Problems???? Hmmm I guess it depends on which group I was DMing as I’ve put a couple groups through that adventure. I think the thing that frustrated me the most was the group I tag teamed with another DM on. He granted one of the players the natural ability to fly and he has super strength so he was able to fly people over the drawbridge and other areas that would have added suspense. Also he was able to fly down the side of the cliff and see the window below the chapel.
But being as his character was a blue ogre it made for some fun when he tried to stroll into town.
Problems???? Hmmm I guess it depends on which group I was DMing as I’ve put a couple groups through that adventure. I think the thing that frustrated me the most was the group I tag teamed with another DM on. He granted one of the players the natural ability to fly and he has super strength so he was able to fly people over the drawbridge and other areas that would have added suspense. Also he was able to fly down the side of the cliff and see the window below the chapel.
Don't you hate when other DMs mess with your players? Since the last time i have a policy of not acepting the changed characters in my game (they made my intrigue and backstabbing Dark Ages Vampire Chronicle into Dark Ages Munchkin).
Montalve
Montalve
Don't you hate when other DMs mess with your players?
Actually he was the original DM so I guess I was messing with his players.
Actually he was the original DM so I guess I was messing with his players.
lol comprehensible, well i won't coment without knowing all the facts :P, i just remember my falling campaign and how the weak prince (pc overtakinf an small "abandoned feud") was a high and powerful prince controlling all the place (ok without the lasombra businessman putting all his money to play and backstab him while helping him i suppose sooner or later would have happened something half like that).
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One problem I had was the crypts. The names on the crypt doors have quite a few entertaining names and puns, and that didn't go down well with the horror atmosphere. My players thought it was a weird place to have any sort of humor, especially playground humor.
One problem I had was the crypts. The names on the crypt doors have quite a few entertaining names and puns, and that didn't go down well with the horror atmosphere. My players thought it was a weird place to have any sort of humor, especially playground humor.
Will need to check my copy again, i can't remember any, but have been many years since last i read it.
and yes it a good way to die by Zarovich hand and not one of his lowly minions. I let it pass if i am killed by his werewolf assassin girl (which i believe is not there).
Montalve
Awesome -the castle almost seemed an anti climax. Until the organ room when the DM switched on the all time classic 'Bach organ music'....
Unbelivable atmosphere....especially as we took Helga along for the ride. What a mistake! great fun though
"This one?"
"No"
"This one?"
"No."
"This one?"
"Monster, you fight."
"This one?"
"No."
Plus the endless strength checks and repetative fights just to find a single one out of fifty...
You are right otherwise it grows just tedious, its difficul to maintan that kind of mood for the crypths for so long.
and again i want to believe, posibly i wpuld have fall in the middle of long and too fast :P
Montalve
When you first played I6, which setting did you use?
Or did you play it as a stand-alone?
Just a short question:
When you first played I6, which setting did you use?
Or did you play it as a stand-alone?
When I first played it there was no Ravenloft setting (being as it set the standard) so at that point I played it as a stand alone adventure just like any other AD&D adventures at that time were.
Stand - alones have become rare these days; even unthinkable for most D&D players...
A pity, some of them were very good, like House of Strahd.
Montalve
As a DM i ran it first as part of a forgotten realms crossover and secondly as
part of a greyhawk campaign.....
Yes the crypts are a problem - however if your fighting a running battle in them - it keeps the players attention firmly fixed and you can just let them open the ones you want them to.