Stardew Valley + Silent Hill Horror | Season of Ghosts 🏮
A mysterious curse falls upon your sleepy rural town. Much can change over four seasons. Rivals to friends. Friends to lovers. Living to dead.
About the adventure
You wake in a thick fog, hearing screams from your town. The festival to ward off monsters went terribly wrong... Investigate the strange curse that has fallen upon your land. Overcome evil spirits, sinister fiends, and frightening curses. Can you talk them down or will you have to brandish your steel? Between such troubles, you still have a life to live. Your friends, family, and foes are going through the same hardships. How do you fill each day? Toil away at work? Soak in the bathhouse? Enjoy the theatre? Fall in love? You will face a whole year of troubles in this Asian inspired Horror campaign. Each season reveals new issues to overcome and new opportunities to grasp. Do you have what it takes or will you just be another poor lost soul in the fog? 👹 Asian inspired Horror | 🏘️ Isolated Setting | 🍵 Downtime and Slice of Life | 🎭 Roleplay Heavy | 🔍 Investigations | 👥 Large Cast of NPCs | 💞 Romance Possibilities | 🎲 Level 1-12 | 🕷️ Level 12+ Adventure Potential | 🔰 Beginner Friendly | 🏳️🌈+ GM
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
About me
Hello there, Somnus here! 🍵🧣 Writer, Game Designer, Voice Actor, and Gendervoid Entity. Let me be your guide into countless lands of fantasy, fear, and fun. I love creating evocative worlds for you to experience, which will constantly develop as you interact with it and make meaningful decisions. Uncover the setting through play, face untold dangers, and forge memories you'll hold forever. My tables are friendly to complete beginners—I love teaching people new games and getting you more accommodated to the fun world of TTRPGs.
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Players say this GM is great at:
Inclusive
Creativity
Teacher
Put simply, Somnus is one of my all time favorite GMs. Before I joined the first of the three games I now play with them my pf2e knowledge was limited to say the least. I knew next to nothing about the system and how to build a "functional" character. Between their extensive knowledge and extreme patience they've made the learning process easy, engaging and beyond welcoming. Coming from a long background of d&d, I'd never imagined the transition through systems could be so smooth. The tags StartPlaying allows me to assign to this review can't cover the scope of everything I appreciate about their games. Foundry is an incredible medium, and Somnus utilizes it with expertise I've not seen anywhere else. Their music selection and narrative skills set the scene and tone absolutely perfectly each and every time. The list goes on. The long and short of it is, I couldn't recommend Somnus enough. They're the best, their server community is full of amazing people, and the games I play with them have become an undeniable highlight to my week. GM skills so good, they'll make your brain explode. Hwah.
Somnus is an absolutely incredible GM and a joy to play with. They put so much effort into setting the scene, RP-ing NPCs and doing their voices, which is why I'm feeling so immersed into the world and setting every single time. Somnus is also very talented at using Foundry and made the onboarding process a total breeze, even for a total newbie to the system and VTT like me. I'm currently playing in three of their games and I still wish it were more.
Somnus has been a wonderful DM for our group, they accommodate for our varying experience levels with DND 5e, and lets us be creative in all aspects of play. They developed an exciting world to play in as well. We've gotten everything from combat, investigating, sneaking around, and negotiating with NPCs during our sessions so far. We intend to keep playing with them as our DM for a long time. Our initial starting quest has quickly developed into an exciting adventure involving all of these things. I would absolutely recommend Somnus as a DM for any group looking to play DND, Pathfinder, or several other settings they run.
Somnus has been such an incredible GM for me. I am a relative newbie to RPGs, having only had a little bit of experience with DnD5e previously. I have now been playing in Season of Ghosts PF2e for five months or so, and it's been a fantastic introduction to Pathfinder. From session 0 on, Somnus has always been patient, supportive, and encouraging. They do a wonderful job of empowering players to make decisions, while helping educate us on what our options are. Somnus’ characters are engaging, memorable, and the situations evolve organically with every choice we players make. I’ve enjoyed having Somnus as a GM so much that I’m playing in a second game with them as well. Somnus pays particular attention to making sure that every player has a moment to shine, which makes for a fun, inclusive vibe. I can't recommend Somnus enough!
Character creation
Creating your character
Character Creation: • Ask about any Uncommon or Rare options. The Player Guide has changed some Uncommon options into Common. • No variant or optional rules are being used. • We'll have a Session 0 to discuss creating a cohesive group of characters, making connections to the town the adventure is centred around. • If you'd prefer, you can choose from a selection of premade characters that are suited to the adventure and setting. You can then change the name and backstory of them if you'd like to personalise further. • To tie your character to the setting and scenario, I encourage you to look at the official Player Guide for this adventure: https://downloads.paizo.com/SeasonofGhosts_PlayersGuide.pdf • We will use FoundryVTT or Pathbuilder to create our characters (Those that use https://pathbuilder2e.com/ will be able to import into Foundry). New Joiners: • Anyone that joins later or needs to create a new character, will make a character at the party's current level or choose a premade one and level it up. • Before the next game session, I will have a voice-chat discussion with you that substitutes the Session 0 you missed. If you join just before the next session (likely within 48 hours) and I don't have enough time to talk to you, you'll skip and join the session after.
• No experience needed! Beginners are welcome! • All content needed to play is provided. • 🏳️🌈 GM and Game World. Character Creation: • No variant or optional rules are currently being used. • Ask about any Uncommon or Rare options. The Player Guide has changed some Uncommon options into Common. Read here: (https://downloads.paizo.com/SeasonofGhosts_PlayersGuide.pdf) Player Characters: Level 4 • Kitsune, Sorcerer (Water Bloodline) • Human, Ranger (Outwit) • Yaoguai, Cleric (Warpriest) • Kitsune, Witch (Spinner of Threads) • ???
What to expect
Preparing for the session
• Discord account to talk and text. • Free Forge account to play from a web browser: https://forge-vtt.com/ • Clear microphone with either a quiet background or at least push-to-talk. • Encouraged to use a Webcam but it isn't needed. If you do, follow standard video call etiquette. I normally use an animated character to visualise myself instead of a camera. • After joining the game, view the Prep Materials and follow any other instructions. • After joining my discord server, read and click on the 📕 to agree to my community code of conduct otherwise you cannot join the game.
What 🍵 Somnus Grey brings to the table
🎨 Human-made artwork (No AI. Ever.) 🎵 Curated Atmospheric Soundtracks 🗺️ Official Digitally Produced Adventure ✍️ Custom Battlemaps 🎙️ Voice Acting and Voice Changer 👥 NPCs with Motivations ⚔️ Tactical Combat with Roleplay 🔰 Premade Characters for Beginners
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Internet
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How 🍵 Somnus Grey creates a safe table
SAFETY TOOLS ・During Session 0 we will discuss Lines and Veils and have an ongoing document for that. ・I also employ the safety tool Script Change ⏯️ by Beau Jágr Sheldon (http://briebeau.com/scriptchange), which replaces X, N, O Cards. ・A 10 minute break will occur roughly halfway through the session. ・Further details of all tool implementations are provided within the discord server. Feel free to ask any questions for clarification.