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However, pretty much any kind of supernatural bloodline could produce sorcerous ability, so if you want to define where your powers came from, here are some ideas: Warlock: Warlocks are pretty straightforward. 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Humans may use the variant human traits from the Players Handbook. Curse of Strahd. Players should come prepared with a base character, and we will flesh out details in a Session 0 as a group. Note: Choice of Fighting Style may be deferred until 3rd level at players discretion. The primary source for the rules is the D&D Adventurers League Players Guide Curse of Strahd. 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. You should check them out. You may been a traffic cop, detective, sheriff, whatever. Some ideas are below: Druid: Any kind of real-world pagan religion could be a background for a druid. With a Master Tier subscription, save your party some gold when you share this book/content with other players in your D&D Beyond campaign! Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Barovia is an ironic twist of Strahds desires where the people and land itself act out an endless cycle of despair and horror, and by defeating Strahd they may only save Barovia for a short period of time. Acting, storytelling, and oration are all valid performance abilities. Rogue: Literally anyone can be a rogue, so this class can be chosen without justifying its abilities. Recommended domains: Any, You have been possessed by a celestial, fiendish or fey spirit that is granting you unusual abilities for some unknown purpose. If you wish your item to have a minor magical quirk, you can choose either to have it glow with the light of a candle, or you can select an option from the What Quirk Does It Have? ._3-SW6hQX6gXK9G4FM74obr{display:inline-block;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;font-size:16px;line-height:16px} Here are some ideas: Wizard: Since wizards seek out magical knowledge, your character must already be aware of the existence of the supernatural. Whatever. People just really seem to like following you. Note that you will not start with your proficient tool, as they are not real-world medical items. 0000009545 00000 n 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. All characters must be human, no exceptions. The False Identity feature only allows you to copy handwriting if you are proficient with a forgery kit. All characters begin atLevel 1and have0 Experience Points. You can find a free Players Pack (including the log sheet, character sheet and table tent) at the DMs Guild. If you want to have some fun with it, let them come up with their own stories and do some collaborative world-building. Check back in for post #2, character creation for Curse of Strahd! 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. Starting Equipment: Street clothes, insignia of rank or VA card, car or truck, cell phone, wallet with ID and Wealth d4. Their tiefling sorceress is the twin of the burgermaster's henchman, niece to the evil diabolist lady. Generators. upgrade now 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! U%_ .9atR|wh/iiL,| >* endstream endobj 25 0 obj <> endobj 26 0 obj <>stream CoS is set in its own demiplane, called Barovia, in an area of the Shadowfell called Ravenloft. Tool Proficiencies: Disguise Kit Languages: Any one. You have infiltration and possibly spy training, via the military or other government organization. If Hexblade is what you're feeling drawn to, I say go for it. Wallet with ID and Wealth d4. Jewlery-making, glasswork or delicate metal work. Monk: While monks focus on martial arts, they have several abilities that can be considered magical. "Death House" will run your player characters through levels 1-3 if they survive. 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Thread starter darjr; Start date Feb 20, 2016; darjr I crit! car, crowbar or other equipment needed to break into an abandoned house, burner phone. A canny DM will try to ensure that Strahd has answers for that, though. You may substitute Sleight of Hand proficiency with Insight proficiency if your scheme does not involve Sleight of Hand, and you may substitute forgery kit proficiency with hacking kit proficiency if your scheme involves computers. All rights reserved. This is no longer the case: all new characters just start with the background and class equipment packages listed in the Players HandbookorBasic Rules. 0000002104 00000 n Watch the Dice, Camera Action! It is appropriate for any character or campaign . 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). They may use a default array (such as 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8) or use the point-buy system described in the rules. You thought you were going crazy, but the magic is definitely real. Monsters. Character Creation Your character can move between the adventures as you like (although its strongly recommended you finish one adventure with your character before starting a new adventure). Plot Hooks. more content. Note: Choice of Fighting Style may be deferred until 3rd level at players discretion. 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Recommended patron: Any, You learned something man was not meant to know. Plus, you have our All races in the Players Handbookare legal. you will have instant access to your previous versions. 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. Press J to jump to the feed. Baron Vargas Vallakovich is the burgomaster of Vallaki, and credits his extreme ruling methods as keeping Strahd out of the territory. Recommended patron: Any, You witnessed or were the victim of some kind of supernatural attack. How will character creation work. 0000068973 00000 n This character chronicler was designed to inspire the creation of player characters for the Curse of Strahd campaign and includes documents for both Dungeon Masters and players alike. The rare elf subrace gives you no mechanical benefits. Recommended path: Eldritch Knight, Youve studied martial arts, and are pretty excellent at them. Combat comes naturally to you when put into that position. Youve always had problems controlling your temper, and are notorious for getting into fights. 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. 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. I've also listed below what you might need to justify in your backstory if you pick a specific class, and some ideas on how to do so. 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