#Strahd will murder you

[starry-eyed-kiddo]

tfw ur friend fully kisses you on the lips after a close call several days after u slit her throat and now u are VERY confused and concerned for her mental health

#curse of strahd #cos: the sorority #pc: castiel cross #pc: dima dmitriyevna #starrykiddo draws #he is so confused #ohhhh Castiel be careful #Strahd will murder you

[mimudraeg]

#it says a lot when you read about a guy murdering his only friend and brother in pursuit of objectifying a woman #and still assume he's meant to be the hero #dumb mf's #strahd von zarovich #curse of strahd #rant #meme #strahdposting #literature #tatyana federovna

[mossrotts]

some (slightly late) valentine's for a strahd campaign @courtwizardsirdoctorclydesdale is running. it's fun because, uh, i did valentine's for this group about a year ago and things have certainly not gone well for them since then.

adelphia is @plathsberry-farm, sial's mine, and trill is @zenrawings.

#also thank you zva for the dum mist pun #murder art #strahd #curse of strahd #adelphia #trill #friends' ocs #sial

[baellielurk]

makes me insane when ppl try to "fix" fictional characters and make them less "problematic" by giving justification to their evil deeds, or just straight up removing some of their wrongs. congratulations you've just made them boring

#screaming when i see the 20th rahadin rewrite that justifies his actions #let people just be evil oh my god #especially screaming when ppl remove all of strahd's evil shit and only keep the tatyana thing #what the fuck are you even doing #that fictional man does NOT need to be right to be fuckable #it's alright it's fine it's fiction they can be evil wrong irredeemable horrible AND sexy #sure i get removing racist shit like we dont need that to show that a character is evil #but removing good old murder? removing some war crimes? justifying their shit w some secret the good guys were actually bad all along shit? #stop watering down fucked up characters and calling it fixing #(to be clear i do not give a shit if someone changes strahd cuz they are not comfortable playing x or y aspect. #calling it ''fixing'' is what makes me bite.)

[eldergremlin]

making new bg3 files for all my dnd pcs and i don't know why astarion has decided to NOT SHUT UP EVER around mariya. sir! you're on the thinnest ice!

better hope she doesn't clock you because the girl has vampire trauma and WILL kill you.

if i can avoid the forbidden midnight snack camp scene, i have a feeling the vibes are going to be very much this:

#bg3 #mariya vibes #when you're reborn and you and your adoptive sister and all of your attendants got murdered by strahd's people #(yes i did make her sister her dream guardian) #now there's a worm in your head; you don't know where you are and some weird elf with a neck fixation will simply not be quiet. #standard party is gonna be mariya wyll karlach and astarion bc you always need a rogue. #i GUESS i'll switch karlach for gale if i need crowd control but 😖🤢 #gale girlies you are inscrutable to me #game that i'm very normal about #sometimes i make my own posts

[swordcoasted-arc]

* 𝐃𝐖𝐄𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐑  asked for a starter.  STRAHD & NESTA.  ( based off of swordcoasted's nesta d'angelis playlist. )  HEAVEN SAYS - GAMEPLAYAH.

HEAVEN SAYS ,  " YOU ARE IN DANGER. "  the bloody fingertips, the carnage around her - as nesta returns from this vision of viscera, she looks up, on her hands and knees in front of a grand staircase. her gaze rises, up, up, up, like the heat in the room. crimson of sanguine fury and crimson of archaic tapestry blend into several forms in her mind, and all of it smells too heavy of iron and sulfur. iron. sulfur. just as she has known all this time, just as she has ever been. the warring forces in her mind clash once more, and she cries out, bloodstained hands staining pearl-white hair.

the creature above her is more powerful and dangerous than she knows how to deal with. he is like the elders of her people, elongated in age but expontenially in wisdom. they are dangerous people to be around, insatiable and demanding more and more of those who have come after. she rises to her feet, not trembling, instead summoning her rapier to her hand again. she must have answers. she must know what is happening to her.

NOW SPELL ANSWER.    ( F-R-E-E-D-O-M. )   WRONG, TRY AGAIN: NOW SPELL MANKIND.    ( D-I-S-E-A-S-E. )    WRONG, TRY AGAIN: NOW SPELL ANSWER.    ( V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E. )   WRONG, TRY AGAIN: NOW SPELL SINNER.   ( F-R-I-E-N-D-S. )

WRONG : THE CORRECT ANSWER IS [ Y O U . ]

" what happened to me? " she calls up to the vampiric lord, gripping the weapon. " WHAT HAVE I DONE? " / @dweomerr

#this song is integral to nesta's story so i was SOOOO happy when i rolled it on my randomizer. i'm sorry if this is long #tldr nesta went into a murder frenzy looking for answers for her madness / dark urge / whatever #ends up on strahd's doorstep. you know #like a normal person #n001. ━━ 🗡 ⮞ my god is the god of death and he demands sacrifice. / int. #dweomerr #005. ━━ 🗡 ⮞ queue.

[the-drunk-game-master]

Curse of Strahd Monster Mash Murder Mystery

Okay so my Curse of Strahd Monster Mash Murder Mystery game has had an exciting twist.

One character revealed that she was Strahd's wife all along.

Then Strahd came out of his coffin, revealing that he was still alive, yet weakened from the attempt on his life.

But now I know something. Strahd is going to give everyone a choice to join him, save for one player. and I happen to know that they are all going to join him.

But I also know that the one PC who wasn't given that choice is secretly a lich who can possess other living beings. So it's going to be the whole party, plus Strahd, fighting the PC Lich.

#Curse of Strahd #None of you fuckers better be secretly following me #Murder Mystery #Evil Party #dungeonsanddragons

[acecasinova]

Hullo!!! I hope it's not too late for this sorry but if you're still up for the ask meme

🍼, 🍎, 🥂 and 🥑 for Lazarus? :D

I am ALWAYS down to answer OC questions~~ (And I love my horrible, terrible lil vamp lol)

🍼 [BABY BOTTLE] What's your OC's first memory? I don't think Lazarus can definitely say this is his first memory, since it resurfaced while he was asleep (and I let the DM be wholly in charge of what happened to him before he came through the Mists) but.... The earliest memory he might have was of being led into a room with about a dozen people standing around a magical circle. He was brought to the center of the circle, then blacked out, and when the memory resumed, everyone had collapsed and he and the circle were COVERED in blood. (And definitely of no consequence, we got solid evidence that Lazarus is an eldritch, non-standard type of vampire that feeds on other vampires [and actually physically grows and sprouts red kudzu from the corpse in the process of doing so] who, according to Esmeralda, should NOT be able to Embrace/Turn others, but uh.... they sure seem to have made Lazarus somehow) Before he had that revelation though and the earliest concrete memory he has is in the woods outside of Valaki, the wolf he'd just killed still warm as he drained its lifeblood. No thoughts beyond what cave or tree he might sleep in that night.

🍎 [RED APPLE] Who does your OC value above all else? He's actually weirdly loyal for someone who's chaotic evil, but there are PRECIOUS few people he's actually loyal TO, so it seems to work out lmfao. Might makes Right has really always been what he values most (ish) but Strahd and one of his Iron Nails (dm turned the Wives into SCARY paladins) pretty thoroughly broke him and their strength and HOW they did it just,,,, doesn't sit right as "earned". What he REALLY values most but can't or won't put into words is freedom and he's kinda taken it to the extreme of wanting freedom from society as a whole (Not particularly achievable, esp as he's being dragged kicking and screaming into personhood lol)

🥂 [GLASS CHEERS] What is your OC's 'aesthetic?' He's SO GRUNGY. Sleeping in the same clothes you've had for years, stained with mud and blood that's so ground in it's basically part of the fabric now. Dirty claws always out, hair hastily pulled away from his eyes but still wild Very "Lost Boys"type vampire- if Barovia had denim and safety pins he's be all OVER that stuff~

🥑 [AVACADO] What will they never back down about, even if it makes them seem bad? Murder is fine, actually? Lazarus doesn't exactly have qualms about being called bad or evil or anything like that, because..... he is tbh. But he also likes to argue that he doesn't need to have morals or listen to them, because he's a monster, not a person and morals are for PEOPLE. He's SUPER insistent on this, actually, and REALLY stubborn about claiming to not be a "person". That might actually change if the party is determined enough, but I don't think they'll ever get him to let go of the idea that a lot of the time murder IS the answer and you can't go your whole life NOT killing if you're going to claim you're a strong person.

#sleepyforestbeast #lazarus #his insistence on murder is REALLY funny considering another party member absolutely refuses to kill #She's a doctor and wants to extend mercy even to Strahd and they DO get into arguments about that #the only murder Laz feels remotely not fine about was the one that got him arrested and put in Strahd's custody #but that's mostly bc the guard was 18 and like JUST drafted in so he had no business being outside Valaki #kids are weak so you shouldn't kill them #is like his ONE LINE #but the IMPLICATIONS of Red Rose vampires growing when they feed on other vampires #combined with his memory of the circle and blood everywhere #he doesn't KNOW how old he is #the Red Rose vampires could have like..... lab grown a whole baby?? #Fed him vampire blood until he was a slightly independent age and able to be trained #then just kept him that age until they lost him and he ended up in Barovia feral and with no memories lol #Can't turn anyone but no one said they couldn't just grow a new vampire at home

[soul-of-vengeance]

Rahadin, Strahd, and Nthanda are the funniest and weirdest dynamic I think I could've created

#you killed my mom but also you're my hero and you take better care of me than anyone ever has #you're naive and easily manipulated but you also look at me with more trust than anyone ever has and you fill this dead house with music #you're an unknown element and a liability but if anything happened to you i would kill everyone in the room and then myself #(nthanda strahd and rahadin respectively) #what if two deeply unwell men adopted the child of the woman they murdered #aw curse of strahd

[merrinla]

Portrait spamming

Recent discovery. If you click on the portraits of the characters like crazy, they will react to it. And the developers had a lot of fun coding these reactions xD

Tav / Dark Urge

normal - I'm awake! Mostly. - I'm starting to get a headache. - Must be the tadpole. - Quit knocking around in there! - A thousand needlepricks in my rotten skull.

combat -Ahhhhhhhh! Okay, I feel better. - I have an itch in the worst place. - Is being a mind flayer so bad? - Just waiting to venture forth here. - I'm maiming as fast as I can!

stealth - What's that ticking? - Is it me? Am I ticking? - Bomb in my head about to go off. Great. - Ah, well. I had a good run.

Astarion

normal - Why do beautiful people taste better? It hardly seems fair on the ugly - they have such wonderful personalities. - Ugh. Strahd wouldn't put up with this shit. - More like Drizzt Don't'Urden - no. No that's not funny. - Villains! Dissemble no more, I admit the deed! Tear up the floor - here, here! It is the beating of his hideous hea- oh, no, that's his brain. Where did I leave that heart?

combat: - I'm trying to focus on murder. - *Humming.* - I shot a svirfneblin in Menzoberranzan just to watch him die. - I should've been a drow. They have such stylish armour.

stealth - Shhh. Just think sneaky thoughts. - Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP. - Be very, very quiet - I'm hunting idiots. - I've got a brand new torture chamber, so come and play with me.

Karlach

normal - NOTE TO ACTOR/DIRECTOR: Blow a raspberry at the player. - Don't. Poke. The Karlach. - Who am I? - My eye!

combat - Eyes on the prize - we need to win this! - Not every soldier should've made it out of training. - Eyes on victory, tummy on dinner. - I ought to just burn this whole thing down.

stealth - My back can't take much more of this. - Not now, I'm being a sneak! - I'm getting too old for this nonsense. - I'm not built to crouch.

Gale

normal - I hope Halaster takes good care of Tara while I'm away. - Sembian wine; Cormyrian boar; Waterdhavian conversation. It's the little things you miss while on the road. - Oh, what a tangled Weave we web! - All the world's my stage and you're just a player in it.

combat - Just go for the Magic Missile and fire away. Never fails. - Don't make me go all Edwin Odesseiron on you. - Get. Out. Of. My. Head. - I really wish I could cast a Hold spell on you.

stealth - You made me hide, don't make me come seek you. - Gods, it's like trying to sleep with a mosquito in the room. - A little privacy please. - Stop it - that tickles.

Wyll

normal - Could do for a brew. - Where there's a 'Wyll', there's a 'y'. - Ever get the sense that someone's watching? - So two halflings walk under a bar...

combat - Can't hear myself think! - Wear your scars proudly. - As my father once told me: 'Can we get on with it?' - I find moderation is key.

stealth - Bad time for an itch. - Could do for a brew. - So two halflings walk under a bar... - Shush. No, really. Shush.

Lae'zel

normal - Must everyone be so exhausting? - Weapons high. Standards higher. - Is perfection too much to ask? - Pride is a virtue.

combat - I will know my queen! - There is no right or wrong, only truth. - What is the point, if not victory? - You are right to fear me.

stealth - Hush already. - There is no wisdom in madness. - Is perfection too much to ask? - There is but one way. Vlaakith.

Shadowheart

all modes - I wonder how I'll feel when I remember everything. - Strange. I've had more freedom this past while than my whole life... - Have to keep focused. Can't afford to get attached - to anyone. - If I succeed, maybe I'll be allowed a pet... ugh, stop being silly.

Halsin / his voice is currently bugged :(

normal - What I would not give for a chunk of fresh honeycomb... - Such attention... I never realised I was so popular. - Are you feeling lonely, perhaps? - Unwise, perhaps, to poke a bear this much...

сombat - Battle is afoot - you can poke me once we are safe. - Perhaps try attacking the enemy? - Admirable stamina, yet terrible priorities. - You are insistent, are you not?

stealth - Most consider it unwise to poke a bear. - My, you are eager, are you not? - Please. I am trying to be stealthy. - Calm yourself. There is plenty of me to go around.

Jaheira

normal - Oh, calm down. I'm happy to see you too. - I would poke you back, but I fear that's what you want. - My, such strong wrists. - Well you certainly have the 'omnipresent' part down, don't you? - Please go poke the ranger instead.

combat - You have my attention - now do something with it. - What? What do you want!? - Do you know, I begin to wish they had never brought me back. - Yes, yes, have your fun. It isn't you they're trying to kill.

stealth - Dry those sweaty palms and let us try this again, shall we? - Argh, my knees! Oh. It was a twig. - Would that I could hide from you, too. - Careful, or I will take your toy away from you.

Minsc

normal - ARGH! My EYE, Boo! They went for my EYE! - Know that if you poke Boo, no higher dimension will keep you safe! - Heehee. Heeheeheehee. - Well, Boo? How do you want to do this?

сombat - Are you perchance a squeaky wheel in need of a kick? - I am armed! Armoured! And entirely sick of your foolishness. - I begin to grow annoyed. It is well for you that Boo does not let me learn the bad words! - Ignore them, Boo. Let them gaze deep into their own abyss, and wonder just what it is they are trying to achieve.

stealth - A little to the left? But not so hard you make me giggle. - Boo...? Are you dancing down there, or...? - Hush! I am surprising Boo for his birthday! He is... uh... eh... how old do hamsters get...? - I am the night. A pity, then, that it is so bright out.

Minthara

all modes - You had my attention, now you have my fury. - Phlar Lolth ssinssrickla. - Your suffering will be spectacular. - Stop, or die.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #karlach #gale #wyll #lae'zel #shadowheart #halsin #jaheira #minsc #minthara #funny stuff #bg3 datamine

[askmrtorgue]

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[mylordshesacactus]

VERY soft about my girl Atri tonight tho.

She's a little baby cleric, nineteen, level 2 and one of those is in ranger, raised in a cloister, never been more than a day's travel from her home temple before, but her devotion to the Raven Queen is very real and very very tender.

We're running Death House as the optional intro to Curse of Strahd (so, spoilers if you're avoiding those!) and just. God, I'm so glad I decided to play my girl in this campaign, it's perfect for her.

Atri's defining character trait is that she loves the undead--truly and genuinely, even the mindless or vicious undead, because by their very nature the undead suffer. They're trapped--sometimes in prisons of their own making, yes, but trapped--and, worst of all, very few people seem to care. Even other clerics of her Lady generally view undead as abominations; to be pitied, maybe, and the peaceful ones treated with kindness, but objects of revulsion, an aberration of the natural order, something to be purged.

Atri says: The undead aren't abominations. Necromancers are.

In her world the Goddess of Death makes a promise: All chains are broken. Death means an end--no more joy and memories but no more suffering, no more fear, no more loneliness or pain. No matter what, or what you did in life, bad or good--death ends it. No one can hurt you, and you can't hurt anyone else.

Necromancy breaks that promise. It gives cruel spirits the ability to continue harming others when they should be past all chance of it, and it allows the innocent to continue to suffer. Spirit-binding is an obscenity--you cannot command a soul. No one has that right.

Which means this module has been, just...I couldn't design a scenario to better let Atri shine.

It says a lot about her that, having more than established that the lady of the house murdered her husband and his pregnant paramour using fucked-up necromancy and her vengeful spirit appears to still be around, Atri's response was...to gulp, light incense in her censor, and walk a slow circle around the room, calling out politely to the Lady Elizabeth and offering her some understanding--you must have been very hurt, and very angry. Your husband disrespected you in your own home, and that was wrong of him. I'm sorry you were betrayed that way. Will you talk to me? I'm Atri, Order of the Broken Chain, I'm here to help...

(It says a lot about her, also, that she made no further attempt at reconciliation after finding what she did to her victims. Compassion doesn't mean forgiveness. She just...lit the incense again, called out to what was left of Klara, and very very softly apologized. You were taken advantage of--whether you felt that way or not. And then you were hurt very badly by your employer. They shouldn't have done any of it...I'm sorry. Someone should have helped you...)

The party in and out of character has been pushing Atri to the forefront to do the talking-to-ghosts bit. She's had some lovely, lovely tender conversations with Klara and the kids, telling them how sorry she is, that she and her friends are here to help them...she cut the bindings on the bed where Klara was tortured to death, just as a gesture that might bring her spirit some closure. Broken chains, a promise kept too late. Recited full funerary rites over what was left of the poor woman's body.

Just feeling VERY soft that while we DID ask them important questions about the plot, 90% of Atri's conversations with ghosts in this house haven't been about mystery-solving; they've been about slowly, gently, prying free some of the pain that's kept them trapped in the place just as much as the fucked-up necromancy.

If Atri dies in this prologue, calling it now it'll be because she's not gonna run if it means leaving anyone behind.

#d&d #strahd campaign

[y-rhywbeth2]

...Did not read Vampire of the Mists expecting to walk out with the likely not Realmslore or larger D&D compliant headcanon that Bhaal invented vampirism, but here we are.

Right so there's a solid chance that this was the Dark Powers that govern the Ravenloft setting, and Strahd has multiple backstory variations (I think?) butI mean, gods can present themselves a little differently to different worlds, the slight shift in focus of murder+ isn't that odd. Bane has in fact been dabbling across the planes since pre-Time of Troubles, so the other two idiots could definitely have gotten in on it. And - in one version of this story - the origin of vampirism is a voice that sounds like death, describes itself as:

"...every nightmare every creature has ever had. I am the dark thoughts of murder and treachery, of fear and lust and obscenity and violation. I am the cutting word that kills the soul and the bloody knife that kills the body. I am the poison at the bottom of the cup, the noose around the thief’s neck, the cry of the wronged, and the shriek of the tortured. I am the lie. I am the black pit of madness. I am Death and all things worse."

(And you know, Bhaal definitely has lust, obscenity and violation going for him recently. And a little earlier, what the fuck is with the attraction spell sir.) and then says use a dagger - wielded by an assassin cult with the name "Ba'al" in it, whose symbol is a bloody skull, who run protection rackets and seek political power - and go commit a murder for me (enjoy it).

And be transformed one of the most deliberately murderous undead - the most human and able to grasp the horror they inflict, sustained by acts of murder, whose instincts work a lot like Bhaal and the Bhaalspawn, tbh.

Like, Toril is part of the background in this novel, but I don't actually think this was deliberate. I am still maybe going to keep the idea on the shelf. But Bhaal, if I find out you've been doing dimensional-temporal shenanigans and created Strahd (and thus, according to some accounts, invented vampirism itself)...

(It's also kind of funny to imagine Bhaal creating the first vampire and amusing himself watching, and then suddenly these mists descend and yoink all of Barovia off the map. "Huh. Weird. Anyway! Hey, Myrkul, look what I invented!")

#Headcanon Bhaal you owe Hexxat and Astarion - and pretty much everyone else - for emotional damages you know this right? #imo undeath suits Bhaal better as a theme than the other two. Bane is life; Myrkul is death; Bhaal stands between the two states #That description also sounds a bit Cyric-y to me #babbling #edgelord hours #the idiot three

[undeadswagtourney]

the risen dead have a certain... SWAG to them, wouldn't you say?

Yeah this is to determine Tumblr's favourite undead.

The Rules:

No Horde undead(e.g Zombies) they are mostly mindless, and thus swagless.

Vampires, Skeletons, Liches, all allowed as long as they are an individual.

ONE character per submission. You can submit as many as you like, but only one per submission.

Dracula from Dracula, Vecna from Dungeons and Dragons, and Strahd Von Zarovich from Dungeons and Dragons are my personal shoe ins.

Yes, Sans and Papyrus are allowed. I know somebody wanted to know that.

addendum: Real people(including youtubers(and yes, that includes all Minecraft YouTube characters)) are not allowed. Sorry that I forgot to say that to begin with.

Submissions will remain open until May 1st or until I have collected 250 submissions. You may call me(Showrunner) the Necromancer.

Submit your undeads. We will watch them murder each other... well, they're already dead.

Other polls for visibility: @bestfictionaldivorce @bangerbattlethemes @finalbossthemethrowdown @ultimate-sword-showdown @sans-au-war-ii @worstutfanonthingpoll

#undeadswagtourney #dungeons and dragons #dracula #vecna #strahd von zarovich

[rissi-chan]

Get to know your Tav

My favorite "Tav," Neri whose file i have played through almost twice now. She is based off of my Kalashtar Runechild Sorcerer from our Curse of Strahd Campaign

Neri (she/her) | No last name/No memory of a last name | Half Drow | Wild Magic Sorcerer | Dark Urge (Redemption Path)

(Yes she runs around Faerun topless)

What is your Tav’s…

favorite weapon: She carries a staff, but prefers to use her hands for spells—the connection to her magic feels stronger that way

style of combat: Cautious and precise, unless there is an immediate threat to one of her companions—all bets are off if the squad's lives are on the line.

most prized possession: While she likes to collect things, she tries not to place too much sentimental value on objects. At the end of the day the memories that are tied to the objects are what she cherishes above all else.

deepest desire: Contentment. Peace. Happiness.

guilty pleasure: Baths. She LOVES bathing and will take any opportunity to sink into a hot, bubbly bath or fresh spring.

best-kept secret: I would say killing Quill, but that seems more like an open secret.

greatest strength: Her mastery over her self. She is a Haunted One, after all. A child of Bhaal, murder incarnate, etc. But her own true nature always shines through.

fatal flaw: Literal child of Bhaal. Also she's a bit reserved to be placed in a leadership role, but she handles confrontations calmly and charismatically.

favorite smell: Incense—sandalwood and jasmine specifically—and gardens just after rain.

favorite spell or cantrip: Shatter, for sure. She loves the rumbling deep in her chest, up the back of her neck and spreads through her skull when she casts it.

pet peeve: Not being heard. She may not be the most talkative person, but when she says she has disturbing urges it's imperative that she's taken seriously.

bad habit: Like most Tavs, she is a packrat bordering on hoarder. She is definitely the type to collect useless but adorable trinkets, figures, and knickknacks only to realize she has far too little strength to carry them all in her overstuffed pack.

hidden talent: Since she is based on my Kalashtar, she also has a deep intuition/empathy/compassion for other people—which is very much in conflict with the Dark Urge—and a strong connection to the plane of dreams (though the only dreams she has herself are nightmares inflicted by Bhaal).

leisure activity: She definitely does some form of meditative stretching, like yoga (whatever the Faerunian equivalent would be). It relaxes her body and mind and keeps her reflexes sharp.

favorite drink: Upon waking up from her brain scramble and joining with her companions, she comes to realize that she loves tea. Something lightly floral, with a drop of cream. Hot and calming. Gale brews it the best, of course.

comfort food: Something similar to kitsune udon (whatever the Faerunian equivalent would be). Warm, comforting, filling, umami . . . She definitely slurps her noodles.

favorite person: Gale. After waking up on the nautiloid, her magic was the only part of her she wanted to embrace, and Gale being a lover and user of magic himself, she instantly lit up upon meeting him.

favored display of affection: Sincere words, coupled with intense eye contact and soft touches. When Gale says "I love you" while staring into her eyes and brushing her cheek with the back of his hand, she could honestly dissolve on the spot and her wild magic might make that possible

fondest childhood memory: None. Bhaal consumed her childhood, and she is thankful for her memory loss.

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Strahd is not an incel. Incels are an ideology of an online subculture of men who desire a sexual/romantic partner but are unable to get one. Canon Strahd literally has four wives. The man has no issues finding sexual/romantic partners. Canon Strahd is a monster. He's a narcissistic murderer. I think that's enough to warrant his villain status without connecting him to modern online misogynistic hate groups. Incels are a product of a culture that doesn't even exist in Barovia. The comparison is odd to me. Is the Phantom of the Opera also an incel by this framework? Eric threatened to blow up his beloved's boyfriend because she refused to be with him and he had no other romantic prospects. I still wouldn't define him as an incel. Maybe if the Phantom had a cult following he shared articles with about how much "females" have ruined his life? 😭

"Strahd isn't sexy! You can't find him/her sexy! Think of the children!"

Curse of Strahd is a fictional story with fictional characters. The main antagonist is toxic and problematic which makes for an interesting antagonist. Cruella De'ville is a puppy skinning maniac. People *adore* that character. Does that mean they are in support or like the idea of someone skinning puppies? Look, after I saw the movie and how girlboss Glenn Close was, I just... I wanted some new gloves and... it was one time and one puppy okay???? /Jk.

Furthermore, Curse of Strahd 5e isn't a movie/novel/etc. It's a d&d module with a one page writeup about the character's backstory and his goals. How you play Strahd is different from how another DM plays him. You may play him like a sociopathic "incel" while another plays him like a tragic anti-hero. A DM may have made changes to his backstory. Maybe they don't agree with Mormon Tracy Hickman's philosophy and religious influenced ideology?

What people find sexy is subjective and personal. You don't have to like it but you do have to accept that. (Unless it involves minors.) I would hope that the majority of people who play COS are adults capable of separating fiction from reality. By all means, if you have players who are younger or you want to set a moral precedent, have a discussion at your table about toxic people. But for gods sake, let people have fun and feel comfortable with expressing themselves. If a player wants to romance Strahd, let them (unless you don't allow romance). It is an opportunity for an interesting story. All interesting stories have problematic elements and characters. If you play Strahd as toxic, then there will naturally be consequences or what is known as "conflict", a very important thing in a story. Let your players come to their own conclusions and have discussions about it. That is the beauty of group story telling!

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