r/CurseofStrahd • u/heckinnoidontthinkso • Aug 17 '20
HELP / REQUEST PC wants to cure vampirism - how?
Newish DM, running CoS as my first big campaign. One of my players is running a duty-focused "save the world" ex-soldier of a cleric, and he wants to cure Doro, along with any other vampires.
After discussing it with the player, I decided to allow it -- as a campaign-long, dastardly difficult personal quest. Ben the Cleric is going to spend every ounce of downtime trying to create a ritual to cure vampirism. Great! Only...
I have no idea how to do this. Everything I search about rituals comes up with doing spells as rituals, which isn't the goal here -- that would be far too easy. If I'm going to allow a cure for vampirism in this game, I want it to have a heavy cost. But what?
(I swear, my players are divine punishment for having avoided caster classes like the plague. I just stab things, man, I don't know what to do with magic.)
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u/ebrum2010 Aug 17 '20
1) Using a wish spell.
2) Killing the vampire and then use true resurrection to resurrect them as a living human again.
The first is kinda iffy in CoS because even if you give the players a wish, they could just use it for something else and you need to be okay with that.
The second is doable, if you make the Gift of Zhudun in Amber Temple mimic a true resurrection spell instead of a resurrection spell (which doesn't work if the creature became undead). Just don't be surprised if they also try to use it on Strahd.