🩸 Challenge Him in the Mist | Curse of Strahd 🦇

Your fire gutters. Mist presses in. A sunless dawn reveals a dark valley.
Will you find allies, uncover secrets, and face the ruler of cursed Barovia?

RP-Heavy Gothic Horror | Combat that hurts | Explore a cursed valley | Uncover forgotten lore | Unravel your past | Slay vampires

What to Expect

🎭 RP-Heavy:
Conversation and character choices drive the story. Social encounters matter and have consequences.

⚔️ Crunchy Combat:
The monsters know what they are doing. Fights are cinematic, tactical, and costly.

🕯️ Personal Threads:
Each character carries a secret tied to the land, revealed slowly through play.

🗺️ World & Exploration:
Open, reactive sandbox with living factions, shifting alliances, and meaningful choices.

💎 Magic & Items:
Rare, story-driven, and meant to feel special when you find them.

📜 Lore Depth:
Old faiths, ruins, and histories woven into almost every path you take.

✨ Table Flow:
Theater of the Mind for most scenes with animated backdrops by JamesRPGart.
Tactical maps for combat and dungeon exploration (Foundry VTT via The Forge).

🎶 Immersion:
Visual aids, ambient soundscapes, and music to support mood and pacing.

🤝 Inclusivity:
Harmful, dated material (including anti-Roma stereotypes) is removed or rewritten. Safety tools are in use.

About the Campaign

Welcome to Count Strahd’s domain.

This Curse of Strahd campaign is my personal director’s cut – expanded and tuned to you and your characters. Your choices shape the valley, its people, and your own fate. Hope is fragile here, but it is not gone, and you can choose to fight for it.

• You start at Level 1, barely adventurers.

• After a brief but haunting introductory adventure you return to Barovia at Level 3.

• From there, you are free to explore, uncover buried history, and confront what waits in the dark.

Combat is cinematic and dangerous. Social scenes and quiet moments matter just as much as gruesome fights. I use a mixture of official and high-quality fan-made maps for battles and dungeons, plus animated Theater of the Mind scenes for travel and roleplay. 

Game Details

System & Rules

• Dungeons & Dragons 5E

• 2024 rules for gameplay

Character Creation

• Use either 2024 Core content or 2014 Legacy content on D&D Beyond

• Do not mix and match within a single character

Style

• Roleplay heavy

• Gothic horror

• Sandbox / exploration

Group Type

• Online game using Foundry VTT (The Forge) + Discord + D&D Beyond

• 2 / 5 seats filled – 1 more players needed to start

• All experience levels welcome (beginners included), 18+ only

Schedule (Table 1)

• Friday

• 7:00 PM GMT+1

• Weekly

What You Need

• Free accounts on:

  • The Forge (Foundry VTT hosting)

  • Discord

  • D&D Beyond

• A stable internet connection

• Microphone and a reasonably quiet space

• Camera is welcome but not required

Cost & Sign-Up

• $25 per session, paid via StartPlaying.Games

👉 Join via StartPlaying:
https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmibobze1007el704ha5ww14i

If you have any questions about tone, character ideas, or rules (2014 vs 2024), feel free to reply here or PM me before booking.

Hi I would like to play but I am new if that is okay and cant play on weekends

Hi! 
so, the time stated in the post would work for you? I've DMed you?