Curse of Strahd: The Abbots Journal
Expand your Curse of Strahd game with this excellent Dungeon Master's resource - a journal from the Abbot in the Abbey of St Markovia! Use this to: Aid exposition about the backstory of the Abbot! Show his insanity via exciting text and descent-into-madness handwriting! Set the mood of age and rot in Barovia - full-color moldy journal pages! Tie in Strahd to the Abbot! Reveal Vasili von Holtz's secret identity! Explore the creation of the mongrelfolk! Freak out your players (that last page...shudder!) This download includes a full color version AND a simplified Black and White version to save ink. Print these 6 pages out - assembly should be pretty straightforward! Please leave a review or rating¸ and check out my other CURSE OF STRAHD supplements ¸ including maps¸ puzzles¸ NPC relationship maps¸ and entire new adventures! SAMPLE ENTRIES! Day the First....As the Morning Lord bids me so do I follow. The Abbey of St. Markovia in Krezk has lo these many years lain desolate by the evil Strahd¸ who by his own hand¸ slayed the blessed Saint who gave the Abbey its name and hallowed its ground. I will restore it to its previous glory and purpose. A place of healing and hope. To do this I must win the villagers' trust. They cower in fear in the village over which the Abbey looms. SO fearful are they of Strahd and his wolves that they dare not venture beyond the village walls. The walls of mist might just as well be made of brick and mortar as it imprisons them thusly. Ninth Day of the Eighth Month the Fifteenth Year........Their idea of what perfection means does not match mine. They have strange ideas of what it means to be human. They beg me to give them the eyes of a cat¸ wings to fly¸ the strength of a mule¸ the guile of a snake... I pity them. I am sure their desire for bestial traits cannot lead to salvation. But if it persuades them to follow¸ then let it be so. I will yield to these mad desires¸ and hope it helps. Fourteenth Day of the Sixth Month the Sixty-Sixth Year..........There is more to this monster than meets the eye. At supper tonight Strahd unburdened himself¸ and lamented the curse that has followed him through the centuries. He wants nothing more than to escape Barovia. Despite myself I feel the pangs of sympathy and the urge to help him find release¸ and peace. I have taken it upon myself to find a cure for his malaise and set him free of this torment.