Speedrun Curse of Strahd in 1 Night with THIS
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I gotta give you credit, man. When you make a video, you go ALL the way.
The fire department loves me.
Ikr, the amount of modules he has destroyed for a video 😂
As a 30 yr old OSR stan I lost it at "Okay Old Grognard, go back to pickleball we'll come back to you later"
Funny how the stress level mimics precisely what manages to make Call of Cthulhu a great horror game with it’s sanity mechanic. In general it raises the stakes and makes for incredible tension at the table in key moments
I ran a game with an Artillerist Artificer who really wanted to use a modified version of the DMG Madness rules for a character. He was a very trigger-happy, Jinx style character and honestly one of my favorites I’ve ever seen.
7:26 I believe zombies have so many hit points because it simulates having to hack them completely apart before they stop moving.
Last year I ran a session (D&D 3.0) for 2 new players. They killed the 2 hp kobolds and their 5 hp orc boss in just one hit each. Then they encountered a zombie. The look on their faces when it didn't die after one hit. It was great.
A DM once asked me to play Strahd in the original Ravencroft supp. I had Strahd use "Magic Jar" to possess two PC's in succession (they missed their Saving Throws). One gutted herself before I let her back into her body to behold her ruin. The other appeared to go mad running off the roof laughing and gibbering. He too got to go back to his body as the ground rushed up to crush him. Horrible enough for ya?
Love your OSR character, that's me!
As someone who came up through early editions, can we get a trigger warning before you start in with energy drain? Undead used to be more feared, and we liked it, we respected ... Wait. Carry on, good sir.
I'm dyin'😂
Editing this must have been like speed running Strahd. And paying that turtle actor was genius.
Turtle? I only saw a subscribe button?!?
Damn... as someone who lives in a third world country and that collects d&d books and adventures 5 times my currency, when you cutted, scribbled and burned that page of Curse of Strahd it did the same thing with my heart X﹏X otherwise great video haha
My Player’s Handbook and Monster Manual fell apart because the D&D books are so poorly made. I had to get page protectors and put those books into binders.
Saaaaame
@6701naruto out of curiosity Have you tried the submarine martial art of piracy, or is the point to have the physical books rather than the rules in them?
In our corner (second world country), people often print PHB and dm book on paper, and wrap in soft plastic cover, because prices are insane. You just can't afford all of literature that wizards made. Heck, even the PHB AND dm book on the same table are rare. So, often we just use pdf on computers and phones instead of printed books. And these spell cards?! OMG, we print them too, or just using phones with pdf or website with information. Also, God bless the 3Dprint which gave us oportunity to play with miniatures, not with the toys or coins.
Of course, there always be people who can buy all of this, but mostly profeccionals who dming for money and can buy this without guilt. Well, our people often feel guilted when buying something ONLY for a hobby, it must be "usefull" somehow. "Oh, you're buyng stuff for hobby? So you have to make money from it, otherwise you're a big child who's wasting money!!!"
I know, money usefull, but people often tell me that hobby - isn't "something you like to do because you like it", but "Hobby - it's a stuff you do after work to make more money". This sucks
I think it probably involved some smart video editing and a printer or copy machine.
"So the players can start making their poor decisions..." I'm losing it!!!
Awww, did you give yourself a save the cat scene twice :) You are a storyteller by heart.
Random encounter I swear.
My god that cow sequence fucking killed me
I know you don't have a huge video library, and you're relatively new compared to the others, but I already consider this a top-tier D&D CZcams channel.
You make excellent content, and it's clear that 1 you care and 2 you are enjoying yourself.
P.S. I'm positive while growing up, you dreamed of making D&D content on CZcams and being complimented by strangers. So consider it mission accomplished.
Bad jokes aside you're absolutely killing it. 👏👏
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Dude, I love your content, really invigorated me to get back and workshop some of my own ideas.
Thank you good sir. We are a few session in CoS and this point crawl/stress level idea will help prep that dinner with the devil.
Dude, discovered you like yesterday and keep binging your vids, keep it up!
You blew my mind with replacing Death House with this the next time I run this module. If the players survive and get out, they have a personal reason to go back and whoop ol' Strahd for hunting them. But I actually like the alternative better. If the party TPKs at the end of session 0, their souls are lost in the mist, maybe some are reborn or others are trapped in that Death March scene depicted in the Village of Barovia. Either way they are now NPCs and they could maybe interact with the new party (who gets to Barovia by whatever means you like to use) in some way during different points of the campaign, just making little cameos to remind your players how dangerous this place is.
Heck yeah! Or make the TPK'd characters vampire thralls that keep harassing the new characters.
As someone with way to much attachment to inanimate objects, thank you for not actually stabbing the cow
The very useful video aside, it's amazing to see how much you already improved in just one week. I can't wait to see what you're cooking up next
Just something really funny-
I was watching the scene with you running to the shop to get "cow" when an advertisement came on for a dairy free butter which was all about "saving the cow"
the 'You can play however you want" gave me a fight or flight reaction from a video in the future
This will soon be one of the most popular D&D/ RPG channels on youtube. Deservedly so
You deserve 100k subs immediately.
Lol you’re just out to piss off all the rpg sub communities. I love it…. As someone who lurks to steal from all of them I like the punches thrown both ways.
Love your chaotic energy
Fucking awesome. I love your humour and approach
I enjoyed the HowToBasic vibe from 9:20 to 10:20
Dude that is an interesting what to create dread. Using a stress meter for difficulty class grants a wider range of possible outcomes
This is so good, I'm using it for a Darkest Dungeon inspired mini campaign. Your content is fantastic, so glad you decided to start youtubing.
Love the idea for the stress level. Really brings something that works well in other rpgs meant for horror to 5E in a simple and effective way. I have done increases to difficulty due to effects like it, but a constant DC "level" based on the current horror is great. Only change I would make to it for my next run is that I will explicitly state that any DC which is lower than the listed stress is raised to that amount. Let the players wonder whether it will be even higher, mwahahahaha!!
I just discovered Old School D&D games recently and I'm running one with level draining undead in it. When my players knew they were going up against a vampire and that it could drain 2 of their levels - Wow! They got really creative with their plans and precautions. If anyone out there is considering play Older Editions - I'd recommend trying them out. It's great to see players are concerned as someone probably should be when they are going to go try to kill a vampire! And as a player, you really feel the tension and when you win it means a lot! You didn't just roll dice long enough to eventually win - you probably made some really smart decisions or got really lucky or maybe both. It's awesome.
Also, I can't wait to check out the adventure!
Excellent content. Glad to see you growing since the last videos I watched.
Best TTRPG production quality on CZcams, genuinely gemeralded
Hope there is a donation option on whichever platform imma get this adventure from! :)
You know the formula, you’re very good at these videos my man :) keep up the amazing work
Excellent Video, Excellent Document, just what I needed, I am working on something, and the ideas of stress work great, as well as the whole layout seems like an old school adventure game. Like a point and click horror game. I've seen curse of strahd fail thrice, and heard of it failing from others twice additionally. I agree with condensing down filler, I've done that for a starter set, was one of my more successful campaigns I think.
What's the music at 6:35?
Things that slow gameplay:
1. rolling for initiative
2. looking up spell descriptions
3. recalculate stats because of energy drain
5:13 Thank you! So many people say "har" instead of "horror" these days!
for real man, youre the best brother! lmao when you spitted the teeth
I love the history and lore of the game. Keep up the phenomenal work!
Love the "blink and you miss it" deathbulge reference.
Well since finding your channel last night I have now watched every single one of you videos, and now I am sad. I best subscribe for more!
Man, I thought this video is about a some trick to quickly finish module, ya trick me! But in search of copper I found a gold, thank you :)
I want to write a horror oneshot about mouthering gibber in sewers, and thinking how to make players scared for at least a moment
Yes! Looking forward to this!
I love your videos!
I was laughing out the whole video XD Thanks!
This was fantastic
Master Oogway has a deathwish
9:30 that video game graphics are crazy, also cute turtle
0:40 You gave me a disease
Crazy good content
Cracking stuff!
Your videos have been great, wonder how much Shadowdark you run. I enjoy the inspiring content for GMs. Have a great day, señor!
I played CoS with The One Ring 2e. And its amazing experience tho.
Also, tried with Brancalonia and Masque of the Red Death for 5e and it went better than vanilla 5e
It's one of the reasons I like OSR. The horror vibe is easier to give off. But I must say I love this idea. Great video
I read through your adventure and really loved it! Can’t wait to run it with my friends. I got one question though: there is a key falling out of the Count’s tome, what does it open? It references p. 27 (yesteryear’s study) but there is no mention of the key on p. 27.
Thanks! The key in the tome opens the the locked door to Yesteryear's study if you enter the study from the throne room.
Oh, now I see it! Somehow missed it, thanks for the answer! This is gold, keep up the good work!
Having run this adventure twice now, I've learned one thing...
Player Characters should not be close to 10th level at the end or they won't fear anything.
Another banger video!
Great video! :)
Love it
If you want the d&d feeling but with horror, try shadow of the demon lord. Cleaner, yet similar, with the horror theme embedded.
damn, this is an epic idea with the stress level!
I love you man
Love how you just light shit on fire
Oh… I've wondered how to get my fiancée into TTRPGs before… She's not sure she'd know what to do and thinks her instinct would be to try and get away … trying to figure out how to get out of a vampire's castle, though, with a stress roll instead of a DC or ICRPG room-based target number? Yeahhh, yeahhh… 🧛 And since it's May, not September, I have six months to plan instead of six weeks. I see a plan starting to come together.
The turtle!
You had me at suggesting the Grognards play pickle ball! Lol!
oh my god my breathing went heavy at that intro i actually almost started to hyperventilate
edit: alright that and the cow section really cements How to Basic being an inspo
Love the video
Still not missing
tape asmr
Which adventures would you recommend that are well designed?
You are the best
Im thinking of running this as a Funnel In DCC
Definitely had the DCC funnel in mind making this!
I like deficient master videos
haha loved this one :D
This isn’t good for the one shot version, but using the gritty realism rest variant, or any longer rest variant, would greatly improve running horror games.
Surely there's a way to have something be scary at higher levels, while also not blacklisting half the spells in the game, right? Like what if the thing was siphoning your spell slots off and used them as sorcery points, starting from level 1 and working its way up? Suddenly spell slots aren't so unlimited and using shield or something basic is scary because if you use that slot, it means the siphon will be even higher and the boss will be that much nastier and you still gotta get through his warded magic door.
Good to see ya again. Time to throw on the TV and go to sleep 😴
I need to know where those little game pieces from 11:33 are from......
Peeples! Available by your local Amazon overlords
What about shadowdark rpg? Is it good as a starting point?
Why did the turtle cross the road? " becuz this crazy mf with a pet cow kept putting me back on the side man! "
Is there any chance you can put your points in a pdf
Watching him tear up Cruse of Strahd actually hurt my soul
Just a little editing and a copied page or two 🤫
@DeficientMaster No, don't let the secrets out! Now we have to be sacrificed in the same pentagram as the cute cow!
I actually paused to make sure you were not really tearing apart your Curse of Strahd book... Don't mind me, pressing play again...
I would love to hear you talk about Call of Cthulhu. It has my favorite game mechanics but running anything besides "The Haunting" is an absolute dumpster fire, and I cant figure out how to apply your sandbox advice to a mystery game, even with Pulp Cthulhu rules.
Do you recommend icrpg to a newcommer dm? Dnd looks too complicated to start.
I think ICRPG assumes you've played a d20 tabletop rpg. Shadowdark might be more beginner friendly.
@@DeficientMaster thank u.. i ll try out shadowdark...
for the finale I had led candles everywhere and a fog machine hidden under the table. I blinded my players with fog and clouds of pot smoke then pressured them to hurry the fuck up in combat. good times.
For the algorithm!
Youko Shiragami :))
Oh I creamed when I saw the DC rules from ICRPG used mentioned. I was yelling it’s gotta be ICRPG
Let’s goooooo
You mention that midnight should come at a specific point in the evening in the supplement, but don't advise how long the players should get. 3 hours? 4 hours?
However long you want your IRL game to last
didnt someone literally write One Night Strahd to do this?
Rip ur hard copy
8:02
you CANNOT be *THAT* based as to understand the reason why it exists and to endorse energy drain. you can't be THAT cool...can you?
Gotta get into the metagame if you wanna actually scare players.
@@DeficientMasterIm convinced most people hate Energy drain because they dont understand why it exists. Undead are Scary! DO NOT SWORDFIGHT DRACULA! You dont put a fire out by sticking your hand in it, you get a fire extinguisher (cleric) or a fire blanket (creative solution.)
Fffaaaaaaast😂
i love all your videos and binging the channel