D&D Curse of Strahd Replay (Episode 1): The House of Death 

I love how you say makes me as if you don't want to do this for him

YOU are a MAGNIFICENT sibling!

That’s actually kind of adorable. You’re a good brother.

subtitle help?

Honest question, is there any reason he doesn't read captions? Genuinely curious

lmao

My day has been made thank you

hav a agood day

Awesome fucking comedy

I'd totally forgotten that sword, thank you for the best laugh I've had all week!

With how this adventure ended up going? I think fate did him a favor.

hav a good day

I imagined it eith a jojo pose

Whereas my immersion immediately broke as I tried to figure out how a gnome wild sorcerer got access to Find Familiar

@@Telemergion I think Snacks is just a normal chunky bird.

@@mathybrain8 well it was referred to as her familiar, but we can split the difference and say she nursed it back to health or something

Oh no the night hags!

Sweet dreams are made of cheese, not pastries, but who am i to diss a brie?

Careful with those puns, not everyone has the roquefort constitution to handle such jokes and thus camembert it.

We've traveled the world, to the endless seas (of the water plane), everybody's looking for magic

Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of the turtles want to be abused by you (Turtle F******)

I told myself that...then before I knew it I just kept watching anyway...

@@bradleymoore2797 still havemt watched it, from the video titles they are way further in, my group just visited the seer at tser pool, so doubt that we are that far in

I'm just going to stop when it gets close to where we are 😂

I'm starting it in a month or two, but if I know Puffin and I know my DM, they will likely split paths within an episode XD

@@bradleymoore2797 finally watched this one, in 1 session they got as far as we have in about 6 smh, we also spent a significantly greater time in barovia (town) though

"I see you and your husband have a lot in common."

“Yeah, uh....that was why he didn’t stop us...from coming in. So he let us in, see?”

That is awesome

Ginger Grant that is adorable

Sounds like our eldritch knight. He ended up possessed by them both due to an unfortunately timed 1, but by the end of the death house he utterly refused to part with them. Even now, he's received the curse of lycanthropy, but he refuses to be cured of it because he's terrified that the Remove Curse spell will rid him of Rose and Thorn

Sabreena Floyd that’s so adorable

In mine, my character and another got possessed by both of them. My character, possessed by the girl, became bossy and anxious while the other became meek and scared. We managed to find their coffins under the house, empty. Then we went back up, brought their skeletons down with us and placed those inside the coffins. Their spirits managed to move on in peace and the DM gave us all inspiration for that \o/

Yup, had the exact same thoughts, only ours was the Ranger whose favored enemy is undead.

My group had a wizard who casted fireball on them before they even said that line. They did say it after though. As a level 15 wraith. To a level 3 party.

I feel like the paladin is garen

ran death house, paladin did the same thing, then proceeded to try and burn the house down with the children inside before encountering literally anything

@@nikosy704 The Discord for the CoD game that I am running has a entire channel for discussing arson....

In our party only one bought one. It way to much resembled Sweeny Todd, so I passed and the rest also thought something was fishy. xD

My thought exactly.

2 of our 5 did, but one character rolled something to know how shady that shit was and disposed of the pastry before we could eat them though lol.

The first time the crew did we were already escorting Ismark and Irenea out of town. Ismark was terrified of the old woman so the party actively avoided her. By the time they went to bonegrinder they were already level 9 and stomped her and her daughters.

We ran into the pastry lady after Death House, so had been warned on how addictive the pastries were and the Furbolg Revanant (I forget her class, was a few years back) started taking to her and asked too many questions.... so we headed for bone grinder after killing her at like lvl 4 ... it was an odd turn of events. She like ignored Strahd and his taunts wanting to go after the pastry people. The DM very much enjoyed it

Dude, I commented the same thing! Great minds think alike.

hav a good day

“Rip and tear, until it is done”

Im guessing you had a session of this mojule. Do you mind sharing it?

There's nothing wrong with Isekai. C.S. Lewis was writing Isekai long before the term itself entered common usage.

@@r3dp9 Is Alice in Wonderland an Isekai? :)

@@bradleymoore2797 Yes. So is Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, and basically the whole Narnia series. Shakespear even dabbled in Isekai with A Midsummer's Night Dream.

@@Dragon_Lair Next you're gonna tell me the Wizard of Oz is an Isekai.

stopped counting after the 5th time, from ep01 to ep13 every time...

Finally something to do!

This is Dingo Doodle’s Fools Gold all over again lol

Yup. That's a dnd party. Quality murder-hobo 👍

I made tailsomensnof their pinky toe bones and our dm allowed them to come with us thru the game as spirits that reaided and had special feats for being allowed to posses us by our charaters. They were there thru it all.

@@TheArtisticGamer7 Hey ! You can't say they are murderer if their victims were already dead. Thought, they are hobos since they burned down the house.

Pretty sure the house just regenerates after 24 hours if you do that.

@@RaggedLands Well, nothing stop you to just burn it again. You don't even have to do it yourself, the villagers can do it for you. You can't rebuilt a house forever, without an external source of energy.

Genius!

I travel the world And the seven seas, Everybody's looking for something.

I love this comment deeply

Some of them wants to abuse you Some of them wants to be abused Some of them wants to use you Some of them wants to get used by you

Well played

Ew.

I’m not sure a French Maid outfit is a wise armor choice. I suppose it does cover more than a chain mail bikini

@@subotai358 Anime rules. A French maid outfit beats a suit of full plate.

*barf*

So, what you're saying is Strahd is a harem protagonist? Cause he has a elf in a french maid outfit, and a perky pixie girl being all tsundere at him.

hav a good day

I salute you for your wisdom.

I admire your tenacity

I'm pretty sure the length was referring to the overall series length.

The hair looks good but i feel like the borders for the eyes are weird

I think he meant slides, like the amount of art panels

@@okaycook1307 Or animation. There's basically no animation. Not that I mind, I come here for the stories and the voices more than the animations.

"It's gonna be long." I use an identical disclaimer with the opposite sex.

Exactly, my feelings exactly

Same took a year and a half for my group cause we have no one with high intelligence and also we fucked around in many evil places/getting constantly lost.

Ok but how did it go?

@@WhiteFyreLeo Pretty good actually! It was the first time I've run a proper module and this was a great series to go back to so I could refresh my memory of who's who and what the players still needed to do (previously used to do much smaller homebrew campaigns about 3-5 sessions in length and were only tangentially connected) Took a number of ideas from this series but undoubtedly the most fun one was Mordenkainen. I ended up having him effectively join the party because he had great chemistry with a couple of the characters. I also had a fumble chart for when people rolled Nat 1s and Mordenkainen could not stop crit failing and then throwing his staff in a random direction, which led to the party suggesting he just tie a piece of rope around his wrist and the staff. He pouted but eventually took the advice. I also copied the idea of entering his hiding place, the Magnificent Manor, through a series of riddle rooms, though I did change up the riddles a bit as I have a policy of not putting a puzzle in my game unless I can work it out myself first. I also took the Dark Powers from this series which I think amped up how the players engaged with the world and used them in the main quest (we ended up with 2 people completing their quests for the Dark Powers out of a party of 7) One thing I'm quite proud of and eager to share as well was I made Van Richten an Australian Monster Hunter (Think Steve Irwin) who, after he reunited with Esmeralda, was just chomping at the bit to give Strahd the business end of his stake! Honestly could talk about the CoS campaign all day, I had great fun running it. Ez, Mordenkainen and VR were all joys to play, as were Strahd and his wives. I also took the Strahd theme from this series (Huma Huma I think it's called?) and used it, worked so well and got to the point where I didn't even need to say Strahd was in the room, the players would just hear the theme and go "Oh shit, look what the cat dragged in!"

Just because you aren't good doesn't mean you aren't nice.

And just because you're good, doesn't mean you're nice.

So sad, yet so true, fellow D&D-less friend.

Do not fear! There are plenty of ways to play D&D online. You already have two. Just need a few more people who are also D&Dless. I'd join, but I already have two online games going.

@@TheodoreMinick YOU, Sir, are a GOOD EGG! I myself have just a few more weeks going over my source materials and what not before I'm confident enough to play online. What I truly want is a Call of Cthulhu game to play in, but my internet connection is such crap and I only know the bare basics that I just want to hold out until I can be a player the GM actually like to play with. You, my nerdy friend, get 15 Viking War Bear points, redeemable at your nearest Blockblister for half a lamprey sandwich, or some leather shoestrings that smell of raspberry and vomit! CONGRATULATIONS!

@@TheodoreMinick Would you ever consider playing some D&D or Call of Cthulhu with an asshole you met on a comment thread on RU-vid? I have sourcebooks and adventures for everything from D&D to Call of Cthulhu, from Deadlands to Black Crusade and more! Player or DM, I would LOVE to have some cool cats to roleplay with! Even if you don't want to play, if you have 6 gigs free I can send you everything I have for RPGs, just to help another nerd out!

Viking War Bear oh boy can we do this online?? I’ve been playing with random people online for the last few weeks, I’m enjoying this so much I started creating maps and shit

Ayyyy same

Yea same, I started running this 2 weeks ago

I'm planning on running this as well.

3 years later and still useful 😊

If you even see the gates of Barovia...you're already too late

MicroPirate wait then how would closing the gate work at that point? What’s the point of asking of this?

SoundRogue once you enter the mists surrounding Barovia you are trapped there. Once you find the real letter you are far past the mists. The idea behind the real letter was a desperate attempt to get people to seal off the evil in the land, allowing everyone to die and getting rid of Strahd. It was never going to work but the burgermeister was desperate.

@@thrakmordarkblade2280 Oh

@@thrakmordarkblade2280 It more or less did work. Since Barovia is its own demi-plane now. The seal isn't terribly good, though, obviously...

Oh My God! They killed Benny! You Bastards!

@@Gnomeitall I was coming here to say that very thing

... because it's Ben.

Because you are truly the Chosen One. Preach your wisdom upon us further, I beg! (Also, because he gon die, and you have a WIS score above 9. But still, fun times.)

hav a good day

:D

Doesn't the algorithm favor longer content because of watch time? In which case this is technically better for his channel.

@@Marcel2278 While view time is more important than view number for the algorithm, It favors videos that are closer to the 10 minute mark, Because that's what has been determined to be the best length for maximum engagement, Videos much longer than that allegedly dissuade people from even watching. Less engagement means fewer ad clicks and less preferential treatment from the algorithm

hav a agood day

@@darnchacha1632 oh nice, didn't know that...

Von Richten

@@ktulurob I mean, yeah. That too. xD I was pointing out the Dracula reference, in which the vampire hunter is named "Van Helsing".

Bimon Selmont

ADifferentKindOfGeek Han

J Moffett hahaha i miss symphony of the night.. . man iam getting old;(

the one time I played Curse of Strahd, that broom TPK'd us

@@ChibiKami story time?!

Interesting.. hmm.. never seen this broom lol

@@ChibiKami that broom is the devil. My players almost got TPKd as well 😐

I rolled badly and missed the broom with 3 consecutive spells, while half the party was already unconscious. Then the monk finally managed to karate-chop it in half and all was fine.

Me pulls out a human barbarian who kills only deamona and teiflings beacuse they killed hia rabbit daisy

Garo should have respecced his character to be the Golden Knight Garo. It would have fit on so many levels.

Rob McD I need to bust open that bag of chips I’ve been saving up for this story time!

hav a good day

Make me

That's immediately what I thought when I saw his multiclass. Sun soul and Light Cleric can do some fun stuff. But this campaign might've been before Sun Soul was around. So we might not get it :/

It's literally Hamon lol

@@nihalanand2690 that does make sense. Especially with so many people connecting this to "Fool's Gold" by Dingo Doodles. Ireena is LITERALLY a walking, talking JoJo reference.

SUNLIGHT YELLOW OVERDRIVE!

Eyyyy! I'm also a teifling necromancer in this module! I sadly was sick the night we did the death house though. We did things in a weird order I think.

@@NyxyPixie most of the campaign is set up so there are a few different level appropriate things you can do. They recommend you start The Curse of Strahd at third level or higher, most of the locations assume 3+, but include Death House as level 1-3 content to get fresh characters of level 1 to level three, teach them to work together, and a bit of an intro to the world. Of course, DMs have complete discretion in their own campaigns.

@@gjbehrendt6713 Ahhhhh! Yeah we were higher level by that point but our group was half newbies and often prone to jumping straight into (unbeknownst to us) the highest level encounters when provided with options. Our poor GM! Tons of fun though.

@@NyxyPixie Doh ... another Tiefling necromancer? Starting to suspect we're simultaneously rare and despised, and also two-a-penny and popular! We hit the Death House at level 1, it was kinda tough.... my Tiefling was the only one that failed to make it out - trapped by the ghosts. (Made it out another way eventually.) Failed two consecutive CHA saving throws (with +7 to CHA saves!) Got himself a self-confidence complex from that ....

@@richardgodivala4680 Ha ha awe poor guy! I'm sad I missed that session in the house honestly. Lol we need a Teifling necromancer support group XD Mine grew up fairly isolated and is super friendly so she's often a bit upset that other people are so weird around her (and her beloved crawling claws and ogre skeleton)

That broom has claimed nearly as many lives as Strahd

@@Telemergion It first downed our ranger, then it moved on to the warlock.

@@matthewdykeman8149 One shotted the fighter in the first group I ran through it

Its DnD Thats honestly pretty normal

If that's the strangest thing in your campaign, your DM needs to up his game.

@@whiterabbit75 right the druid talks to dogs like its going out of style

@@hadeskingoftheunderworld7010 Just wait until you're flying around in a ship made out of a space whale.

@@whiterabbit75 what about flying through the astral plane in a hot air balloon being chased by an angry god because the rouge with the bards(me) help stole the his sandwich

I'll tell you this. It has nothing to do with satanism or demon summoning. It's fantasy evil-vanquishing sandbox adventures with imagination. Coming from a "hardcore" catholic that is strictly adhered to his beliefs. (:

Its a great and very welcoming community. Give it a try.

The coolest thing about D&D is that it's only limited by your imagination. With homebrew, you can make a campaign setting that's as bright and idealistic or dark and cynical as you like. Like MLP? Pony campaign. Hamtaro? Snack on sunflower seeds, my friend. Want to dash into hell armed with a shotgun and a meat hook? Rip and tear until it is done. :)

Look, Satan only shows up like once every 5 sessions and all you have to do is throw a crucifix in his general direction to banish him back to Hell.

Mmmmm burgers

stijnweegberg1983 Burgermeister Meisterburger

I assumed it was Russian because of the woman named Irina. Cool to know though. Thanks for the translations!

@*v.v* oh that's clever lol

Barovia is loosely based on Balkan region, using slavic folklore, names and myths. Romania, place where Transylvania is, is a mixture of latin and slavic culture. Only thing germanic in the settings are some titles, but these are inconsistent as well.

Same

This is the EXACT thing I was waiting for him to make!!! :DDDDDD

As much as a beholder would!

Absolutely loving this format too, and Curse of Strahd is a good campaign for it.

Basically

Or Oklahoma city Oklahoma or Luxembourg city Luxembourg.

Or Kansas City in....Missouri?

Or like a burger...wrapped in a burger!

or like Valparaiso city in Valparaiso province, in Valparaiso region.

Chonky Birb.

A borb perhaps?

@@humanrealname1226 Maybe a bonk.

Ooo

That's an excellent hook

Damn those are lucky folks! You're a great DM. I'm beginning to see that mystery is kinda the key to a great story. There's always a mystery to solve and questions to ask.

Damn that's good

Same, was like "OK those are some changes..."

Same I was like “this is way better”

havnt ran this campaign why "oh no"?

Waffle Crew! Where are you? We got some work to do now.........

Me currently playing the module and looking back at the stuff we didn't do.

Either it's a murder house for a reason or the DM bumped things up

@@Marcel2278 it's the death house for a reason. My level 1 party almost got wiped by a broom in there.

My raging Barbarian with full HP was out right killed in one attack by the spectre, granted we were level 1 but it was still a bit of a shock given that it was the first campaign I’d ever played in

I ran it for 7-players party, in the death house 2 of them died (and created new PCs). When they were running away from it 3 other died and the rest 4 went unconscious. (Deadly sword-doors traps)

@@seoulpeterson432 also one of my players tried to fly on the broom and got killed in two blows

Actually it's Nabzif but yes I agree that was my first thought.

Just wait until you find out who the wizard actually is

Yeesssss! another reader of those books XD "I want to be Bond!" "sorry sir, today is not the time for that. you are currently the great and powerful wizard, Zifnab!" every chapter with those two was gold XD

@@Shinesprk One of my players had sex with him and then was in denial over their sluttery. Magical DnD moments.

Now, THAT is the kind of classic Player decision-making I miss!

Fun fact, that will not help you, if you stick to the module. It will come back.

@@ChaosWolfRider oh gosh...

@@ChaosWolfRider the house comes back after being burned?

@@SairinEarthsea The upper part at least. There's basically only like one part that's actually real, the remains of the kids. The rest is an illusion to draw people in.

Was your character a female and had a monk that died and came back to life with plant powers?

Alas no but that does sound fun

69 nice

My character I used throughout this module was a Variant Human Rogue who took the Observant feat at character creation (we started at level 1 and were level 3 after the Death House) and had expertise with both Investigation and Perception later picking up Athletics and Thieve's Tools expertise. He followed the Mastermind Roguish Archetype (chosen entirely for the Bonus Action Help at range) and his only other feat was Sentinel for extra sneak attack opportunities. He was a detective from Waterdeep whose mentor on the force had seemingly been killed under mysterious circumstances that no divination magic could reveal during an investigation of the Xanathar Guild's activities. I partially based my character on Inspector Javert from Les Misérables with some original twists. He basically boiled down to a less physically powerful Judge Dredd, who made up for it with speed, a cane sword (reflavoured rapier), and excellent detective skills. That character was in the same party as the following characters 1) a War hero Cleric who wanted to hunt and document monsters and who could call on the spirits of his deceased platoon and used some type of early firearm (using crossbow stats, with special ammo being represented by certain spells), 2) a crazy Circle of the Moon Wood Elf Druid with a mysterious past tied to Barovia, 3) a literal hobo Way of the Open Fist Monk who was a drunkard and also a Wood Elf, 4) a righteous Dragonborn Paladin with an Oath of Devotion to Bahamut, 5) a Tiefling Dragon Sorcerer who was the only survivor of a previous group that had crossed Strahd after getting stranded in the Domain of Dread and was subsequently so paranoid the character disguised itself as a human merchant and became so power-hungry it accepted multiple Dark Gifts inside the most dangerous evil-temple in Barovia and who was a later addition to the party as the Monk's player started being unable to show up consistently due to IRL stuff at the time. We clearly didn't have a session 0 to discuss things with each other before we all made characters.

I believe that gnome is a product of "Curse of Strahd: Reloaded;" which is a popular community-made "expansion pack" for COS that adds a lot of content

Also could be badly translated German? Anyway... So it's similar in dutch, huh. You never stop learning.

My mind went to German xD man the puns run deep

and the fact the city is haunted by a vampier (vampire)

Yeah shes dutch for sure, those names give it away.

Dutch ancestors in my family's past, and that makes sense

He has, actually. It was in one of his Q&A videos. I don't remember exactly, but it went something like this. Turtle Molesters was a kind of joke insult among his friends, and when his D&D group wouldn't pick a name to go by, he decided to call them that. However, he wasn't sure about saying "molesters" in a RU-vid video, so he instead said the word "flippers" and censored it. It just turned out that his replacement word of choice and the way he censored it made it sound like he was saying...the other word.

Turtle *_FRIENDS._*

@@Zyroes to be fair. Turtle fucker and turtle molestor arent really that far apart interms of embarrassing names and definitions😂 Fuck them Fuck them over Molest them Harras them Picking up a turtle and moving it somewhere else to where it needs to walk all the way back to the pond would technically make you a turtle molestor/fucker The turtles fucked, and you picked it up agaunst its will So really. Its..like kindof a genius way to go about it when enough useless knowledge is applied to it😂😂😂

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-73OAFbxIHYA.html It's about 20 minutes or so in

I think its Romanian, a Transylvanian town. Forest (Tran Sylvanus means "lands beyond the forest"), rivers and lakes (for creatures of the lagoon), old cemeteries for zombies, castles with scooby doo lighting. Its ready to cater to just about every classic horror movie trope.

I mean... Bavaria is the english name for the german state of Bayern so theres that. And Bayern is well known for its old style of houses - at least in Northern germany where i live.

I think Hickman based Barovia, off of a pastiche of the old Hammer/Universal Horror films which were often set in fIctionalized central and Eastern European countries. I’m thinking of Karnstein for example which mixed Czech, Hungarian, German, and Romanian elements together.

Yeah and the people of the death house are called the Durst Fanily Durst is german for Thirst

burgermeister is not an uncommon name for mayor

Que me screaming in the background: *Don't eat the pastries!!!*

Eww, tastes like baby food

Wagnus 19 one day knees will be drawn

So do I :') it's the little things in life, man.

Kamen Panda Delta well there is magic and there are girls Just combine the two and BAM magical girls

wotc must have caught on with the new UA. go read that xD

is that... Trixie Starbright???

"Look for an entertaining man with a monkey. He is more than he seems." Hmmm... The man or the monkey? But actually, I genuinely thought she was talking about the monkey at first.

They are already in 1e Pathfinder... I'm not joking. Magical Child archetype of the Vigilante class.