8 Mistakes DMs Make When Running Curse of Strahd (Myself Included!) - Avoid These CoS Mistakes!

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All DMs make mistakes - myself included. Over the years, having spent a long time browsing the Curse of Strahd subreddit and CoS DMs Facebook group, I've come across quite a few instances of DM mistakes for CoS specifically. This video isn't meant to make mistake-makers feel bad (it happens to all of us), but rather, for DMs who are DMing - or hoping to DM or are about to start DMing - Curse of Strahd, hopefully watching this video will mean you'll avoid these eight common CoS-related DMing mistakes... 00:00 Intro 01:53 1. Vampire spawn's Spider Climb ability 03:03 2. Hold/Charm Person cast on vampires 03:53 3. Polymorph cast on shapechangers 05:07 4. Daylight (& other spells) giving sunlight 06:11 5. Magic Circle being instantaneous 07:06 6. Barovian "sunlight" 08:15 7. Forgetting the Martikovs are lycanthropes 09:41 8. Forgetting about vampires' resistance & regen 10:35 Outro Follow me on Bluesky! https://bsky.app/profile/dmofthemists.bsky.social At one point I talk about how the 2024 version of the Daylight spell apparently sheds sunlight, which is from this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/1ez62ku/in_2024_dnd_the_players_can_create_actual/ Music credits: "Long Note Two" and "Long Note Three" by Kevin MacLeod (a.k.a. Incompetech); licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Holy Symbol of Ravenkind and Sunsword illustrations that briefly appear are from my DMsGuild resource, The 3-Pile Tarokka Technique: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/474875/The-3Pile-Tarokka-Technique--A-Curse-of-Strahd-Supplement?affiliate_id=2672868 All other images, logos, etc. are the copyright of their respective creators, the vast majority of which will be from Wizards of the Coast, as per their Fan Content Policy.