XCrawl -- Can you tell me anything about it?

[Tinner]

That being said, I have played it at GenCon with the creators of the game and it was one of the best experiences I have ever had.

QFT.

I played with Brendan LaSalle (the creator) at Origins a few years ago, and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
I do agree with the other posters though that point out that the core book is full of setting material that just doesn't resonate.
I'm not interested in the whole Roman pantheon thing, and I could take or leave the modern tech. I do love the concept, and there's some great cruch in there too. Signature Moves and Mojo great mechanics that really add to the whole "pro wrasslin'" flavor. There's some nifty feats in the book too. I really like "Two-Fisted Healing" which lets a cleric divide a healing spells points between two targets - pretty handy stuff in the bloody X-Crawl world!
If you'd like to tinker with the system, it's easy to ignore the setting material and just run X-Crawls in whatever world you normally use.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

QFT.

I played with Brendan LaSalle (the creator) at Origins a few years ago, and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
I do agree with the other posters though that point out that the core book is full of setting material that just doesn't resonate.
I'm not interested in the whole Roman pantheon thing, and I could take or leave the modern tech. I do love the concept, and there's some great cruch in there too. Signature Moves and Mojo great mechanics that really add to the whole "pro wrasslin'" flavor. There's some nifty feats in the book too. I really like "Two-Fisted Healing" which lets a cleric divide a healing spells points between two targets - pretty handy stuff in the bloody X-Crawl world!
If you'd like to tinker with the system, it's easy to ignore the setting material and just run X-Crawls in whatever world you normally use.

LaSalle is who I played with, too and the amount of energy that guy has needs to be bottled. One of the best 'one off' experiences I had. A couple of years ago I was running a supers game at Origins where he was running X Crawl at the next table and we were competing for noise and antics!

Maybe you were in that group!

 

[kingpaul]

I played with Brendan LaSalle (the creator) at Origins a few years ago, and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.

Definitely. Brendan has an incredible amount of energy and passion for Xcrawl, and it shows in his games. I still remember the Con game (can't recall if it was Origins or GenCon) when our group found the cow. That was great.

 

[LoneWolf23]

Ditto. The idea of competative dungeon crawling has intrigued me ever since the days of Baron Sukumvit's Trial of Champions (set in the famed Deathtrap Dungeon of Fighting Fantasy fame). The problem that I had with X-Crawl was that it took this very intriguing concept and saddled it with a specific setting that was part Ancient Rome, part Running Man (complete with tech), and part Thug Life (seriously). The setting didn't grab me at all.

Agreed. The setting just didn't work for me at all, especially the Roman Empire bits.

XCrawl would work better as part of another setting, like Eberron, or Shadowrun, or GURPS Technomancer...