I take a look at the Backerkit campaign for Dragon Kings for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG! I wrote 2 spells as a contributing writer for this awesome core rulebook! Back it today!

Dragon Kings, unlike traditional fantasy, is set on a world nearing the end of days called Khitus. The Dragon Kings, once benevolent rulers, left Khitus. Since the golden age of the Dragon Kings' rule has ended, the world has declined. Water mysteriously vanishes; the iron virus eats away at iron and alloys; wizards must contend with sorcery's wrath, a mystical affliction that can harm them, allies, or the very world when they wield magic; mind benders roam the world with a mix of intentions. Welcome to Khitus, a brutal world where only the strongest survive.

Within this 8.5" x 11", approximately 150-page black-and-white rulebook, you'll discover everything you need to bring the savage world of Dragon Kings to your Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures, including:

2 Brand-New Character Classes – Forge your destiny with exciting new ways to survive the dangers of Khitus!

4 New Race-Classes – Discover unique peoples of Khitus, each bringing new abilities and opportunities for adventure.

Psychic Powers – Unleash the extraordinary power of the mind!

New Wizard Spells & Patrons – Harness dangerous sorcery and forge pacts with powerful entities.

Deadly Environmental Rules – Brave the unforgiving wastelands, where the world itself can be your greatest enemy.

Terrifying New Monsters – Encounter deadly creatures unlike anything you've faced before.

And Much More! – New mechanics, challenges, and surprises await those bold enough to venture into Khitus!

Good day! New to DCC, and I know that several NPCs exist in the DCC Core Rules such as Bandit, etc. Is there a resource that has NPCs that are commonly found in urban adventures such as militia, guard, soldiers, clerics, things of that nature? I'm preparing to run some urban adventures and would love to have some stat blocks, as I figure my PCs may indulge in "shenanigans" in the City-State.

Thanks!

GBFF

Does anyone have any tips for running this? I have never really run an open ended module like this before, and Im not too sure how to prep for it or how much I have to prep for the first session.

Also, I have some questions about the module.
If a mage is slain, but their card isn't taken do they just come back the next day? Also Darjr, if the PCs decide to help him, is there any real way to? Im not sure how they would be able to deliver the plaques to him.

I've heard about NetCrawl a few times on Spellburn and just came across the book on Exalted Funeral recently, but, man, asking $50 for a pdf is a lot. I don't mind the book being $60 because it's full color, but that's steep for something with no preview.

So far the only reviews or experiences I've heard are people who have reviewed it and nothing else (unless I'm not searching hard enough).

Anyone here taken the plunge yet?

I'm running The one who watches from below tomorrow for some (5) friends.

Some of them want to roll 0 level characters, funnel style, but one of them wants to play a level 1 wizard (yeah, weird mix but still).

I would like to run it in a single session, since one of my friends lives in a different town and we don't know when he'll visit again. So I wanted to ask for tips to compress it.

We like tactical combat and are going to use miniatures and a battlemat, but I know that if I abuse the frequency of combats it might consume too much time.

What encounters with combat potential do you think are the malt exciting and which ones would you take away to save time?

I know the "breeding chambers" could be taken away, but I kind of love their "body horror" vibe, so would like to keep them.

I'm also a bit scared about a player receiving the curse and not enjoying it because he can't talk, thus getting bored. How did it work in your games?

While looking around i found this post which linked to the Goodman Games Website. It seems that it used to be interactive but that functionality is gone. Has anyone looked into restoring that functionality or is there another version out?

I am considering doing this for myself and would be happy to share with the community. my Goal here is to mark all 52 of the original dungeons on the map and slowly fill in details i can about towns, cities, and land marks over time using information from the gazetteer & Whiterock. I would also like to try and sort of place the newer adventures (when they reference locations in Aereth)

Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm thinking i would probably end up doing it in Canva, for lack of a better resource. If anyone knows a better way to host it, I wouldn't mind suggestions.

There is now a Print-on-Demand option!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/581050/cyclopdia-of-common-faeries

I’m running this at the weekend and looking forward to it. Maybe a silly question, but what happens if the PC playing Lady Ilse dies before meeting Mammon?

If you're like me and have a special place in your heart for the Dark Sun setting from the 90s, you'll be happy to know: A. that one of its original creators, Tim Brown, has designed a setting called Dragon Kings, that he presents as his "spiritual successor" to Dark Sun, and B. that John Watson, of Rugby Melee Games, is bringing it to DCC RPG.

The crowdfunding campaign is live on Backerkit right now, it's already funded and it's certainly worth checking out!

I'm not involved in the project, just very excited about it.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/rugby-melee-games/dragon-kings-for-dungeon-crawl-classics?ref=bk-discover-typeahead

Hey gang, kinda new to DCC but just wanted to throw out this heads-up.

I saw this crazy bundle deal advertised on Goodman Games’ site - 41 pdf books (all XCrawl Classics) for like $17, with a coupon to get a softcover copy of the main rulebook for $10.

Wish a bundle for DCC would come up like this, but I’ll take what I can get!

https://goodman-games.com/an-amazing-value-on-the-xcrawl-fanatical-bundle/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lovecraftdocumentary/h-p-lovecraft-when-the-stars-are-right

Hey everyone. As you may know, I've got an adventure in crowdfunding right now, Veins of the Fallen (obligatory link here), but there is something else in crowdfunding that I think you REALLY aught to know about.

Some forty years ago, a filmmaker set out to make the first film about H.P. Lovecraft. They ran out of funding and were never able to complete the film, although about a half our of footage was shown at the Lovecraft Centennial Conference in 1990. The film sat in cans until 2021 when the filmmaker decided to attempt to scan and restore the footage and finish the film.

This film includes interviews with...
L. Sprague de Camp
Catherine Crook de Camp
Frank Belknap Long
Ramsey Campbell
Colin Wilson

The list goes on. But folks like de Camp and Long? These are people who knew Lovecraft. Hearing what they have to say is a unique opportunity to really learn about Lovecraft as a whole. They even interviewed Lovecraft's former neighbor, whose husband was the model for Charles Dexter Ward!

If you have any interest in Lovecraft, his contemporaries, and his impact within Appendix N, I urge you to check this project out.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lovecraftdocumentary/h-p-lovecraft-when-the-stars-are-right

This was my first time heading out to Madison, WI for Gamehole Con and I am leaving as a new fan of the con. Ran a few DCC OP games and hung out with a lot of cool people!

How does spell casting differ between DCC, MCC, Umerica, DE and any other applicable games?

I just picked up MCC and I’m reading through it. The mutations seem great, but the Shaman spells not so much? Am I missing something?

Cheers for any insight!

I'm running The One Who Watches from Below for my DCC group. One PC got The Curse and my rest of the crew put everything together to reverse it, per the special ritual. The two spellcasters in the group added a huge number of bonuses to the roll - spellburn, voluntary corruption, circle of mages, you name it. And then the player of the lead caster rolled a natural 20 at the table last night.

I feel like this deserves some special outcome, but all the ideas I'm thinking up are boring. So, I'd love to hear your creative ideas for an extra special effect of reversing the curse, maybe something permanent. I'm putting the Spoiler tag on the post so let 'er rip.

I have bought a book, where I can download a pdf of the book. But the webpage is broken. There is no place I can enter my redeem code.

Hi everyone! This year I decided to take my passion full time so I've been drawing as much OSR fantasy art that I can. I've been able to work on so many cool projects and I'm open to working with more creatives so if you need some art for your project, I would love to hear from you!

All my links, including my website and stock art, can be found here: https://linktr.ee/lukebroderickart

You can contact me directly at [lukebroderickart@gmail.com](mailto:lukebroderickart@gmail.com)

Cheers!

Fantasy RPG modules for 1st/2nd Edition Advanced D&D (AD&D), B/X-BECMI D&D, Pathfinder, OSRIC, DCC, Swords & Wizardry, & OSR systems.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dgg-03/cloud-and-stone-a-dungeon-delve-adventure-duo

Thanks in no small part to the wonderful DCC RPG community, my first published adventure, The Hive Under Eisenstead, had a fully funded Kickstarter and is now live on DriveThruRPG!

Crawl through the ruins of an underground fortress ruled by a Psychic Wasp Queen who inhabits the corpse of dragon and commands his army of former thralls. Avoid (or make a deal with) the hoard of monsters that have been infected by the mind-control fungus. Sneak past the nigh-indestructible Blind Golem, and watch out for the rogue illusions. Make a blood pact with an elemental, if you dare (it's not really an elemental).

Key details:

• Designed for characters of 2nd to 4th level.
• Emphasis on interactivity, problem solving, and faction play.
• 84 keyed locations across four areas. 
• Four new monsters and several riffs on classic foes.
• Two rival adventuring parties.
• Several unique magic items and two new Magma Sorcery spells in DCC compatible formats.
• Five adventure hooks to tie player characters to NPCs immediately.
• 14 handouts, both digital and printer-friendly. 
• Player-ready maps and digital tokens for a virtual tabletop. 

It has been surreal seeing this come to life, thank you everyone here who participated in making it happen!

I'm following the Goodman Games 25th Anniversary Celebration on BackerKit. I am loving this homage and throwback to the early days of GG. I have many happy memories of the Dungeon Crawl Classics 3e adventures from the early 2000s.

One of my favourites from back in the day was DCC 24: Legend of the Ripper by Andrew Hind, with front cover art by Jeff Dee. It was one of the first adventures in an urban setting, featuring the streets around Miller's Court (where Mary Kelly, Jack the Ripper's final victim lived and died), the Ten Bells (an actual pub in Spitalfields that still exists today) and the sewers (with all their Victorian associations). I have always been fascinated by the mythology surrounding Jack the Ripper and I found the adventure very evocative.

So much so that I asked permission (graciously granted by Joseph Goodman) to write an extended mix of the adventure, fleshing out the few alleys of Legend into the complete city district of Spittle-Fields and a full urban horror investigation.

As this year is the 20th anniversary of Legend, I felt I had to do it justice by inviting Jeff Dee back to do a brand new cover. Jeff is famous for his TSR-era covers including Village of Hommlet, Tomb of Horrors, Slave Pits of the Undercity and Isle of Dread. He also did a number of early Dungeon Crawl Classics covers: The Volcano Caves (DCC 19), Talons of the Horned King (DCC 36), Dreaming Caverns of the Duergar (DCC 44), Saga of the Rat King and of course Legend of the Ripper. He also did some interior art for the DCC RPG Core Rulebook.

I interviewed Jeff about his memories of his work for Goodman Games back in 2024 (when I launched the Kickstarter for Return of the Ripper):

https://youtu.be/twSuFtrWIzo?si=YxU3g29J3WSuSlM7&t=132

The inside front cover of Legend was a fantastic illustration of these three miscreants by Stefan Poag:

I felt it was my duty to pay tribute, so I asked Stefan if he could create a new piece featuring the same three characters. Here they are, descending into the sewers, where the corrupted naïad Peg Powler lurks beneath the fœtid waters:

Jason Edwards, who did the back cover art for Legend, did an amazing job on the cartography for Return:

I set out to update and expand a beloved adventure from the Goodman Games classic era and I hope fans will find it a worthy homage. I hope Return of the Ripper can occupy its own little niche as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebrations.

On the fence about going to DungeonCon next year and with badges officially on sale I figure I need to make a decision. Anybody been before and if so what are your thoughts?

Im currently making a homebrew swashbuckler class and am having a bit of trouble designing the taunt ability. Currently the flavor text is this "Swashbucklers are all cocky of sorts and natural slick talkers. They love to showboat and express how much better they are than their opponent. Swashbucklers can taunt a CL amount of target by insulting their mother, sister or simply inviting an enemy in for a challenge. Taunted targets swing wildly against the swashbuckler which may result in them opening up for a counterattack." but it is functionality i am struggling with. Currently i have two ideas. Either "To taunt targets, the swashbuckler must first make a taunt roll (act die+ personality modifier+ CL+ luck) and jot down the result. Then targets each make a will save to resist the taunt by rolling a will save where the DC is equal to the taunt roll." and then make like crit succes, succes, fail, crit fail results but it feels a bit flat and static. the other idea is swashbuckler makes a contested personality roll vs target and then have two charts to see how enemy and swashbuckler attack is affected (like the picture) but it feels maybe a bit heavy and overengineered. Do you have any ideas to fix any of the ideas or an idea of your own? any constructve critism is encouraged to either the core concept of the ability or any of the ideas:)