About the adventure
Journey into a land of darkness governed by a vile vampire lord. Start at level 1 and work your way up to level 10 by battling monsters, saving people and retriving artefacts. You will need all the help you can get to defeat Strahd. In the meantime, you are trapped in this cursed land with no way out...
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Meet the Game Master
1 year on StartPlaying
164 games hosted
Highly rated for: Creativity, Sets the Mood, Teacher
Average response time: 3 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hi! I'm Marie! I've been playing DnD since the age of ten and play 5e for years. I like adventures filled with roleplay and emotions and bring creative and interesting stories to the table. Sometimes wacky, sometimes serious, it's gonna be rollercoaster of emotions!
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Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Creativity
Sets the Mood
Teacher
I just had a session with Marie. Awesome fun. She is a great storyteller and a very friendly GM. I joined the “Learn French with DnD” and was pleasantly surprised how easy she made French learning while playing DnD. I cannot thing of a more fun and engaging way to learn French. Highly recommended.
I'm in the Learn French campaign and I adore playing with Marie!! Every session is so much fun, her descriptions are amazing both in English and in French, she is super helpful and the atmosphere is always wonderful. I look forward to this game every week and i'm never disappointed, I wholeheartedly recommend Marie's campaigns to everyone! 🩷
I think as a DM it's sometimes very hard to control how fast or slow characters move through the story, but I think Marie does a good job wrangling our group along and I really enjoy her style of DMing. She's careful about dealing with tricky horror themes and she gave us a lot of flexibility with how to build how characters. I look forward to our sessions every week!
A few sessions in on playing Curse Of Strahd and it's been a wonderful time so far! Marie makes the sessions tons of fun, and even coming at the campaign fairly new to 5e I haven't felt at all lost or confused. She's always happy to make suggestions if a player isn't sure what they can do, but the choices are very much your own. There's always some music to set the creepy tone, and she brings the horror aspects across, while letting our characters be silly at times, too. Uncovering the mysteries of the Durst Family has been a totally horrifying time for the party, but a great time for all the players. Can't wait for the next session!
Character creation
Creating your character
We can do the characters together in the session 0 or you can make it on your own after session 0. We will start at level 1. For stats, you can use the basic number, point buy, or roll them. You can play any race and class from any of the official rule books. I allow the 2024 rulebook as well and small amounts of homebrew if it's mostly flavor text.
We recently lost a player and are looking for a new one. The adventure has barely started and you could easily be added.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need a mic, a discord account and a roll20 account. Both of these accounts are free.
What Marie Desautels brings to the table
I have all the official maps from the campaign with the tokens and everything. I also put ambiant music and do voices as much as I can. I tend to follow the rules for the most part with a few exeptions that we will discuss.
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Safety
How Marie Desautels creates a safe table
Please write to me if there is anything you want to avoid in the roleplay. If a situation is too much, tell me. We can take breaks, we can change the scene or reduce the intencity. My own limits are: no explicit sex scenes (fade to black if something does happen), nothing rape related, no pedophilia of any kind. I will not tolerate if anyone breaks those limits. I will warn and even ban if necessary. Your own limits will be added to the list of rules that we will discuss at the begining of the campaign. I want everyone to be comfortable at my table.