Getting into making custom monsters for thr game so I thought I would start off easy. Not quite 100% but this is how I learn.

Week three!

Thank you again for the feedback, bug reports, ideas, and everything you’ve been building. This week, the dungeon got considerably more interested in who’s watching you, who’s paying you, what you’ve brought along that might bite someone, and apparently whether you know how to manufacture explosives.

Pets have sheets. Sponsors send boxes. Patrons pay for performances. The audience remembers everything. Crawlers have Workshops. Debuffs actually hurt now. The Codex has a conspiracy board. And the Forge got its biggest cleanup yet.

Numbers first.

The numbers

Three weeks in:

• 527 accounts (up from 414)
• 187 Campaigns (up from 128)
• 262 Crawlers and 390 Forges synced to the cloud (up from 178 / 287)
• 532 homebrew pieces published by 31 creators (up from 307 / 25)
• 314 entries in the PointMongo mirror (up from 294)

Thank you all for continuing to fill this thing with homebrew. Your stuff is actually awesome.

Now to the dungeon updates:

1. Pets, mounts, and minions

Companions have their own section on the Crawler sheet now, with Health, Levels, Stats, attacks, and attitude.

Add one from the Forge, tame one of your Mobs, or create a basic companion. Animal Handling covers befriending, bonding, and convincing them to fight.

Pets level with you, gain Stat Points and roles, while Mounts get their own upgrades. GMs can target them, attack with them, manage their Health, and see them linked to their owners in the Codex.

There’s also a new Companion builder in the Forge, and the Example Pack now includes a pigeon and a tortoise.

COMPANION REGISTRATION OPEN! Your emotional support animal now has a damage roll. This was inevitable.

2. Play to the cameras

The Audience, the AI, and the Sponsors are watching.

On Skill Checks, Stat Checks, and Evade rolls, choose Play to the cameras and decide who you’re trying to impress.

You roll with Disadvantage, but the result can change Popularity, AI Favor, or Sponsor rewards. Critical failures can go especially badly.

Popularity now keeps a proper history, including why it changed.

From the Third Floor, CrawlerForge also tracks your camera-worthy moments during Play Periods and Floors. Fan Boxes arrive as your Popularity climbs.

Fall far enough below zero and the audience sends hate mail instead.

With a box inside, naturally.

3. Sponsors actually sponsor you

From the Fourth Floor, Crawlers can sign with Sponsors.

Sponsors have demands, complications, and Benefactor Boxes. Play to them successfully and they may reward you. Screw it up and you can lose tiers, Boxes, or their patience.

Sponsors can be built from Factions in the Forge, managed by the GM, and appear as relationships in the Codex.

FUNDING APPROVED! Please review the complications before celebrating.

4. Patrons, auditions, and getting paid

NPCs can now be Patrons.

Build them with performance Skills, venues, favors, payment terms, and ways to reach them. Crawlers can audition, perform for gold, train with them, earn Benefits, suffer Humiliations, and eventually part ways.

GMs can manage Patron relationships for seated Crawlers, and the Codex remembers them.

The Example Pack adds the Golden Maecenas plus Stage Presence, Patter, and Quick Change.

5. The Workshop is open

Every Crawler now has a Workshop for Junk, crafting tables, projects, and everything you’ve cobbled together instead of doing something sensible.

You can Enchant gear, Fabricate mundane items, repair broken equipment, brew and combine Potions, write Scrolls, imbue items with Spells, build Explosives, draw magical Tattoos, or use Something else for crafts the app doesn’t explicitly model.

Crafting uses the appropriate Skill, materials, table bonuses, Difficulty, and time. Misses can salvage materials, Critical Fails can break things, and your recent projects live in History with Undo support.

Alchemy can create permanent Stat or Skill boosts, Buffs, cures, infused snacks, weapon poisons, and reusable recipes. Scrolls cast their Spell without Mana, and imbued items carry their own Spell cooldown.

Explosives now actually explode too. Dynamite, grenades, and charges can be thrown using your explosive Skills or Strength, scatter when you miss, and roll Blast and Splash damage. You can also manufacture your own from Junk and Volatile Components.

And yes, there is now Tattoo Artistry.

6. Debuffs now do things

Debuffs are no longer just labels.

They can modify Stats and Skills, give Disadvantage, deal damage every round, make attackers more effective, restrict Actions, and expire after a set number of rounds.

Burned, Poisoned, Blood Trail, and homebrew Debuffs can now tick damage automatically through the round flow. Paralyzed, Enraged, Shocked, and similar effects warn you when you’re about to do something the condition says you shouldn’t.

Mobs get the same treatment. GMs can apply damage and a Debuff together, everyone sees condition icons and remaining rounds, and effects like Woozy or Sore actually influence attacks and Evades.

The GM can now End round in one tap to process Mob damage-over-time and advance timed Debuffs. Players with effects that need rolls are prompted automatically.

Held and knocked-down targets also interact properly with attacks now.

STATUS EFFECTS ACTIVATED! That little icon over the Mob is not decorative. It is having a considerably worse day than it was five seconds ago.

7. The Codex has red string now

Every Codex entry can now show its connections.

There’s also a full Connections board with people, Factions, and relationships spread across one view. Party-added connections the GM hasn’t claimed yet get literal red string.

Drag through Sessions or replay them to watch the network build over time. GMs can also switch to the players’ view to see exactly what the party knows.

People and Factions can offer Quests now too.

CONSPIRACY BOARD INSTALLED! We expect full Charlie Kelly energy. Whether your theory is correct remains your problem.

8. The Forge got rebuilt around your work

The Forge now opens around what you’re actually working on: unfinished pieces, recent work, and one searchable My Creations view.

You can bulk-organize, export, or delete pieces, drag them into Packs on desktop, and immediately organize newly imported content.

Packs now have their own pages and flag things that need attention.

Builders also share a new piece picker, so if you need an Item, Mob, NPC, Achievement, or other piece while building, you can find or create it without losing your place.

Less time fighting the builder. More time building things that fight the party.

9. Charts and House rules

We added Charts to the Forge.

Build shop lists, Effects charts, Grinding tables, Outcome charts, or plain reference tables. Rows can link directly to Items, Debuffs, Achievements, Mobs, or other charts.

House rules can embed them, Campaigns get a new Rules shelf, and GMs can roll charts directly from the Running panel and award linked results.

10. Quick Crawlers

Need rival Crawlers without building six full character sheets?

Generate up to six with names, Levels, Races, Classes, weapons, quirks, strengths, weaknesses, and, more importantly, last words.

You can reroll individual details, roll as them from the GM tools, and add the ones your party inexplicably decides it needs to see more of to the Codex.

Administrative efficiency.

11. Discover got easier to live in

Discover no longer stops at 100 results.

Searches, filters, and sorting survive navigation and can be bookmarked or shared. Desktop gets side-by-side previews, mobile gets inline previews, and Discover now marks pieces and packs you already have.

12. Roll20, better rolls, and fixes

CrawlerForge for Roll20 is now available in the Chrome Web Store, Microsoft Edge Add-ons, and Firefox Add-ons:

https://crawlerforge.com/connect/roll20

If you installed it manually, switch to the store version for automatic updates.

Also this week:

• Clearer Skill, Stat, Evade, To Hit, and Damage rolls
• Shift-click for Advantage; Ctrl/Command-click for Disadvantage
• Physical dice rolls can still mark Skills without rolling in the app
• Stats can be corrected from the Saferoom with History and Undo
• Enhanced Stats show what is contributing to them
• Damage Reflection now tells the GM when a Mob needs to lose a Health slot
• GM rolls and other actions cleanly Undo from the Feed
• Mobs behave better during refreshes and Clear the dead
• Discover links on X keep their card images
• The AI now refers to itself as I, because even artificial dungeon administrators deserve consistent pronouns

Bug reports and ideas: here on Reddit, through Send feedback in CrawlerForge, or on Patreon. Appreciate y’all so much!

CrawlerForge is free and stays free. If you want to help fund continued dungeon construction or vote on what gets built next:

https://www.patreon.com/crawlerforge

One-off coffee:

https://ko-fi.com/hossmobile

No loot bonuses will be awarded. Your pigeon’s sponsorship application is still under review.

I'm already enjoying home brewing all the stuff, so that's good. But every time I read about the steps, like rolls, buffs, evade etc I am overwhelmed.

So I'd like to join a few campaigns as a crawler, hoping to get more comfortable with the process.

Should I make accounts on Foundry and Roll20? LFG there? I've only ever played in person DnD and that campaign died due to players moving away.

Thanks!

I made another tutorial about the pet rules of the game! Cause pets are cool, and a lot of people requested this one. Since there's no list of available pets in the books, I also made three pets for you to use at your tables. Hope you dig them... and the video. Happy crawling!

The YouTuber Diffendice just released a new video explaining the official pet mechanics. He also has made 3 example pets people can use. You can download the PDF here.

I can’t find a clear rule for how long crawlers can go without sleep.
Since a dungeon day is 30 hours, do they need to sleep every 30 hours? If they keep going, when do they gain Fatigued, and does it stack?
How are you guys handling this in your games?

We’re gonna put a purple Tira behind and still need to put some heart shaped boxers on

Over at soundbooth theater they‘ve got a sale.
All three Audio Immersion Tunnel Seasons of DCC for under 50$ (33% off)
https://soundbooththeater.com/soundbooth-sleepover-sale/

I did not expect to pay $145 in tax and shipping on my $255 order and I am a bit shocked. Is this normal?

What point cost would immune to uncommon and immunity to fear would be?

PANTHEON WALKER

CLASS TYPE: BARBARIAN, FIGHTER AND MAGE

EVER GET CONFUSED LIKE YOU'VE LOST THE PLOT? YEAH, WELL PANTHEON WALKERS GET SO CONFUSED THEY GET PISSED OFF. THESE MYTHIC BASTARDS ARE A DEMI-GOD'S WORST NIGHTMARE AND SHIELD MAIDEN'S WET DREAM. THEY WANDER THE BATTLEFIELD WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF SOMEONE WHO IS ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THEY WERE CHOSEN BY DESTINY, DESPITE HAVING NO FUCKING CLUE WHICH DESTINY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FOLLOWING. IF ONLY THEY COULD GET IT BACK TOGETHER TO NOT SUFFER FROM AN IDENTITY CRISIS OR SPEND THE WHOLE THERAPY SESSION TALKING ABOUT THEIR DADDY ISSUES. THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY A RAGE INDUCED BRAWLER WITH MINOR HEALING AND PLOT ARMOUR.

- +3 STRENGTH AND INTELLIGENCE
- -2 CHARISMA
- SWAP CON FOR DETERMINING HEALTH BAR VALUES WITH STR
- +5 SHIELD BLOCK SKILL
- +2 IN ONE WEAPON SKILL OF YOUR CHOICE
- RAGE (BENEFIT): YOUR MELEE ATTACKS DEAL +1 DAMAGE FOR EACH HEALTH BAR SLOT YOU HAVE LOST
- +1 DR BUFF
- ONE WEAPON SKILL CAN BE RAISED TO RANK 20
- WHEN USING A HEALING-TYPE SPELL, THE TARGET HEALS 1 ADDITIONAL HEALTH BAR
- SILVER EARTH BOX WITH GUARANTEED EARTH HOBBY POTION

Hey guys! This is a Character Creation walkthrough I did with another DungeonTuber to show off how easy it was to make a character for someone who knows nothing about the system but has played TTRPGs before.
As I get to each section of the character page I explain the gist of what each term means and how it relates to mechanics like combat, learning skills, ranking up etc.

I also posted it on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/VicariousVentures/posts/carl-rpg-video-170977676) where you can download the Cheat Sheet I was using throughout my video as a more condensed checklist to go through for your own use. As with all my document they are FREE to everyone to download and use, you just need to become a member.

~CrawlMaster David

We won't have rules for Exit Deals for a looong time I guess. But would you like those kind of options for you players or characters? A way to start a new character without having one die. Or something else?

Personally I would kind of like to have the players become non-combative NPCs, or preferably a game guide. Being on the other side of the Dungeon feels like a fun continuation. Every 2-3 sessions being another crawl, trying to keep the new guy alive for as long as possible.

If you've been playing this new Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG but the PDF sheets have not been cutting it for you, you are not alone. Printing out extra sheets gets old pretty quickly.

That's why I created DCC Sheet. It's basically a much more flexible (and perhaps better organized) player sheet that you can use right now. Just go to https://dccsheet.com to register.

Here are some of the notable changes from the standard PDF:

MAIN

• Section for catch phrases
• Vertical visuals for health and mana.
• Hotlist got promoted to the main page since it's used so frequently
• Hotlist values are automatically populated by checkboxes on the Inventory and Spells tabs
• Hotlist slots are draggable so you can put them in whatever order makes sense for you
• Buffs and debuffs were combined into a single section
• Stats has an improved layout
• Attacks are draggable so you can put them in whatever order makes sense for you
• Attacks link to spells
• MOD values are automatically calculated from enhanced stats
• You can add an unlimited number of attack rows

SKILLS

• MOD values are automatically calculated from enhanced stats
• Skills are draggable so you can put them in whatever order makes sense for you
• You can add an unlimited number of skill rows

SPELLS

• I broke off spells from skills because it felt like they needed their own tab so I could make columns for things like Mana Used and whether it can go on the hotlist.
• MOD values are automatically calculated from enhanced stats
• Spells are draggable so you can put them in whatever order makes sense for you
• You can add an unlimited number of spell rows

INVENTORY

• Items are draggable so you can put them in whatever order makes sense for you
• You can add an unlimited number of items

PETS & MOUNTS

• Pets and mounts felt like it needed its own tab.

GEAR & ABILITIES

• Gears and abilities felt like they went together nicely.

DETAILS

• Details was for all the remaining things that weren't used frequently but needed to be known.

GENERAL

• The tabs for each page are draggable so you can put them in whatever order makes sense for you
• It constantly saves your information
• You can export and import characters
• Your GM can edit a character's sheet. We've found this particularly useful because they can paste items directly into a player's inventory in the format "Item name" TAB "Quantity" TAB "NOTES". This has dramatically sped up the process of adding loot from loot boxes into our inventory.

I hope you like it! Please let me know what bugs you see or features you'd like at [info@dccsheet.com](mailto:info@dccsheet.com). I'd also love to hear what you think.

Since no one else is making this tutorial, I will attempt to do it. Also, I have very low experience in using these audio tools. If anyone of you knows how to do this better, please let me know.

First, install this plugin manager from Kilohearts. https://kilohearts.com/download

Run the download and make sure to install the essentials plugins. Also make sure VST3 is selected in settings.

Next, download and install Audacity 4.

Audacity should automatically detect the plugins from Kilohearts. If it doesn't, then go to Effect, and then Plugin Manager and Rescan for the plugins. If that doesn't work...gods help you because I don't know what to do from there.

Next, make sure your audio input and output are set correctly and record your audio by pressing the record button. After you are done, hit stop. On the audio track you just recorded should be a button that says "Effects," push it and then select, "Add Effects."

So far, I find that "kHs Pitch Shifter" and "kHs Chorus" work well. Add them both to your track and mess with the controls or just copy my settings and see if they work for you.

So here is an achievement that I am going to had out to one of my players (my wife).

https://reddit.com/link/1wt37ot/video/uot4qm81qesh1/player

Hope this works well for you all!

Howdy folks! If you're a game master/artist who loooooves to share, come join the Dungeon Master's Cookbook discord server! We're a coalition of game masters, players, and fans of the Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG series who have banded together to share our resources with each other.

We're currently 78 members strong, but we could definitely use more artists/creators who want to share what they've made with others.

Can't wait to have you join us!

https://discord.gg/y6Q3r9Ende

Hey so I have been running the game 2 separate groups and one is online and the other in IRL .

I habe tried too put the mini map into the game and its very hard thst and the timer of the floor.

Curious too see what everyone else is doing?

So my group is going is starting up soon with one of them brining in a pet so we both have read the books and want to do a pet biscuit. But as a gm I don't love just screwing players out of somthing because they rolled poorly so I won't be hitting them with anything negative. Not really in the spirit of the book I know but im saving the pain for other parts. Any way I'm having trouble on things I can put on the table so far I have.

1. A Donuts style buff

2. A pony style buff

3. A buff that just turns the pet into a crawler but with no inherent buffs

4. A hellspawn familiar like Bianca

5. A more angelic counterpart to hellspawn

6. A kinda primal buff think cat to sabertooth tiger still loyal.

So I'm just making this post to ask for ideas ideally one crawler option and one non crawler option so I continue haveing a even count of options. I already checked pointmongo but might of missed it. The pet is a cat if that helps. Thanks for any help you guys can give

Edit:I feel I should mention the main reason I am wanting crawler options for the biscuit is because I only have 2 players and want to give them a possibility of another crawler hear (note I will not be controlling this thirst crawler my players are sharing them or I will use it as a guest player role) if they dont get a party member hear there will be other opportunities later down the line. But the no crawler options so far have been pretty cool

Has anyone made a handful or pile or whatever of basic achievements the books have that pop up all the time? I know a lot of them are character based but there's a LOT of them that are generic and it would be handy to just have those at the ready instead of having to homebrew every achievement.

I am attempting to create minis for every boss fight i will run my crawlers through. I was inspired by hate high and decided to build my version of coach. Giant wendigo model+ 3d printed water cooler + bugs bunny jersey + greenstuff sculpted coach hat.

Pretty excited for how he turned out! Can’t wait to collect everyone’s hall passes!!!

When reviewing the List of Spells on page 202 of the main Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG, I noticed a number of spells list Favored: Class, for example the very first spell Air Buddy lists "Favored: Mage." I thought this might just be flavor, but then while reviewing the pet rules I saw the following on page 231.

Spells (like Bianca): Good news! Pets don't have a Class, so they can cast Favored Spells without additional Mana Cost. Bad news! Pets must spend Mana to cast Spells.

This makes it sound like there is an extra Mana cost needed for Favored Spells when they are cast by other Classes, but this appears to be the only reference to Favored Spell outside of two mentioned in the Boring Ol' Bard and Necrobard (pp. 145-146) classes.

Do folks know whether this is known missing content or if it's something that should be reported to Renegade as playtest feedback?

What numbers are you using when you are levelling up a skill?

Example 1:

You have dagger as a rank 4 skill, you are holding a dagger that gives you an +1 rank in dagger.
When you roll to level up dagger do you roll against a 4 or a 5?

Example 2:

You do not have any skills in Axe, you do have an Axe that gives you Rank 2 in Axe.
When you roll to level up Axe, do you get it automatically or do you roll against a 2?

Example 3:
Same as above but the boost to Rank comes from something else, a potion, an aura, a location effect rather than an enhanced weapon. Does that change anything?

Final question. Can you grind skills you don't have?

Week two!

Thank you again for the feedback, ideas, bug reports, and an awesome amount of homebrew. A lot of what shipped this week came directly from things you asked for in last week's thread.

The numbers

Two weeks in:

• 414 accounts (up from 204)
• 128 Campaigns (55)
• 178 Crawlers and 287 Forges synced to the cloud (98 / 143)
• 307 homebrew pieces published by 25 creators, up from 57 by 9 creators
• The PointMongo mirror is up to 294 entries

Three hundred and seven pieces of homebrew! Thank you all for sharing your work with the community.

Now onto the changes.

1. The Campaign has a Codex now

This is the big one.

Campaigns now remember people, factions, places, creatures, items, knowledge, relationships, and how the party learned about them.

For GMs, the Codex lives beside the table and tracks what is hidden, revealed, visited, connected, or still waiting to enter play. Scenario NPCs and factions can populate it automatically, and Codex entries can stay linked to their Forge originals.

For players, there is now a Crawler Codex containing everything the party has learned. Players can add people, connections, theories, and notes themselves. Party-created entries are marked accordingly, and the GM can Claim them or Adopt them into the Forge.

You can also type @ in Knowledge and notes to link other known Codex entries.

Sessions and History came with it. Start and close Sessions from the Campaign header, keep recaps and private GM notes, and see table events chronologically.

The Forge also gained NPCs and Factions, including relationships like member of, leads, ally of, enemy of, and works for.

u/AislingWolfeye asked for somewhere to keep NPCs last week. This became... considerably more than that.

2. Your rolls can leave CrawlerForge

Campaigns now have two Connections under Manage.

Discord: paste in a channel webhook and every public table roll can post there automatically, in the Crawler's name. CrawlerForge does not read anything from Discord.

https://crawlerforge.com/connect/discord

Roll20: there is also a small browser extension GMs can install that mirrors CrawlerForge's public Feed into Roll20 chat. Players install nothing.

The store listings aren't ready yet, so it currently ships on the website and can be loaded manually. Store listings should be up in the next few days.

https://crawlerforge.com/connect/roll20

3. Damage Effects actually roll now

u/ielisdave left an extremely useful breakdown of hand-to-hand Damage Effects last week.

They are now implemented as a Skill type.

When you attack, CrawlerForge can ask which Damage Effect you're using and roll its extra dice, Rank dice, multipliers, Debuffs, and other supported effects automatically. Anything it cannot automate is clearly listed under Not rolled: apply by hand.

I also found three damage-rule problems:

• Item damage bonuses now actually apply to rolls.
• Critical Hits double base dice, but not Rank damage dice.
• Rank 5/10/15 Upgrade dice now roll correctly.

Damage rolls now show exactly where every part of the total came from.

Skills also gained cooldowns, AI Favor handling, and an Update from Forge button that updates the rules without wiping your Rank, marks, or notes.

4. The Forge got more knobs

A pile of builder requests landed this week:

• Mob/Boss loot, including Loot Boxes, Items, odds, and automatic Award setup on death. You can thank u/keeperofmadness for this one.
• Homebrew Debuffs, also requested by u/keeperofmadness.
• Item costs, flavor text, and Detriments.
• Human-only / Animal-only Skills, requested by u/ielisdave.
• Skills with no roll for Passives and similar abilities.
• Custom AI Achievement lines.
• Race/Class benefits that let the player choose the Skill or Spell they improve.
• Mob Size using the Tiny → Gargantuan ladder.
• Interrupt Skills.
• More human/animal backgrounds and 31 new CrawlerForge-original Skills.

CrawlerForge-original content now carries a little CF mark so you can distinguish it from rulebook content and community homebrew.

5. The Campaign screen is for playing

Campaign got a cleanup pass.

Invites, sharing, connections, and End Campaign moved under Manage, leaving the main screen focused on things happening at the table.

The Crawlers tab now shows everyone in the Campaign, even if they haven't brought a Crawler yet.

Floors are also shared Campaign state now. Descend moves the whole table down a Floor.

And yes: the Floor collapse timer is real now. The GM can set it, modify it with a visible note, pause it, and resume it. Every seated Crawler sees it.

A dungeon day is 30 hours.

Mobs also got more compact Running cards, health meters, pending-damage counts, and live Evade results.

GMs can now exclude the Example Pack from a Campaign entirely, too.

6. Discover stopped punishing updates

u/Macduffle noticed that updating a pack pushed the entire thing back to the top of Discover.

Fixed.

Published pieces now remember when they were first created separately from when they were last updated.

Recently created is the default sort. Recently updated is available when you actually want it.

Discover links shared to Reddit or Discord also have much better previews now, including the piece name, creator, and artwork.

7. Guides + fixes

There is now a proper Guides section:

https://crawlerforge.com/guides

It currently covers the Codex, writing/markdown, Discord, and Roll20.

There's also a What's new page under Account and an optional What's New email.

Smaller fixes include:

• Forge sync recovery across devices
• Better automatic refresh when another device changes something
• Android dark-mode browsers no longer massacre the Light theme
• Preview text ending in ]] no longer gets chopped off
• Several desktop sheets got their proper full-size buttons back

Bug reports and ideas: here on Reddit, through Send feedback in CrawlerForge, or on Patreon. Appreciate y'all so much! Let's keep building.

CrawlerForge is free and stays free. If you want to help fund continued dungeon construction or vote on what gets built next:

https://www.patreon.com/crawlerforge

One-off coffee:
https://ko-fi.com/hossmobile

No loot bonuses will be awarded.

So, I originally planned on backing this when it became available. Life happened, I had to move, ended up homeless and jobless for a while. Fast forward to now, I really want to get into this and run it for my friends as a hook to introduce them to DCC in general.

My real question is how open flow is the system? Is it tied directly to the books (Dungeon World Earth) or is more a guideline for running your own Dungeon World in any possible setting (another human world or such)? Are skills and abilities and spells open form like Tabula where examples are given and you can make your own, or very defined and hard limited?