#cos or a homebrew feywild

[froggyplanet4269]

the girls playing dnd because I also play it!

disposable: very new to the game, has only played in one or two campaigns so far. she likes using classes with high charisma (warlocks, bards) and plays as elves, tieflings, genasi and the like to feel a bit prettier i guess(?). she likes playing as chaotic good.

irreverent: shes obsessed with meta tbh. her characters are absolutely BROKEN; she often plays wizards, druids or blood hunters (I would like to play one of those someday...it looks fun...)

Her favourite races to play as are warforged and anything from the feywild (elves, fairies, satyrs and the like. She also likes dragonborns and kobolds.)

Co often DMs, and Co loves to put puzzles in her dungeons...much to the party's dismay.

splitter: girlie only makes joke characters only to then give them the most horrifying lore. she enjoys playing as bards and rogues, mainly, but she has also liked warlocks. she picks any race that looks good as an anime girl, but like. chaotic. (she likes tieflings and goblins a lot.) she plays as chaotic neutral or evil mostly. when she's the DM, you know the story will get fucked up.

faineant: certified warforged player!!! she also likes gnomes and orcs. sometimes she'll pull up with the most obscure homebrew race and an even more obscure homebrew class. she spends HOURS looking at the dnd wiki. as a DM, she's pretty good too, most of her stories are in a steampunk-ish setting, or science fiction, and they get very silly. (legends of avantris level silly)

caliber: barely makes it to dnd sessions due to work. her character is probably some sort of cleric or articifier because she likes the versatility of the class and the magic stuff. (and the gun theme has to be somewhere.) in regards of races she usually picks changelings or shifters. she also likes playing as druids. her alignment is chaotic good. she does it mostly for escapism from work; and also, she's an excellent DM.

chocolate box: LOVES silly little guy races; kenku, tieflings, kobolds, halflings, dragonborns or harengorns (rabbit people.) He WILL play barbarians, paladnins or bards, and Only that. she's just starting out, but she'd love to make her own campaign someday.

taxidermy: animal classes enjoyer. she played as bugbears, satyrs, harengorns, tabaxis, owlins, dragonborns, the monkey people race I played as once, you name it. she plays "chaotic neutral" which ends up fading into chaotic good. she likes to try a new class each campaign, and often subclasses. she likes druids, sorcerers and wizards the most.

chemical: just got into playing, as a recommendation by splitter girl (I hc they're friends). she's a bit indecisive on what to play as, but she chose a fighter dragonborn and plays as true neutral. her stats suck a little bit because she's new but she's trying her best.

[scalpelsister]

my cos campaign is not even close to done and i need to finish it and get strahd out of my system BUT.... feywild homebrew campaign next i am promising it to myself as a treat

[hyacinthmacabre]

I’m playing in an online Curse of Strahd game right now. I am extremely lucky. My DM has spent months studying the module and she joined groups online to add content to it for us. She also bought all kinds of great content for Roll20 to expand the game.

So far it’s been amazing. I am playing a Halfling Ranger with the Swarmkeeper subclass (heavily modified with a post I found online). Her background is the Knight but I homebrewed it to be a Girl Guide Leader and so I have 3 girl guides with me instead of retainers. Unlike the Knight background, the girls go into combat.

Yes. I brought girl guides into Barovia. They are called Quarter Guides and our original intent was to do a troop trip to the Feywild that ended up going in the wrong direction. Due to our small party size (3 players), the DM had given the girls basic classes and they are a few levels lower than us. She also plays them. Each one is lovely and unique.

It adds unbelievable stress and tension any time we go into any situation. My character is always concerned with where they are, what is happening to them, and how they are interacting with others. She’s terrified for them and not for herself. We also spent all our resources getting them geared up and keeping them fed.

I’m very lucky that my group is on board with the girls. They even interact with them individually.

I just wish that the rest of the internet didn’t work hard to spoil the campaign for me as a player. I have known aboht CoS forever. I’ve been playing D&D since 1997. I’ve been in two separate campaigns that attempted to go into Ravenloft, but due to schedules and boredom they never went past a session or two.

I’ve purposely not spoiled it for myself with the hope that one day I would get to play it. It’s an iconic setting. It’s been 20 years of me not seeing a single, solitary spoiler. I mean other than the obvious one about Strahd.

But in the past 2 months suddenly every D&D subreddit or Facebook group or even here on Tumblr are doing their darnedest to spoil the shit out of it for me. Last week a player in another game started spouting off spoilers so I had to tune them out. A commenter in an character creation subreddit suddenly responded to one of my comments with information about an NPC we had run into just the session before and now I know their backstory. It wasn’t even related to Curse of Strahd! And Reddit keeps suggesting that I join the Curse of Strahd subreddit and it prominently shows me posts that have been spoiling shit with their titles.

I am aware it’s a 20+ year old setting. It’s iconic. Many people have played it. But why is it that I’ve been able to go spoiler-free for ages and then when I am actually in a group it’s spoiler city?