Fleshing Out Curse of Strahd: Player Primer
Hello everyone!
I've created a Player Primer/Character Chronicler for CoS! What's a Player Primer, you ask? Well, it's a document with a bunch of tables that helps players come up with characters suited for a specific module. And now there's one for Barovia! :D
**** Master Table of Contents **** - Click here for links to every post in the series
- Adventure Prep: PCs and Mechanics
- Adventure Prep: Running the Dark Powers
- Adventure Prep: Understanding Strahd
- Campaign Roadmap and Leveling Guide
Tser Pool, Vistani, and Tarroka
Van Richten's Tower (and Ezmerelda)
Running Werewolves and Lycanthropes
With this set of campaign supplements, players should be able to develop characters that not only have depth and thriving backstories, but are also aimed towards the upcoming adventure. The Primer also includes a whole doc of secrets, similar to those found in the Icewind Dale module, to help players integrate their characters into the CoS setting.
The whole primer includes 4 different documents:
- Player Primer. Background information to help ready new players for their upcoming campaign and tables of player character backstory options to help them develop characters specific to the Curse of Strahd module. This document is spoiler free and player friendly!
- Barovian Player Primer. This primer contains many of the tables found in the Player Primer, but rewritten to better suit a player character from Barovia. This primer is best used if you lose a player character to the horrors of Barovia and must introduce a new character to the party.
- Character Options. 4 new race options suited to the Ravenloft setting: Dusk Elf, Vistani, Wereraven, and Werewolf.
- Mysterious Secrets. 18 different secrets that can help integrate player character backstories into the Curse of Strahd adventure.
If you guys are interested in taking a peek, I'm posting the full documents on the DM's Guild for free, if you'd like to use them for your game! :D
Find the Player Primer on the DM's Guild:
Includes printer friendly versions!
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/341410/Fleshing-Out-Curse-of-Strahd-Player-Primer
Posted Dec 29, 2020, 6:01 PM UTC · edited
Wow. Disclaimer - I just read the secrets and they are very neat. My campaign is already in full swing. If I ever revisit Barovia, I hope to remember that this file exists and hand out some of them. Way easier for the players as they have a starting point for character creation and for the dm for some Tarokka action.
If one of the PCs in my campaign dies, I will definitely use it.