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Curse of Strahd Reloaded Update: Arc Q is Imminent
🕑 Added 2024-08-09 01:44:33 +0000 UTCGood news: We're officially on-track to finish this thing - hopefully by Halloween. I've written nearly twelve thousand words since I started work on v2.0.9 on July 26, and Arc Q: A Shining Beacon is pretty much complete, including (1) the players' return from the heist, (2) the players' confrontation with and redemption of the Abbot, (3) the players' fight with Kiril, and (4) the lighting of the beacon of Argynvostholt.
As of last night, I've also finished the two-phase statblocks for the Abbot and Kiril. (Vlad's, of course, is already complete from Arc M.) My only remaining tasks before v2.0.9 goes live (likely within the next ten days) are to (1) add/tweak a few small snippets to Arc Q (e.g.,, wrap-up at the werewolf den, some extra flavor text @ lighting the beacon), (2) make edits/revisions to older arcs, (3) add in-line design notes to arcs A + B, and (4) add goal diagrams to Act I and arc A (you'll find out what these are when they go live).
As per usual, unreleased drafts/notes/outlines/etc. are available to paid patrons on the Bronze Masterpost. (Did I mention we also have a Discord server full of several hundred DMs running the guide?) Feel free to join if you'd like an early sneak peek and/or support the guide!
In other, unrelated news, I'm pondering posting articles/blogs about the game/narrative-design theory of DMing I've developed while writing Reloaded/Re-Reloaded (similar to the Alexandrian's blog or Sly Flourish's), but I'm not sure whether to post them here or somewhere else (e.g., Substack). If anyone has any interest in that, as well as where you might prefer to find it, feel free to let me know in the comments.
Cheers, and hope to bring you the next release ASAP!
- Dragna
Comments
DragnaCarta
You should be treating each phase as a totally separate creature - they don't share anything. Hope that clarifies things!
Blaze
Hi, this is a really random question but I wasn't sure where else to ask this. In regards to multiphase stat blocks with abilities that are once per day (such as Izek's legendary resistance), are those refreshed with the second phase or does that once per day count for both phases? Cheers!
Matt
Brilliant! Thank you so much!
DragnaCarta
Thank you! And (while I haven't done the exact math yet) Strahd was in his thirties or forties around that time - he hadn't yet succeeded Barov to the throne, but was attending some sort of religious ceremony hosted by Markovia, which the Abbot attended in disguise.
Matt
Absolutely love your work, sir, it's staggeringly good! One very random question because I just know my PCs and it will come up - in Arc K, the Abbot mentions meeting Strahd twice before, the first being "four hundred and seventeen years, eight months, and three days ago". Can I ask how old Strahd was then?
DragnaCarta
Awesome! I'm very glad to hear you're all enjoying the guide. Best of wishes for the rest of the campaign! :)
Cookie Chemist
Thank you so much for all the work you‘re doing! I’m sticking very closely to your guide (only that I translate everything to German) and so far it’s going great, my players are very happy- they’re now in Vallaki, about to have dinner with Lady Wachter. I’m very excited for everything that’s still in front of us!
DragnaCarta
<3
Orna Cosplay
I’ll read em anywhere you toss em dragna! Patreon, Reddit, Twitter, random website I’ve never heard of, anywhere!
Gray Embry
FANtastic!
DragnaCarta
Sweet! I'll definitely look into sharing them, then. Do you think there would be substantial interest in video-form content as well as text?
DragnaCarta
Awesome! I'll definitely look into it, then.
DragnaCarta
Thank you very much! I do my best :)
DragnaCarta
Thank you! And excellent; I might definitely do that. Best of wishes with the new campaign!
DragnaCarta
The whole thing! Or at least that's the goal 😉
Gray Embry
When you say "officially on-track to finish this thing - hopefully by Halloween.", do you mean Arc Q, or the whole thing? I've just started running this, and would love to know if I am going to run out of finished content (I feel that up to Arc P will take us well into next year, but still).
Damon Gallaty
I think having your narrative design articles here would be great, and I think that making them public and cross-posting the links to Reddit would be helpful to the community at large. Also, thank you so much for your work on Curse of Strahd! I ran your original Reloaded version and the players loved it. I'm eager to try out the Re-Reloaded on another group of players.
Jonathan (Bender)
Would love to see that. Also, just have to say that I appreciate how you consistently and systematically put out a lot of content . Your productivity is impressive. Thanks!
Hunter Wooten
Seconded! Would love to see your work. Preferably on here
ChickyBisky
Your thoughts on narrative design for DMs would be rad! I'm a big fan of Sly Flourish and usually listen to his content like a podcast, which helps break up the DMing prep.
