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Curse of Strahd (level 5 to 10)

Curse of Strahd (level 5 to 10)

TYPE

Campaign

EXPERIENCE

Beginner

AGE

18+
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...

2 SEATS LEFT
$10.00

/ Session

Details

Weekly / Monday – 2:00 PM UTC

2–3 Hour Duration

3 / 5 Seats Filled

GAME MASTER

Marie Desautels

she/her

5.0

(30)

Schedule

Each player will be charged when a session starts.

Meet the Game Master
LGBTQ+
Queer
Neurodivergent
Artist
Teacher/Educator
Women/Femme Identifying
Multi-lingual

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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Reviews (30)

Proficiencies

Players say this GM is great at:

Creativity

Sets the Mood

Teacher

Magne avatar

Magne

Played 30 sessions

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.

Anett avatar

Anett

Played 28 sessions

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! 🩷

Lea avatar

Lea

Played 24 sessions

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!

Maudlin avatar

Maudlin

Played 23 sessions

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!

Coryren avatar

Coryren

Played 20 sessions

I'm having such a great time with Marie's CoS game. The group, the vibe, the game, all A+. Any group with Marie at the helm is bound to have fun.

Mint avatar

Mint

Played 19 sessions

Marie is super fun and welcoming! She allows for players to be goofy but also keeps us on track. If you're looking for a dm to introduce you to Dnd look no further!

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.

The current party

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.

Platforms used
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.

Content warnings
Alcohol Use
Animal Death
Blood
Cannibalism
Character Death
Child Abandonment
Child Death
Classism
Death
Deep or Large Bodies of Water
Devils / Demons / Fiends
Drowning
Drugs (addiction, use, withdrawal)
Emotional Abuse
Execution
Extreme Violence
Fire
Forced Blood Draining
Freezing
Gore
Hangings
Illness
Insects
Kidnapping
Language/Cursing
Lifechanging Injury
Mass Death
Memory Erasing
Mental Illness
Mind alteration
Mind Control
Murder
Racism
Scars
Slavery
Snakes
Spiders
Suffocation
Torture
Violence
Safety tools used

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