The legendary Curse of Strahd D&D campaign is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, and the vampiric adventure is every bit as popular now as it was back then. Indeed, we're making another return visit to the lands of Barovia this year with Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. It's not perfect, though. While the rules-as-written (or "RAW") story was good enough to earn four and a half stars in my Curse of Strahd Revamped review, there are some wrinkles on its ruffed shirt that could do with ironing out.
I'm in the process of running this campaign for two separate groups at once, and I've learned a lot from that process – which fights are impossible TPKs (total party kills), the non-player characters whose backstories are skeletally thin, and the best way to introduce tricky subplots. With that in mind, I have a few recommendations for any Dungeon Masters hoping to use this campaign from one of the best tabletop RPGs. They've helped me tremendously, so learn from my mistakes and make a beeline for them before entering those mists.
Once you've got the adventure itself (which is usually available for a discount at Amazon), I'd start with the following:
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