of Strahd was one of the modules I looked into and now I am stuck in a game of Strahd with a "pure" DnD GM who has no idea how to create drama or horror...besides letting us count rations and throwing gridded combat random encounters at us.
I love your idea of a female Strahd, it gives the character so much more understandability, yet remebers me of the frustration of being a child and "hating" my mother for having to do things I didn't understand back then. This is AMAZING. (= I love it.
I think I will convert CoS into an other RPG system and run it with Mother Strahd as the main villain.
Besides that, I am very curious what that board on the background is, with all the sticky notes, index cards and strings. Is this a tool you use for your games? If so, would you make a video about it?
I can understand that haha, I tend to prefer DnD games that are less around the math and strategy, and more narrative oriented and character driven than anything. Horror and ambience is not impossible in DnD, but there are definitely better suited systems out there. I've seen a bunch of people online talking about running CoS with Call of Cthulhu? although i'm not sure exactly how they go about it, but that might be something to look into!
And the board.. I love corkboards so much that it had to be part of the channel name haha, I use them not during games but as a brainstorming tools when writing scenarios, it helps me structure thoughts a bit better before i actually get to writing. I think I would like to make a video about it someday if people are interested! This one is the biggest board, though it's been on hiatus for a bit. it's for an Edwardian era lil horror mystery, which i should probably get back to someday haha, when i'm done with the one i'm currently working on.
Just found this channel and am currently bingeing. Hopefully you feel it appropriate to make longer videos someday
haaaa thank you so much! perhaps someday! for now i have very limited time after work to piece these together, and shorter videos seem to be the easiest! but I'm also a very new channel, and I can see the process getting easier each time, perhaps as i move forward and it becomes quicker to make these, i'll be able to take on longer stuff!
This is gooooood stuff!
Am def taking notes.
Thank you!
Jeez this channel is just hit after hit, I keep coming back every time I need to recalibrate my dramatic skills as a GM! Fingers crossed my matronly mafiosa delivers half as well as you do it!
Oh, this is even BETTER than the Count. Creepier, players feel more powerless, tragic, horrific. Fatal Attraction meets Mommy Dearest
Damn, that evil matron take hit a spot I didn't know I had. I am currently DMing CoS and having a blast playing the manipulative narcissistic lying b*stard that is the Count, but ironically I feel like playing the Matron would actually reach way too deep into personnal territory for me xD Some of the worst people I know are just her with less immortality and more blood craving.
Would love to be a player and live my dreams of cutting the old hag down though.
hahaha I'm glad you like her, she's definitely a lot of fun to work on. Although I absolutely love the dracula figure too. Strahd is such a good villain. I mostly made mine female initially just because i was spooked about roleplaying some deep voice intimidating dude haha, I was still a beginner GM back then and thought somehow voice acting was a necessary part of everything... A few years later in the end i'm really glad the matron of barovia idea grew into that !
Ow wow! Amazing! Brilliant!
How can I join the party??
I saw this and my eyes got so big
in a good way or in a "I got possessed by a vengeful lemur" kind of way?
I'm very impressed, I never would have thought to genderbend Strahd**, but it gives an entirely different perspective, not surprisingly, but extremely pleasingly.
This video alone is worth the subscription
Great video- I love this take!
Amazing stuff.
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I am terrified of this Strahd.
mission accomplished!
Really like the take on Strauhd....
Hey I saw your previous videos, great job with the lighting and ambiance as well as your voice and the pacing of it but this video I could not finish because of the audio quality.
Your content is original and enjoyable just little note on that so you are aware.
I promise i'm working on it! The audio on the next video should be a lot less distracting :) Be patient haha because I'm terrible with technology and a complete beginner with mics but it should already be an improvement I hope
and until then... well, i'll add captions and all to the other vids haha
Really happy you are enjoying the content though!
Great video! I've not had the chance to play CoS, but this vid sure makes me want to.
Also I've learned a new word today, 'motherlogue' and I'm going to incorporate this into my vocabulary forever. THANK YOU, MOTHER.
lol that was just my bad pronunciation, but i'm also delighted that this word exists and imma start spreading the word
The psychological quality of the horror you inspire with this character is something that is really quite terrifying! It cuts down to a very primitive level and therefore engenders a very primitive and powerful fear. Mommy is supposed to be good and loving. Mommy is supposed to protect me from the monster. OMG mommy is the monster!?!?!
hahaha i see comments from you on different vids, and am quite flattered that you went to check out more haha
So happy you like her! that's one of my favourite types of fear haha, taking something that's familiar and comforting and messing with it to make it spooky hahah
Yeah, I have been making my way through your videos. I really think they are excellent and your methods are quite advanced. You definitely set the bar high for something to shoot for. Your videos remind me of my favorite college lit classes, where the professors would push my appreciation and understanding of a scene and story to a whole other level.
Fantastic idea.
I've been looking at the game Vaesen. It looks really interesting to me. And taking your idea as jumping off point, it'd be neat to have a Mother Strahd figure (changing her name) that wouldn't immediately have the players know that she is the big threat and the one pulling the strings. But also not trying too hard to hide it. Rather, it starts off with her almost seeming like _their_ matron. A confidant and potential wealthy backer as they find themselves stuck in some dreary countryside and then becoming embattled with creatures of folklore and an oppressive atmosphere and all the while she's there to "help" ... but quickly making it apparent that she is quite dangerous and as the Baroness or Lady of the land she isn't just someone hoping for them to help with all the problems... they discover that the darkness and maladies and hopelessness has been woven by her hand. And they are not safe around her. And when they confront her about this (though powerless to really do anything just yet) she may just laugh in a pitying manner or scold with practiced motherly concern for their confusion about the whole thing. And make it clear that they are powerless to stand against her. She may allow them to leave while accusing -- in a manner that causes the heart to thump and the skin to prickle -- that they are breaking her heart by turning on her while she offers such gracious hospitality and dear love.
I wouldn't have her be a vampire, at least not of the traditional sense. Maybe more like a witch of immense power? I just don't see the blood-sucking working for me, thematically. Although, maybe she does indeed bathe in it. While draining a person's spirit.
ooooh yeah, i like the idea of her being a matron, questgiver or handler, little by little wrapping herself around them so much that by the time they understand what she is, they're already so intertwined and she has already a lot of cards in her hand
coming back to this comment after a while because it piqued my interest into Vaesen and coincidentally, a friend offered to run it so now it's happening haha, loving the vibe of it, and yeah I could totally see this happening in Vaesen !!
I'm working on a historical game based on Romania in 1450s. I'll use these personality traits for the mayor of the starting village, Arefu.
"It hurts me to see you suffer, I hate that YOU make me do this to you, can't you see the agony your pain brings to your mother, I don't know why you keep putting me threw this, putting US threw this, you could at lest hold it together little better for me, I can't take any more of this, Count Rugen turn the Pit of Despair up to level 10 till he learns to quit crying. I am too distraught and mommy needs her cream puffs, and Count Rugen cover up that Six Finger no one wants to see that, something only a mother could love. Remember that you no one else NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU not the way I do, I am all you have we only have each other it's mommy and you forever. so keep mommy happy why is it not already at level 11 like I TOLD YOU quit dragging your feet, honestly both of you quite a pair of rascals, (with love): mommy's little rascals."
oh my, i never expected myself to feel sympathy for count Rugen, but here we are hahahahah
Consider me inspired for a campaign using OSR systems as well as 5e. And subscribed 😊
👀 oooh are you thinking of running curse of strahd OSR style?
@@corkboardsandcuriosities Yes. Thinking of using Old School Essentials or Dungeon Crawl Classics as the game of choice.
oh wow, I played DCC only once and though it was super far from my usual it was fun (the funnel was for sure a new experience!), running CoS in an OSR game sounds real intriguing ngl, if you do it please let me know how it went and how you went about it !
Damn... that's dark. Love it! 😁
"that's dark. Love it"
I am honored
The _"Evil Mother"_ concept is, at least in my opinion, WAY more terrifying than the _"Egomaniacal Incel"_ thing that standard-Strahd has going on. Frankly this vampire-mother is good enough and different enough to stand on her own as an original villain for a campaign. Either way, VERY well done!
haha i'm happy you think so. Very different concepts, dracula-esque strahd will always be a classic. The reason I decided to run a female strahd originally was really just... a voice acting cop out hahahah, but she grew a lot from that and i'm delighted that people are liking it.
In my campaign I plan on making my fem!strahd to become the Raven Queen after shes killed
It's kinda hilarious that a gender flipped Strahd boils down to the most obnoxious kind of "Gaslighting Girlboss" imaginable.
Great idea. Have you considered changing Strahd's first name for the female variant?
Hi! I have… kinda??? In the campaign, we still refer to her as Strahd (it seemed to me that it wasn’t necessarily a masculine name, and that it was iconic enough that I wanted to preserve the name for my players), but the tome of Strahd bears her birth name “Stasya Randinka Von Zarovich”. She simply took on the name Strahd taking the first syllabes of her names (ST-RAD) when she got turned and became the Matron. I’ve heard of other people running a female strahd that changed the name though, but I can’t recall what name they used haha
Where is your ascent from? I am having a hard time understanding you.
omg i'm so sorry hahaha, I was supposed to make subtitles for this video but it totally slipped my mind, i'll try to get it done tonight or tomorrow, I know my accent isn't the easiest haha
I'm from france! But I moved around a bunch, and my accent keeps fluctuating out of my control hahaha, I think I need to make it a point to systematically make subtitles whenever I post a vid, this isn't the first time it comes up hahah
this was wonderful. being a man women always fascinated me. a lot of times id feel impulses stemming from a masculing urge/desire and it always made me wonder what a feminine personality would do. where a man is paternal how would a woman be maternal. where a tank takes damage for the team how would a healer heal the team. when i fantasise being the chief of a tribe i do it as a man, but i wonder in this fantasy if i were married what would my chieftess do, or if i was a warrior or a shaman of a tribe with a metriarch how would i be led. thank you for offering me the female strahd. in my darkness i could find hints of the male strahd. but thank you for personifying your feminine darkness. :)
keep up the good work.
this is going to be a great chennel.
much love
- pandeyjibalwaan
uhul, great content
Dommy mommy vampire Gothel???
Don't threaten me with a good time
Funny accent lady!
this shall be my new title
@@corkboardsandcuriosities Haha, glad you like it.
In all seriousness, I do like your accent a lot. And your content is insightful as well.
I'm getting ready to run CoS for my friends and genderbending Strahd will be such a good twist
This is great stuff. Just please, (please please please) don't use Gothic horror sources as a model for Romani and Roma-adjacent characters (cough Vistani cough). Even the newer, revised CoS leans on some deeply racist tropes about us.
what about femcel strahd ?
I image it would take less readaptation work, just a gender bending
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Sounds like the Disney-MCU version of Ravenloft. Seriously, you didn't even change the name "Strahd"? And of course... she's also a lesbian. After all, having her lust after a man would somehow make her not as much of a girl-boss, and require actual storytelling talent from the DM to make the plot fit.
You could have just as easily used Ivana Boritsi, and move the campaign to Borca, or used one of the many other (pre-gender swapped) female dark lords of Ravenloft. Before 5e, good female antagonists and heroes actually existed.
Well she did say she was using a Carmilla style vampire, who was a lesbian. Though I will admit I will be using a female strahd (new name though) and not using the lesbian thing. But at least it does makes sense in that way.
However I do use the 2e version of the strahd and the lands surrounding. I love the idea more of a full land instead of 'islands in the mists.
@@Outrighttomcat5 - At this point in time, all gender-swapping is cliché. Even with the best intentions, it is, hands-down, the laziest attempt one can make to insert a plot twist, and it insults any audience with half a brain.
But you are definitely right in using the 2e setting. Ravenloft didn't need a makeover, or even a 5e update. The WotC addition was a blatant cash grab, by hack writers, completely out of their depth, and obsessed with inserting their own nonsensical beliefs into the material.
@@fleetcenturion I do agree with the gender swap being a little too cliche. Though I like the idea of a devouring mother type character trope (Ala the pyscho movie). I will admit Wotc definitely scrapes the bottom of the barrel looking for paying content.
Edit: the 2e full continent style setting with available travel is far better than misty 'islands' in a magical nonsense dark plane