Plot

Half Damage is a podcast based on the Dungeons & Dragons module, Curse of Strahd, an adventure published by Wizards of the Coast.

The Heroes (Sauree, Poncho, Camilla and Fang) must work their way throughout the pocket-dimension of Barovia, gaining allies, items, and knowledge that will help them defeat Strahd - the vampire overlord of Barovia.

Half Damage vs. Curse of Strahd
Half Damage enters the world of Barvoia as written in Curse of Strahd, including elements of the flavor text, characters, locations, situations and overall plot.

However, in the Half Damage universe, "The Curse of Strahd" is a broadcasted show that sometimes relies on reality show elements, including bringing in adventurers from out of Barovia to interact with the actors in the show, which is how the Player Characters find themselves in Barovia.

Furthermore, most of the characters as detailed in Curse of Strahd have two sides to them: their on-air personalities and their off-air personalities.

Synopsis
Camilla, Poncho and Sauree began in their home of Willowweep in the Half & Half Café. They signed a contract to find their lost friend, Fang, and were transported to the pocket dimension of Barovia where they found her.

Together they traveled to the Town of Barovia where they discovered that they were on a show entitled "The Curse of Strahd" and met its main antagonist, Strahd.

They helped Ismark to bury his father, so that his sister Ireena would agree to leave the Town of Barovia. He worried that she was in danger as Strahd was obsessed with her. At the church they met Father Donovan and his vampire-spawn son Doru.

After the funeral, they set out through the woods and ran into Madam Eva at the Tser Pool encampment where they got a prophecy of how to defeat Strahd.

They had set designers help them to scale a mountain, only to find Strahd, who insisted on taking Fang's wolf pelt, and one of Poncho's memories. After fighting gargoyles, they found that Ireena was, in fact, a gifted fighter who used to be the stunt double of a woman named Tatyana, however she was not allowed to say any more.

After getting to Vallaki, the heroes were invited to the Burgermaster's mansion where they met Riefi Vallakovich and his son Victor. They learned that the town would be having a renaming ceremony and festival in two days time. During the night, Fang learned that her father has become catatonic, and her mother is missing and presumed dead since she was taken from Willowweep.