Curse of Strahd Reimagined | New Player Friendly |

Creating your character

Characters can be created or thought of before Session 0 using table specified rules No Character Selection from Eberron game settings so no Warforge or Dragonmark characters. - starting at 3rd level. - Stat Array: 18 - 16 - 14 -12 -10 - 8 - Stats maybe rolled but must make a Subtotal of 78-82 - Eberron content is not permitted (Sorry Warforge friends) - 1 feat at 1st level - Starting gold after creation 4d6x4 - Players Start with 1 Rare Magic item (Can be official or homebrewed by Ark DM to fit)

Preparing for the session

Show up with a decent quality mic, at least good enough to be understood and heard. Be Sure to have a basic understanding, primarily of your spells if you are a spell caster and features for martial archetypes. Discord account is required.

What Ark The Dungeon Master brings to the table

Players will receive resources for making all sorts of characters along with detailed battle maps custom made and from the module itself. The use of a high quality XLR microphone to give players increased immersion during Roleplay. Players can so receive a character illustration for an additional commission fee.

Homebrew rules

- Available source books to pull from are primarily: PHB, Volo's, Xanathars, and Tashas, as well as Crit roles Blood Hunter Class and Gunslinger Subclass. - Any homebrew material must be approved by DMS - Two Weapon Fighting Variant: Off Hand Attacks are included with your standard attack action but still doesn't add prof bonus to damage rolls - Only the Player that is dying and DM will know the result of a death save. - Persuasion, Deception, and Insight does not work on players, Enjoy your RP! - Encumbrance? -Deaths door: Instead of going unconscious at 0 HP, you'll be placed at death's door. your speed is cut in half, and you loose your ability to make a bonus action and all bonus actions can be used as an action. You still roll death saves as normal at the start of your turn and can take an action you roll a second save. if you take an offensive action on deaths door you automatically fail a death save. - Platinum and above is ignored. - For Parties understaffed (Under 3 players) we will incorporate "heroic action economy" where PCs can either receive an extra spot in the turn order or receive an extra action and bonus action in the same turn.`

How Ark The Dungeon Master creates a safe table

Due to the dark nature of Curse of Strahd there will be a lot of dark themes death and the like. In session 0 we will discuss the type of content is okay, completely off limits or vaguely mentioned by NPCs. This content includes but is not limited too. - Spiders - Graphic descriptions of gore - Flirty NPCs - Any sort of heavy topics (Drug use, Kidnapping, Mental Abuse etc.) - As well as any major concern any of the players might come up with X's N's & O's are all used through discord text chat as follows, and must be sent in the text chat when they are used. 111 = X 222 = N 333 = O Lines and Veils will also be discussed during session 0. The Hard shops and the points at which they will be utilized. We expect all players to have a mutual respect for one another, and that when a boundary is placed it is to be seen, respected, and not argued. There will be at least 1 bathroom break mid way through a minimum length session (3 hours with 1 break at the 1 hour 30 or 2 hour mark) with more depending on the length of the session.