Baron Strahd Von Zarovich, of Ravenloft

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:33 pm

Race: Vampiric Human

Classes: Fighter and MAge

Levels: 10 and 14

Alignment: L/E

Racial Abilities: Drains 3 levels/round, regenrates 3 HP per round, darkvision.

STR 20

INT 20

DEX 20

CON 20+ (he is undead)

WIS 17

CHA 17

AC 28, 30 versus Good.

HP 100

BtH 10

Weapons:

Mattock of the Titans

Staff of Strahd

MAgic items/Armor

Robe of the Archmagi

Ring of Freedom of Movement

Rod of Absorption 12/30 (12 to use for spells, 30 absorptions left)

Orb of Storms

Dust of Dissappearance (5 doses)

Amulet of Protection from Good

Cloak of Etherealness

Boots of Haste

Circlet of Mind Blank

Spells memorized:

Alter Size, Hold Portal x 2, Magic Missile x 4, Acid Arrow x 3, Ray of Enfeeblement x 2, Web, Hold Person x 3, Lightning Bolt, Polymorph Other x 3, Minor Globe, Fire Shield, Wall of Force x 2, Animate Dead, Disintegrate, Flesh to Stone x 2, Limited Wish x 2.

Spells permanentized:

Detect Magic and thoughts

Protection from arrows

Read MAgic

Comprehend Languages

Tongues

Alter Size (9 ft, +2 to STR, 400 LBS)

Fly

Invisibility

See Invisibility (includes Ethereal and Astral)

Spell Books: Strahd has pretty much every spell between 1st to 5th level spells, most 6th and 7th level spells, and a good selection of scrolls of popular 8th and 9th level spells, such as time stop, etc...
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:26 am

Wow, excellent.

Thanks for posting!
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Wulfgarn · Post by **Wulfgarn** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:31 pm

ok- my only problem is that his CON should be 0 as he is in fact not living.

I know it is a 3e sort thing but it makes sense.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:22 pm

Wulfgarn wrote:
ok- my only problem is that his CON should be 0 as he is in fact not living.

I know it is a 3e sort thing but it makes sense.

It makes sense depending on houw you think about it.

I don't think giving them a D12 makes them nearly as tough as they should be. Undead don't have critical organ systems to worry about, which is what kills living people.

So I just think of it as "negative " energy HP's and living creatures have postive energy HP's. Also makes sense to me with regards to the effects healing spells have on undead creatures.

So thinking of it in terms of positive and negative energy makes more sense to me.

Thinking about it his max HP's could be 180 HP. Would have been a big difference if I had given him closer to max. Say 150?
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Wulfgarn · Post by **Wulfgarn** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:53 am

It is funny - but I agree that Zombies and the like need to be much harder to kill- they should be able to fight into the negatives- ie untill the body is destroyed to a place where it cannot do any more motion-

I have thought about this off an on quite alot.

I have a few Ideas- but I am going to keep them to my self just now

untill I have them worked out-

I am kicking around running a C&C game set in my own home brew world some time soon.

thanks for your thoughts Tree

And again- it was a supreme pleasure to have met you and gamed with you

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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:34 am

So, Strahd is permanently invisible? Ok. Interesting... wonder how he uses that gaze attack if no one can ever see him... sort of renders it a bit useless, or, at best, very wussified.

Otherwise, interesting. I'd have taken him a different route, and giving him a higher regen, but that's cause I'm cruel.

He did seem to kick butt pretty good, so I won't say he wasn't a good threat. I just do things differently, is all.

One of these days... well, yeah, I just might have to actually finish writing him up (see, in my games, if you lose a level to an undead, they actually get those memories....)

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:30 am

I treat permanatized spells more like an "at will" ability.

So his invisiblity essentially works like he is wearing a ring of invisibility.

Yeah, Strahd was deadly enough as it was. He killed the Thursday night group, by himself. That was a group of 9th level characters too. All the groups were 9th level. It was a very, very close fight, and Strahd only won do to out right luck. Several times.

The Monday night group he killed three, two Paladins and a Ranger, before the Knight brought him down.

The Friday Knight group 4 out of five were dead before Elias the Cleric won the day. It took help from 6 of Strahds spawn to help make it that deadly.

So, yes, I could have played Strahd far more deadly, especially with using minions, but then he would have been unbeatable. Except with how the Monday group did it. That was just outright genious level gaming. Absolutely loved it and how they blew my mind with the strategy they used.

The details of that will be given when my daughter finishes writing it up.
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Wulfgarn · Post by **Wulfgarn** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:53 pm

Ummmm - I was in the thursday night group and we beat him.... well not me persee but definantly a we

jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:03 pm

The Thursday night group beat Strahd AND Wulfgarn.

I keed! I keed!
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:29 pm

I was seeing who was reading. It was the Friday group that died.
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yzarCritS · Post by **yzarCritS** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:00 pm

jaybird216 wrote:
The Thursday night group beat Strahd AND Wulfgarn.

I keed! I keed!

Hahahha. Not nice.

We managed it with 4 characters and 1 of our own working for Strahd. I'd say the odds were clearly stacked against us. It was definitely our night with the dice rolls!

LordSeurek · Post by **LordSeurek** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:48 pm

Bah! You only beat him cause you got the rolls. We had him except for some crap rolling by the auto dice garbage Open has
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Lurker · Post by **Lurker** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:22 am

Quote:
Bah! You only beat him cause you got the rolls. We had him except for some crap rolling by the auto dice garbage Open has

Rogo there... My paladin never had an init higher than 4 & all the missed saves.........

Oh well LOTS of fun & congrats to the 2 groups that made it!
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Dyne · Post by **Dyne** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:10 am

Wulfgarn wrote:
ok- my only problem is that his CON should be 0 as he is in fact not living.

I know it is a 3e sort thing but it makes sense.

It didn't work very well in 3e; you always ended up with undead that had far too few HP. Later books in the 3e line had undead that would add their Charisma to HP to make up for it, which helped the problem. But the easiest solution is to allow nonliving things to keep a Constitution score (but also keeping their various immunities). Well, that's my take on it, anyway.

Strahd was definitely a tough adversary. Too bad I missed our last game session, would've loved playing out the last moments of my cleric's life.

LordSeurek · Post by **LordSeurek** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:01 pm

LordSeurek wrote:Bah! You only beat him cause you got the rolls. We had him except for some crap rolling by the auto dice garbage Open has
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Ahhh, Alexandros, I do miss thee. 3.5 years ago, you were the last of your group to stand. You tried to flee, into the ethereal, your life came to an end, and a stony one at that!! Curses on Baron. It would to Dros' heart good to know another group of heroes dispatched the beastie!

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:12 pm

If I am once again unable to make it to Con on the Cob this year we will see about running another "annual" Ravenloft game. That or we can start it after I get back and run it into November, and December, if needed. Yeah, we should start it on Holloween weekend, so we'll look into doing that.

LordSeurek · Post by **LordSeurek** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:45 pm

Treebore wrote:If I am once again unable to make it to Con on the Cob this year we will see about running another "annual" Ravenloft game. That or we can start it after I get back and run it into November, and December, if needed. Yeah, we should start it on Holloween weekend, so we'll look into doing that.

Excellent!!

Rikitiki · Post by **Rikitiki** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:46 pm

We managed to beat Strahd with an illusion.

a) he teleported our one cleric, then sent his mistresses in to take her down as close to dead as possible so HE could be the one to coup-de-grace her and finish her -- but, alas, the mistresses killed her AND Strahd took that once-per-week sunlight holy symbol and hid it somewhere else (rats!).
b) he didn't know she was wearing a ring-of-regeneration and so came back alive afterward (when the party located her).
c) So our mage threw invisibility-to-animals on her (so Strahd wouldn't see her using rats, etc, throughout the castle - until we caught up with him again.
d) When we did, she faced him putting her hand behind her back -- first, he tried to disbelieve it was her (FAIL! she was real), so when our illusionist threw the illusion of the holy-symbol in her hand coming out from behind her back and sunlight-flaming, Strahd "knew" it was real and was killed by that illusion.

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