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[legionofmyth]

Dungeon Crawl Classics by Goodman Games

🎲 Looking for an RPG that brings back the thrill of old-school dungeon crawling with a modern twist? Discover Dungeon Crawl Classics by Goodman Games! Dive into epic adventures, face deadly challenges, and uncover powerful magic. Perfect for both new players and veteran gamers. #DungeonCrawlClassics #TTRPG #TabletopGaming #OldSchoolRPG #FantasyGaming

Dungeon Crawl Classics by Goodman Games What is it? Dungeon Crawl Classics Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC) by Goodman Games is a tabletop role-playing game that combines old-school dungeon crawling with modern mechanics. Set in a fantastical world filled with dangerous dungeons, powerful magic, and deadly monsters, DCC harkens back to the early days of RPGs, emphasizing exploration, combat, and the…

[stonegearstudios]

A Spear Brings Sorrow

To kill a Unicorn is a tragedy.

To murder one and construct a weapon from its remains is a sin against the world.

Hey all, so I'm releasing my first ttrpg micro supplement. It's part of a ongoing project I'm doing to train myself to actually finish things.

I'm pretty happy with the results, not only do I have this fantastic art from @regal-bones but I've made up statblocks for three common fantasy systems, and a backstory to help you insert the spear and its wielder into your game.

You can get it here: https://mb11.itch.io/a-spear-brings-sorrow

I'm really terrible at promotion so any sharing is quite appreciated, as well as constructive critique.

[thepinkjupiter]

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my better cr aesthetic

[autixel]

I've got an idea (devious)

Dresden Files x Dungeon Crawler Carl crossover

Incorrect quotes where

Dresden goes: "Death measles," I heard myself say as I ran. "Now that's funny." It wasn't funny. I laughed again. What the hell is wrong with... "Ow," I cried as a rock bounced off my head.

Carl goes: "I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me."

[alignmentunknown]

Just received the test copy of our zines first issue! It looks great and I'm so excited.

[xandrovich]

[goblincow]

The Perilous Pear & Plum Pies of Pudwick | coming soon | read about it at http://tppappop.carrd.co

| 🐛 | 52 page full-colour, fully illustrated creepy-crawly micro-setting for Melsonia written and illustrated by Josh Blincow (@goblincow). Shrink to insectoid size and adventure into the uncanny world that exists inside a sapient pear tree in this system agnostic weird fantasy pointcrawl.

| 🐜 | INSPIRED BY | HOLLOW KNIGHT | BUG FABLES | THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE MINISH CAP | HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS | A BUGS LIFE

| 🐞 | MINIATURE MISADVENTURE | A well-meaning outsider brings reckless magic into a small community on the eve of the local bake off. Hijinks ensue as chitinous consequence follows behind on a thousand scuttling limbs.

Explore the dawn of a new insectoid world ripe for adventure! Shrink down to size and take your first furtive steps into the alien world living inside a sapient pear tree filled to the brim with insect communities, conflicts and (relatively) ancient secrets. Your actions will decide the destiny of a dungeon that was never meant to be delved. Will you find the adventure you were seeking, or discover another path entirely? Unravel the mystery at the heart of the tree, and make your proportionately tiny mark.

| 🐝 | FEATURES | 39 mischievous & menacing tritone illustrastions | vivid writing that animates a rich interconnected world | evocative pointcrawl-&-table adventure design | approachable, colour-coded information design that comfortably facilitates both table reference and playful reading.

| 🦗 | MANAGEABLE MECHANICS | self-contained adventure bookended with a food fight inciting incident and 5 villager NPCs | a perilous ticking clock | carefully interweaved pointcrawl map with 17 locations, 6 d3 vignette tables, 5 d4 rumour tables and 2 d4 encounter tables with location specific encounters | d100 worldly possessions table | d100 random encounters table | d20 bug name generator | 3 unique treasures | 6 page insectuary & 23 minimalist enemy statblocks | faction reference matrix | system agnostic rules for generating bug player characters.

| 🦟 | SYSTEM AGNOSTIC | compatability with old school TTRPGs like CAIRN | LABYRINTH LORD | OSE | KNAVE | DCC | B/X and easily adaptable for other fantasy tabletop roleplaying games like MAUSRITTER | TROIKA! | TUNNEL GOONS | MÖRK BORG and more.

| 🦋 | follow @goblincow for updates | goblincow.carrd.co

[nothingrpgzone]

Staying Classy in the Stone Age 1

Last September my long time friend Ciara mentioned the idea of running a stone age fantasy game, and in a discord server I am in, someone started a thread about paleolithic hex crawling so I decided to revisit this idea.

Classes such as the fighter need no real adaptations, all that is needed is a change of equipment list and you have someone who is capable of fighting. A magic users would be only slightly more difficult, eschewing the spellbook for various artifacts of power but again very reasonable. After that there is the thief, most skills are broadly applicable such as a backstabing or a climbing sheer surface even in the stone age, however picking locks and reading languages are not skills someone needs at that time. 

There is also the cleric and despite interfacing with divinity being a very important part of the game the cleric as presented is more focused on presenting a very medieval christian understanding of what interfacing with the divine means. A major rework of the cleric would be needed for proper stone age play but that is a blog post for another day[1].

Below are rules for making thieves more appropriately stone age in osr style games by changing the skills they have access to. The following are the skills found in bx/ad&d, and what I would do to make them more befitting of the stone age, all probabilities remain the same.

Pick Pockets -> Delicate Work

Even without pockets, sleight of hand is still important, it’s just the same skill at the end of the day.

Open Locks -> Identify Plant

A thief is able to determine the uses of a plant by inexplicable instinct. An unsuccessful attempt means the thief is unable to retry until they reach a new level.

(If using these skills with DCC the thief additionally adds their Intelligence Modifier)

Find/Remove Traps -> Detect/Conceal Tracks

(If using these skills with DCC the thief additionally adds their Intelligence Modifier to Detect Tracks checks and their Dexterity to Conceal Tracks checks)

Move Silently: No change

Hear Noise: No change

Climb Walls No change

Read Language -> Commune With Animal

A thief gains the ability to speak to animals in a limited manner. Observations of the surrounding world, and general emotional states such as contention or fear can be communicated; however the human condition remains the domain of hominids. An unsuccessful attempt means the thief is unable to retry until they reach a new level.

(If using these skills with DCC the thief additionally adds their Personality Modifier)

[1] I often find myself thinking ah I just need a rewrite of the cleric class in a lot of my pondering of doing d&d in different settings, particularly in regards to people doing d&d but japanese as many people try and do. They are always like no the ninja should be a totally different class than the assassin for some reason. Like it’s really only the cleric that needs to be changed, being hit by a warrior with a maul is fundamentally not that different from being hit by a warrior with a kanabō.

Also I am not sure yet if my stone age cleric analog would have stuff related to undeath as I am not sure if elves were yet to create the curse of undeath in the stone age or if that was a copper age invention. Regardless, more elf research is needed in this regard.

[ignotabackwoods]

More information on the departments to come.

[Image description: a letter that reads:

Dear Seeker,

We are glad we found you. Our community here at Desolation University of Pseudosciences wish to invite you into our hallowed halls. The staff and students provide a safe space for those looking to broaden their search for knowledge where society and academia had once shut their doors. We have award-winning programs such as Restoring Literature, Criminology, Investigating Paranormal Activity, Insanity, and Performing Arts. These programs and many more offered here at Desolation U are placed into categories that we like to call the Departments. You may find yourself intrigued with any one of our eight departments and for that, we encourage you to look into pursuing an education with us. Each department has its own colourful cast of programs, activities, and students. We are not to be held liable for the actions of our psychology students. Furthermore, do not engage in the activities of our psychology students.

Aside from participating in our prestigious courses, you will also have plenty of opportunities to create lasting bonds with other students in our many interesting clubs, such as The Forest Watcher's club and The Society of Unknown, or even join in student-led events such as the DCC weekly Ouija circle or the three way prank war. Note: do not interfere with the prank war unless you are in one of the participating departments. The students here have cultivated a very vibrant community and leave many ways for everyone to get involved. For legal reasons, most activities performed by our students may not be advertised here, as exposing outsiders to such knowledge has led to side effects beyond human comprehension. Don't let this information scare you, however, as our staff hold a seminar at the beginning of every school year to make sure our students know how to handle the very powerful knowledge we teach.

Highly praised for our ability to summon demons and for keeping our students alive and well despite the horrors, our institution is perfect for all who enter. Desolation U has also received first place awards in confusion, power, and liminality. We also happen to reside in a town. It is a town! You may hear rumours in town about the monsters housed in our walls or our students committing heinous acts of god. We urge you to remember that these are just rumours and should be ignored at all costs. There is a place for everyone in our institution, explore our programs and darken our halls today.

Best regards, Dean Anonymous Iteration Eleven.]

[hoggle]

Not to be an absolute fucking freak but you are the only person I’ve seen on tumblr that has read DCC and played BG3 so I am beyond stoked rn

My husband too!

Just joined the pateron and you and the DCC community have been so welcoming!

Thank you for being freaky, it’s exciting to finally see other people who are addicted to it like us ☺️

[molomoot]

It's Creator Day on itch.io so today is a perfect day to support your fave little indie creatives...

Like me ...?

So here is a short thread on the stuff I've made

A Shadow in the Valley

A Brindlewood Bay Mystery for the Random Adventure Jam by Chris Bissette.

Themes: Horror, Mystery, Supernatural

Price: $2 (Community Copies Available)

System: Brindlewood Bay

Link: molomoot.itch.io/a-shadow-in-the-valley

When the Mavens are invited to a meet Lord and Lady Grimsvale to discuss "a grave and concerning situation" it seems like the start of an usual adventure. But when they arrive, there is no-one is to be found...

Where could everybody have gone? How can there be no signs of what might have happened?

In a tale of shadows and loneliness, I only hope you will find the answers you seek.

When The Walls Fall

A setting generator mini game stacking a set of polyhedral dice to generate a long fallen city.

Themes: exploring the past, world building, setting generators

Price: $2 (Community Copies available

System: neutral, solo, design

Link: molomoot.itch.io/when-the-walls-fall

Starting with a d20, roll and record the dice result, then place on the dice drop table. Do the same with each progressively smaller die, placing each atop the tower once rolled. Each die’s result will indicate something about the city.

Once the tower falls, by chance or once you have placed the d4 at the tower’s peak, the dice will indicate two last details Total up all the fallen dice, this is how the city fell.

Where each dice fell on the die drop table will indicate something that survived the city’s death.

A Dungeon For Ant

A tiny one page zine about a colony of ants...

Themes: small creatures in a big world, a sisyphion task

Price: $2 (requires printing and folding)

System: neutral, I recommend DCC

Link: molomoot.itch.io/a-dungeon-for-ants

Life has not been easy for them, they have suffered many hardships under the ruthless thumb of The Titan.

And now It has stolen The Queen, taken her beyond the nest as one last cruel joke.

If the colony is to survive you must find her.

[hellhyde]

Worldbuilding moment. More info below the cut!

Officer Felix, a Community Resource Officer (CRO) for Ak'Dexter's Community College, DCC. A graduate of DCC himself, Officer Felix has served in the Ak'Dexter PD for two years (as is noted by a velcro sticker he wears), and has Galactic Health Service First Emergency Medical Care (GHS-FEMeC) certifications. As a CRO, Officer Felix almost never carries a pistol. He also is part of a random batch of officers testing a new wireless earpiece technology, connected directly to his mobile device! Things getting advanced in this radical year of 2008. His vest is bilingual, "Police" and "Vutz", In Generic and Ahan, respectively. Officer Felix himself is a polyglot, able to speak four languages fluently (Generic, Ahan, Vinahnder, and Xhengese, with elementary Duu + basic Byannic).

Part of a drive to make actual OCs lol lmao, picked a specific location within my world and am using it to make some characters. Also working on a uniform for Ja'Hailic-GAP cops.

[cartooncadet666]

False Reality: Patients of New Generation

Patient: PM-256, also known as Pac Man.

Age: 14-15 years of Pac-Worlder age.

Blood Family: Zac Estin, Sunny Suprema, Spheria Suprema.

Found Family: CG-231, SAM-258, DCC-504, SS-509.

Contact with other main patients: Affirmative.

Mental health status: Data is about above and exactly average.

Physical health status: Data is above average.

Descendant of: SS-509

Notes: PM-256 is very sentient with most of our test subjects, he has full awareness that had excelled during his time here in the reality. Questioning appetite that never seems to end. Lacks self-control over hunger. His selflessness has progressed the following months of March-August. Has been searching for parents for a while, overprotective of the new Nether King, Dreamscaper, and Pointyhead leader to be. He won't be an issue.... Not yet at least...

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Patient: SAM-258, also known as Spiral A. Marin.

Age: 15 years of Pac-Worlder age.

Blood Family: No data found.

Found Family: PM-256, CG-231, DCC-504, SS-509, SSA-090.

Contact with other main patients: Affirmative.

Mental health status: Average, had recently declined.

Physical health status: N̵̖̑̾o̵̮̩͒̐̆ ̴̢̞̭͑̋̏ď̴̥̤̊a̴͙̤̯̍t̷̪͓̺̐̊á̵̼̠̕ ̸̢̮̜̑f̷̢̳̽͊ȏ̵̲̒͝ǔ̴̢͖̭n̷̝͍̠͑͒d̴̞͆ͅ?̶̮̮̪͒̽

Descendant of: Youngest son, D'Marcus.

Notes: SAM-258 is an interesting patient, somehow in some way he was able to enter the dreamscape in another universe, the reality had confused him with his variant and gave him the same abilities. Turns hostile when threatened, usually as sentient as PM-256, a friendly encounter at first, extremely dangerous when angry. I can't believe that my son allowed him to be the new dreamscaper, he is too irresponsible to handle the duties of being a reality jumper. Oh well... He won't do much harm to me at least... Original creator of the nightmare realm, there has to be something to deny his abilities, why does he have so much access?! This is not supposed to happen!

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Patient: SLB-140, also known as Skeebo L. Borealis.

Age: 14-15 years of Pac-Worlder age.

Blood Family: Sebastian Loverman, Aurora Borealis, Fadil Borealis.

Found Family: ABS-389, BSS-666, ABS-945, SBN-190.

Contact with other main patients: Affirmative.

Mental health status: WARNING; Data is below average. Not likely to communicate properly.

Physical health status: No data found.

Descendant of: BSS-666

Notes: SLB-140 does not seem to be very hesitant to take drastic measures when it comes to this reality, I was not expecting for him to have more experience than our previous patient, then again, he is the youngest son of a very paranormal based family, I will have to give out harsher material to get more results, he isn't going to be breaking anytime soon if I don't take these chances... He does not seem to be very healthy according to ABS-389, DCC-504, and KRAFT-010. His mental health is slowly declining from self hatred and harm, he barely eats, sleeps, and never laughs or smiles considering the situation he's in... Is he turning into his variant from the Mothership universe?

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Patient: TIP-080, also known as Tip the Pointyhead.

Age: 20 years of Pac-Worlder age, approximately 35 in Pointyhead years.

Blood Family: No data found.

Found Family: PM-256, SLB-140.

Contact with other main patients: Affirmative.

Mental health status: WARNING; Data is below average. Not likely to communicate properly.

Physical health status: WARNING; Declining health. Don't approach patient for another 72 hours.

Descendant of: APEX-070.

Notes: There is no possible way that I am able to have contact with this Pointyhead, and it's confusing on how I am not able to. His personality is very soft, almost father-like, but has behavior close to Coco, which any wrong action regarding PM-256, SLB-140, or any of their found family, blood family, even friends causes rage in his body. If I can't have contact with Tip then something is seriously wrong, SAM-258 is blocking my access off I can feel it, his behavior recently affected Apex, the one who had created this reality as a prison, he's turning his race soft... I don't know how to solve this, this experiment would have to be shut down if we can't get much results...

[autixel]

Dcc 6 ch 23 (for my personal noting: approx 16:30)

So not only is the ai communicating with Carl it's also talking about itself? Feels relevant and something to be brought up later.

[alignmentunknown]

Most of the time, I think creators only want to share the positive aspects of whatever they're creating.

But I have to admit, that I'm looking at the Canadian economy (and the world economy) and getting very nervous about the future, and in particular, being able to create and distribute our zine, Chthonic Crawl.

We're so tiny, that for our first issue, I paid for some of the art and other things out of my own pocket - took a big chance - and paid for the rest out of the Kickstarter revenue.

It worked! I (we) were thrilled, but as the economy continues to crater, and banks continue to push up the interest rates, which will increase unemployment, less people are going to be able to back Kickstarters or buy pictures from artists etc.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm worried this fledgling thing we built together is going to be an impossibility over the coming months. That makes me extremely sad. I'm also sad for the other creatives who will likely face this same reality over the coming months.

But to leave it on a bit of an optimistic note, if you're an artist, writer, map maker, zine creator, game designer etc., what do you plan on doing in the future to keep your creative projects and dreams alive?

[master-john-uk]

Have you thought anymore about building a function suite on your farm?

I'm no longer available to run it, but I'd be happy to help with the design and in setting it up.

It will not be happening. This was one of my silly ideas when I bought the neighbouring dairy farm in 2018.

The dairy farm had a lot of unused land. There is a secluded sunken area about half a mile from the old milking parlour which would be an ideal site for hosting parties without causing any noise nuisance to the local community. However, the road access to the site is limited, narrow and winding. There is only one road that the milk tanker can get along, but only with a short trailer.

For a change I heeded the advice of my Business Advisor, even though I was (surprisingly) granted planning permission. I might submit a revised planning application for a smaller building to accommodate visiting guests, but without a bar and restaurant area. As the original plans were approved, there is no reason for this planning to be refused... but, DCC seem to make rules up as they go along!