Ladies and lycanthropes, ghouls and gentlemen, children of all ages, sizes, and states of undeath, it is with my most extreme pleasure that I present to you an Ustalavian adventure in:
Freaks Like Us!
In this exciting adventure path, a band of unwary pcs will face off against horrors from beyond the grave, Frankensteinian abominations, power-crazed cults, and worst of all angry mobs with pitchforks! That's right, villagers with torches will pose quite a danger to our heroes, for they themselves will be as monstrous as the terrors they face!
It's ALIVE
Character Creation
20 point buy, standard gold, blah, blah, blah. What you want to hear about is the twist, do you not? Well here it is.
All characters submitted must have something MONSTROUS about them. ALL races from ALL Paizo sources are allowed. And that includes custom races in the form of mutants, laboratory experiments, degenerates etc.
Not into fancy races? Try a template! Ghosts, vampires, were-things, you name it. If it makes you monstrous, take it!
And of course, we can't leave out the psychopaths and cannibals can we? Characters' monstrousness may be internal as well, apparent only in roleplaying and backstory. Perhaps you'd like to play a lawful neutral fighter by day and Hannibal Lecter by night.
If you're still have trouble bringing out the monster within, I am allowing homebrew classes (these forums, GiTP, other sources) to be chosen as long as the class is fully fleshed out and contributes to the monstrous theme.
Really, your imagination is the limit, so submit the most twisted monstrosities you can think of, and post here or pm me with questions or requests.
Kill it with fire, cut off its head, stake through the heart.
The Catch
I didn't say there wouldn't be a catch did I?
Here's the deal, while you can make your character as hideous and despicable and evil as you want (no alignment restrictions), we're still going to run through Carrion Crown "as is." As in, "as it was written for nice normal PCs who follow the rules." This means that you must have a pretty good backstory reason for why your monster is such chums with Professor Lorimor, and you need to have (or at least pretend to have) some motivation for not eating every silly human you come across. Perhaps you're trying to redeem the sins of your kind, perhaps you've grown tired of small children hiding at the very mention of your name, or perhaps your evil code of evil just won't allow you to turn back on your word even if it means not sucking the delicious blood from the villagers (at least not all of them).
FAQ (Frequen--Aaaaaah! Qlippoths!)
Additional Info
Yes, with all the character options available player characters will have wildly differing power levels and will likely be wildly unbalanced. As you can imagine, however, this campaign will be quite a bit heavier on the roleplaying aspects than the original Carion Crown. Not to mention, there are certain "ways" of bringing overpowered characters to their knees. So really don't worry about power level or party dynamic, just make a character that will be fun to play and fun to explore.
Finally, I will be expecting good PBPers (check out Doomed Hero's guide if you don't know what this means) who can put in at least one post a day. And of course I'm not going to boot you for missing a day or two, so don't worry about posting if you've been eaten by a thousand-year-old-thing-that-should-not-be-named. Whew, nice job if you made it through these walls of text.
So that's all there is to it. Get cracking and check out the free Carrion Crown player's guide if you need more campaign info. Just remember, MONSTROUS!