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Session Prep: October 2020 CoS Session

October—the perfect month for Curse of Strahd! Sirya continues her escape from Castle Ravenloft and her pursuer, the vampire spawn Alexander. Meanwhile, Kara and the rest of the party check in on Sirya with magic and decide what they’re going to do.

In these session prep posts, I go over what I did to prepare for my monthly CoS sessions. I also talk a bit about what happened and what I need to prep for next time!

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Session Prep: Review

Hey! The stars did not align for a September Curse of Strahd session, unfortunately. I’ve been writing these session prep posts for a while now, so let’s go over what’s worked well so far.

If you’ve been reading the session prep posts, much of this information won’t be new to you, but I wanted to try to hash out some general methods I’ve found useful. These are some things I’ve found helpful to do while prepping my Curse of Strahd sessions.

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Session Prep: July 2020 CoS Session

This weekend’s Curse of Strahd session was truly one for the books, as our party finds themselves cornered and makes some interesting decisions…

In these session prep posts, I go over what I did to prepare for my monthly CoS sessions. I also talk a bit about what happened and what I need to prep for next time!

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Session Prep: June 2020 CoS Session

We had our June Curse of Strahd session among summer thunderstorms, which was great for ambience! The group continues searching through Castle Ravenloft, only to encounter a familiar foe.

In these session prep posts, I go over what I did to prepare for my monthly Curse of Strahd sessions. I also talk a bit about what happened and what I need to prep for next time!

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Session Prep: May 2020 CoS Session

Another eventful session in the Curse of Strahd campaign last week! The two player characters have been separated from their NPC allies and find themselves in quite a bit of trouble…

In these posts, I talk about what I did to prep for my monthly Curse of Strahd sessions and the results of that prep!

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Kickstarter: Knights of the Shadow Realm

Hi, all! This post will talk about Knights of the Shadow Realm, a Kickstarter campaign that will run to April 17th. Zac Goins reached out to me earlier with some information and a review copy of part of the campaign, and I thought it sounded pretty cool!

Knights of the Shadow Realm is a campaign for D&D 5e that can take a party from 1st to 20th level. The review module covers the first section of that campaign.

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