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deer-with-a-stick · 7 months

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I have been asked to run a level 20 Death House oneshot. Wish my players luck

#dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd5e #the death house #curse of strahd #my toxic trait is making an encounter consist of 1250 skeletons #and a harpy necromancer #this was actually a player idea but i don't think they intended for a literal horde of skeletons #my real toxic trait is stealing bg3 rules to buff different creatures #*eyes owlbear crushing flight* sooo... did you know that a tarrasque is 130 tons?

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undeadbetareads · 7 months

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I've been playing The Curse of Strahd with my Dad and another family we are friends with, and we were in the Death House (a house that is known for total party kills).

I play this innocent, book smart, druid that only has spells good for large spaces, and whenever I roll to hit or roll damage I have the worst luck (I cast poison spray and on a d12 got a 1 for damage).

So during our game it starts off with one of our party members taking a wrong turn and getting destroyed by some Ghasts, she rolled bad on initiative and didn't even get a chance to attack. So then the rest of us went looking for her and ended up running into this mimic. We were just about to kill it when the Ghasts came back and ended up killing my dads character and our other party member. I disengage and run out of the room, but the Ghast follows me. In my last attempt to survive, I wild shape myself into a flea and manage to escape and make my way out of the house.

So out of 3 strong characters and my overly friendly, bad at spells druid, she is the only one to survive due to luck and casting a spell at the right time.

#dnd #dnd 5e #dungeons and dragons #curse of strahd #almost a tpk #tpk #dnd story #wild shape #druid #bad luck #dumb luck #the death house #strahd von zarovich #dnd5e

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the-mist-striders · 10 months

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Episode 2: Well We're Boned

The party ascends to the next floor, which feels strange and counterproductive since they're looking for the basement but -hey- they don't have a choice. The party ascends to the next floor, which feels strange and counterproductive since they're looking for the basement but -hey- they don't have a choice.

The next floor has a study,

In this study Amahlia finds a book that claims to detail her life. #this is normal

Amahlia skips to the end and it details Amahlia reading this very book, unknowing of the entity that watches her, with an illustration of herself from behind.

Normal people would find this intimidating, however the siblings Fauna and Lucerian start to roast the unknown entity’s shitty artwork.

The shadow entity came here for spooks and now just feels attacked.

Kai taps at the book shelves and walls until she finds an indication of a secret room. She requests Imil’s assistance in finding the switch.

They find a chest which contains the skeleton of a person who set off a trap.

Kai doesn't trust anything. But Imil does, so he goes to the chest and looks at what's inside.

#congrats on your homeownership

There is also a book of bogus rituals that have no chance of actually being effective, along with a note from a mysterious Count Strahd that basically says “Your rituals aint shit. Die.” (Direct Quote)

Meanwhile Fauna finds a key, no idea what it goes to yet though.

Go to the next room.

Kai tries to tap the wall outside of it to see what I detect on the other side via vibrations

Nat1

Staff just fucking goes threw the wall

Anyway she can now hear a puppy

In an attempt to stop Fauna from diving in after it Lucirin and Imil try to stop her. They fail and end up hugging by accident

#bromance

The party now has a small doggo. The tag says its name is Lancelot.

All is good.

The suits of armor on this floor are being stabbed by Amahlia

Next floor

Suit of armor comes alive and tries to remove Imil from the census by shoving him off the balcony and down the staircase

Imil gracefully dodges, knight is frozen in place probably embarrassed by its failure

#living suit of armor? No am just a statue

Oh and the house now is done playing pretend and is now showing its true colors

This happens after the knight tries to put Imil on a shirt

Lights are out

#oh no the horror - Kai probably

The wallpaper is all starving people and wolves

Cobwebs galore The house that once pretended to be normal with normal signs of life now looks like it hasn’t seen an occupant in a long time.

The children who were following the party also turned to dust, leading Amahlia to scream “I FUCKING TOLD YOU WE COULDN’T TRUST THOSE KIDS”

Fauna, despite being an elf with dark vision, is scared of the dark, so Imil creates a makeshift lantern.

We head into what looks like a master bedroom.

We find a ghost maid in a bedroom that can only say "don't wake the baby"

In the other room is a rocking bassinet

#yeah no we ain't going in there

The ghost is also looping, like a hologram replaying over and over their final moments of “Don't wake the baby” followed by what looks like her being stabbed in the back.

Turns out the father had an affair with the maid and had a bastard child, his wife wasn’t happy about that and eventually killed a bitch.

Meanwhile Amalia is assaulted by a broom handle in the closet nearby

Handle to the face

She breaks the broom

We find the corpse of the father hanging in the other master bedroom

Suicide note says

"Hey kids. We fucked up by doing rituals. Sorry you are in this mess now. Love ya Bye"

Not an actual quote

Buut this is where everyone in the squad at this point knows there's a blood cult going on here, likely it was in an attempt to make the land fertile again..

So to recap, the kids that led the party inside the death house are actually not kids, and there was a blood cult here that was so bad at being a blood cult that the guy they were doing the rituals for told them to eat shit and die. The current victims being a blind woman who suspiciously knows what people are thinking, a moon elf who is afraid of the dark with a pet bat that can’t fly, an angry mysterious sun elf, a paladin, and a crazy lady.

How could it ever get worse.

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scarystickers · 8 months

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