What are the best Goodman Dungeon Crawl Classics?

Umbra2020 · Dec 19, 2008

I haven't purchased any Goodman Games' Dungeon Crawl Classics but with the pdf sale and their impending disappearance I was wondering what are the best ones to buy? I would be looking at up to 10th level adventures and probably buy about 8-10 pdfs. Thanks for any recommendations.

dfan · Dec 20, 2008

For pure bang-for-the-buck, you pretty much have to get The Adventure Begins (DCC 29) and The Adventure Continues (DCC 48), which have 15 and 20 mini-adventures respectively.

GAAAHHH · Dec 20, 2008

DCC 1 Idylls of the Rat King (1-3) gets my vote for best.

Other good ones are:
DCC 44 Dreaming Caverns of the Duergar (1-3)
DCC 46 The Scaly God (4-6)
17 Legacy of the Savage Kings (4-6)
10 The Sunless Garden (6-8)
5 Aerie of the Crow God (7-9)
30 Vault of the Dragon Kings (10)
13 Crypt of the Devil Lich (15)

Honorable mention: #35A Halls of the Minotaur(from Gazeteer of the Known Realms boxed set) - for 0 level characters. The only reason this isn't #2 on my list is it comes as part of a boxed set (which is totally worth buying, but the adventure is a very small part of it).

There are many others that are really good, but if I include them, it would hardly be a best of list anymore.

Noumenon · Dec 20, 2008

Monte Cook's post alerted me that all these PDFs would be $5 until the 31st and then gone forever. He also said, "This is what the World's Largest Dungeon should have been." Do you agree? And do you think it would be feasible to run an adventure that large out of a PDF?

Varianor Abroad · Dec 20, 2008

Speaking of Monte Cook, he co-wrote #50, Vault of the Iron Overlord, with Soren Keis-Thustrup. An excellent adventure with a really neat rotating dungeon and a cool returning villain.

ShinHakkaider · Dec 21, 2008

Noumenon said:
Monte Cook's post alerted me that all these PDFs would be $5 until the 31st and then gone forever. He also said, "This is what the World's Largest Dungeon should have been." Do you agree? And do you think it would be feasible to run an adventure that large out of a PDF?

I pretty much ONLY run adventures from PDF's now. If I cant get it as a PDF it's pretty much useless to me.

I print out the portions of the adventure that I plan to run and mark up the print outs with notes or with whatever alterations that I need to make. I'm also not someone who gripes about the fact that I have to print something out. I take into account that when I spend money on printer toner that I'm actually buying toner so that I can, well, PRINT THINGS OUT.

Also I find that it's easier for me to run an adventure with loose sheets than it is from a bound or spine stapled book.

But hey, maybe that's just me.

Shroomy · Dec 21, 2008

IMO, DCC 34 Cage of Delirium and DCC 38 Escape from the Forest of Lanterns are the best DCCs that I own.

S'mon · Dec 21, 2008

I like The Mysterious Tower. Very easy to plop into any campaign.

darjr · Dec 21, 2008

ShinHakkaider said:
Also I find that it's easier for me to run an adventure with loose sheets than it is from a bound or spine stapled book.

This. I started to run RPGA events and would print them out as little stapled booklets. Till I ran one off the cuff that was printed single sided. It made a huge difference. That flipping around in an adventure took up more time than I could afford, and I never realized it.

Sorry, but it is a bit on topic, I love this aspect about PDF adventures. So it is a plus for the DCC ones, or any you can get in this way.

freyar · Dec 21, 2008

This isn't exactly about DCCs, but I was looking through some of the sale PDFs and noticed also the "Complete Guides" to various monsters and things. How are those? Any good, or is it better to spend the money on the adventures?