![]() It’s important to note that while danger is all around the adventurers, there can be moments of temporary safety to ease them in before the terror sets. ![]() These will help add the eerie and horror alive and well in your game. Remember some key points: keep it hidden & mysterious foreshadow the grim and horrendous the setting in Curse is aged and decrypted personification of inanimate things like the wind or buildings renounces the mundane choose a single detail and focus on it (it does not matter if it’s important or not), and lastly some sprinkling of dark humor is always good. Setting your players into a state of relative unease helps draw them into the atmosphere for this setting. You start out subtle or intense depending on the initial impact, but Gothic horror prefers to creep into your skin, so it’s important to describe the mood and environment. Warning: Spoilers for Death House & some Curse of Strahd ahead.Īn important lesson with horror (regardless of subgenre) is that you never unveil all of the pieces of terror or dread. Wizards of the Coast provided a free copy Death House here. I don’t recommend having a party higher than 5th-level, at that point, you’re better off introducing Curse of Strahd using one of the many adventure hooks that will lure adventures to the mists of Barovia. The short adventure itself is an excellent introduction to the setting of Barovia and Curse of Strahd. ![]() I’ve run Death House at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level as parts of a campaign, with one iteration with a 5th-level group. Here’s some backstory regarding myself running Death House. After we had explained that the modules were independent stories and campaigns, then the conversation shifted about running Death House for a higher leveled group and what sort of adaptations might be suggested. The conversation started from a DM named Drake, who had his group finish the Mines of Phandelver adventure from the Starter Kit, wanted to know which published adventure he should take his players next and in which order. Several weeks back, I was in the midst of a conversation with some D&D influencers on Twitter (specifically cawoodpublishing & HanCTweets) discussing the published D&D Adventures by Wizards of the Coast.
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