Rime of the Frostmaiden looks really cool (no pun intended), but I haven't gotten to actually run it 'cause I'm doing a huge homebrew thing.
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Yeah I looked at it a bit when it released but nothing more. I’ll check it out!
I'm in a group that's been playing it for about a year so far (weekly games but short sessions).
It's pretty fun and there's a lot to explore/uncover
As a Player I didn't like it as much as CoS but that might be personal taste. Our DM said there's not much detail given sometimes and less external stuff to cover that fact.
Curse of strahd can start at 3 if you skip the death house.
Plus there's lot of 3rd party supplement stuff for CoS which aids in DMing
Oooh ok good to know. CoS caught my eye in any case and one of the employees at a local game store has run it multiple times since the 90’s (including in 5e), so I’d have a great source of advice there
@fetter @DonnieDarkmode in 8 hours I'll start my VTT and my players will finish death house (we paused last time before taking the stairs down to the last room). How do you recommend starting the story after death house? Should strahd make an appearance? #dungeonsAndDragons
What do you mean by "on the longer side"? Do you just mean "no one- or two-shots" or do you mean "big adventure that will last for like a year and go from level 4-10"?
More the latter. I think spending a decent amount of time really getting to know the game below like level 10 will be beneficial
In that case, you'll need to go with only a couple of publishers. In fact, the only publishers I'm aware of who do such long adventures are Paizo and WOTC. If you want something from WOTC, I can vouch for Curse of Strahd being quite good. I can also vouch for Paizo's Abomination Vaults, but only the story. They publish it for both D&D and Pathfinder and I'm currently running it in the latter.
Yeah it sounds like CoS is the perfect fit for what I want, and I think my players will really enjoy the setting/atmosphere as well
Just don't do what my DM did and forget to tell us how the light sword works after we found the hilt. We assumed it was broken and we needed to find the rest of it. And he didn't correct us. We ended up spending several levels on a wild goose chase before he was like, "oh by the way, it's like a lightsaber". Still though we went to lots of interesting places in that time because there's so much to explore in Barovia.