-Drops a banger -Leaves -Refuses to elaborate any further

You really nailed Strahd's affect, casual and almost bored as the PCs suffer crushing loss, heartbreak, setbacks, doubt, fear. Magnificently framed, your use of light and shadow reminds me of the classic art from the old Black Box set. This was a real treat to watch, well done.

Shit. This reminds me of my own CoS run. Our party was betrayed by our warlock at the end. And my Tiefling fighter ended up selling his soul to the archdevil Levistus so he could leave. I ran him again through Dungeon of the Mad Mage next, With Strahd taking the characters soul and becoming his patron. He died in that campaign too tragically. Like most that go down under the Yawning Portal. I can't help but imagine my boy Ciel was somewhere in that procession of dead adventurers. Very well made animatic, and thanks for reading. To whoever gets this far.

As someone who runned CoS, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CHAOS??? Now I want to learn how to draw just to make something similar to my players (specially considering that one of them has drawn a version of the Tarokka Cards with the characters and me (I was drawn as the Darklord card) as a gift. It was so fucking cool)

My party attacked straud at the wedding. They are a half orc bloodhunter ghost slayer, a human grave domain cleric, a dragomborn oath of vengeance paladin, and a high elf divination wizard. Bloodhunter used hit crimson rite of the dawn and used his blood curse of the marked. He also manged to get the sunblade. Grave cleric used there channel divinity. And divination wizard gave him a nat 20. they pre planned it like this once the divination wizard got a 20 on his die roll. Ended up with 12d6+12d8 on straud in one hit, all of the damage being radiant, not counting the paladin who smited him right after. I had that be the only time in the campaign where straud actually showed visible fear as he had never bin hit so hard in his life and was almost dead. He was forced to slip away and hide for about 5 rounds to heal before he tried to attack the party again

One year later, and this master piece still rocks.

2:37, I love the look of the party here. Strahd is one of the few villains that really motivates the party on a personal level.

Waited two years to watch this (just finished the campaign) and this was surprisingly nostalgic at times

I love curse of Strahd so much... I recently finished my first full playthrough of it and damn Was that awesome. My players lost to Strahd and that pure feeling of hopelessness was as awesome as it was devastating. And it wasn't just a "Oh we lost the final fight" ending, no it was a "after all we sacrificed to win we still lost, our souls now forever trapped in the domains of dread now fully ruled by Strahd who we helped to become the unstoppable monster he became" ending.

I can't imagine how your group must have felt seeing this, what an amazing thing to do!! I'm a storyboard artist who just started running a new CoS campaign of my own, and now you're giving me ideas. Also, you say you're not a storyboard artist but you could've fooled me! Great job :^D

I love this, one of the most iconic dnd animatics, and for some reason I think this song would be great for a durge animatic from bg3

in the middle of CoS atm and i love this!! i joined about halfway through the campaign and the rest of the party currently has my barovian character convinced seeing the sun for the first time will actually kill him, lmao

Holly canolli, this gave me goosebumps. I loved the Ideia of Strahd burning the crap out of Blue Water Inn. I'm currently DMing a CoS campaign, and the next session will all be about the Sun festival. Keep up the good work, my dude.

This video was the first time I’d heard “Sinners” and it just topped my Spotify song for the year at 404 plays in 5 months. Thanks for a new artist in my life ❤🎉

The curse of strahd run I'm doing right now. Players are traveling around Barovia, got hooks for every player so far. They're fighting the druids at Yester Hill, even managed to figure out taking the green thing out. But right as they are about to succeed, one of the players, their character being an old friend of another's who betrayed them way back when(made the whole thing rocky), fails their check against Strahd's charm. They party tries to save them, but Strahd flies away with one of the party, charmed. The following morning, they each receive a personalized invitation for dinner with the count. This game is fuckin' wild man.

Coming over to this man i remember my first time ever participating in COS and think of syphon my echo knight fighter dude went out on his own terms to protect the rest of the party so the part where the souls march i feel just represents everyone whos fallen in this task

I'm a DM about to finish Curse of Strahd in the next month and holy shit this animatic is SO good. There's so many emotions portrayed here that I can only hope to bring to my table. I can't stop re-watching it because it has me so enthralled in the story. Incredible work and congrats on beating Strahd!

did you just "hey you, you're finally awake" us with that intro?

I played this campaign recently. It ended rather abruptly when the Deuregar Battlerager grab Strahd in a piledriver and plummeted off a cliff. The Dwarf survived, but the same could not be said for Strahd.

I can't stop watching this. The fear, regret, and sadness in the player's faces throughout the animation, it really sells the CoS atmosphere. Yet they still preserve despite every setback. I love it, wonderful job

That early perspective shot of the Death House where you have the low 'moving' angle was already so good I was like. Oh this animatic is gonna be GREAT.

This is utterly jaw-dropping. It’s the kind of thing I’ve always wanted to enshrine campaigns of my own. Your characters were distinct and very much real. You have a talent for weaving such a dramatic story with so little time. Bravo!

The only bad thing about this video is that I checked your channel and you didn't have MORE animatics!!! Seriously, brilliant work! I hope you do more in the future, if you can!

2:41 bearded vultures are sick af. Love this animatic even though I barely know anything about CoS. Great work

Curse of Strahd impacted my group so much that our new campaigns characters reference Barovia heavily. I love it so much

What happened in your Vallaki? It looked like chaos but the Inn was still standing? Anyway this is absolutely amazing.

Now that I've watched this easily 100 times I figured I should just say I love this so much! It's perfect.

As someone that has repeatedly DMd CoS since 3.5 and is always looking for something to add in and polish every time, knowing that people that enjoy the campaign use so much of their time to make heartful art like this really inspires me. Once I get all my material digitalized on Foundry (playing 5e nowadays, with some homebrewing), I really hope I can share one of our adventures online. Keep it up, your storyboarding eye keeps the story behind each scene flowing really well!

I can’t count how many times I’ve rewatched this. This is sooooo good! I love your art and AGHHH. I’m going to be DMing this campaign for my friends and it’s my first time actually being a DM than a player, and I’m so excited. This just makes me even more excited for it

I have officially lost count of the amount of times I have watched this today. I feel so attached to these characters even though their story is over. I hope everyone had fun in the end.

god, curse of strahd... we had about 19 character deaths in that mostly infighting as barovia was such a horrid place we were at each other's throats constantly a few notable ones were: -an unexpected inflict wounds crit during an argument between 2 warlocks over a friendly fire incident VERY early on before anyone trusted anyone else -our druid yelling "OOOORRRRGAAASM" running naked into the woods, getting lost, and dying out there -the gunslinger trying to rob the warlock at gunpoint and getting killed for it by said warlock -the goblin ranger/war cleric of maglubiyet getting instantly killed by a statue shooting death lasers from it's eyes -2 of the party plotting to kill 2 of the other members because one of them is a skeleton serving an ancient ice witch and the other is getting too chummy with it, team skeleton won that fight... -our poor slimy boi who just wanted a midnight snack getting beaten to death by gargoyles and broomsticks in strahd's castle -flame skulls... so many flame skulls ; _ ; -our barbarian murdering our wizard in a ritualistic sacrifice to bhaal the lord of murder because he talked down to her too much -our poor bard who survived all of this having seen over a dozen murders, betrayals, and worse finally going so crazy that the child cleric(?) who joined our party and kept being waaaayyy too sketchy overthrew her patience by endangering the party one too many times and died for it... that tabaxi bard Honey From The Pot was the only survivor from the original party having seen barovia from death house to the final battle this was achieved with a mix of luck, using others as meat shields, and the player missing like 1/3 of the sessions due to illness causing her to backline a lot her player did a good job of showing that poor cat wear down and lose the will to go on.

This video made me dm my own campaign of Curse of Strahd. I watched it after finishing the story as a player. Also the song is one of my favorite nowadays. Thanks a lot!

Really awesome. Meanwhile my Curse of Strahd experience: *Chaotic Stupid Intensifies*

God, sinners match perfectly with that chaotic thing that ur campaign turned into. Strahd is a very punitive story.

Let me just say that I've played this video dozens of times already! I'm running my 2nd CoS campaign and this time around I've implemented a buncha of mods and expansions like MandyMod, Dragnacarta & Lunch Break Heroes. And with my current formed group of carefully picked individuals who have amazing chemistry, spotlight instincts and roleplay comfortability, I am having a blast at running it! The scenes of this animatic reflects a lot of choices that my party has taken in the campaign already and I just simply adore it! They're currently trying to survive the Festival of the Blazing Sun and I can't wait to finally share this video to them when the campaign is all over! Amazing work all around!

U'd be surprised to know how many times I've watched this...

This makes me want to drop all my projects and work on Strahd

Man, this is the polar opposite of what happened in my parties CoS campaign- but I gotta say I absolutely LOVE your artstyle!! In our CoS campaign I kinda accidentally became the main villain after my character got possessed by a Lich, and Strahd basically told the party "yeah, he's a huge threat can y'all go get him for me? I'll let you leave Barovia," And somehow 4 level 6 players, one of Strahds wives, and two strahd zombies defeated a Lich

This is GORGEOUS! I wish my players would do such thing for my "Curse of Strahd" campaign. This video needs more views!!!

I consider Curse of Strahd to be the most infamous module.

The emotions I feel when watching this- What a wonderful animatic! I'm so interested in what exactly went down in your guys' campaign. Looks like it was a blast!

I’ve watched this three times already. In the middle of a campaign right now, this made me smile to see how far my group has come and how far they have to go! Thanks for this! Back to prep….

Just started a CoS game myself. Now I watch this video whenever I want to get into the right mindset for planning my games. I think this is brilliant, well done.

I have watched this video countless times. Have started running a game of CoS myself, and if it can get anywhere near the emotion, drama, tension, heartbreak, and downright epicness that comes across in this animation, then I would be a very happy DM.

I really like the smile on Lady Wachters face, it gaves me chills every time I watch it! ♥️♥️

THIS LOOKS SO GOOD!

Currently playing through CoS. Strahd is convinced my character is the real woman he's after, and I'm playing nice with him because it's keeping him from outright killing the party (he really, REALLY hates our paladin). Currently his "guest" in Ravenloft hoping to get rescued before Strahd gets bored or realizes he chose the wrong person.

the BEAUTY

I'm watching this, for probably, the tenth time, and still, I get shivers from seeing the rising sun at the end

This animation is perfect. It gives the real tone of barovia, i love it

Literally a masterpiece. Brings me back to the CoS run i mastered years back, and I was able to remember and feel everything again; you were able to convey the storytelling and emotion through the drawings and the beautiful song. Really a wonderful work. BTW Is the mechanical goat named after a strange land from a dark souls world where burly men with big moustache come from? XD

Oh my god this was amazing! I'm going to be playing in a COS campaign soon, this really got me hype

I keep coming back to this animation is so good and well made

My friends are about to start another dnd homebrew campaign and this inspired me to what kind of a character I want to play, so thank you very much

Damn I've watched this 6 times and I'm still getting chills every time. Currently dming curse of strahd and damn just inspires me to continue to try to make it an experience like this. - Also making me want to do an attempt at my own for a call of cthulhu campaign I've played in. You're work it amazing. Wow.

I'm running curse of strahd for a group but prior to this run I played in a run and heres what happened: we had a warlock (me), a druid, a fighter, a wizard and a bard. We didn't get past Vallaki as the group fell apart but in the run, the druid and fighter both died fighting in the streets with townsfolk who were rioting. The wizard and the warlock were family and the bard was their friend. The warlock made a deal with her patron, in exchange for her powers she would give birth to children for her patron to train as warriors or for what served his purpose, in exchange she got powers. Before dying from the riots she summoned her patron and changed the pact, if the patron saved her and her remaining members, she would immediatelty leave, and use the rest of her life and death in his dimension doing whatever he needed. A bargain was struck but only the wizard would be taken back to Waterdeep, leaving the kenku bard to fend for himself. (the same bard is in my campaignas a player again but he's twisted from spending decades in Barovia) The warlock died, gave a child I'm playing in a different campaign and the wizard is in another campaign. I'm sure this is interesting to no one but myself but it's just fun to talk about.

Just got recommended this and damn this is good.

I got the chills

This has inspired me to run Curse of Strahd myself, after two failed attempts within my group (In the first try everyone met a grisly fate and the DM couldn’t continue running it because of work, the second attempt derailed pretty fast when the NPCs pledged their alliance to Strahd and wiped out a Vistani camp) and I can’t wait to use these two attempts to fuel a continuity and hopefully end the cycle. So far I have 8 special new NPCs and 5 special magic items in my version of Barovia, all inspired by the PCs of the last few attempts.

holy sh*t man, this gave me literal chills, CHILLS. I have played COS and I am in the middle of running it. You absolutely killed it. Amazing work.

I've watched this at least twice a month ever since I found this. It's that good

From one Curse of Strahd DM to another, very good job on this! I look forward to seeing what else you release in the future for your next game!

Oh my gosh, I FEEL the emotional journey this party must have gone through with the way you animated this. WELL DONE. I need to do this for my games so bad....

I ran Curse of Strahd two times and want to do it a third time. I loved Ravenloft dearly ever since the early 2000s when I discovered the setting. Your video is not about any of the parties I got to know as we unfolded the pages together. And yet, somehow, it's all of them. Barovia is a cold place where fate, pain, grief, loss and ultimately healing and triumph and sun and laughter can prevail over the uncaring mists. Thanks for this video. You're amazing.

I love this so fcking much omg. the timing is fantastic and you manage to get the story across so well!! good vibes very epic I love it

This was so fantastic. I've been running CoS for almost two years (lots of missed weekends for our usually bi-weekly sessions, unfortunately.) and this so brilliantly fits the mood, the feel, the fucking *everything* that is CoS that I had to watch it a few times. It's just that amazing. Great work!

I tried this campaign as a player, it didn't even last long enough to complete the introductive mission (the party split for external reasons) but out of each of the four sessions we played, each time at least one member of the party almost got killed, this happened with every encounter

Running CoS for the first time in 2 weeks! May or may not have come back to this for some visual references, ideas, and also just because it's a banger of a Barns Courtney song.

i watch this very regularly, its wonderful i love everything about it-

We are literally on the last session for CoS and we are fighting him. This video pumped me up for the fight.

THE HALF-ORC IS THE BEST PG

I remember playing this campaign with my friends in grade eight, it's to this day still one of my favorite campaigns I've done, also the character I created for curse of strahd is the character I use to this day

In the campaign of CoS I played in, my first character was a Wizard whose end goal was to defy mortality and become a god. As the campaign went on, he started to consider Strahd as a doorway to that, even meeting with him alone at one point. Then, a few months later, the character died a heroes death and was buried by the rest of the party. Fast forward to Strahd's tomb, the party opens his coffin and finds he's already been killed - because my Wizard had been resurrected as a vampire, and turned on Strahd. His end goal was to become immortal, so he turned into a lich and served as quite the interesting final boss. This wasn't unexpected either, my character only saw people as a means to an end, behind his knowledgeable and well-meaning façade, he was very cruel and narcissistic. I considered that a much more fitting end to the "Great and Powerful Zhorand."

help i can't stop watching this

The best campagne of D&D😌

NO WAY MY BLUEWATER INN BURNED DOWN TOO

I have been watching this for 30 minutes now. Amazing.

My friend sent this to me because this is their favorite animatic ever and it’s mine now too

KZfaq is spying on me. I literally started dming strahd for my roommates 2 days ago and I get recommended gold!

Having finished a 2 odd year CoS campaign a couple weeks ago this really captures the journey and death of innocence amongst me and my fellow party members. Great work!

God this is so fucking amazing and now i wanna DM curse of strahd again!

AMAZING! I'm allways a bit envyouse of groups that can look back at their adventures in this way!

I love the final splash of color at the end to show how the world changed. That was amazing!

I have watched this so many times - it's singlehandedly convinced me to run CoS for my group. It's so GOOD

This is litteraly the coolest thing, I'm obsessed 😳😳

love the artwork! ^^ and the song! currently my rogue has been kidnapped and taken to Strah'd castle while knocked out cold. so yes, damsel in distress. it doesn't bother me it's fun sometimes plus it makes me happy to see my friends come to my rescue.

I have no idea what Curse of Strahd is or why this is is in my recommendations, but this was nice. Enjoying that cursed smiling sun visual tremendously.

I'm running my group through this for the first time, and they basically got the hardest path lol. All three of the items are either in the castle or tsolenka pass,both very high level areas, and they got the dark lord card so no allies lol

Bril. Given me a ton of inspiration to kickstart some new flavourings for Barovia. Love the attention to detail, song worked perfectly, art is stunning. U aced the characters (NPCs and the unique PCs). Well done!

Here i am watching this for the 7th time. You did a great job capturing the scenes/beats of Baorvia

The vibes are immaculate omg. Really inspires me to play some curse of strahd someday

This still inspires me to play Curse of Strahd it rocks!

i want to make my pcs feel the crushing defeat and loss then rise and have a well deserved and honored triumph i love watching this i can feel the power and emotion behind it

My man dropped this beautiful animation and then dipped fr

Reminds me of an interesting thing that developed in the CoS game I participated in. I got DM approval to play a character who ended up in Ravenloft from the Dark Sun setting, and by the end of the campaign, he didn't want to leave the place, despite how horrific it was.

I have played this every week before DMing my session of CoS for the past month or so. Absolutely love the animations, the downbeats with the music itself matching with the dramatic moments, the character designs, it's all so nicely done! There has to be a great amount of pride behind this masterpiece!

This makes me want to run Curse of Strahd again. One of my games of it contains my proudest moment as a DM where I was able to get all of my players to either cry or choke up as they returned to the room where they preformed the last rights for the children in the death house to find all the candles they lit put out after they killed the shambling mound under the house. That moment as a DM is one of my proudest because it was a moment where I had made the characters, the setting, the moments fell real enough that it summoned up that much emotion. And I think that's a memory I will cherish for the rest of my DMing career.

This is AMAZING! I love the artwork in every frame! I really want to know more about the character, they all looked like they had such flavorful personality's! and i'm dumbfounded by both the haunted mansion and elf parts! (i've read the module numerus times, and ran it once, but I'm trying not to use names for spoilers) just, dear god you made that look like it would have been such an awesome roller-coaster! I've gatta' show this to my group!

wow, pc resurrection... y'all went the gauntlet!

This really the only thing you've put out? Well, its fucking amazing, and beautifully done, love the work.