Recommend a Dungeon Crawl Classic?

[molonel]

I've been looking at the Dungeon Crawl Classics series from Goodman Games. There are presently nearly 50. Has anyone here run one that you can recommend?

http://www.goodman-games.com/DCCpreview.php

 

[Nightfall]

Mol,

I have "The Adventure Begins." It's pretty decent for a beginning adventure.

 

[Wraith Form]

What level? I can make several recommendations, but they depend on how....uh....deadly.

And yes, The Adventure Begins, a series of approx. twenty 1st - 2nd level beginning crawls, very non-setting specific, are great.

 

[Nightfall]

Wraith,

Why don't we start small and work our way up?

 

[Kheti sa-Menik]

I've run DCC 1 Idylls of the Rat King and DCC 27 Revenge of the Rat King. I definitely prefer DCC 27...the dungeon is pretty cool and have some innovative, if deadly, encounter areas.

 

[Wraith Form]

Wraith,

Why don't we start small and work our way up?

To be blunt, I haven't RUN many of them, although I've read several. What I've read of DCCs, they're uber-cool!

I'm currently running Into the Wilds and seriously, it rocks on toast. If you subscribe to the Goodman messageboards (free!) you'll see several of us running it right now, posting storytimes and asking the writer of the adventure (the honorable Harley Stroh) for advise and clarification.

...And sometimes he actually answers them!

 

[Wraith Form]

I've run DCC 1 Idylls of the Rat King

This was exactly #2 adventure I've run in D&D 3.5 ever. (#1 was actually from The Adventure Begins.)

It gets a little monotonous, but it was pretty cool.

 

[Nightfall]

Rat King is good. And so is the sequel. I too preferred to start with "The Adventure Begins" cause it's a) easy to use and b) easy enough to get PCs involved without being too complicated.

 

[Wraith Form]

That is, in fact, exactly what I love about DCCs--they're so incredibly non-setting specific that you can plop them down anywhere and you've got insta-adventures!

Me, I'm using a steampunk-inspired theme, so I was able to inject some tech here & there, swap out a trebuchet for a stationary bombard cannon and viola, we're rockin'.

 

[Wraith Form]

(It's like it's the Nightfall & Wraith Show ovah heah! ...Should we juggle flaming torches?)