My Top 7 Curse of Strahd Homebrew Changes: Non-RAW Tweaks & Additions I Made to my CoS Campaign

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Despite running Curse of Strahd as RAW (rules as written) and vanilla as possible, meaning that I played it true-to-the-book, I still added a few homebrew elements to it, based on stuff I'd seen on CoS Facebook groups and the CoS subreddit, and from mod guides such as CoS Reloaded / DragnaCarta and Lunch Break Heroes. In this video, I talk about my seven favourite homebrew additions/changes, such as the changes I made to the Mad Mage encounter and Strahd's consorts. I also include a few brief honorable mentions near the end, and as a bonus, I talk about one thing I really wanted to include in my CoS game but ultimately had to cut due to time constraints. 00:00 Intro 00:23 My experience as a DM (and with homebrew) 01:56 1. Return to the Village of Barovia 03:58 2. Victor surviving the coup 05:53 3. The Trial of Rictavio 08:38 4. Lady Wachter's devil guards 10:18 5. Mad Mage changes 13:14 6. A pet undead silver guard drake 16:00 7. Changes to Strahd's consorts 17:48 Honorable mentions 19:40 Bonus: Something I had planned (but had to cut) 20:29 Outro Follow me on Bluesky! https://bsky.app/profile/dmofthemists.bsky.social The Barovian house map I used doesn't seem to be available online anymore (boooo), so no link for that - sorry! There's plenty of good ones out there these days, though. The Trial of Rictavio Reddit post (#3): https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/pnbuto/the_trial_of_rictavio_my_pcs_forced_rictavio_to/ The "M** M***" Reddit post and the Candlekeep Mysteries one-shot Reddit post (both #5): https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/6nwork/how_we_ran_the_m_m_encounter_in_curse_of_strahd/ & https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/qamhuu/how_i_incorporated_a_candlekeep_mysteries/ Real Housewives of Ravenloft on DMsGuild (#7): https://www.dmsguild.com/product/302840/Real-Housewives-of-Ravenloft?affiliate_id=2672868 Music credits: "Shores of Avalon", "SCP-x3x (I am Not OK)", "Long Note Three" and "Long Note Four" by Kevin MacLeod (a.k.a. Incompetech); licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All 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. The illustrations of the four consorts shown during #7 come from Real Housewives of Ravenloft, which is copyright First Ones Entertainment.