Unravel the mysteries of Ravenloft in this dread adventure for the world's greatest roleplaying game. [] Punctuate your horror tales with moments of relief, comedy, and fortuitous consequences. Starting Equipment: Street clothes, Appropriate artisans tools, cell phone, wallet with Wealth d2. You must choose a legal background according to your story origin. Recommended archetype: Either, You know monsters exist, and you hunt them down and kill them for a living. If the Sword Coast Adventurers Guide is a legal source for you, the following restrictions apply: Most characters in theForgotten Realmsfollow a deity. .ehsOqYO6dxn_Pf9Dzwu37{margin-top:0;overflow:visible}._2pFdCpgBihIaYh9DSMWBIu{height:24px}._2pFdCpgBihIaYh9DSMWBIu.uMPgOFYlCc5uvpa2Lbteu{border-radius:2px}._2pFdCpgBihIaYh9DSMWBIu.uMPgOFYlCc5uvpa2Lbteu:focus,._2pFdCpgBihIaYh9DSMWBIu.uMPgOFYlCc5uvpa2Lbteu:hover{background-color:var(--newRedditTheme-navIconFaded10);outline:none}._38GxRFSqSC-Z2VLi5Xzkjy{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-actionIcon)}._2DO72U0b_6CUw3msKGrnnT{border-top:none;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText);cursor:pointer;padding:8px 16px 8px 8px;text-transform:none}._2DO72U0b_6CUw3msKGrnnT:hover{background-color:#0079d3;border:none;color:var(--newCommunityTheme-body);fill:var(--newCommunityTheme-body)} You may successfully make a living off your art, or it may be your primary hobby. Dhampir Starting Equipment: Street clothes, baseball cap & sunglasses (Disguise Kit), cell phone, car or dedicated car service, wallet with ID and Wealth 2d4. Encourage and reward creative problem-solving. 0000086438 00000 n Recommended favored enemy: Humans. U%_ .9atR|wh/iiL,| >* endstream endobj 25 0 obj <> endobj 26 0 obj <>stream Recommended favored enemy: Beasts. Curse of Strahd begins with an optional one-shot called Death House, a three-floor dungeon that lets players explore while advancing their characters from first to third level. Just in case someone or something tries to push them down the stairs. Keeping level 1 characters alive is no small task, and "Death House" monsters have high armor classes and hit hard. Artificer, Paladin, and Druid all have solid healing options, so your party's not hurting for healing or support. Strahd didn't get to where he was by being stupid, after all. Preparing to take a character into Curse of Strahd and having them die in the optional introductory adventure may feel like an anticlimax to your players. This time, it was clear that Patrina craved Strahd's power and that Strahd would. Even if your character knows nothing of druidics and magic when starting the adventure, they should still have some wilderness experience or affinity. You must be a dwarf to take the Path of the Battlerager primal path, and you must be an elf or half-elf to take the Bladesinging arcane tradition. You can find a free Players Pack (including the log sheet, character sheet and table tent) at the DMs Guild. Share them with anyone. Mysterious Visitors assumes that your campaign is based in or near Daggerford, a town on the Sword Coast in the Forgotten Realms. You can find this resource in Appendix A: Character Options, and I'm talking specifically about the Character Background: Haunted One. I've also listed below what you might need to justify in your backstory if you pick a specific class, and some ideas on how to do so. Classes: You tend to be vaguely uncomfortable in cities. Players do not roll their characters hit points. Keep in mind your characters connection to animals and the natural world when choosing an ancestry, however. Any changes are listed below. $24.99. Urchin- Youve been in and out of foster homes all your life, and are used to being on your own. However, the Paladin is a brand new player whos not sure if hell stick around the whole time. Encounters. Skill Proficiencies: Insight and Persuasion or Performance. Plot Hooks. Watch Crits for Breakfast, an adults-only RP-Heavy Roll20 Livestream at twitch.tv/afterdisbooty, And now you too can play with the amazing art and assets we use in Roll20 for our campaign atHazel's Emporium. These include changes like undead familiars and steeds as well as alarm screams and ominous telepathic eavesdropping. If you want to have some fun with it, let them come up with their own stories and do some collaborative world-building. Players should come prepared with a base character, and we will flesh out details in a Session 0 as a group. If you really want more information than you could ever use on the Forgotten Realms, do a Google search for "Forgotten Realms wiki." Play games anywhere. Where do you originate? While attuned to the Tome of Strahd, you have advantage on saving throws made to resist Strahd's spells and effects. Races or other options that are mentioned but whose rules are found in another source (for example, aasimar and genasi) do not become legal without other campaign documentation unless that source is also legal for your characters story origin. Character Creation Rolling up your Character Roll 4d6 and discard the lowest number, 6 times and assign to abilities as you prefer. H\n0l/)BJ\AHL+m$|~lq~6!_[92wwwi,Ou}8YWZn6xY#>ll&?_|MakS*o%ia?7r_R{6}Z-]`1k*EIL~+_[Z\+rdvd5XVccc,g9wys 5rk"E/"EA/_g>=m(zQ:+ This could be high school, college, grad school, whatever, but going to class and learning things takes up a majority of your life right now. The campaign will be gritty, graphic, and all things go. 0000005062 00000 n Since your character is from the real world, if you choose a class with unusual abilities, you should justify these abilities in your backstory somehow. Heres an overview of the gods commonly worshipped aroundHillsfar and Elventreefor if youre playing the D&D Expeditions games. Maybe you have a loyal hunting dog, or maybe you go solo. All sidebars and optional rules in the Sword Coast Adventurers Guide are legal for D&D Adventurers League play, with the exceptions noted here. You should check them out. Strahd is the Darklord whose dominion is Barovia, but beyond him are the Dark Powers, the omnipotent and immortal beings that control the Mists of Ravenloft and all of the Domains of Dread, each housing its own horrible Darklord. If you pick a Fighting Style your character has no experience with, its assumed hes just a prodigy and will discover his natural abilities when he first wields the appropriate weapon. 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Character levels: 1-10: Authors: Jeremy Crawford, Laura Hickman, Tracy Hickman, Adam Lee, Christopher Perkins, Richard Whitters: . Have a pre-game session where everyone at the table contributes details about the world they come from and decides how they know each other. Yeah I have narrowed it down to celestial tomelock or hexblade tomelock. This grants you unusual abilities youre still trying to hone. AwakenedUndead These players characters can bring any knowledge from their home world, and possibly the multiverse in general, to bear in the game. A lot of DMs will go by the book and make the people of Barovia weary/unwelcoming to non human/human passing races, so if this is something you want to utilise, tell the players they won't have a great time playing beast races etc. Tool Proficiencies: Appropriate artisans tools. No evil characters. The Curse of Strahd is not really about the characters, but more about the events they are facing, am I right? All human languages listed on page 112 are legal options. On the way back to town, a dire wolf attacked Izek and bit off his right arm. It has also been updated to reflect Wizards of the Coast's June 2020 errata. 0000008069 00000 n Before "Death House" youll likely want to run one of the initial adventure hooks: Plea For Help, Mysterious Visitors, Werewolves in the Mist, and Creeping Fog. Depending on your story origin, additional races are available through either the Elemental Evil Players Companion or the Sword Coast Adventurers Guide. This is a great lead into Death House, with little additional work required. No-one can be Neutral Evil or Chaotic Evil. Acting, storytelling, and oration are all valid performance abilities. Notes from a DM who's run CoS twice. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. We think you'll have a much more enjoyable experience. (Having non-functional wings is fine). Their tiefling sorceress is the twin of the burgermaster's henchman, niece to the evil diabolist lady. A few miscellaneous notes on locations, things to remember, and further suggestions: Castle Ravenloft is a massive dungeon crawl that will drain your characters resources, but they may never need to go there. Im not partial towards playing any class, more looking to fill a role or a hole in the party. In case of a discrepancy between this article or the guide, its the guide that is correct. At present, legal adventures (and where you can play them) are as follows: You can find a list of the D&D Expeditions adventures on my individual season pages. 0000068875 00000 n Setting Guides. Music and Sound. If you need help figuring out this element of your character backstory, Curse of Strahd has one of the most in-depth and helpful character backstory prompts I've seen. Tatyana's death and Strahd's curse. Count Strahd von Zarovich stares down a sheer cliff at the village below. 0000078739 00000 n Curse of Strahd emphasizes clerics in the assignment of its anti-Strahd relics, yes. Recommended patron: Great Old One, You are allowing some supernatural entity to possess you, in exchange for their aid in a personal matter. An Order of the Ghostslayer blood hunter could be a fun tale, though if the paladin leaves it would leave your group very light on recovery abilities. Hi there! Starting Equipment: Badge, uniform or street clothes, car/horse/bicycle/motorcycle, sidearm (pistol), handcuffs (manacles), cell phone, wallet with ID and Wealth d4. 0000078100 00000 n Werewolves in the Mist is excellent for player characters built for Adventurers League and for uniting characters with disparate faction allegiances. Recommended circle: Land (any) or Moon, You have lycanthropic ancestry in your family tree. It's pretty important to have a session zero for this one, there are a lot of dark themes, harm to children, torture, suicide, abuse, cannibalism etc. 0000077494 00000 n 0000041017 00000 n Just make sure you keep an up-to-date log sheet of any and all experience points and gold you gain! 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A few things to consider when choosing: Plea for Help requires the player characters presence in a generic old tavern, which is simple enough to manage but doesnt lend itself well to the "Death House" introductory adventure. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. You can indicate that you are a member of a rare elf subrace for the purpose of roleplaying, but you can use only the subrace traits for elves given in the Players Handbook. 0000009050 00000 n The first step to creating a character to play in the Curse of Strahd season is to choose a story origin. An easy start would be a forgotten realms start with one of the factions. ._3bX7W3J0lU78fp7cayvNxx{max-width:208px;text-align:center} These are the official backgrounds available. Here are some ideas: Wizard: Since wizards seek out magical knowledge, your character must already be aware of the existence of the supernatural. Recommended circle: Land (forest), You have dark elven ancestry in your family tree. Recommended domains: Life, Light or War for celestial, Light, Tempest, or Death for fiendish, Trickery for fey, You are a member of a wiccan coven, a druidic sect or a cult that reveres the natural world or nature spirits. Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit, Poisoners Kit or Alchemists Tools. 0000077768 00000 n You can also gain experience points for your characters by running adventures. All classes in the Player's Handbook are available. Its not form fillable at the moment, but if there's a real demand for it, I can always work that up. Curse of Strahd. You might be a professor, a research librarian, or just someone who really likes reading. You have anger management issues! Any gold you have left over can be used to purchase mundane gear in the Players Handbook. 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