General DCC RPG thread

[overgeeked]

There are a few people on here who play DCC RPG so I thought we should have a thread about the game.

If anyone new to DCC has any questions, please feel free to ask.

 

[deganawida]

Just got it Tuesday, still reading through it. Am sure I will have questions, so thank you.

 

[overgeeked]

Here's a collection of links to various DCC RPG related things...

Goodman Games’ official website.

Goodman Games|Your Source for Adventures

goodman-games.com

Free DCC RPG QuickStart. ETA: There's an updated QuickStart, so I've updated the link.

https://goodman-games.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023_DCC_QSR_completeLinks_ScreenRes.pdf

Goodman Games’ Road Crew.

Road Crew Landing Page – World Tour 2023|Goodman Games

goodman-games.com

Online tools.

Purple Sorcerer Games: Our Free Dungeon Crawl Classics Tools

Purple Sorcerer Games is your source for exciting, affordable, fun-to-play adventures compatible with the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG from Goodman Games.

www.purplesorcerer.com

Let’s Read.

📖 Let's Read! - Dungeon Crawl Classics | Dungeons & Dragons / Fantasy D20 Spotlight

I want to do a Let’s Read of DCC RPG. I’m reading it again anyway and wanted to introduce anyone who was curious to the game. So let’s dive in. The standard cover of the DCC RPG features a lone character standing, with their back turned, at the top of a set of stairs looking across a chasm. On...

forum.rpg.net

Raven Crowking’s blog.

Raven Crowking's Nest

ravencrowking.blogspot.com

DCC Reference Booklet. All the charts in one easy to reference booklet.


Goodman Games’ official discord channel.

Join the Goodman Games Discord Server!

We are Goodman Games -- publishers of Dungeon Crawl Classics and much, much more! Join us to explore the phlogiston! | 3556 members

discord.gg

DungeonCrawlers Discord.

Join the DungeonCrawlers Discord Server!

Check out the DungeonCrawlers community on Discord - hang out with 2857 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Goodman Games’ official YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/c/GoodmanGames

ETA: Articles by Tim White about stitching together several thematically-related modules to form adventure paths.

 

[deganawida]

Will say one thing: My kids are excited from the bits I've shared with them. I was worried they'd be concerned over character mortality. Nope, they think it's funny, though the youngest wants a "no tentacles" rule. Something my wife pointed out is that they should really make a coloring book out of the line art in the book, as it's beautiful and would sell like hotcakes.

 

[overgeeked]

Will say one thing: My kids are excited from the bits I've shared with them. I was worried they'd be concerned over character mortality. Nope, they think it's funny, though the youngest wants a "no tentacles" rule.

That's awesome. Yeah. The players definitely have to be in the right mindset. If they're overly attached to their characters, especially at 0-level, it's going to be rough. DCC is much less deadly once you hit leveled play. Clerics can heal more than most other OSR or adjacent games, you have luck to spend, you have a few rounds to bleed out before you die, and there's the roll the body rule.

Something my wife pointed out is that they should really make a coloring book out of the line art in the book, as it's beautiful and would sell like hotcakes.

That's a great idea. Things like Baby's First Cthulhu exist, Cthulhu coloring books exist, so why not some old-school DCC line art coloring books?

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Heck yeah, I love DCC RPG!

One thing I've been thinking about is getting rid of the halfling and replacing it with some sort of "lucky human" class. Because, as much as Tolkien is one of my favorite authors, when I run and play DCC RPG I really enjoy tapping into other Appendix N authors to make it feel that much more different from D&D. And while dwarves and elves show up in non-Tolkien tales (though, certainly, our conception of them still owes a ton to Tolkien), halflings are pretty much entirely Tolkien.

 

[overgeeked]

Heck yeah, I love DCC RPG!

One thing I've been thinking about is getting rid of the halfling and replacing it with some sort of "lucky human" class. Because, as much as Tolkien is one of my favorite authors, when I run and play DCC RPG I really enjoy tapping into other Appendix N authors to make it feel that much more different from D&D. And while dwarves and elves show up in non-Tolkien tales (though, certainly, our conception of them still owes a ton to Tolkien), halflings are pretty much entirely Tolkien.

In “Death Slaves of Eternity,” Marzio Muscedere suggests a more explicitly sword & sorcery style of play and pulling the clearly race-based bonuses out of the demihuman classes and renaming them for human use. He goes with pirate for the halfling, though others have suggested raider as a less exclusively sea-based name for the same idea.

To quote, “omit the sections Infravision, Small Size, Slow, and remove any alignment restrictions.” Otherwise it’s used as is with only the name changed.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

In “Death Slaves of Eternity,” Marzio Muscedere suggests a more explicitly sword & sorcery style of play and pulling the clearly race-based bonuses out of the demihuman classes and renaming them for human use. He goes with pirate for the halfling, though others have suggested raider as a less exclusively sea-based name for the same idea.

To quote, “omit the sections Infravision, Small Size, Slow, and remove any alignment restrictions.” Otherwise it’s used as is with only the name changed.

That's a good take on it. As I said, I'm fine with dwarves and elves, but halflings are too Middle-Earthy for my DCC RPG preferences. I suppose I could do something weird like make them purple or covered in fur, too.

 

[deganawida]

Oh my stars and garters. The troll lords monster is a hilarious call-out. The illustration is perfect!

 

[overgeeked]

Just got it Tuesday, still reading through it. Am sure I will have questions, so thank you.

Please forgive my lapse in manners.

Welcome to the band.

That's a good take on it. As I said, I'm fine with dwarves and elves, but halflings are too Middle-Earthy for my DCC RPG preferences. I suppose I could do something weird like make them purple or covered in fur, too.

Or make them ducks. Worked for Glorantha.