Last night, our D&D club at work played a one-shot adaptation of ‘Curse of Strahd’ in honor of Halloween. One of the most ingenious mechanisms of the module is having the characters draw 5 tarot cards, which determine where and how they interact with key elements needed to complete the adventure (think: randomized placement of objects, a la ‘Clue’). These are the cards we drew (pun not intended): the Necromancer, the Mercenary, the Miser, the Dictator, and the Transmuter.
I wrote the names in Cyrillic, as it’s the closest exotic alphabet I know to the geographical heart of the Rroma and used a stylized voodoo doll because (1) it’s creepy and thematically appropriate (though stereotypical), (2) I’m still disturbed by ‘Coraline,’ and (3) I’m terrible at drawing actual, lifelike figures.
creation video:
