Curse of Strahd: The Masterful Horror Experience You Deserve!
Step into Barovia as a haunted hero. Voiced NPCs, rich roleplay, and masterful storytelling in a world that bends to your choices.
$38.49
/ Session
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Bi-weekly / Wednesday – 6:00 PM UTC
Aug 13 / Session 3
Session Duration / 3–4 hours
4 / 6 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
🛠️ Chart a course through a world filled with high Role-Play and complex characters brought to life by a passionate voice actor! 🧠 Negotiate through complex political and personal social encounters in the original D&D Gothic Horror campaign! ⚔️ Vanquish evil in creative and challenging combat scenarios in a world where the things that go bump in the night know what they are doing! ============== 👁️ Are you looking for a story of heroes with flaws and frailties who yet still persist the in the fight against seemingly insurmountable evil? 🖤 Are you the kind of person that loves to live and breathe the characters they build and truly try and dwell in the imaginary reality we, as a group, will be creating? 🎭 Are you passionate about the kind of immersive, character driven experience seen on beloved web series like Critical Role and other amazing games filled with deep storytelling and lots of role play? 🧛♂️ Are you a fan of Gothic Horror shows like Penny Dreadful, filled with moral grays and flawed heroes fighting seemingly insurmountable odds? ⌛ Are you dying to find a long-term campaign that will last for years, where your character choices make a difference and the other people at the table are there for the same reasons you are? If any of that rings true then this is the game for you! So come, forge ahead in to the mists... Who knows what hides in it's darkest depths…
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Roleplay Heavy
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(51)
4 years on StartPlaying
454 games hosted
Highly rated for: Storytelling, Creativity, Sets the Mood
Average response time: 10 hours
Response rate: 86%
About me
It started with a few friends, a pile of crayons, and some six-sided dice. Hunched over a bedroom floor in the late ‘80s, we crafted adventures with reckless abandon—dungeons sketched in frantic lines, monsters marked up with battle wounds, and Parcheesi tokens standing in for heroes. Rules? Who needed them? The thrill of the story was all that mattered. Even before I owned my first D&D set, I was hooked on the magic of tabletop roleplaying. Decades later, that same passion still fuels every game I run. Years of playing across countless systems have taught me that while mechanics shape the way we tell stories, it’s the stories themselves that truly matter. I take the best of these experiences and weave them into my games, crafting epic campaigns that blend rich storytelling, strategic challenges, and moments that make players feel like heroes—fully immersed in the emotion of the adventure. Storytelling is my wheelhouse, character arcs are my passion, and I love crafting encounters that get hearts racing. More than just running a game, I aim to create experiences—where choices matter, characters evolve, and the dice feel like fate unfolding. Whether you're a seasoned player or brand new to the adventure, I’m here to craft a story you’ll be talking about for years. So, grab your character sheet—let’s roll the dice and make something unforgettable.
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Creating your character
Characters will start at Level 1 for this campaign and level up to level 12 to 15 depending on the paths you take. Stats can either be 5e standard point buy or you can roll for them in the game's discord dice channel (Dice rolls are 4d6-drop lowest 7 times). Characters will be created in D&D Beyond with approved content sources only to ensure your characters will fit well in a gothic horror story. Please avoid reading any of the Curse of Strahd content available in official or unofficial sources. Let this story be revealed naturally so you get to enjoy the surprises!
This will be a live-play game meeting **every other week.** We will have some weeks off around holidays/vacation time but you can reliably expect between 20-24 games per year until the campaign is finished!
What to expect
Preparing for the session
We will be using Zoom for voice and video chat. A good mic is a necessity and I always recommend a camera as well but it is not a requirement. A chrome based browser is best for VTT use. You will need a free account on D&D Beyond to access all of the character creation resources I make available via the campaign link. Games are run on either Roll20 or Foundry. Roll20 requires a free account. Foundry will require a free account at Forge-VTT.com.
What DM StoryMaster brings to the table
💖 Most importantly, you will always be guaranteed a safe place to be who you are. Everyone of every stripe is welcome at my table and I will not put up with any personal attacks or derogatory language toward any real-world person. It's a horror game, and bad things happen *in-game* but it will never be allowed to flow out of the game. 🧠 Experience. I've run this campaign many times already. I have researched it exhaustively, and I know what it needs for an epic story to be told. ⚰️ Significant homebrew improvements and changes to the story. Even if you've played this adventure before, I will likely bring quite a bit of new material to the story for you. 🎼 Professional quality soundscapes and music through VTT. 🎨 GORGEOUS map and token assets, many created/kit-bashed together specifically for this campaign 🎭 Passionate and Descriptive story-telling. As a theater geek and writer, I will bring my A-game to our table and do my utmost to tell this story as immersively as possible. 👨👨👦👦 A Discord Community for campaign tracking, In character and out of character chat, and making new RPG friends 📚 Full access to every official WOTC D&D book catalog published for 5th edition character creation 💎 Premium accounts on both the VTT and DNDBeyond ⚔️ Creative and challenging combat scenarios. In this world, the things that go bump in the night know what they are doing. 👂 An open line of communication with me as the DM. Feel free to reach out to me any time via Discord direct message and I will get back to you as soon as possible. I am always happy to talk shop, character ideas, answer questions, and discuss any concerns that come up during the game.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
Webcam
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Safety
How DM StoryMaster creates a safe table
This will be the beginning of the Curse of Strahd campaign, taking characters through the first major story beats of this epic campaign. The story will continue in future chapters which will always be open to returning players as well as new players who fit the group dynamic well. Session Zero will be handled asynchronously via Discord Chat, though I am available for a voice session if that will help you with any decision making challenges that arise. Character creation and updates will be handled via D&DBeyond, using my Master Account, which includes access to 17 official Character Creation books. We will be playing with a number of modifications to the basic rules to help ratchet up the sense of risk and dread that truly makes Ravenloft sing! Character death is a VERY real possibility...though...there could be ways to circumvent such a permanent end, if the price is not too rich... Tools in place for player comfort: *Thorough Session Zero to discuss expectations for players and DM alike. Clear establishment of soft-stop (veils) and hard-stop (lines) subjects. * During active game play we will be using the X-card method to establish if the story is moving in an uncomfortable direction (a veil or line is on the horizon) when ever a player would like to take a moment to discuss, gather themselves, or request a specific change.
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