One of my players is our former DM, and for a homebrewed-ish campaign had a dungeon in it, and he used the Amber Temple. So our whole table has played it!
(I’m running curse of strahd “reloaded” which places the Sunsword in the Amber Temple)
I’m in a pickle. I’m a first time DM playing “Curse of Strahd: Reloaded” for my players. One of the players is our former campaign’s DM who is (unfortunately through previous exposure) already familiar with the fact that there’s an old lady who sells pies who’s secretly a hag (Lady Morgantha)
They met Lady Morgantha last session, and the other fharacters immediately suspected that something was up with her —- an extremely perilous and dangerous path being traversed by a little old defenceless lady doesnt add up. They tried pushing her to let them see her windmill house, but eventually they backed down.
My former DM player knows that this is the hag in disguise but is doing a good job of not spoiling it for others (but is being smug AF though away from the other players)
I had a thought last night. What if Lady Morgantha IS just really a little old lady trying to help feed the needy. And she just lived in an old windmill thats now out of commission.
I think it would confuse my former DM player, and put me back in the drivers seat of the surprise. Then he just knows that…SOMEONE is a hag in disguise…or are they!?
I only need a person who’d be a good substitute for a hag. I’m thinking maybe the town baker, who takes children under the guise of using them as farmhands in exchange for offcuts to feed the needy - but is in fact a hag. (Can men be hags???)
Any thoughts??