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Curse of Strahd: Reloaded's guide to the Amber Temple is now available!

🕑 Added 2025-03-22 16:19:35 +0000 UTC

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DragnaCarta

Thank you! 1. Just the first part of the door; you need the amber shard to get all the way inside. 2. If they look down the wall, they can see what happened.

amon

i also just came across all your mountains of work while deciding to start a cos campaign; this is all phenomenal, especially for a dm with a group that loves well-written descriptive flavor text and puzzling out the lore. i've haven't been this excited to start a new campaign in a while! couple of questions i had about Arc A: 1. does playing the waltz in the conservatory open one or both parts of the secret door in the library? Ac2 Conservatory says "Playing Waltz for Klara also causes the bookshelf in the Library to swing open, exposing the locked secret door beyond. " but Ac2 Library's description of the panel behind the bookshelf says it opens when the amber shard is inserted or a player plays Waltz for Klara on the harpsichord in the Conservatory." 2. can you clarify what the intentions are with the well? "If the players toss an object down the well and then turn away, they hear loud splashing and tearing sounds coming from below. When they turn back, the object has been torn to pieces, with large parts missing." Does the object reappear, or is this assuming they retrieve it somehow?

DragnaCarta

Thank you! And thank you for the edits; I definitely need to go back and fix those!

Atreties

Hi, I just recently found your content, and i LOVE it. I wish all the official modules had this much DM help and actual tactics guides and explanations! One thing I found, since it seems like the changes to the Amber temple are new: There were several references in older sections to Exethanter being a lich and other references to him that no longer apply to his new backstory and role. The 2 I found were referencing Strahd's relatonship with him in chapter 2, and the summary of act 4 in chapter 3. Hope this helps!

DragnaCarta

Good catch; thank you!

David Martinez

Hi Dragna, teeny tiny little editing catch: In Chapter 3: Running the Game -> Running the Adventure -> Adventure Hooks, you say "If you choose to run Barovian Relics for one or more of your players, have each of those players choose a motivation from the Motivations section in Chapter 1: Into the Mists before beginning the campaign." I'm guessing this is meant to say the Motivations section in 'Chapter 1: Beginning the Campaign' in the 'Character Creation' section?

DragnaCarta

Thank you! I'm very glad to hear. Hope you all enjoy Act III!

seedn

Always great to check your amazing work! Shout out to Rahadin's trial. Players just finished Vallaki and that session was a blast.

Kristian

Awesome work as always Dragna. Really excited for this one! With the changes to the Sunsword described in "Igniting the Sunsword", does this mean the idea of containing Sergei's spirit within the sword is gone - or should this be thought of as a temporary solution until that can be done? I'm wondering because the summary still states that "...the players must empower the broken sword by conjuring the spirit of Sergei von Zarovich from the mists."

David Martinez

Hi Dragna, small unrelated catch as I'm going through Arc D - St. Andral's Feast. At the end (D6b. The Trial) when you've reposted Rahadin's stat blocks, his Castle Chamberlain phase Hit Points somehow says 180 (34d8 + 72) unlike all the previous Arc B and also the Kinslayer stat block. I'm guessing this is a mistake and should say 24d8 instead of 34d8 like the others?

.TheFear

I will soon play CoS and I have to say, you updating and creating the guide is a livesaver. I sincerely thank you for that!

Rafael Morandini

Moving Patrina fight to here is pretty smart. I always thought fighting her in Castle Ravenloft wasn't great because 1 - good chance Kasimir won't be there (and the one time I DMed CoS I skipped the Patrina stuff because Kasimir decided to 1v1 Rahadin to clear the path for the party to fight Strahd) 2 - The Patrina stuff is kinda cheapened because I feel the party would be like "ugh whatever, can we kill her to get to the final Strahd fight already?"

bleskbati

Wonderful - as always! We're very much looking forward to the next one chapter =)

DragnaCarta

Awesome! Hope you enjoy <3

Canadian Blitz

Ooo, especially excited to see the scenes for the vestiges! I've been custom making some of my own tailored to be slightly more tempting for specific party members, so seeing some examples is super helpful!

DragnaCarta

Rad! Hope you all enjoy it.

DragnaCarta

Woohoo! Congrats on making it to the Heist. Hope you and your players enjoy Arc Q and everything that follows :)

DragnaCarta

Thank you! And haha; one arc at a time. Congrats on the 1-year anniversary!

DragnaCarta

Awesome! Hope you enjoy.

Christopher Boillot

Good, I think my group is about the head there.

Seth

Excited to read into this, my party is currently raiding the Castle (started using this version around Krezk, so everything a lot of the stuff referenced beforehand I'm improving/just doing what I can think of that fits), so I'm not too far off from taking part in this. Love everything I'm seeing so far!

CaptiveCreepa

This is Fire. My Party is reaching our 1st anniversary next week. Right now they're mid-fight within the werewolf den, With the average of each Arc taking 9 hours. I'm pretty sure they'll reach Amber Temple by July :D

David Martinez

Just the summary of it sounds phenomenally exciting. Can't wait to get to it!

DragnaCarta

Hey, and thank you! Arc N is (or will be) an optional downtime arc, so it's not a priority right now; that heading is just a placeholder for now.

DragnaCarta

Thank you! Excited to hear it.

Yann Laborderie

Hi, love your work! My group next step is the dragon manor (just before goind to the dîner). I dont see arc N in act 3, is this not out yet or skiped ?