![A hardcover D&D book titled "Monster Manual" in bold, white Times font. Below is a painting with a beholder as the central subject: a creature made up primarily of eyes and a gaping maw of angler-like fangs. The body is a floating ball with no limbs but tentacles with eyes on the ends of them like a nest of luxurious, flowing hair. People run from the beast as it closes in, its mouth wide to take a bite out of the closest limb. A hardcover D&D book titled "Monster Manual" in bold, white Times font. Below is a painting with a beholder as the central subject: a creature made up primarily of eyes and a gaping maw of angler-like fangs. The body is a floating ball with no limbs but tentacles with eyes on the ends of them like a nest of luxurious, flowing hair. People run from the beast as it closes in, its mouth wide to take a bite out of the closest limb.](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-2ft8dacd7r/images/stencil/300x300/products/3067/3091/download__16719.1695942033.jpg?c=1)
Lightning rips across a stormy night, briefly illuminating the path from the town of Barovia to the cliff where the ancient, jagged form of Ravenloft Castle looms. Within its time-darkened walls, the crimson eyes of an equally old and powerful vampire pierce the shadows. Count Strahd von Zarovich has sent an invitation to have you for dinner...
One way or another.
Are you and your party simply dying for a night with a tall, dark, and handsome... castle? 'Curse of Strahd' is a D&D story well loved for its high stakes and fang-tastic story possibilities since its release in 2016, and has since seen some updates in the 'Revamped' version.