I don't know why I started giving my Environments alliterative names, but I feel like it's a thing now and I should probably keep doing it.

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In my re-imagining of Death House as a #Daggerheart one shot, the party is menaced by a strange mist - but on reaching a village, all the doors are locked!
Then a girl calls from a window: can they come up and let her and her brother out?

No time! Mist on their heels, they race in.

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What is the first scene of Death House? In the original, two children approach the party on the street. As a one shot, we can't have the party opt to go around them... so instead, we'll start the first scene INSIDE the house.

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Confirmed; the players are in.
#DeathHouse #Daggerheart one shot on October 31.

...hopefully I can find some better haunted house artwork by then, this one has AI vibes.

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In my original plan for the #DeathHouse #Daggerheart conversion, I was only going to have creepy effects in the first two floors, then jump scares for the next two.

However, after watching Evil Dead 2, I'm reworking the effects.

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To use this in my #DaggerOfStrahd Death House conversion to #Daggerheart:
- build environment in the first 50% but don't exclude jump scares; crumbs of lore
- lore dump during pivot from "creepy" to "actually under attack"
- ramp up environment until the party is progressing towards the final battle

The Death House #Daggerheart conversion continues.
I'm pretty happy with the first two floors; but tension needs to continue to ramp up in the Attic before peaking in the Dungeon.

Perhaps the ghostly children, who the party are trying to help, are the first things to openly attack?

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The cover page of Death House, the Curse of Strahd introductory adventure module, as released by Wizards of the Coast.

I've started to actually look at Death House content for conversion to #Daggerheart. I've worked through the house but not into the dungeon underneath yet.
I'm struck by a lot of what feels like missed opportunities to set the tone of this Haunted House.

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The cover page of Death House, the Curse of Strahd introductory adventure.

In Death House, there are 22 listed ability checks (excluding the Ending).
12 of these are Perception checks, of which 5 are to notice unsettling details on the wallpaper, and 3 more are to find MANDATORY SECRET DOORS.

I won't go into the ~10 combats today.

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