I say this is rare because Krezk doesn’t typically trade.

(Homebrew) Guard a rare mercantile wagon trip from Vallaki as hired by Vasili von Holtz.

If you secure our wine shipment and escort it ‘ere, I reckon we can get you an audience with Dmitri. The burgomaster hasn’t been able to secure a wine shipment in weeks, and we’re mighty thirsty.

“ We have enough dogs at our gates without letting you lot in, but maybe you can make yourselves useful.

If the guards on the Krezk wall dispense the quest, they might say something like this:.

Deliver the Martikov’s wine shipment to Krezk after clearing the winery.

Reasons to travel to Krezk include the following: I find that Krezk can be tricky to prod players toward without a prophesied relic being there. I’ll focus on the abbey briefly in this article, and I’ll have a separate article to address it specifically. The group enjoyed Krezk, nonetheless, but I want to help other DMs do outshine me. I found that players earnestly wanted to explore the place, but I prepared little beyond the module’s content. Humor has its place, but know your group and whether it’ll be too much. Though it may be tempting to make a Dwight Schrute NPC who helps farm the beets, that may be too comical for gothic horror. Wine is a common import to raise their spirits.

They raise chickens, piglets, and hares while they farm beets and turnips. Krezk has high walls and ample supplies of wood from its alpine trees. “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home that wildness is a necessity” ― John Muir, Our National Parks I experienced success sowing intrigue and emotional connection when I developed the villagers. I found that Krezk as a village was briefly interesting until the players interacted with the cliffside abbey. Of the three active Barovian villages, Barovia and Krezk typically take a backseat to the commerce and intrigue of Vallaki. Let me know which of my suggestions inspires you. I prefer to focus on the adventure as written, but Krezk is so barebones that I think it demands some tweaks to make it more interesting. I’ve run the campaign several times, earning me the advice I give! I’ll focus on Krezk today. ― Jeffrey Rasley, Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in NepalĬurse of Strahd is my favorite module of D&D 5e.

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