TL;DR: 40 episodes into a Strahd Reloaded campaign and the “Krezk-sposition”is going….not how we expected. Curious how others have handled it.
We just dropped Episode 40 of our RP-heavy Strahd Reloaded run, and honestly the thing that surprised me most is how many threads of exposition there are.
Krezk in particular kind of broke our expectations.
After the battle heavy Wizard of Wines and Yester Hill, we were looking forward to a “safer” stop
Of course it turns tense fast—between the Abbot, the burgomaster’s family, and the threat of werewolves. But we’ve found meeting all these new characters and setting up the next few arcs is a lot of information in a short period of time.
We’ve leaned pretty hard into character-driven choices and roleplay, so that’s definitely impacted how long these beats are.
I’m curious—for DMs that have run CoS before-especially if you’ve run Reloaded—how have you handled these chunks of new info? As a DM, I’m trying not to give too much and only answering questions when they ask. But if you have some ideas how to punch it up a little, I’m interested to hear ideas.
If you want to see how ours is playing out, I can drop a link, but mostly I’m interested in how other tables handled it.