[CLOSED] Werewolves in the mist. DnD 5.5.

DnD 5.5: PHB 2024.

Pitch
See game description above


Adult Content or Controversial Themes

I suggest you skip this game if you are uncomfortable with any of the themes listed below. Nevertheless I'm open for discussion and leaving specific themes out of the game Character Restrictions
PHB 2024 only. No other restrictions.
You start at lvl 4, but not with any extra equipment compared to lvl 1. Expect rather rapid lvl ups.

Game Duration and Post Frequency
I am looking into at least 3 per week and could make it up to once a day if all players are ready for that peace.
There is a chance we could finish this game in a few years. But let's be realistic - there is also a good chance game dies sooner.

Player Experience Requirements
None. I'm learning 2024 rules. I only ask you to bear with me and be ready for both my and your posts to require updates when anyone realize we are not playing within rules or discovered a major typo caused game to go wrong direction

Other
- I'm using roll20 for maps, but you will not need to use roll20 or any other Software or Resources: I will post everything to gamersplane
- This game is explicitly friendly to LGBT and any other minorities or marginalized groups
- See game description for character creation restrictions details, but in short it's lvl 4 anything in PHB 2024, but only starting gear.

How to Apply and what to expect
Just post your interest as a replay. Preferably comment your preferred game peace and weather you play on weekends. I will keep it open till the end of March and looking for 2-3 players.

Once we start the game you will soon be joined by 2 other PCs/players who are in the game already. I hope to make it feel like two parties blending into each other, each party bringing their own knowledge and experience. Two parties may have different reasons and goals, but should soon realize working together is key for everyone's success/survival.

For nights, your dreams have been plagued by visions of a shadowed valley, a gothic castle perched upon a craggy peak, and a figure with piercing red eyes. You wake in a cold sweat, the image of his face burned into your mind. Then, the mists descend, and the world around you shifts, becoming a twisted reflection of your nightmares. You are no longer in your familiar world. You are in Barovia, and the nightmare is real!

I'm interested! :) Waiting since a long time to play Strahd. I'm flexible on character concept, but a paladin (a flexible one who don't make stupid decision) would be my first interest. Otherwise any classes is fine.
I can post every day, weekend i have a lot of availabilities as I'm a bachelorette.

Let me know if you have other questions.

I'm interested. I have a character concept in mind (fighter/warlock), that causes my character to see the beauty in everything. I think it would do well in a dark and depressing setting.

Posting rate: I can post almost everyday, weekends included

Hey Rune, would be fun to finally maybe make it in the same game perhaps? :)

Hooo, this premise clicks a lot of positive buttons in me.

I'm comfortable with 3 posts / week, but irregularly can make more than that -- that's not a promise for any specific time, though.

The character that popped up in my imagination is a rogue / sorcerer, some darker side of magic, which she explicitly resents, but uses as a tool when necessary.

She was a street kid, who hooked up with bad people for survival (rogue), but when they wanted her to use the newfound dark magic (sorcerer) for their own selfish goals, that broke something in her. She left the town / city that night, never to look back, and to make up for the ugly things she's done.

She's in for the alturism in itself, the reward is her relieved conscience. She needs no other payment. She really tries to connect to people, but finds it hard, since if she were completely open about her past, that would scare away most nice people.

:D yes it's about time

This will make three active CoS games on GP. Surely one of us can break this game's curse and make it to the end!

I am absolutely willing to throw my hat in the ring.

I'm good for daily Mon-Fri, weekends being hit or miss. I usually jump on at least once over the weekend, but sometimes it's a few times both days and sometimes I'm not back till Monday morning. So 3/week up to daily should overall be good for me.

Faster is always better for game life, of course. And while my game list is lengthy, many of those have a liesurely pace, a few are currently inactive, and two are just personal repositories for information. I'm not actually as busy as it looks at first glance.

As for characters... like many of us, I have a few dozen concepts at any given moment. Should be easy to see what the group might need, and pick an idea that fills that hole. And while I know that can be viewed as something of a cop-out answer, the 2024 version has enough new rules, mechanics, and spells that there's lots I want to play around with... so I really should be able to slot in to fill a role the party lacks.

As we have seen in DnD the movie even a rogue could become Harper, so I see no limitation as long as you figure out how your PC become Harper and would he stick to code of the Harpers.
Roles that I would love to see, but not insist:
- The person used to information fishing by talk to random people even if they don't appear to be willing to talking.
- The person used to discover secrets by break some rules and some locks.

@Adam if anyone can it is you and your crew. I'm running off a realistic goal to at least get children kidnapped by the werewolves.

@Nebula would you mind if I steal the text you posted in red above? It would be a good intro for any replacement character when/if original one die. If you take it for your original PC - you may need to wait quite a while until your PC face and recognize the castle and the person from the dream.

My character (who has yet to get a name) was born among the circus folk / gypsies.
She joined the army, for some reason, properly to follow a man she was in love with. (figther level 1)
She got injured and lost her eye, and she returned home to heal. The circus folk / gypsies had a crystal eyeball that she could use as a replacement. The crystal eyeball allowed her to see normally, but she found that a lot of books had extra writing she could now see. (here starts the warlock class)

Background: Charlatan
High charisma skill, would do information fishing by talking to random people even if they don't appear to be willing to talking.
Sees the world through a pink lens now, everything looks beautiful
While she can't pick a lock, she can and has made several forgeries of army permission slips.

Please i would be honored if you take it, wasn't for my character in particular, just a moment of inspiration. :)

That's what my character is about.

I'd suggest to avoid using that latter word. I know that regionally, the degree to which that term is viewed as negative ranges from it being seen as a slur to a neutral descriptor but there are enough people who view it as and places that recognize it as a derogative that I think it would be best not to use it here.

I know that it's delicate situation around the that word and it's people. What are the called in the ravenloft? Geowani? Or something like that?

Vistani

Thank you

Always interested in trying out the 2024 rules and have never played Curse of Strahd though I've certainly heard of it. No Ravenloft races I assume. Going counter to the traditional, I was thinking of a monk (with silvered brass knuckles and boot tips if allowed). Fangpi might not fit as he's not depressed or shocked but instead offers a bit of comic relief to the dark, twisted world of Barovia (stealing a bit from Terry Pratchett).

No Ravenloft for character creation. No nothing but PHB 2024. Any custom flavor not affecting mechanics is fine though.

This interests me, I'd like to take a run an the new 5.5 d&d game. I've always been drawn towads sorcery but I could be convinced to try something else.

To be fair that wasn't much of a recruitment answer post but I'm busy with life.

My thoughts would be elf or tiefling, sorcerer. The 4 hour long rest is just such an overwhelmingly good thing for a caster.

I know the mists are kind of connected to everywhere so that opens up a world or possibilities for how one got hete and where they came from.

I have all of the 5.5 books and a Beyond account for fiddling up a character.