Welcome everyone. The party turned out to be pretty interesting, and rather light on spell casters, so make sure at least one and preferably two of you have ranks in UMD (you can reshuffle skill points if necessary), other than that its looks strong. Gender-wise it sort of turned out to be Ebron and his harem (or at least I'm sure he'd like to think so) which I would have liked to avoid, but at the same time gender balance was secondary to party composition and also just which characters I thought would be fun to have.<br/><br/>Now I do want everybody, or at least most of you, to know each other before the game starts, one or two new arrivals is fine, but I'd like at least the outline for one adventure you have gone through together beforehand. Feel free to invent the details, as I said only Barovia matters, so I don't mind players taking agency with world building.<br/><br/>I initially said default reason in the module is a little threadbare as the message is vague, but on closer examination it seems like it will do, you are all good folk who will answer a plea for help, so I should have the opening post up later.