D&D Curse of Strahd Replay (Episode 1): The House of Death
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2020
- Hey everyone! This is the first video in a series. I'm going to be telling a full campaign story from when the Shenanni-guys played Cuse of Strahd module. This first episode is "The House of Death." Hope you enjoy! More to come soon!
EDIT: There's actually 2 misspellings in the video! I spell Sorcerer as Scorerer and Strahd as Stradh in the opening title.
"Waltz to Death" by Sir Cubworth
"Gaia In the Fog" by Dan Bodan
"From Russia With Love" by Huma-Huma
"Dreams Become Real" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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Sound Effects from the CZcams Audio Library
"Thunderclap" and "Rain on Rooftop" - Hry
My brother is deaf, and he makes me act out your stories in sign. He’s your biggest fan.
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
15:25: "She claws Garo once on the throat. Welp, I'm down."
From off in the distance: "I waaaaaaarned youuuu!"
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!
"I mean, we know bout magic; it's not THAT weird that the gates closed by themselves." I like the way Boshack thinks.
Me 2 minutes in: waittttt...i recognise that letter...*calls dm* is the module were playing possibly the curse of straud...it is...well time to archive this video series and watch it in about...3 years...
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
"And she does a pose, holding out her arm as a chonky birb climbs out onto it, doing the pose as well."
I am immediately invested in this story.
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
elderly woman: sweet dreams are made of this.
party: who am I to disagree
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 like to think of Stan Velsing as essentially just some guy who always turned up inches away from the adventure of a lifetime yet fate kept him oblivious so he just kept strolling by minding his own business.
With how this adventure ended up going? I think fate did him a favor.
15:13 ~ “... My husband is dead...”
Me: “Well... hate to break it to you, but you are kinda dead too.”
"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?”
"It's gonna be long"
This is slightly longer than the average CZcams video
"It's gonna trade art style"
Dude, this is better than your first few drawings because of how well you've improved
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.
Spoiler: the death cleric in my party willingly allowed herself to get possessed by one of the kids so they could see the world. Dm rules that she would (mostly) be in control. She roleplayed it like switching between “Rip N Tear!” to “Oh, so pretty” personalities.
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/
These pastries give you sweet dreams? So what you're saying is...
Sweet dreams are made of this? *holds up pastry*
...
...
*shrugs* whelp. Who am I to disagree?
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
"Is curse of strahd and isekai?"
*pauses video*
*deep pained breath*
*continues video*
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.
Me: "Wow, this is turning out a lot different then when my group started Strahd."
Puffin: "The second the kids mention 'Hey there's a monster in there' our Paladin goes 'Monster!?' and goes charging in sword held aloft."
Me: "Ah, there it is."
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....
20 minutes 17 sessions...
OH GOD YES
Finally something to do!
This is Dingo Doodle’s Fools Gold all over again lol
"Is Curse of Strahd an isekai anime?"
I loved this line, because I played a half-elf paladin girl who was pretty much a magical girl. Ended up fighting strahd in a French maid outfit with a happy go lucky pixie girl sidekick (another player's character)
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.
Quick warning, this is like 8 hours long and good. (The entire playlist , 13 episodes in total)
highlighting the portrait of the character your voicing would be IMMENSELY helpful
Dude, I commented the same thing! Great minds think alike.
hav a good day
“Rip and tear, until it is done”
Puffin: I'll make long stories
CZcams Algorithm: No
Puffin: Ok I'll make Short stories, get popular so I can then make Long Stories
CZcams Algorithm: What?
: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...
When you realize that Rose got to see, eventually, the entire Demiplanes of Dread because Gouda never got rid of her finger.
Puffin: "Hey, I could just read them out. Like maybe people will like that I dunno..."
This is literally the third time I'm watching this series. It might be the characteristics of Boshack and Gouda that make me enjoy this more than I normally would. Good job telling the story Puffin!
stopped counting after the 5th time, from ep01 to ep13 every time...
"They each bought a pastry"
- oh no.
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
"Is curse of Strahd an isekai anime?"
-Gouda Thyme
hav a good day
I salute you for your wisdom.
I admire your tenacity
After 11 months, we FINALLY finished Curse of Strahd and I can watch this!!
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.
Me: A new video
Me again: oh no spoilers
Me one more time: oh wait I'll never play it because I have no friends that like dnd
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 CZcams? 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
"we put Rose and Thorn in the crypt"
Ooooh so that's what you were supposed to do! We killed their ghosts and then burned the house down...
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.
Dude, whenever I see a video of yours with around 30min, I don't think "oh no, limited art style", I think "PuffinForest has another great story!". Stay safe everyone!
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
Really love this format actually, it's like a more focused, condensed version of a DnD podcast. Also made me want to run a Curse of Strahd campaign which I start next session! I've watched this a couple of times to soak up the atmosphere I'll try to create.
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!"
This is useful for a dm who is going to play CoS, so I’m really happy
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 😊
“RPG Replays”
-Ben in a RPG Replay
This is really cool even if they are still frames
"We've been here for hours and have gotten no burgers!"
The obviously not good aligned, morally compromised lizardfolk: I don't have the heart to tell her.
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.
*Magical Girl shows up.*
Garo: "I'm in the wrong group."
Me: "I'm in the right group." *Retrieves Kamen Rider themed character.*
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.
Wow great idea having Rahadin show up for the funeral! Definetely gonna steal that
How to derail the campaign: seal off barovia like the letter asked, then go on a fishing trip
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...
Why do I feel like that Ben is going to get killed every episode
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
Damn impressive that you finished this in like 17 sessions
21:15 gotta love how we all just take for granted "We talked to her dog" like it's just another npc lmao
"Stan Velsing", now if that isn't a classic vampire-killing name I don't know what is.
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;(
8:04 german gal here explaining some things there: burgermaster sounds like a literal translation of „Bürgermeister“ (=mayor) while „Vampir“ is literally just the German word for vampire
edit: that's a decent amount of likes there... noice and thanks a lot for that ^^
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.
When I ran CoS, my friends first group of characters were invited to Strahds castle to be hired as his vampire spawn. My friends all agreed and the party became his vampire spawn. They all made new characters and now their new characters encountered their old ones. It was allot of fun and I wish we could have finished it.
I'd love more recaps like this for the campaigns you run/play. I can only imagine how much work and preperation you have to really go through for these things, but know that I appreciated every episode and all the voices :D
I love curse of strad because during the evil house encounters one of my fellow players were killed by a broom
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.
I’m looking forward to this series
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.
Death House is probably my favorite dungeon. My character, a tiefling necromancer, is currently planning on retiring there.
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)
1. Getting kind of invested in the suspense as I immerse myself in the narrative.
2. The actual sound Ben makes for the crying baby. Lol
3. Never change, Ben.
An excellent surprise while we're all stuck inside. I look forward to watching the series as you are able to release it. Thanks for all the hard work you do to entertain us Puffin Forest.
"Ahhhhh! I'm very dead"
"I waaaaaarned youuuuu"
I'm rewatching this for a second time. The players I'm running for have decided that they want to do Curse of Strahd as a sequel to lost Mines, and this gives me some cool idea and a general vibe of how CoS should feel, so thanks for the videos Ben!
great idea bringing back this format in a new way, thanks for the long video it's very much appreciated during quarantine!
Garo could become an excellent Vampire Slayer, becoming a Sun Soul Monk while also being a Light Cleric, being able to do tons of Radiant damage
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!
I love this module, I remember the Death House fondly. After almost being tpk'd by an animated broom, we found the corpses of Rose and Thorn and my Paladin loving wrapped the poor children in his own cloak and carried them throughout the rest of the dungeon until he could bury them despite the constant disapproval of his party.
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
I watched/listened to this I think a dozen times, it's excellent material to unwind with or throwing it in the background while working. Thank you, this has been amazing.
This was hands down my favorite show of all the 2020's thank you for it. Even if it's the only one we ever really get. It was awe inspiring and finger biting excitement all intertwined with just the right amount of comedic timing!
I love how we just glances over the part where he says "we talked to her dog" like that's a completely normal thing to do
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 like this new style keep it up
Edit: wait I too played curse of strahd where I was a gnome wildmage sorcerer
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
I love this. I've been listening to these in the background while working from home. Keep posting these please!
Hey Ben, I just want to say thanks for keeping me happy during these times. Your videos like this are perfect for me to just put on In the background while I do my schoolwork. Thank you for keeping me laughing. D&D is awesome, and it's great how your videos are perfect for the background.
"You are in the lands of Barovia, in the village of Barovia."
Ah, so like Mexico City in Mexico, or New York City in the state of New York.
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.
Puffin: we were level 3 and doing hell house
Me: oh that's a level one adventure, they should breeze through it
Puffin: we were no match for the animated armor
Me: what..?
Puffin: then I got my heart ripped out
Me: oh..
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
Me and my group are just now starting up “The Curse of Strahd” as well so I cannot wait to hear the whole story. Keep up the great work :)
I love this idea/series. I love DnD in theory but I'm too terrified to actually play it (long unnecessary story). I love your videos because i get a little glimpse into the games with a visual aid, hearing a short session by session synopsis is amazing. but this is even better its shorter than the actual thing so my attention span can actually pay attention :P but long enough for a good amount of detail and storytelling.
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.
Me having DM'd this adventure hearing everything the party does:
"Uhmmm.... oh noo" 🙄
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.
I never thought I'd hear the term chonky bird but here we are.
Chonky Birb.
A borb perhaps?
@@humanrealname1226 Maybe a bonk.
I'm all for this! Cant wait to experience the journey!
I'm really excited for these videos! I don't have too much time to read through modules so these are awesome! Thanks Puffin!
Just started COS. The party I’m hosting just finished Lost Mine of Phandelver. They traveled back to Neverwinter, met the rulers, were knighted, promised a small keep to be built where Transendar manor is located. 3 months of downtime later they’re traveling back to Phandelin via stage coach. They encounter vestani at a rest stop. The next night, the coach goes out of control. The drivers are MIA. They manage to stop the out of control coach. As they move to investigate a scream from behind them, the mist overtakes them. When it clears, the plains have changed to forest. The coach is aged, overgrown with weeds, claw marks, and ruined, horses missing. Welcome to Barovia.
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
>ISEKAI straight into the Dark Souls of DND
finally longer videos! lets goo! appreciate all the time and work that goes into your content.
I seriously love this series. Ive rewatched it like 5 times, your story-telling skills are so good and really bring me into the world. I hope you do more sometime. :)
I've had a hard time getting into D&D vids and streams because it's easy to lose my attentions. The thought of a 3-hour video is daunting and the lack of visual is hard for me. But this finds a great balance. A good length, entertaining visuals. I like this.
Gouda and burgermaster. So she's Dutch. That explains the strange behavior.
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
I’ve always loved listening to you stories. I’m glad that you’re going to make them longer now! ^_^ keep up the good work!!
I never knew just how much I wanted content like this. This is great :D
Damn, there was a basement? We just burned the whole house down...
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.
"The broken one: your greatest ally will be a wizard; his mind is broken but his magic is strong." First thought: Fizban! Second thought: Zifnab.
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.
I love this series on your channel. The voices you use are very well done! Thank you for sharing!
Really enjoying your videos. I haven't played D&D in years but you got me interested in reading/researching it again. Thank you!
Me at 2:42 : [looks at characters}
Me:wait is that a magical girl [looks at Erina from Dingo Doodles] they both magical girls so this could mean one thing.................
people want magical girls in DND
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.
"Once I start a story I'm committed to finish it"..... still hasn't explained the where turtle F'ers name come from 😂
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 CZcams 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😂😂😂
czcams.com/video/73OAFbxIHYA/video.html
It's about 20 minutes or so in
Thank you so much for this series! I'm not the biggest fan of DND podcasts, so a skim of a playthrough like this really helps my DM routine!
Really liking this new format! Looking forward to seeing more.
man, any time a gamemaster tells me that something's going to affect my dreams, i just assume it's off to nightmare town.
19:06 can't tell if Garo is trying to crane kick, or just boogying down while everybody else fights
This is an amazing new series your doing! I can't wait to see what's next!
This is amazing! I had to quit my Curse of Strahd group because of work hours and now I'll be able to see the end! thank you so much Ben!
Good stuff. As someone who doesn't get to play often, hearing the story in a longer format like this while I work is a pretty great way to digest the module. And Puffin's games are always a delight to listen to.
This format gives me a full "YES! YES! YES!" feeling.
Currently dming this. And it's been a very entertaining campaign. This is the whole reason I wanted to do so. Great job :)
I'm still listening to this all these years later. Love these. Hopefully, you can do more of the replays. They are awesome.
Party at level 3
Receives a letter asking help from "mighty heroes"
Wizard: Wait a second...since when are we "mighty" anything? We haven't done anything yet!!
Party: MONEY MONEY MONEY ALL YOUR MONEY ARE BELONG TO US!!
Wizard: ...oh gods' dammit. There had better not be a vampire at the end of this...
@@HighOctane01
Wizard: GFDI!
Wolves appears
Wizard: and there are wolves, Great.
I work nights and listen to youtube ALOT while im there, so the longer format "lets play" like style like this i personally really enjoy.
Wagnus 19 one day knees will be drawn
So do I :') it's the little things in life, man.
This is amazing and I need more. The use of less pictures does not hinder the story what so ever, if anything just having character pictures so its easier to imagine is all thats really needed but I love that you went the extra mile with a new slide when they enter a new scene.
Quality content as always. I like this format just as good as your short videos.
i dont see anyone else talking about it, so i must say it, the mouth animations at the start is so good, cant even begin to imagine how long it took to make
I never realized that Bavoria seems to be an old German town.
At least according to the terms they use. Bürgermeister....Vampir...Dank
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
Thanks for doing this, seriously awesome stuff here. Keep it up, proud of you.
04:17 Definitely wasn't expecting the R slur so early on in a video...
04:38 Oh wow we're hitting the G slur too, huh? I'm in for a rough ride
Oh my god, THANK YOU.
The use of the word cripple, wasn’t exactly cheering me on.
You must only Remember Comics from the last 5-10 years then. Retarded has somewhat fallen out of use in the very PC crowd, but it was a positive word replacing an existing slur for the mentally 'handicapable' among us for a long time, and then it was a nothing word for a long time too. Is it better to ask someone who did something stupid, "are you mentally handicapable???" or does it still wrong? If it's still wrong, the word 'retarded' has no additional meaning.
Gypsies in lore were inspired by the Roma/Romani but in the context of a story they are not quite the same. The lore version of gypsies tend to be magical in nature, like witches, fortune tellers (if you didn't know, Madam Eva is always 100% right with her fortunes) - you could say a positive representation for a past-loathed people. Everyone in Barovia doesn't like the Vistani because they work with Strahd. Also this book is based on an old book from the early 80s, and gypsies were really in at the time.
Crippled people are now handicapable too right? I can't keep up with this stuff. A big reason is that most people still use the existing terms for them.
Does it really bother you to hear these words?
@@kaldo_kaldo In short, yes.
The video was posted on March 28 2020, not in the 80's. Language is constantly changing, sure, but that just means there's a good chance we'll ALL get told, "hey, that's offensive, please stop," at some point in our lives so honestly it's not the offensive act that I'm gunna worry about initially but rather how you're going to respond to getting told your actions are hurtful toward others. A flippant, "whatever, I don't care if it hurts your feelings, grow thicker skin," type of response will tell me I probably don't need to give any further support to the person in question and a, "oh man, thanks for letting me know that, I had no idea. Can I discuss this further with you/ask questions so I fully understand this issue?" will also tell me a lot about the kind of person I'm dealing with. And no, I don't think the "I can hardly keep up with what's politically correct these days," is a valid excuse for disregarding anyone asking you not to use offensive language or behavior, especially when it comes to slurs.
I don't think Puffin was trying to be offensive but that doesn't excuse him from getting called out by someone who was offended.
Yay! New puffinforest makes quarantine better. Thank you sir.
D Kirkbride indeed
and a near 30 minute one too: even better minus gouda-thyme
Finally, a puffin video that i can watch for longer than 5 minutes while i play World of Warcraft and wish i had enough friends to play DnD.
Im the same. I like watching these kinds of videos in the background while im playing something. Just finished another run through of all the critical role one shots. The longer the better (HA, THATS WHAT SHE SAID) In my opinion.
Your RPG Replays are my favorite videos and I'm loving the Curse Of Strahd series
I've owned the curse of strahd for a while and haven't had the time to read/run it, but now that I'm in quarintine I can take the time to not only read the module, but also see how the story works from you as an example, love your content man!