Recommended domains: Any, You have been possessed by a celestial, fiendish or fey spirit that is granting you unusual abilities for some unknown purpose. Character Creation The main themes of Curse of Strahd are being isolated and stuck in a strange, scary, and unforgiving place, trying to survive, and trying to escape. Chamberlain. 0000068640 00000 n You may choose a harrowing event thats not listed on the table. Skill Proficiencies: Intimidation, Athletics or Investigation. 0000088151 00000 n Setting Guides. 0000010688 00000 n ._2Gt13AX94UlLxkluAMsZqP{background-position:50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:contain;position:relative;display:inline-block} Talk to your local organiser about helping out! Recommended domains: Any, depends on the cult, Youve been contacted in dreams or in person by some unknown being claiming to know your ultimate destiny. You may only select spells from legal rules sources according to your story origin. Some ideas are below: Fighter: Literally anyone can be a fighter, so this class can be chosen without justifying its abilities. 0000009186 00000 n You are not limited to just choosing the current season; all characters, regardless of story origin, may play in any legal D&D Adventurers League adventure. Dynamic lighting is included for Plus and Pro subscribers with the Curse of Strahd module, and youre able to add your own Jukebox tracks in the VTT sidebar. 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You can indicate that you are a member of a rare elf subrace for the purpose of roleplaying, but you can use only the subrace traits for elves given in the Players Handbook. Recommended tradition: Way of the Four Elements, You are a priest of a real-world religion and have hidden your gifts from your congregation. 0000068737 00000 n You tend to be vaguely uncomfortable in cities. Have a pre-game session where everyone at the table contributes details about the world they come from and decides how they know each other. You can roll on the random table provided in the Sword Coast Adventurers Guide as normal, but any item you choose must be a nonconsumable item found in the Players Handbook worth 75 gp or less. Half-Vistani game on twitch/youtube. DMing For Kids. A few things to consider when choosing: Plea for Help requires the player characters presence in a generic old tavern, which is simple enough to manage but doesnt lend itself well to the "Death House" introductory adventure. Some ideas are below: Druid: Any kind of real-world pagan religion could be a background for a druid. Home Page; Adventure Log; Wiki; Characters; Maps; Character Quick Search. Although if you're going Tomelock, Celestial is fun because it gives you two additional cantrips, so you can basically be Dr. Cantrip, but that's more just for the gimmick of getting as many cantrips as possible. 0000009684 00000 n Recommended archetype: Hunter, You have fey or lycanthropic ancestry that grants you an affinity with animals. I will need backstories but they don't have to be extensive. Read this first to learn why you shouldn't! 0000039179 00000 n Warforged, New Classes All rights reserved, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window). If you have a D&D Adventurers League character, you can play it in any D&D AL adventure. Even so, multiple encounters could TPK your party in one round, especially if they run away through the territory of another creature. %PDF-1.7 % Running Strahd Properly. 0000004360 00000 n Celebrity- Youre famous! Music and Sound. Feature:Researcher(Sagebackground) Bio: Izek and his sister were born in Vallaki. These include changes like undead familiars and steeds as well as alarm screams and ominous telepathic eavesdropping. ._2cHgYGbfV9EZMSThqLt2tx{margin-bottom:16px;border-radius:4px}._3Q7WCNdCi77r0_CKPoDSFY{width:75%;height:24px}._2wgLWvNKnhoJX3DUVT_3F-,._3Q7WCNdCi77r0_CKPoDSFY{background:var(--newCommunityTheme-field);background-size:200%;margin-bottom:16px;border-radius:4px}._2wgLWvNKnhoJX3DUVT_3F-{width:100%;height:46px} Ranger: A ranger should have some experience with tracking and survival in his background, but this doesnt have to be wilderness experience. Your characters' real world histories will come into play in the game. Choosing this background simply means that event has become the sole defining point of your characters life and personality. A supernatural ancestry can explain why you were chosen by said force, but cannot be the sole explanation for your abilities. Monk: While monks focus on martial arts, they have several abilities that can be considered magical. Recommended path: Arcane Trickster, You touched something you shouldnt have. You should place your group on a world of your choice. Something owns you, and you got magic abilities out of the deal. Redneck- Youre from a rural small-town, and dont leave it very often. Recommended favored enemy: Beasts. Watch the Dice, Camera Action! The first step to creating a character to play in the Curse of Strahd season is to choose a story origin. Recommended archetype: Either, You know monsters exist, and you hunt them down and kill them for a living. Mysterious Visitors assumes that your campaign is based in or near Daggerford, a town on the Sword Coast in the Forgotten Realms. 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Plus, you have our SECRETS let DM's weave character backstories into the module and make the action personal. Recommended oaths: Any, depends on the being, You are possessed by a celestial, fey or fiendish spirit that is granting you increased combat ability and divine powers, as long as you do not break your oath to it. Define in your backstory how you came by this knowledge, and what pushed you to seek more of it. The first one, Death House, is available to play at participating stores. Some games require a character of higher levels. Theres so much lore, however, some people may find it a bit overwhelming and difficult to decide what's pertinent or important. Why you shouldn't start ANOTHER thread about DDB not giving away free redeems on your hardcopy book purchases.Thinking of starting ANOTHER thread asking why Epic Boons haven't been implemented? Aside from that, it's always handy to have a cleric. Is it The Forgotten Realms? Clerics drown in artifacts in CoS. That would be good from a meta perspective. We've already been saving your edits, so if you You have anger management issues! 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I havent picked a class yet but already rolled stats and rolled amazing. Starting Equipment: Backpack, one textbook, cell phone, notebooks and pens, wallet with ID and Wealth d2. Paladins are excellent combat medics, but if yours leaves that's an Issue.You could split the difference with a Divine Soul sorcerer (eugh) or a Celestial-patron warlock. After explaining this to the players, explain it's a gothic horror setting, tell them to think Bram Stoker's Dracula, Castlevania etc for character inspiration. Haunted One, New Language Option: Patterna(the language of the Vistani). Count Strahd von Zarovich stares down a sheer cliff at the village below. This grants you unusual abilities youre still trying to hone. Fiend Draconic (fire or poison, though others can be justified for specific fiends). From there, they must find a way to escape. After all: their ally or an artifact may be very nearby! if your small-town sheriff is super good at hunting aberrations in the Underdark, I want to know why). Where do you originate? Lighting splits the clouds overhead, casting stark white light across him. Set in the realm of Barovia, a Domain Of Dread within Ravenloft, your players find themselves transported here and trapped. Recommended archetype: Assassin or Arcane Trickster, You have some kind of supernatural ancestry, or you encountered something supernatural in your past that granted you magical ability. Recommended favored enemy: Humans. 0000015902 00000 n 0000024241 00000 n System Reference. Maps & Map Tools. If you need help figuring out this element of your character backstory, Curse of Strahd has one of the most in-depth and helpful character backstory prompts I've seen. If you pick a Fighting Style your character has no experience with, its assumed hes just a prodigy and will discover his natural abilities when he first wields the appropriate weapon. His father carried Izek back to town while his uncle distracted the beast. Add to Cart. Outlandersare "visitors", most likely taken to Ravenloftfrom theirhome world against their will. Fall damage: a creature takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet fallen to a maximum of 20d6. Players should come prepared with a base character, and we will flesh out details in a Session 0 as a group. So if I understand you correctly, I should make a "character creation" session and just bainstorm with everyone about the characters they want to create. Additional gothic trinkets are available in Curse of Strahd appendix A for those using that rules source. You may or may not be highly educated, but you likely make a living working with your hands (farming, mining, woodworking, etc). On a more practical level this will help you prepare ahead rather than waiting for your players to do that reading. Monsters. The links provided here bring you to the SRD, but the 5e SRD does not list all of the available options from the Player's Handbook. The available backgrounds are listed below. Characters originating during the Curse of Strahd storyline season can use the following rules for character options: D&D Basic Rules (all rules except rolling ability scores and hit points, rolling for starting wealth, some alignment restrictions) D&D Player's Handbook (all rules except rolling abil - 0000003312 00000 n It's like having a rewind button for your campaign. ._3-SW6hQX6gXK9G4FM74obr{display:inline-block;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;font-size:16px;line-height:16px} You might have military, police or leadership experience, and you know how to give orders. The inheritor background requires additional guidance. Starting Equipment: Street clothes, Appropriate artisans tools, cell phone, wallet with Wealth d2. you must be an elf to take the Bladesinging arcane tradition I believe half-elf is fine too, three months late, but you can create a custom background as well. If you wish your character to be ignorant of the supernatural at the start of the adventure, perhaps someone else made a deal involving them, without their knowledge. It is generally recommended you choose a faction for your character. Thread starter darjr; Start date Feb 20, 2016; darjr I crit! joining the sa forums will remove this big ad, the annoying underlined ads, and stupid interstitial ads!! Also, I've never run CoS, so I don't have any insight into the campaign. Haunted One- You dont have to choose this background to have had a harrowing supernatural event occur in your characters life. Exoticplayer character races (dragonborn, gnomes,half-orcs, kenku, tabaxi, etc) are almost always Outlanders. Recommended school: Illusion or Enchantment, You know monsters exist, and hunt them on occasion. Sorcerer Origin:Inner Darkness, New Background Options Filters PC NPC abbey x 1 bartender x 1 berez x 2 blood of the vine x 1 blue water inn x 1 burgomaster x 5 child x 2 dancing crow inn x 1 doru x 1 dragon x 1 Clerics must be beholden to some outside force to keep receiving their powers, though your character may not know what that force is when they first start the adventure. Im open to any suggestions for characters though, even as far as subclasses and stuff. Play games anywhere. Starting Equipment: Fine street clothing, disguise kit, hacking or forgery kit, anything else you might need for your scheme of choice, burner phone, car, false IDs, wallet with ID and Wealth d4. 0000005502 00000 n Recommended oaths: Devotion (celestial), Ancients (fey), Vengeance (any), Oathbreaker (fiend), You are a bounty hunter, private investigator, or otherwise skilled at tracking people down. It also includes a stat block for Sanity, since that is what our DM is adding into the mix. If you really want more information than you could ever use on the Forgotten Realms, do a Google search for "Forgotten Realms wiki." Note that you still have to worship a deity in the PHB appendix other gods that are described in those articles are not yet available. Medic- You might be an EMT, a combat medic, or a trauma surgeon, but you know how to fix people and keep calm in bad situations. She writes and edits D&D 5e and independent TTRPG adventures, rulebooks, and supplements in her free time. 0000062024 00000 n D&D fans, meet horror fans. Soldier- May substitute land vehicle proficiency with firearm proficiency. Like so many RPG video game sandboxes, the mists surrounding Barovia act as a warning: leaving the playable area that limits the narrative of the game, but they are especially unique in one regard: they act as both barrier and catalyst for adventure. You must choose a legal background according to your story origin. It was released on March 15, 2016 and is based on the Ravenloft module published in 1983 . ._2a172ppKObqWfRHr8eWBKV{-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0;margin-right:8px}._39-woRduNuowN7G4JTW4I8{margin-top:12px}._136QdRzXkGKNtSQ-h1fUru{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;margin:8px 0;width:100%}.r51dfG6q3N-4exmkjHQg_{font-size:10px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.5px;line-height:12px;text-transform:uppercase;-ms-flex-pack:justify;justify-content:space-between;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center}.r51dfG6q3N-4exmkjHQg_,._2BnLYNBALzjH6p_ollJ-RF{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._2BnLYNBALzjH6p_ollJ-RF{margin-left:auto}._1-25VxiIsZFVU88qFh-T8p{padding:0}._2nxyf8XcTi2UZsUInEAcPs._2nxyf8XcTi2UZsUInEAcPs{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-widgetColors-sidebarWidgetTextColor)} 0000068875 00000 n DMs and players can decide whether or not to start with it, but either way, players will enter Barovia proper at level three. All characters must be human, no exceptions. This article is for first-time Curse of Strahd dungeon masters to act as a sort of Barovia for Beginners to help you build immersion and enable fun for your players in Ravenloft. The daylight spell produces light that is not considered sunlight. Death House session 1: Report and DM Notes, Adventures, Designer Assumptions, and GM Capabilities. 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