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I've bought the module and I'm reading over it, I know there are artifacts and stuff that needs to be collected but I'm worried that my players might ignore them or miss them (which will probably be my fault)

I know places are leveled, so more powerful enemies are in some places but how can I express that to my players without them getting into combat and TPKing?

Also I don't know how I would bring in new characters if theirs die

I don't want to muck it up for them because it's horror and spending 30 minutes arguing over why they died or why an NPC is dead would ruin it

I want to get the new curse because it looks cool but all I've been told is that I need to have done some commendations already. I haven't played the game in ages so obviously I haven't done them.

Can I still get these commendations or is this curse locked to me?

I've only recently bought curse of strahd so forgive my ignorance but from what I've read the players just need to find the artifacts and the ally and then go fight strahd?

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Is that it? Is there more? Am I just stupid? (Probably)