He materializes from thin air, strikes, then flees using his Shapechanger trait as quickly as possible. Once he knows this item has been found, his hourly taunting visits are replaced with hourly surprise attacks against the character wielding the blade. He believes himself invincible… until any character finds the Sunsword. Why does Strahd give these gifts? The same reason he’s set a time limit at all: he’s toying with the characters like a cat toys with a mouse. If you feel an event would drag the game down, you can replace it. These gifts are designed to speed up play by goading the players into rash action. He offers to bestow a random gift upon one of the characters, determined from the table below - if that character allows Strahd to bite them and drink their blood first (Strahd makes a single Bite attack against the volunteer that always hits).
Bestowing gifts on the adventuresĪt the end of every real-life hour, Strahd appears before the party and mocks the party, pitying their inevitable defeat. Come life or come death, the hunt ends here. Once the four hours are up, Strahd immediately appears before the party and attacks. I like to have Strahd appear before them in person as they enter the castle and declare that they have “four hours until planar midnight,” which sidesteps the issue of game time passing differently than in real-time. If you like a 4-hour game of D&D, then “Strahd Must Die Tonight” has a four-hour real-life time limit (plus the half hour or so it takes to fight Strahd). My ideal D&D game lasts about 4 hours … or enough time to explore and appreciate about a half of the castle, in my experience. It’s too big for a one-shot game, especially if your players really want to explore the castle and soak in all the details. In the past, I’ve struggled to run Ravenloft in a single game session. To that end, I created some rules and limitations that turn this exploration of Castle Ravenloft into a deadly race against the clock. For most groups, the maximum amount of time they can commit to playing D&D is about 4 hours. Unless you have friends who could play D&D from dawn to dusk, you will most likely need to impose a concrete and - if we’re being honest with ourselves - arbitrary time limit upon the adventure. This is perhaps the most luxurious optional item, but boy is it fun. If you want your game to be easy to pick up and play, you might want to create enough pregenerated characters for your whole group, since time is of the essence for this dungeon delve. A map of Castle Ravenloft, found in chapter 4 of the adventure.Some things that will make your play session easier and more exciting include: To battle Strahd in a single night, all you need is a copy of Curse of Strahd and 3 to 6 friends to play with.
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I’ll include the changes and optional rules I use to run Ravenloft as a one-shot adventure, but feel free to mix and match these rules to suit your table. You will have to make a few changes in order for the characters to fight Strahd before the night ends or people get exhausted. Ravenloft is a large place, and exploring it thoroughly isn’t really possible in a single sitting. This means that, instead of preparing all of Curse of Strahd, you will only need to prepare Fortunes of Ravenloft from chapter 1 and Castle Ravenloft from chapter 4 of the adventure. Your goal is to create a scenario in which it’s possible for the heroes to kill Strahd von Zarovich in a single session of play. If you haven’t ever had a D&D Halloween mega-party and battled your way through the halls of Castle Ravenloft with the sole objective of destroying Count Strahd von Zarovich, then you need to wrangle your friends and try it! Have you had your annual Halloween playthrough of Ravenloft yet? It's one of my favorite Halloween traditions.
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