Made it through the #Ravenloft bind I was in, rather than intermittent combat for an entire in game night, the party unraveled the participants wants and figured out a mutual exchange where they all help eachother and there's no need to compete for Madame Eris' favour.

She's bumused that they thought this was the intended solution, and will continually insert doubt into their ranks with rumours.

Meanwhile they're off to the ruins of Castle Avernus with Skeever and Professor Pacali in tow

Painted myself into a corner in #Ravenloft #DnD, my fun keepaway game encounter is in danger of becoming tedious.

It's about 2am game time, lasts till sunrise. Whoever's holding the pendant at the end wins. Everyone's invisible unless they have it.

I'm hoping the players make strategic alliances or knock out and tie up their opponents. One player hid the item last week till it it started blaring to give away its location like a shot clock, but it was a clever move and I feel bad nixing it.

Today?

☕ up for beenz
🎒 kid 1 to school
💻 and kid 2 logged on
🖥️ then work for me, 1/5
🎲 and running #Ravenloft #DnD tonight

So, I've looked a bit at older takes on #Ravenloft , and two things jumped out as in "seriously?" territory:

1) On the Powers Checks tables, sexual assault is completely absent from the lists of evil acts. (I can think of three grades of such things that could be there...)

2) Seemingly arbitrarily, men get a penalty on pronouncing curses successfully while women get a bonus. (Mind you, I can see a way to salvage that one if I squint...)

Today's #DnD prep:

- sourced a mansion via Dungeon Alchemist for monday's invisibility hide and seek encounter in #Ravenloft
- read through and placed tokens and treasures for the final chapter of #GoldenVault . Later I'll give it another pass for unique NPC art

Today?

🏝️ vacation mode!
☕ beenz
🎒 school
💻 helping with online
🚘 cleaning the car
🎲 and #Ravenloft #DnD tonight!