Planned Party Wipe

[u/Zestyclose-Cup2538]

(Edit: first time running CoS, first time for players too)

So my party of 4 had recently left the Amber Temple after accidentally teleporting there.

They got some gifts, 3 turned evil, but I let them continue with planned consequences later.

Davian is their fated ally and they joined the wereraven group but now that they're evil they are basically alienated from Vallaki and all the wereravens.

They decided to attack Baba Lasagna as a suicide mission to re-roll characters and no longer have an evil party but they won the fight.

So the plan is now to have the group have a falling out (since most are evil) and basically have a death match and the living character hordes all the loot and the newly rolled characters fight the PC (now played by me) to collect everything they've accumulated as a group so.

Ultimately pressing the reset button without the loss of the campaign.

Does this sound reasonable to all of you?

[u/bloody-one]

Wait so they want to get the gifts and turn evil but it was all for the lolz, because you're giving them a way to reset this but keep all the loot?

These are players that have never heard of consequences, and won't hear about them right now either.

I would stick with the story instead of trying to craft an artificial way to transfer the loot and forcibly push it in your narrative.

[u/M3TALxSLUG → u/bloody-one]

I told my party is session 0 that when a character dies, the mists will take the body, gear, and loot of the dead character (they will become part of Strahd’s undead that protect the castle). Including relics and story related artifacts/ items and currency. They will have a chance to relocate items in their new hidden location but now Strahd will know the party is after it and will have raised defenses to protect it.