Paws in the Underbrush | Beginner Friendly 🏳️🌈
This forest floor beneath your paws feels...wrong... — Come play Curse of Strahd with a fluffy twist!
$25.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Sunday - 12:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 3–3.5 hours
2 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
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About the adventure
For six centuries, awakened animals have lived alongside humanoids in the world you've known. Your kind — whether cat or dog — have come to be known simply as the Awakened. No one's sure what started the awakenings, but it spread so quickly that all domesticated canines and felines have since been able to speak, use magic, and even learn to wield weapons without issue. Awakened adventurers are just as commonplace as an elf or a dwarf — except within Shimmerlight Guild halls. Shimmerlight is an Awakened-only adventurer's guild, and you've recently signed up. Just yesterday, a stranger came to the guild — a human man, according to the guildmaster — and put up a strange bounty that promises payment in an unspecified amount, with a most vague destination, but pleading for aid regardless. Expecting little in the way of danger, the guildmaster has put your party together and set you on the scent. Little did you know, the adventure before you would be fraught with peril and full of terror. Welcome, Awakened adventurers, to Barovia.
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Theater of the Mind
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
Less than a year on StartPlaying
9 games hosted
About me
Hi! My name's Elaine, and I've been running D&D games for about five years now. I have the most experience with pre-written adventures, but I've started branching out into homebrew in the last year or so. I'd love to foster a community among my players of respect and understanding, as well as build a world worth playing in.
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Creating your character
Character creation will occur during an initial one-on-one session. We will be rolling for stats. All player characters will be cats or dogs.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
All you'll need is a Discord account and Roll20 account. There will be a Discord server invite waiting upon joining the game, and a Roll20 game link upon joining the server. Please bring a collaborative mindset and plan to play a fluffy, heroic character (no evil alignments please)!
What Elaine brings to the table
I embrace the Rule of Cool wholeheartedly, and intend to run this game more as a fun experience than number-crunching. I do employ maps on occasion, but for the most part it will be theater of the mind.
Homebrew rules
Drinking potions is a bonus action, death saving throws are rolled secretly, multiclassing is not allowed until level 6, max HP up to level 5 followed by rolling for HP subsequently (rerolling 1s); all player characters will use the species published in Animal Adventures - Secrets of Gullet Cove published by Steamforged Games.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Elaine creates a safe table
X, N, and O cards will be digital. During session 0, we will go over lines and veils, as well as player expectations from the campaign. We will take a fifteen-minute break approximately at the halfway point of the session. I have an open-door policy regarding any reason a player needs to leave, and do not need to be informed of a player's need to depart unless it would interrupt active roleplay.
Content warnings
Safety tools used