Curse of Strahd // Level 3+ // Freshly Reanimated & Reshuffled

How to prepare

🗣 Have a discord account (https://discord.com/), a functioning microphone for voice chat, and a webcam for video feed (optional). 📕 A general familiarity with the rules is advised, but explanations for more obscure mechanics can be provided. 🧙‍♂️ Characters should be created & approved by session 1. Questions comments and concerns can be shared before during and after the session 0 interviews. 📚 Books required to play the game can be provided in the event a player doesn't have one. Any other core books or non-official material must be ran by me and approved if you wish to use it.

What I provide

🔊 I always love to bring character voices to each game, making the NPCs as memorable and unique as I can muster. Additionally, I constantly strive to curate a good collection of ambience and music for my games to help enhance the mood. ⚔ My combat encounters are always tense and tactical, utilizing a variety of foes, tactics, and environmental considerations to allow for more engaging encounters whenever able. ☠ I like to encourage creative solutions to problems, and reward intuitive players for clever plans. I will improvise rulings in the event of clever ideas during combat. Using the environment, improvised weapons or moves, and heroic last stands in moments of death are always amazing moments to forgo rules and allow for something special to happen! 📖 I will provide PDFs if necessary, and also have access to the 2024 D&D rules on DnDBeyond, and have all the maps, tokens, and resources necessary to run the game. Additionally, I have homebrew rules to tweak the experience in favor of player agency and fun.

Gameplay details

We will hold small session 0 as a group to iron out any topics that the players would like to explore or avoid, as is custom with all of my games. I also will hold debriefs after each session to make sure each player is enjoying the game, no boundaries were crossed, and to help fine-tune the experience for the following session. Character death is a real possibility. This is, for lack of a better term, a survival horror scenario. While heroics are more than welcome, know that foolhardy actions can lead to consequences, and death is a very present threat. This game contains many horror elements. Assuming the players are fine with it, I would like character details such as their desires, dreams, and fears to allow for a more personalized horror for them to overcome. Keep them on their toes! ✨Homebrew rules!!✨ -Drinking potions as a bonus action, and a full action to feed it to someone -Multiple levelled spells can be cast in one turn -Brutal crits - MAXIMUM damage plus dice roll on critical hits -Variant human is allowed -If it's cool or clever enough, I'll find a way to allow it! -a number of other small tweaks for general smoothness of play and player fun!

Content warnings

Safety tools used

How will character creation work

🧙‍♂️ Have a level 3 character made as well as a concept for a backup. A backstory is reccommended - and joint backstories are even better! Additionally, have a greatest desire and fear(s) thought up if you'd like to enhance your character's horror experience that much more! 🎲 Rolling stats: standard array, or my home method - 4d6 (drop the lowest) for 7 stats (drop the lowest). Then, if you want some extra spice, make the highest stat a 18 and lowest stat an 8. 🔮 Each player is allowed one magic item (uncommon rarity is preferred), which must be discussed and approved during session 0. I'm happy to talk it out if you want a stronger magic item as well, like allowing a modified version that grows stronger as you level.

Combat / Tactics

High

Roleplay

High

Puzzles

Low

Experience level

Open to all