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Mar 1, 2016 · Death House is a 12-16 hour adventure that introduces players to the Ravenloft setting and the Curse of Strahd campaign. It is available for free download and can be played in Adventurers League games with milestone advancement.
- Start Death House at 2nd Level
- Use Theater of The Mind to Simplify Death House
- Develop The Nursemaid
- Tweak The Final Encounter
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Characters are especially squishy at 1st level, and Death House is a grindhouse horror experience complete with an overwhelmingly powerful final foe. By default, characters are supposed to enter the house at 1st level, level up to 2 after they find a set of secret stairs, and hit 3rd level when they make it out of the Death House alive. This is fin...
Death House comes with a beautiful map, but for a quick Halloween game, it’s faster to avoid all of the deliberations that occur whenever players see a selection of rooms for them to explore. Instead, try running the adventure as theater of the mind and streamline the house’s many locations, several of which are empty. At its core, Death House is a...
Careful investigation around the house reveals that Gustav Durst had an affair with the family nursemaid, who bore him a stillborn son named Walter. She was then stabbed by the cultists for unexplained reasons and cast aside. As written, she only appears as an uncommunicative specterwho attacks the party in either the Nursemaid’s Suite — where a cr...
The final confrontation in Death House is an odd one. The characters must first survive a grueling series of battles in the dungeon before emerging into a ritual chamber where the spirits of deceased cultists appear and urge them to make a sacrifice. If they kill any creature on the altar, the cult is appeased and the characters can leave the house...
Learn how to run the horror adventure Death House from Curse of Strahd as a Halloween one-shot for D&D players. Find out how to adjust the level, streamline the map, develop the nursemaid, tweak the final encounter, and make prep easier with maps.
Death House Revised. Famine has swept the land of Barovia and its noble families have become cannibals! Learn the true meaning of hunger as you lead players from level 1 to level 3 through this introductory adventure to Curse of Strahd!
house known as Death House, you need to guide them to the village of Barovia. The “Creeping Fog” adventure hook in chapter 1 works best, as it introduces few dis-tractions. Once the characters arrive in Strahd’s do-main, steer them to the village. For the duration of this introductory adventure, any attempt by the characters to
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Sep 23, 2023 · Learn how to run the optional introductory dungeon for the gothic horror adventure, Curse of Strahd, in D&D 5e. Discover the themes, encounters, and tips for making the Death House more challenging and creepy.
May 31, 2016 · Learn how to run Death House, a gothic horror adventure for low level D&D PCs, as an introduction to Curse of Strahd. Find out how to spice up the introduction, the wolf fight, and the house itself with handouts, clues, and twists.
May 5, 2023 · It’s also offered by WotC for free as either a sampling of CoS or as a standalone haunted house adventure that’s perfect for a Halloween one-shot! It’s tough, it’s scary, it’s… the Death House! Beware: turn back now if you don’t wish to see a ton of spoilers!
