[Accueil][D&D5e] Curse of Stradh (English)

4th is 100% ok for me

Should be fine as well

i'm thinking of playing a monk btw, i'll make him a creepy flagellating elfin' rasputin-figure to fit the whole gothic-horror theme. How involved do you want us to get into background creation etc ?

filwinn a écrit:

i'm thinking of playing a monk btw, i'll make him a creepy flagellating elfin' rasputin-figure to fit the whole gothic-horror theme. How involved do you want us to get into background creation etc ?

R: As deep as you can... I just love a good background story...

Do you want us to come up with characters before the 4th or shall we create them together?

May the 4th be with you !

Is this adventure a reboot/new form of the ADD castle Ravenloft? Or something different? I have run Castle Ravenloft as DM before so... I know a little bit about it.

Michel a écrit:

Do you want us to come up with characters before the 4th or shall we create them together?

Better to create before the game. That way you have more time to think about the background etc...

JeudiMaster a écrit:

May the 4th be with you !

Is this adventure a reboot/new form of the ADD castle Ravenloft? Or something different? I have run Castle Ravenloft as DM before so... I know a little bit about it.

A: Yes, it's the new take on the old ravenloft story... Want to join us?

if someone wants to take the noble background, i can be your spiritual advisor :-) (probably picking acolyte,hermit or scholar as my bg, to fit the whole rasputin theme). Background wise does the story assume we wander in from the Forgotten Realms or that we are natives from Ravenloft ? Also I kinda understood it's Barovia only atm, so I guess other locales from the Ravenloft setting are out (background wise)?

Yeah, there's not a single mention of any other region than Barovia in the new Curse of Stradh book.

filwinn a écrit:

if someone wants to take the noble background, i can be your spiritual advisor :-) (probably picking acolyte,hermit or scholar as my bg, to fit the whole rasputin theme). Background wise does the story assume we wander in from the Forgotten Realms or that we are natives from Ravenloft ? Also I kinda understood it's Barovia only atm, so I guess other locales from the Ravenloft setting are out (background wise)?

A: set the background for forgotten... Kkkk... No one knows anything about barovia...

mister23 a écrit:

A: Yes, it's the new take on the old ravenloft story... Want to join us?

I want to, i need some english practice !

I take a look on the links right now.

Alright, I was thinking about a urban fighter (eventually with a little of barbarism as well), probably with the urban bounty hunter bg. He'd have ended up in Barovia following a contract gone wrong. I assume Toff will play some kind of caster and frontline fighters are always good.

That said, I need to know how liberal you are regarding the use of the crossbow expert feat I've a few build ideas but your answer will either make one very appealing or not at all.

Me ? Spellcasting ? You got that right

As mister23 said, no one knows anything about Barovia ! We'll end up there without wanting to go at all.

okay so forgotten realms, urban bounty hunter, spellcaster of some sort of defrocked/cursed monk. So I'd say we could work out some common background from some urban center, what about Neverwinter ? Because cold, howling winds and the devastating silence of a white void all sing to my blackened soul :p (yes I'm waxing lyrical on this shit)

Michel a écrit:

Alright, I was thinking about a urban fighter (eventually with a little of barbarism as well), probably with the urban bounty hunter bg. He'd have ended up in Barovia following a contract gone wrong. I assume Toff will play some kind of caster and frontline fighters are always good.

That said, I need to know how liberal you are regarding the use of the crossbow expert feat I've a few build ideas but your answer will either make one very appealing or not at all.

A: i follow the rules on the book, and the clarification given by the developers on their Twitter ( compiled) on sages advice... That being said... Send me a PM so you can tell me your idea and I tell you if it works.

Done. I think what I've sent is legit but I had a lingering doubt.

I had also considered making a monk (with magic initiate, Hex and amusing cantrips like Green-Ward blade because it seemed like a good combo) but I'll leave you the honors filwinn.

why not, the more monks the merrier :-)

I don't quite understand which rule sets we are supposed to use with this adventure. Is everything published legal for a CoS Adventure League character? (SCAG, EE...)

Toff a écrit:

I don't quite understand which rule sets we are supposed to use with this adventure.  Is everything published legal for a CoS Adventure League character? (SCAG, EE...)

Yes... As the background option for curse of strahd... But instead of barovia give Another forhotten name for it

Cool, I'm going to start working on something ;-)

We're on to an idea for a group concept. What about us escaping together from a gulag and being there in the first place because we are suffering from a neverending streak of bad luck/shitty karma. It's very rough, but I kinda liked the idea. What about you guys ?

The more I thing about it, the more I like this idea
I can see myself as a happy kid, raised in a wealthy merchant family that slowly fell into disgrace... to the point of being abandonned and/or enslaved at some point in our lives.
It's not like we deserve it or anything, it's more of a karma legacy ; we're paying for what our parents did wrong and we can only endure it and cry our hearts out when it's to much to handle.

in the spirit of these things, we need a fellow (fat) prisoner, whom we had to eat to survive :p (hell maybe his ghost haunts us)
EDIT: I just saw there are some new official adventurers league backgrounds we can use for Curse of Strahd ...and lo and behold : 'Ex-Convict' is in the list

meet Prospero Luszeck (human monk lvl1, observant feat, Haunted One bg)