Wednesday, April 22, 2020

The Teenage Goth Ravenloft Campaign

Here's a pitch for a Ravenloft game I'd love to run sometime:

  • Maximum angst and melodrama.
  • Aesthetic inspirations: The Crow, the Underworld movies, Evanescence, The Craft, metalcore (especially when it makes Tim Burton references), the peculiar scent you only ever experienced in a Hot Topic in the early 00s.
  • Limiting racial options to only the darque stuff: shadar-kai, drow, tiefling.
  • Limiting class options to only the darque stuff: Bard (College of Whispers), Cleric (Death or Grave domains), Monk (Way of the Long Death and Way of the Shadow), Paladin (Oath of Vengeance only), Ranger (Gloom Stalker), Rogue (Thieves and Assassins), Sorcerer (Shadow Magic origin), Warlock (only Fiends, Great Old Ones, Hexblades, and the Undying as patrons).
  • Any background, I guess, but your character is a LONER with NO FAMILY, okay?
  • Add inspiration rules that reward melancholic oration and edgelord behavior.
Maybe even throw this into the mix:



Anyway, what's the fantasy equivalent of a trench coat, katana, and Desert Eagle? I'm guess it's studded leather armor, a spiked chain, and a hand crossbow.

7 comments:

  1. I feel like Goliaths would also fit into this well aesthetically? the white-and-black patterned skin definitely comes off like a way-gothier orc, anyway...

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    1. Hmm, they get a bonus to Strength and athletics, so they might be JOCKS!

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  2. Penalty to Passive Perception because your glossy, gorgeous hair is draped enigmatically over one half of your face.

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  3. Why no Vampire? Se need Vampires. And Dhampyrs. And Half Vampires. Three different races, obv.

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    1. Not a bad idea, but what need to be homebrewed. Which is a nice little project for a Sunday afternoon.

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    2. Ok, Vampires are the 3.5 ones: stealth and some summon. They are a race-as-class thing, with more stealthy and more sunmony features every some level. Dhampyrs are a race. They get one vampire boon for one vampire weakness, up ti a cap. Half Vampires are basically Tremeres: you have a normal classe, but you can get the vanpiric archetipe for that class.
      (Yes, you can have a Dhampyr Vampire/HalfVampire Bard dual class)

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