Barovia Travel! All About the Map, Random Encounters & Travel Around Barovia - Tools, Tips & More

This video is all about travel around Barovia - the land that the players visit in Curse of Strahd! Not only covering the RAW (Rules As Written) stuff such as travel pace rules, the map's scale, and the two random encounter tables, but also offering tips, advice and resources beyond that. Including: Overviews and links to a travel calculator tool and a 3D topography tool, Talking briefly about the whole start-on-the-west-side-of-the-map (near Krezk) thing that some DMs choose to do, rather than the 'classic' start, Addressing the Tser Falls "shortcut" (note: it's not actually a shortcut!), Where you can find alternative Barovia maps as well as Svalich Road & Svalich Woods battlemaps, When and how (and even if) you should give your players access to the full map of Barovia, Additional Barovian landmarks and settlements you can consider adding, And more! Did I miss anything? If you know of something that'll be useful for other CoS DMs then please leave a comment and let us know. Thanks! #CurseofStrahd #Strahd #Barovia 00:00 Intro 01:02 Travel Pace rules 01:39 Barovia map scale 01:54 Travel calculator tool 02:31 Changing the map size? 03:07 How travel works in the campaign 04:30 Starting at the west edge (by Krezk) 05:19 3D map of Barovia tool 06:30 The Tser Falls "shortcut" 07:33 Alternative Barovia maps 08:18 Giving the players a map 10:02 Random encounters! 10:18 Times of day 10:47 Random encounter table weightings 11:30 "Strahd's spies" sidebar 12:56 Random encounters or planned encounters? 14:12 Pre-rolling random encounters 14:44 Svalich Road & Svalich Woods maps 15:15 Random encounter difficulty scaling 15:38 Flavor & the weather 17:25 Travel at night 18:26 Adding extra locations (landmarks & settlements) 20:30 Outro Follow me on Bluesky! https://bsky.app/profile/dmofthemists... Support the channel by becoming a member:    / @dmofthemists   Links: DragnaCarta's Barovia travel calculator tool: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... The Reddit comment by the 3D map tool maker:   / mfc0owv   DragnaCarta's "Appendix E: The Svalich Road", from the original (v1) version of his CoS Reloaded guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B... Curse of Strahd Adventurers League bundle (a.k.a. Misty Fortunes & Absent Hearts as well as DDAL04): https://www.dmsguild.com/product/2094... Also, here's links to the other videos I mentioned during this video: CoS Map Size:    • Thinking of Increasing the Map Size of Bar...   CoS Mistakes 1 & 2:    • 8 Mistakes DMs Make When Running Curse of ...   &    • 8 MORE Mistakes DMs Make When Running Curs...  , respectively CoS Alternative Random Encounters:    • 7 Alternative Random Encounters for Curse ...   CoS Homebrew:    • My Top 7 Curse of Strahd Homebrew Changes:...   Music credits: "Barovian Castle", "Rainy Village", "Thieves' Guild" (Stealthier) and "Haunted" by Tabletop Audio; licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Images: Barovian landscape art by James' RPG Art:   / jamesrpgart   All other images, logos, etc. are the copyright of their respective creators, the vast majority of which will be from Wizards of the Coast, as per their Fan Content Policy.