First off if you are a player in my Tuesday night game, stop reading now! DCC has a lot of content out there for it. One of my favorite zine’s is called Crawling Under A Broken Moon published by Reid San Filippo. In issue #14 & 15 he put in a mini-hex crawl at a dinosaur…
Category: GM Advice
Getting Rewarded For Helping To Start A Gaming Community
I didn’t get into creating a local gaming community to get rewarded. Well beyond the reward of introducing new players and making new friends. However the nice folks at Goodman Games have a program they call Goodman Games World Tour. Where you can ride eternal shiny and chrome. From the website: Once again Dungeon Crawl…
B/X Mars
This is a pretty cool game that was posted to the OSR G+ group by Michael Gibbons. It might be good for a 1 shot. I’m guessing based on the picture he is responsible for http://themetalearth.blogspot.com
A Great Find At The Local Used Book Store
I picked up the 1983 Mentzer Basic D&D books for $4 each at the used book store. I think understanding these older versions better will help me be a better GM when I’m running Basic or Advanced D&D on the fly for DCC. I played Pathfinder for 3 years and there were a lot of…
Heroes Can’t Be Built
While I was looking around today on the DCC RPG Rocks Facebook group when I saw that Bruce Grossman had posted a DCC RPG Flyer with his game’s information on it. I asked if I could have the clean copy and he obliged. I have posted it below. Don’t know who the original creator is…
Thoughts On Starting A Local Gaming Community
I was introduced to Dungeon Crawl Classics on Free RPG Day 2016. I had heard of it before, but never really given it a look. After some old school gaming from the awesome GM EdOWar I realized how much I truly enjoyed old school play. Fast forward to Free RPG day this year and I…
Understanding Basic D&D Stat Blocks (For Use With A DCC Game)
There’s an update at the bottom Giant rats ahead! Here we have a stat block for giant rats from a Basic D&D module. I’d like to use this module in my DCC game. So upon first glance I can see that there might be between 2 and 5 giant rats. IF there is 2 They…
Wisdom from James Ward
Wisdom from James Ward, creator of Metamorphosis Alpha, the worlds first sci-fi RPG. “It irritates me when I read in some rules systems that you (the referee) should not kill players early in their gaming experience. I am of the exact opposite opinion. I think all GM’s should indeed kill off characters in the early…