D&D 5E The "Sealed Envelope" Character Campaign. Would you play?

[James Gasik]

I'm reminded of some of the Ravenloft adventures that take your characters and slap them into other bodies, like The Created (body jacked by puppets!), Adam's Wrath (brains put into flesh golem bodies!), and one I can't recall the name of where you get Quantum Leaped into people in a castle trying to prevent some past event, and each time you fail, you get put into a new person, farther from your goal...

 

[Charlaquin]

Yeah, shots was back in college 25+ years ago... At this point, I rarely drink, and then only mead when we game.

Shots are for when you want to get drunk but don’t actually like the taste of alcohol. At this point in my life, I mostly drink for the taste and don’t generally want more than a comfy buzz. But making a drinking game out of a killer dungeon seems like a good way to get everyone in the right frame of mind for such an adventure. Makes the random unexpected deaths hilarious and fun instead of frustrating.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Shots are for when you want to get drunk but don’t actually like the taste of alcohol. At this point in my life, I mostly drink for the taste and don’t generally want more than a comfy buzz. But making a drinking game out of a killer dungeon seems like a good way to get everyone in the right frame of mind for such an adventure. Makes the random unexpected deaths hilarious and fun instead of frustrating.

Yep, that is why I like to drink mead. Nothing else really tastes very good to me anymore when it comes to alcohol.

 

[Eltab]

it occurs to me that this game leaves the DM sober… anyone have suggestions for a rule to fix that?

Given that alcohol does me no good favors, I would say that is a feature not a bug in this proposal.

 

[the Jester]

No, a big part of the joy of the game for me is making my character. I'd rather play a game where I do that.

 

[payn]

Oh man, dont like the taste? They will be ordered to pour bourbon in my corpse mouth at my wake.

 

[Magister Ludorum]

Absolutely not. No chance. I roleplay to create and play characters I want to play. I am completely uninterested in half the classes and probably 2/3 of the races in the game.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

That’s how it goes sometimes. I would bet a lot of people would feel just the opposite, willing to play a randomly selected pre-Gen, but not to randomly generate a character from scratch.

From experience of doing both I'd much rather take a pre-gen than total randomization, that's for sure. A pre-gen will be coherent, typically, whereas random generation can end you up with stuff which is very messy and hard-to-like.

 

[Umbran]

But, let me put it to you this way: your life is JUST like this.

Yes, and?

If I wanted something JUST like normal life... I'd go live my normal life! No need for a game at all!

 

[Lanefan]

it occurs to me that this game leaves the DM sober… anyone have suggestions for a rule to fix that?

Yes, but the DM might not last long: every time a character dies, take a shot.