Curse of Strahd: Descent into the mists, first session's free

Creating your character

Starting LVL:5 Session 0 will be talking over what role everyone will be playing, what we want to do or be, if everyone's backstories work, clarification of the rules etc. Stats can be decided through rolling or through the Heroic Array: 18, 15, 13, 12, 10, 8. But after you have created your character stats you can add +6 to one stat even if it goes over 20. All books should be viable but obviously all official WoTC books are recommended and so is Grim Hollows Player's guide or Valda's Spire of Secrets. If you have a subclass or class you want to play make sure you can access it on D&D Beyond and obviously check with me first that its okay.

Preparing for the session

First have a discord account lol you'll need to join my server. Second we will be playing on Foundry through Forge so you will need accounts for those as well.

What Krachte brings to the table

I do try to give characters voices even if im not all that good at them and often will use a voice changer to enhance the effect. I play music during combat and during downtime, often trying to find music that fits with everyone's characters so they have the spotlight on them during defining character moments. Also after most combats I have made custom loot tables for the players to loot from.

Homebrew rules

Your stats will go over 20, there isn't really a limit to stats. There's no real limits to attunement slots, running off Diablo rules. Legendary creatures have retaliatory strikes unless they are crit in which case they will lose them for those actions. Drinking a potion can be an action or a bonus action or both. Origin Feats are also much stronger. Such as the healer feat that will allow you to critically heal on 19 or 20. Roleplaying can get you advantage on attack rolls if it makes sense or is cool enough. Anyone connected to a god can use Divine Intervention but it will work very differently to the standard. Nothing is being taken away from the Cleric class. You have a minimum roll of 3 on weapons or spells you are proficient in. You can change spells or ask to have a custom spell as long as you ask me and I've given it a look over.

How Krachte creates a safe table

In session 0 I will ask everyone to give me a list of things that CANNOT be in the campaign due to fears or just troubles that could arise due to mental health. Player safety is the number 1 thing I care about aside of player enjoyment. I will go over some of the themes found in the campaign as a whole hopefully covering everything and making sure all the players are okay with it and if not what could make them more comfortable or if it just cannot be in the game. We will have bathroom breaks in between, anyone is welcome to go at any point if they need to though. After the session I will stay around for 15 minutes or so just to ease everyone, ask everyone how they enjoyed the session and what I could do better.