Ultimately, there are too many potential milestones if you use all the suggestions given in the book. You could also argue that encountering the Abbot of St. For instance, you could easily argue that returning the Wizard of Wines winery back to operation would be a milestone. There are some big events that I did not assign milestones to. Explore the Amber Temple & encounter the lich (Chapter 13)ġ2. Forge an alliance with Ezmerelda d’Avenir (Appendix D)ġ0. Thwart the druid ritual on Yester Hill, or defeat the tree blight (Chapter 14)Ĩ. Light the beacon of Argynvostholt (Chapter 7)ħ. Defeat the Hags in Old Bonegrinder (Chapter 6)Ħ. Recover the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind (Chapter 4)ĥ. I’ll explain more why I chose the ones I did after the list.Ģ. This is why I say the adventure really goes well beyond level 10. However, it is clear in the book that these are just some examples and are not a list of all the milestones. If, as suggested in the adventure, the PCs are level 3 when they finish Death House, and they gain a level for each of these milestones, they would be level 10 after completing all seven of the example milestones. This, I believe, is where Wizards’ statement that the adventure goes to level 10 comes from. The milestones suggested as examples in the book itself are bolded below. If you're running more "by the book" you may want to add in another milestone if you also want your PCs to have the potential to be 14th (or even 15th) level when they face Strahd. Keep in mind that I started the PCs at 3rd level, and they gained 4th level after completing Death House (the book suggests starting PCs at 1st level and they gain level 3 at the end of Death House). Examples given are lighting the beacon at Arynvostholt, thwarting the druid ritual on Yester Hill, and forging an alliance with Ezmerelda.īelow are the milestones I’m planning to use for my Curse of Strahd campaign. The example given are the hags in Old Bonegrinder.Īccomplishing Story Goals. Defeating the featured antagonist(s) in an area. I didn’t want PCs to gain two levels at once, so if one of the artifacts is in a particular location, I don’t also give them a milestone for achieving the main goal in that location or defeating the main bad guy.ĭefeating Villains. The locations of these artifacts are either determined by the DM or using the Tarokka deck. Recovering each of the artifacts of the campaign is a milestone (the Sunsword, Tome of Strahd and Holy Symbol of Ravenkind). We are given the following guidelines for our milestones in the book (page 6):įinding Artifacts.
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If, however, you have a player who is chronically absent, then you could judge if that PC participated enough to gain a level when each milestone is reached. As much as the adventure will be kept as close to RAW as possible but there will be some original things here and there.Because of this, I recommend keeping all the PCs the same level and not worrying if a given player misses a session or two. New content will be released periodically and I will tend to keep all of the zones in separate posts. This guide is for those who have little time for homebrewing and preparing modules and just want a step by step list of what to prepare with some ideas sprinkled here and there. I’ve had lots of ideas, some good, other a bit less. Curse Of Strahd Guide Don’t Lose Yourself In The Horrors A complete guide for running Curse Of Strahd from scratchĬurse Of Strahd is one of my favourite adventures and I’ve spent far too much time that I want to admit on it, planning, writing and homebrewing it.
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