The game went awesomely and was some of the most fun I've had in a long time. The players had a blast, I had a blast.

All modifications I made to the game I think were successful. After the game the players asked me to explain my modifications. I changed a lot of things, especially the main premise: it's not a village full of women whose men have been hauled off and now they need heroes to save them... that is super sexist. Instead, it's a village full of children whose parents are all gone. This changed the story's narrative dramatically, and even though the kids weren't menacing, gave a nice eerie "Children of the Corn" start to things. (It was also fun to take some of the fake vampires that showed up to harass the players in the original and instead turn them into opportunists who were taking a boogeymen tactic to try to squeeze resources out of the village while the parents were gone from a bunch of scared kids.) Lots of things changed.

Anyway, it was fun. One of the players was a fantasy author, and it was her first game playing a tabletop RPG. She managed to get into it immediately. It was also somewhat reassuring that she thought I did a good job and that ... I'm definitely not as well versed in the genre as she is.

A good night off with some over the top fun. Now to spend Easter with my family. Then tomorrow... back to work :)