About the adventure

"You hear the raven’s eerie cry, On a fencepost withered doth it lie, Its beak deep within a carcass dead, A bloodied parchment beneath its head, With a screech and flutter it bids you farewell, Leaving behind a tale of hell." You take up the parchment and find a tattered, blood-stained journal page that reads... Beneath a twisted Beech tree at the water’s edge, I watch a smoky white mist seep across the lake before me. The forest bleeds away to nothingness with each passing moment. The water perfectly still. No ripples, no reflections, a single dark pane of glass… dwindling… dwindling… It looks much as my mind feels as of late. continue reading the setting intro here ----> <http://nickmacari.com/beyond-the-grey-forest/> ### Wars, pestilence, economic collapse, a cloud of despair hangs in the air of the gothic horror infused custom campaign setting. Influenced by Ravenloft/Curse of Strahd. This campaign will start off at level 1 in a typical fantasy setting under the pressures as described above. You'll quickly find yourselves stuck in a true gothic horror nightmare scenario. My goal for this campaign is to really weave a horrific playable horror story... something that will leave an impression and hopefully make some hearts race as we play. Survival Horror. Dread. Real fear. Cold sweaty palms... and then that feeling of euphoria when you make it through to the other side. Shooting to deliver all that in spades. Don't expect a cheap thrills kind of experience. Throwing in gore, in and out of combat, is the easy part. My horror doesn't turn on shock--it turns on really putting you in the setting, building and weaving an elaborate story around you.