u/Difficult_Relief_125

I’ve been fascinated by the time period conflicts in CoS for a while. It’s Dracula adjacent which is based in the 1890s and has a cowboy with pistols.

So I figured a Realm that joined a bit later might be more WW1 coded. I also love the idea of waves of undead being funneled into choke point by trench systems but they’ve been fighting so long there is no ammo. So soldiers have resorted to using bayonets and rifles lay discarded on the ground. Over time things devolved back to using bows and crossbows.

The 1890s are also an interesting time as it’s just after the Franco Prussian war where Prussian Cavalry were still using armour but right before WW1. So it’s plausible to have a ton of soldiers with mixed Armour, sabres, a few rare pistols with ammo.

It’s right before the abandoned armour so it’s a perfect setting to mix concepts. And the choke points, defensive systems and waves of undead make for some interesting and scary encounters. Changing to attrition based encounters with PCs fighting massive amounts of undead and having to smartly create choke points to win and dealing with skeletal archers preparing actions to fire if you poke your head up from the trenches is 👌.

I’m using VTT for my campaign and imported a trench network to make maps for the encounters and it looks like a lot of fun.

But I think drawing that analogy of Falkovnia is to Prussia what Barovia is to Transylvania makes me probably too happy.

So I’m curious if anyone has any input?

I think our lane was up 6-0 when Yuumi abandoned their ADC. They posted a decent KDA after that but anyone can have a decent KDA if you jump from dead body to dead body constantly to keep yourself from dying.

I went 1/2/29 in this game as Leona. When I told Yuumi it was a troll pick and they severely screwed their ADC in champ select they said something to the effect of “my ADC sucked”.

They picked after me. Counter picked themself into a hard engage kill lane Leona / Tristana. Their poor ADC couldn’t even step up. And after they abandoned them we had free dives to kill poor Caitlyn.

But ya… totally the ADC’s fault. If you play Yuumi and do this, this is why your ADCs hate you.

I think my favourite though was at one point they were on Veigar mid riding Herald to crash a tower. They saw me setting up to stun him coming out of the crash and bailed off early to watch them die 🤣. Think I might clip it and post it later.

I play a decent amount of Ashe and usually she gets down to like a 2-3 second W so I noticed it was like 10 seconds with a decent amount of ability haste even in end game.

So I checked the “balance” modifiers for her and it says nothing is changed. But then I look online and find out the cooldown is set at 16 unchanging… like leveling up her W is now pointless.

Seems pretty BS getting the 160 ability haste W augment if it doesn’t even bring her in line with SR Ashe getting down to like 4 seconds just by levelling it.

At this point I’ve lost several games before I realized what was going on and “something didn’t feel right”.

Anyway all this to say if you’re going to hard nerf a character at least list the nerfs on their balance icon.

Hmmm… so I’m about to have an encounter with Strahd. I wanted for him to open by casting hold person on the group because this isn’t supposed to be a combat fight. He’s just going to intimidate them. But I realized one of my players as a Hexblood is immune to hold person… also immune to Strahd’s Charm feature.

I really want to monologue and mess with them. I really want to do this RAW but it’s kind of messing with my easy solutions.

Curious what anybody else did?

So I asked my party if they wanted a pure RNG reading, a slightly fudged or heavily fudged story driven reading…

Anyway they chose full RNG mode and drew the “Sun Sword” is right with Madam Eva. So they hit an extra milestone by taking the Sun sword, got the OP item and went right to ganking / murder hoboing the hags. Misty stepped up to the 3rd floor, caught one sleeping… auto crit, next round at advantage, eliminated one of the coven members before the fight could escalate quick enough. With a coven member down they lost access to the extra spells.

Morgantha had to go ethereal and run because they were rolling too well. Took down the other one in a few turns. 2/3 hags down.

Some pretty amazing rolls all in D&D beyond so it was super RNG.

Definitely entertaining.