Curse of Strahd Companion 3: The Village of Barovia

The Curse of Strahd Companion is your comprehensive guide to running 5th Edition's greatest and grimmest campaign. The Companion dives through every chapter of Curse of Strahd and incorporates Wyatt Trull's mithral-bestselling module, The Wedding at Ravenloft as the campaign's climax. This chapter focuses on the Village of Barovia and includes:

• Funeral for the Burgomaster. Kolyan's burial has been expanded into a three-act storyline featuring blights, an unruly mob, and the dark arrival of either Rahadin or Sir Godfrey, both of whom have orders to abduct Ireena. This explosive, playtested storyline revolutionizes the village's plot.
• The Lottery. The Companion adds to the village's misery with the Lottery, in which one individual—determined by lots—is sent to dine at Castle Ravenloft. While this grim event isn't featured in the adventurers' initial visit to the village, resentment over it spurs the mob featured in the storyline above and adds character to Kolyan Indirovich and his children. Should the adventurers return to the village (perhaps to rendezvous with Ismark before the wedding, to slay Doru, or welcome a new player character into the party), they may witness this gruesome event take place.
• Bildrath's Expanded Wares. Bildrath's ill-gotten gains have been expanded to include maps, mementos, and (unbeknownst to him) magic items. Every new ware comes with a dry remark from Bildrath.
  
• Dramatis Personae. A handy guide detailing all characters featured in this chapter of the campaign, with advice and variants.
• Areas of the Village. An in-depth guide to the village's areas, from Bildrath's Mercantile to the cemetery itself.
  
• DM Notes. Notes including but not limited to spicing up the region with valuable roleplay with select NPCs.
• Magic Item Descriptions. Save yourself the time of digging through the Dungeon Master's Guide to determine how the magic items in this chapter work.
• Monster Stats. Time is precious, and matters all the more in combat. Appendix B has the statistics for the NPCs used in this chapter!
• Maps. All new maps by CzRPG, featuring the Blood of the Vine Tavern and a blight-infested cabin visited during the expanded Funeral for the Burgomaster questline.

Publishing Schedule

It is no secret that Curse of Strahd's chapters are organized counterintuitively. The Companion will be publishing chapters with a more narrative focus in mind: