The Grim Tale of Strahd! [Expanded Lore]

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Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Delve deeper into the untold chapters of Strahd Von Zarovichs life and see that this story has more pages, yet unread.
Dare you dance with the devil?

Gothic Horror

Horror

Fantasy

Dark Fantasy

After the game ends, check-in with the group and talk about how you all feel. Have an open way for the group to decompress and encourage each other to practice self-care.

Aftercare

Intense games can cause feelings to bleed over into life outside of the game. Being open and honest of where the game ends, what feelings are the players versus bleed, and having discussions can lessen the stress of bleed.

Bleed

For long games or stressful content, having built-in breaks allows the group to stay focused and process content. This time can be used for bio breaks, conversation, or any other necessities.

Breaks

This checklist is used to set expectations and content boundaries before the game starts, and allows players to select from multiple existing triggers, or add their own.

Monte Cook RPG Consent Checklist

Open-Door is an assurance that anyone in the group can take a break from the game for their own safety and well-being without judgement. This should be made clear to the group.

Open Door

Session 0s are used to start the game, opening up with communication, setting expectations, and discussing any safety tools that will be used at the table.

Session 0

Stars and Wishes are used to reflect and discuss feedback in a positive way. Stars are used for things that participants enjoyed in the game. Wishes are things that participants would like to see in the future. Both players and the GM can express their stars and wishes to make the game better.

Stars and Wishes

Curse of Strahd

Hello there folks!
My name is Brann and I'm a D&D content creator and writer. I've been playing D&D for around 18 years and I've been a DM for about 5 years. Last year I started DMing on my own Twitch stream and have amassed a pretty decent following through social media, close to 85k. I've mostly done homebrew settings in my own world of Atuma, filled with Homebrew races and weapons and subclasses which I'd be happy to supply but I'm also happy to run modules and campaigns set in already founded worlds.
I do operate some table rules that are purely my own, I will discuss these at beginning of session and they are completely negotiable. They are as follows.

1. A Nat20 on an attack roll is a Critical Hit. When you Crit you take the max damage possible, add your modifiers and then roll the dice and add that. This includes Sneak Attack, Divine Smites and anything of that kind.
2. Subsequently, a Nat1 on a saving throw treats the damage as if it was Critical Damage.
3. Being brought to 0HP with Necrotic Damage is Death. You can still be resurrected.
4. Double resistance (from 2 different sources) means Immunity.
5. Taking a potion yourself is a bonus action. If you use an action, you get the maximum health. Feeding a potion to a downed teammate is is treated the same way.
6. If you roll initiative and you match with another player, the one with the highest initiative modifier goes first. Nat 20's always go first within these ties.
7. If you and an opponent are melee attacking something the same size as you, you gain advantage on your attack because flanking. I reserve the right to remove this per battle.
8. As an action, a character may use a Called Shot to target a specific body part. This attack roll will always be rolled at disadvantage. If successful it will deal maximum damage, even on critical. A Called Shot has to be declared before the attack roll is made.
9. Rule of Cool is ALWAYS in effect.

If you like horror filled campaigns with lots of room for character development and a DM who plays by the rule of cool with a view of the RAW just being guidelines, then get in touch. I'd be happy to chat with you :)

Until then, stay lovely!

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