Another intriguing Baldur’s Gate 3 custom campaign mod has emerged to confront your party of quirky RPG adventurers. This one’s a short story which lets you take a break from BG3’s main story to attend a dinner party at the house of a not-at-all creepy rich bloke, who happens to be very good at jamming out on the organ via illusions.
His name’s Count Strahd von Zarovich and I hear his antics are fairly well known in Dungeons and Dragons parts. In this mod, ‘Dinner With Strahd – A Curse of Strahd Story Mod‘, this charming fellow invites Tav and their mates to his home in Barovia so he can quiz them about their brain tadpoles over tea and biscuits.
As part of this extra adventure, you can explore Strahd’s digs in Castle Ravenloft. According to modder Ocelot, “over 600 fully voiced and animated lines of dialogue” await, as well as some battles and loot. There’s also the chance to punch Strahd in the face at one point, and Ocelot’s teased “something secret for the Strahd romancers”. So, both camps of people who’ve long been fantasising about doing something to the powerful ancient vampire’s body.
There are clearly a plenty of Strahd fantasisers among BG3’s modding community too, since this Strahd mini-campaign is separate to Project Strahd, one of the many ambitious custom campaign projects for Larian’s RPG which have been making some waves online for the past year or so.
Ocelot recommends installing Dinner With Strahd via LaughingLeader’s Baldur’s Gate 3 Mod Manager. Once you’ve done so, the new storyline begins when you meet a woman next to a cart and ox in Rivington, the first region you pass through on your way to the city of Baldur’s Gate in the game’s third act. The modder’s handily included one of their own tiefling bard saves at the start of that act in the mod’s optional files, in case you lack your own and want to jump straight into the mod’s quest.
They’ve also got plenty of plans to expand their creation in future, via the likes of adding more characters and rooms to Castle Ravenloft, as well as giving its vampires proper fangs.
If you’re keen to learn about some other BG3 custom campaign mods which’re either out or in the works, check out our coverage of Return to Candlekeep and Path to Menzoberranzan.
