AYO?

@elviragrey hello i sent like an anon 2 years ago to you about if i could use your art in a campaign before it went on a very extensive hiatus and the party is finally in Vallaki and met her and i just want to say thank you again so much for the permission to let others use art for their campaigns 🥺 (some of my players follow my main so i can't post this there)

i actually changed her statblock to include no Paladin spells and use a purely Warlock spell list to actually highlight she's drawing all her power from a parasite that Ludmilla put in her. she thinks she's a gallant knight :(

RAW stat-wise, Arabelle is awful. She is either the worst or second-worst DA, and she is only competing with that slot with Clovin because Clovin becomes an active detriment and burden if he's not liquored up. The only things she can meaningfully do is cast the Evil Eye 1x 24 hours (not even long rest) with a 10 DC. She can use Vistana Curses, which are actually very powerful (especially if DA Ez is willing to use them) but the psychic backlash will almost assuredly instant kill her if she tries to use it. Meanwhile, Vasilka, who is the same card is a CR5 monster with a lightning immunity so your Wizard can literally spam Lightning spells and actively buff her without a care in the world.

I keep wondering what the RAW intention of using Arabelle instead of Vasilka as the DA is meant to be, because you literally have to chose between one of the most powerful DAs and one of the worst ones if you draw the Innocent. I think it might be her connection to the Vistani? Like, her father is essentially the leader of all the Vistani allied with Strahd: unless you completely homebrew it out, Luvash is one of Strahd's most important allies. I think the idea might have been that maybe through Arabelle you can break that alliance and convince Luvash to ally with the party instead?

Castle Ravenloft is a huge 30 page dungeon filled with traps and portals and enemies and soooo much fucking shit everywhere. yes i understand why people don't like it's not as pretty as the rest of the module's RAW maps. i get why people grumble about spending money to get actually quality maps for their players to look at in the game (i'm subscribed to DM Andy's patreon and intend to use his maps for my players) but also. look at this.

there is SO MUCH to keep track of in Castle Ravenloft and what goes where. like yes it doesn't look pretty but also it is a GODSEND to have this simpler map to study too.

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call me Stardust!

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hello, call me stardust!!! and i finally decided to make a sideblog for D&D things and especially for Curse of Strahd: some of my players follow my main, so i wanted a place to talk about my campaign, my NPCs and ideas, some art commissions done for the game so it won't spoil my players! i also might post asking for advice on some things!

if you're a fan of D&D, and especially of the Curse of Strahd campaign or Ravenloft in general as a setting: give this post a like or a reblog and i'll check out your blog!