(Make a note of its original name in case the DM needs to check the original version). 0000078739 00000 n New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Tool Proficiencies: Land vehicles or firearms. Mysterious Visitors assumes that your campaign is based in or near Daggerford, a town on the Sword Coast in the Forgotten Realms. 0000015902 00000 n You believe they are either a gift from your god or a temptation towards evil. 0000068806 00000 n Whether you choose to roll randomly or to pick your inheritance, your inheritance can be entirely mundane or possess a minor magical quirk. If Hexblade is what you're feeling drawn to, I say go for it. Ragebear McMemebuildtechnicallyhas access to restorative magic, but he's very unlikely to use it in combat since it'd involve sacrificing his multi-turn build-up to Ragebear state. Bumping up HP and AC are obvious first choices, but giving him access to a mythic action and regenerated health after initially being reduced to zero may be more fun for your players (and mimics the final form video game boss experience players may be familiar with from other Dracula-inspired vampires). It also includes a stat block for Sanity, since that is what our DM is adding into the mix. Character levels: 1-10: Authors: Jeremy Crawford, Laura Hickman, Tracy Hickman, Adam Lee, Christopher Perkins, Richard Whitters: . We talk about this in more detail in another post, which wed love for you to check out. 0000068640 00000 n Starting Equipment: Monster Hunters Pack, car, burner phone, false IDs, pistol or shotgun, wallet with Wealth d2. D&D 5E Curse of Strahd Character Sheet and players pack on DMSGuild. 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. This site works best with JavaScript enabled. 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 - 0000077494 00000 n From there, they must find a way to escape. Recommended oath: Devotion, Vengeance or Oathbreaker, You are a member of a secret cult who worships and gains power from some fantastic deity or planar creature. The nature of this deal can be discovered throughout the adventure. 0000088151 00000 n U+u4UXV;T*mF~VKZZ5 x. First of all, the Roll20 Curse of Strahd conversion includes the Castle Ravenloft maps and Tarokka deck addon, so no need to buy them separately. 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Theres so much lore, however, some people may find it a bit overwhelming and difficult to decide what's pertinent or important. Ranger: A ranger should have some experience with tracking and survival in his background, but this doesnt have to be wilderness experience. Exoticplayer character races (dragonborn, gnomes,half-orcs, kenku, tabaxi, etc) are almost always Outlanders. Something owns you, and you got magic abilities out of the deal. Post in the comments below! Each magic item and named NPC has a distinct handout you can show to your players, and the adventure text interlinks to these, to descriptions of locations, and to included rules text, so you never have to leave the virtual tabletop to look up pale tincture or desecrated ground. You may been a traffic cop, detective, sheriff, whatever. Keeping level 1 characters alive is no small task, and "Death House" monsters have high armor classes and hit hard. Dhampir 2023 Wizards. The material components in her summoning spell are an oat milk latte and a high fantasy novel. Choose or roll a reason from the list below: Artist- You are an artist, choose or roll a specialty from the list below. Recommended paths: Either, but confirm Totem with DM. Starting Equipment: Backpack, one textbook, cell phone, notebooks and pens, wallet with ID and Wealth d2. 0000024241 00000 n New Backgrounds: The ageless Patrina returned to Ravenloft in the hope of winning Strahd's love. Recommended college: Valor, You are a scholar or otherwise spend a lot of time gathering stories and knowledge. 0000087026 00000 n 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 Recommended origins: Elemental Draconic, reflavored, depending on element. They may use a default array (such as 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8) or use the point-buy system described in the rules. Recommended school: Any. Recommended patron: Any, At a desperate time in your life, you sold your service to a supernatural entity in exchange for a favor. game on twitch/youtube. Starting Equipment: Street clothes, insignia of rank or VA card, car or truck, cell phone, wallet with ID and Wealth d4. 0000054191 00000 n In the first edition of thePlayers Guideduring the Tyranny season, characters could start with maximum gold and select their own equipment. All rights reserved. Encourage and reward creative problem-solving. D&D fans, meet horror fans. In Curse of Strahd, the Tome of Strahd possesses no magical powers. (See the Haunted One background for ideas). The following rules options are either not allowed, or are restricted in some way: The Winged variant granting a fly speed for tieflings is not legal for D&D Adventurers League play. You wont be able to play those adventures until your character has reached those levels but there are lots of other adventures you can play! We've already been saving your edits, so if you The PC party is already established, your character's background should take this into account. m@/Zw&?eDs$4itCZO The artificer also has basic recovery, but as an artificer player whose party is relying on her for recovery, allow me to say this - don't do that to your artificer, plz q_q. Redneck- Youre from a rural small-town, and dont leave it very often. Recommended school: Necromancy, You met another wizard, who became your mentor, or found an old magic book in the back of some dusty library. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Lighting splits the clouds overhead, casting stark white light across him. Player characters who areRavenloft Natives(usually human, but occasionallyelven, half-elven, halfling,dwarven, and tiefling) have access to common Barovian Lore and other information relevant to life in the Demiplane of Dread. It can be a creation of yours, the Forgotten Realms, or something else. You make a living breaking into places and taking stuff that doesnt belong to you. His sister ran and hid in the woods and was never seen again. You have been possessed by some supernatural force that manifests when you get angry or excited. I am available on my Discord server for help with character creation and questions before the game begins. The module also includes the Tarokka card decks using the Roll20 interface to shuffle and deal, as well as the deck of illusions, which appears in the adventure. 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. U%_ .9atR|wh/iiL,| >* endstream endobj 25 0 obj <> endobj 26 0 obj <>stream Fleshing Out Curse of Strahd: Player Primer - Welcome to the Fleshing Out Curse of Strahd: Player Primer! The players I'm about to DM for are new, and in order for them to create good characters, I need to provide them a lot of information (information about the world maybe, the people who are living there, their day to day life, professions and such). Recommended favored enemy: Aberrations, Beasts, Fey, Plants or Undead (depending on the nature of your organization). Last Update: May 15, 2016 15:12. 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Monsters. Curse of Strahd runs to level 10, but if you level your characters every time the texts suggest you do (typically at the end of a chapter), theyll be massively overleveled for the titular villain and climactic end of adventure fight. H\n0\/*-HiZtH#@/xqI}HPVvqmgiUQM7}=4c_vPyfg3\p7guJ8`v. %PDF-1.7 % 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. Only service to your patron keeps you from succumbing to madness. We are playing through the new Curse of Strahd adventure for D&D. We play every Thursday from 3:30 - 7:30 pm Pacific time. 0000011202 00000 n 0000078100 00000 n "Death House" will run your player characters through levels 1-3 if they survive. Scholar(AsSage) Youve spent your life acquiring knowledge. 0000010688 00000 n 0000005502 00000 n more content. Map Artisans. Some games require a character of higher levels. What is the setting? During character creation, each player gets one secret that gives them interesting mechanics, roleplaying opportunities or hilarious quirks to add spice and drama to the table. purchasing our adventures and supplements in our shop. This particular subclass goes great with the Haunted One background found in the Curse of Strahd Character Options online supplement. Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Investigation or Animal Handling. You will be expected to create your character on Roll20 or D&D Beyond before session 1 starts. 0000087432 00000 n If the Sword Coast Adventurers Guide is a legal source for you, the following restrictions apply: Most characters in theForgotten Realmsfollow a deity. 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. I personally leave this part out, I prefer to play the locals as wary of all outsiders merely because they know all outsiders are likely the playthings of Strahd. 0000004099 00000 n Keep in mind your characters connection to animals and the natural world when choosing an ancestry, however. CoS is set in its own demiplane, called Barovia, in an area of the Shadowfell called Ravenloft. Character Creation Rolling up your Character Roll 4d6 and discard the lowest number, 6 times and assign to abilities as you prefer. While attuned to the Tome of Strahd, you have advantage on saving throws made to resist Strahd's spells and effects. Totem Warriors will need some explanation, but since you dont choose a Path until 3rd level, you can work with the DM to include something in the adventure that grants you an affinity to a certain animal. 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. You and your players should communicate about the games rules, plots, and content before starting play, but during play you can use tools like Lines and Veils and the Safety Deck available in every Roll20 game to ensure everyones having fun. Recommended college: Lore, You are a natural leader, and have always been an excellent public speaker. Sorcerer Origin:Inner Darkness, New Background Options 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. If you have a D&D Adventurers League character, you can play it in any D&D AL adventure. Curse of Strahd emphasizes clerics in the assignment of its anti-Strahd relics, yes. 0000039313 00000 n Whichever method you choose, these numbers will then be adjusted based on your character's race. No evil characters. CURSE OF STRAHD PLAYER GUIDE. A Horror Adventure for Levels 1-10. 0000015489 00000 n Starting Equipment: Street clothes, medical bag (healers kit), cell phone, wallet with ID and medical license, Wealth d6. Curse of Strahd 5e Online. Starting Equipment: Street clothes, cell phone, laptop/tablet computer or notebook and pens. May substitute Survival, Stealth and/or Nature for Medicine or Religion proficiencies. It's like having a rewind button for your campaign. All sidebars and optional rules in the Sword Coast Adventurers Guide are legal for D&D Adventurers League play, with the exceptions noted here. Speaking from a standpoint of pure mechanical efficacy, I'd probably go for the Celestial warlock. Baron Vargas Vallakovich is the burgomaster of Vallaki, and credits his extreme ruling methods as keeping Strahd out of the territory. 0000049028 00000 n Recommended archetype: Hunter, You have fey or lycanthropic ancestry that grants you an affinity with animals. 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. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/IdCard.ea0ac1df4e6491a16d39_.css.map*/._2JU2WQDzn5pAlpxqChbxr7{height:16px;margin-right:8px;width:16px}._3E45je-29yDjfFqFcLCXyH{margin-top:16px}._13YtS_rCnVZG1ns2xaCalg{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._1m5fPZN4q3vKVg9SgU43u2{margin-top:12px}._17A-IdW3j1_fI_pN-8tMV-{display:inline-block;margin-bottom:8px;margin-right:5px}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY{border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0;line-height:16px;padding:3px 10px;text-transform:none}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY:focus{outline:unset} All characters begin atLevel 1and have0 Experience Points. Or as a hobby. Tool Proficiencies: Disguise Kit Languages: Any one. Count Strahd von Zarovich stares down a sheer cliff at the village below. Read this first to learn why you shouldn't. 0000004786 00000 n Plot Hooks. 2021 The Orr Group, LLC. Please enable JavaScript to get the best experience from this site. ._3-SW6hQX6gXK9G4FM74obr{display:inline-block;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;font-size:16px;line-height:16px} Your characters' real world histories will come into play in the game. You must choose a legal background according to your story origin. In this case, you can have your player characters meet in the mist or camping together, but I would caution against starting in Barovia near Krezk. example: Your character mightknow who the burgomaster of Vallaki was, or that werewolves are prevalent in the Svalich Woods. You thought you were going crazy, but the magic is definitely real. Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit, Poisoners Kit or Alchemists Tools. Recommended patron: Any, You learned something man was not meant to know. This time, it was clear that Patrina craved Strahd's power and that Strahd would. 0000090684 00000 n Recommended circle: Land (forest), You have dark elven ancestry in your family tree. ._1sDtEhccxFpHDn2RUhxmSq{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-flow:row nowrap;flex-flow:row nowrap}._1d4NeAxWOiy0JPz7aXRI64{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText)}.icon._3tMM22A0evCEmrIk-8z4zO{margin:-2px 8px 0 0} You may only select spells from legal rules sources according to your story origin. ENHANCE your Curse of Strahd game with 30 character secrets! Icovered the Tarokka reading in another article, but it solidifies the structure of your Curse of Strahd campaign from here, and in short, my advice is: rig it. The inheritor background requires additional guidance. My group started Curse of Strahd a couple weeks ago, and sadly, my Druid died in the last combat before we got out. Some are brand new, others are official D&D backgrounds that have been slightly modified. Have fun storming the castle! You have anger management issues! However, here are some ideas: Note: Choice of Fighting Style may be deferred until 3rd level at players discretion. Acolyte- You may serve a church or temple of a real-world religion, work with a druidic or wiccan circle, or be part of a cult that worships something from D&D lore. Werewolves in the Mist is excellent for player characters built for Adventurers League and for uniting characters with disparate faction allegiances. However, here are some ideas: Sorcerer: You do not have to justify your sorcerer abilities, maybe you just woke up one morning with superpowers. The story origin you choose limits your character creation and advancement options. Recommended oaths: Devotion (celestial), Ancients (fey), Vengeance (any), Oathbreaker (fiend), You are a bounty hunter, private investigator, or otherwise skilled at tracking people down. Any changes are listed below. Strahd didn't get to where he was by being stupid, after all.That said, a cleric of the Light or Life domains makes a lot of sense from a general story perspective, as well - the gods that grant those domains are also the gods who would be most interested in trying to do something about Strahd, and such a cleric could receive a divinely ordained quest to go help the rest of these knuckleheads with their sucklehead problem. Grave domain clerics fit really well in Barovia imo. 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. The Wild Magic origin, in particular, works well for someone just granted magical ability they cant quite control yet. Recommended archetype: Thief. Skill proficiencies: Pick two from Occult, History, Religion, Nature, Medicine or Investigation. You have lycanthropic ancestry in your family tree, and sometimes you can't control it. Some ideas are below: Fighter: Literally anyone can be a fighter, so this class can be chosen without justifying its abilities. Dynamic lighting and the Jukebox are your best friends in a horror game. Good slap-bandage for making sure that wherever the party develops a hole, you're good to patch it up. Or maybe youre just in good physical shape and can keep your cool in a fight. Strahd didn't get to where he was by being stupid, after all. A few races are mentioned in the guide whose full statistics appear in another source (Aasimar and Genasi): you may not play those races without legal documentation. The daylight spell produces light that is not considered sunlight. Recommended oath: Any, depends on the cult, Youve been contacted in dreams or in person by some unknown being claiming to know your ultimate destiny. 0000005820 00000 n example: Your character mightknow that the Wizards of Krynn havedeveloped dark magics thattaint dragon eggs, or that the world of Eberron has great flying ships powered by elementals. May substitute thieves tools proficiency with hacking tools proficiency. It's pretty important to have a session zero for this one, there are a lot of dark themes, harm to children, torture, suicide, abuse, cannibalism etc. Druids are also good for ancestry abilities, as the Land circles provide a lot of options for different bloodlines. Recommended favored enemy: Beasts. The first one, Death House, is available to play at participating stores. Curse of Strahd: Character Options Harrowing Event d10 Event 1 A monster that slaughtered dozens of innocent people spared your life, and you don't know why. At present, legal adventures (and where you can play them) are as follows: You can find a list of the D&D Expeditions adventures on my individual season pages. 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A cold, bitter wind spins dead leaves about him, billowing his cape in the darkness. 0000008764 00000 n CHARACTER CREATION RULES Remember, you're making a living, breathing character, not a "build," so begin with concept first and let the rest fall into place! uc>t,MeCo Curse of Strahd. Magical abilities dont have to be justified if your character is unaware of them or only just noticed them (similar to sorcerer abilities), but some ideas are below: Cleric: Cleric abilities should not be drawn solely from supernatural ancestry, although that can be part of your backstory if you wish (recommend celestial or fiendish, depending on domain). It grants you unusual abilities that you may or may not be aware of. SECRETS let DM's weave character backstories into the module and make the action personal. Most player characters know they are trapped, and the Mists of Ravenloft are an omnipresent reminder of the stakes of their adventure and the challenges they must overcome. . Rahadin that the king made the dusk elf an honorary member of his family. You must be a dwarf to take the Path of the Battlerager primal path, and you must be an elf or half-elf to take the Bladesinging arcane tradition. A lot of DMs will go by the book and make the people of Barovia weary/unwelcoming to non human/human passing races, so if this is something you want to utilise, tell the players they won't have a great time playing beast races etc. 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. Factions are likely to take a lesser part of the Curse of Strahd storyline, but are still important if you play through adventures from other seasons. New Races 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. 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