My name is Steve, and I\u2019m a Dungeon Master with a lot of ideas, and sometimes not a lot of common sense. I\u2019d like to formally invite you to witness the comedy of errors that is my ADHD-addled trainwreck of thought as I bite off way more than I can chew and jump into DMing Curse of Strahd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the many official adventures published for D&D 5e, many agree that Curse of Strahd, a full-scale reimplimentaton of the original I6 Ravenloft module by Tracy and Laura Hickman, is one of the best, if not the very best. That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s perfect \u2013 I\u2019ve rarely seen anyone recommend it without the caveat that maybe, just maybe, a new DM should get their feet wet with simpler adventures first. To my credit, I did try \u2013 my first foray into DMing was with the infamous Lost Mines of Phandelver, and I managed to beat the odds and run it to completeion in only a few months. My players enjoyed the hell out of it, and my ego couldn\u2019t have grown any larger. After a brief attempt at running Sly Flourish\u2019s Ruins of the Grendleroot \u2013 which went well enough for 3 sessions until the sheer amount of work I made for myself by having to convert a .PDF adventure to full-featured Foundry maps overwhelmed me \u2013 I wanted to do something big, and set my sights on Curse of Strahd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I\u2019ve got a habit of exaggerating, so I\u2019ll just be clear and say that so far things are going quite well. A few of my players have played quite a bit of D&D with an assortment of DMs, and I trust their feedback \u2013 the party as a whole has been enjoying the game so far quite substantially, so I can\u2019t say it\u2019s actually going poorly. But the critic within me needs to go back over everything I\u2019ve done in analytical detail, so I\u2019ve decided to do that in a blog here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So if you care to join me, I\u2019d love to wax poetic at length about what I\u2019ve done, what I\u2019ve learned, and what mistakes I\u2019ve made, perceived and otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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