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This weekend I finalized the custom classes for my pulp-inspired Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign, so I thought I’d share the descriptions here.

Adventurer You are a thrill seeker, a chance taker, an adrenaline junkie who leaps into danger without a second thought. You are skilled in combat and can pull off feats of heroism beyond most mortal men.

This class is based on the DCC Warrior, but I’ve replaced Mighty Deeds with Acts of Heroism and added some special abilities (Sharpshooter, Lightning Reflexes, etc.) available at higher levels.

Cultist You worship the great Cthulhu. Other mortals tremble at the thought of his return, but you long for it. Until that glorious day, you dedicate your life to serving Cthulhu however you are able. 

This is the DCC Cleric class with Cthulhu as its god. Because I was worried no one would choose a class that was exactly the same as in a normal Dungeon Crawl game, I’m letting the player choose all of their starting spells and giving the cultist a couple special abilities (risking sanity for improved spellchecks and access to forbidden knowledge via Cthulhu).

Explorer You are a tomb raider, a globe trotting archaeologist, a seeker of lost knowledge or glory. You possess skills that are useful when traversing hostile terrain and encountering strange cultures and people.

I based this class on the Thief from DCC, but I made some changes to the skills. Now there’s Track (based on Stealth), Understand culture, and Guide (which allows the character to prevent random encounter checks). I also ported over the Halfling’s ability to share Luck, because I wanted that mechanic in the game and the Explorer seemed the most logical class to have it.

Inventor You are a scientist, a genius, able to work technological marvels. Your tech is so advanced, it is indistinguishable from magic.

This is basically a Dungeon Crawl Wizard whose spells take the form of gadgets, but I’ve also added a Resourcefulness talent that can be used to do anything from a fashioning a simple snare trap to a making a radio out of a coconut.

Spy You are an assassin, a master of disguise, a covert agent of some government. During wartime your skills serve your country, but between conflicts you put them to use for your own purposes. 

You might expect this to be a reskinned DCC Thief, but it’s actually based on the Halfling. That gives the character two-weapon fighting and stealth. I removed the ability to share Luck (that’s with the Explorer now) but added in a few of the Thief skills like Disguise self and Backstab.

Stage Magician You are a master of the dark arts, able to pierce the veil of reality. You pretend to be a mystic from the Orient or a European sophisticate, but only to hide the fact that you can do things no normal person can. 

This is the DCC Wizard. Like with the Cultist, I wanted to give it something to make it different from the regular game so I’m letting the player use Intelligence or Personality for spellchecks (because the performance is as important as the magic knowledge) and at higher levels there are a few abilities like Mesmerize, Sleight of hand, and Illusionist.

The group has all of these descriptions now, so they can start choosing what they want their characters to be. I’m hoping for a good mix, but we have seven players and six classes so I know we’ll have at least two of one of them.

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I spent some time this weekend on my upcoming pulp adventure mini-campaign, and one of the big changes I needed to make is the addition of firearms. I was going to come up with some basic rules from scratch, but then I discovered the fanzine Crawl! did a whole issue on firearms and DCC. I’m not using all of their rules, but the issue gave me a really good starting point for figuring out how firearms will play into my campaign.

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Pulp Crawl Classics

Last fall, I wrote about wanting to start a Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign using the Purple Planet setting. My hope was to mix things up with our monthly group, putting current characters on hold and starting fresh with some new ones. Ultimately, I decided the plan was a bit too ambitious, but it planted the seeds for what I hope will be a really fun mini-campaign I’m running for the group starting next month.

While looking through games for The Monthly Crawl, I came across Moon-Slaves Of The Cannibal Kingdom. It looked like a fantastic adventure, but reviews made it sound more like a sandbox best played out over multiple sessions.

The setting is a jungle island which features a lost civilization, an intelligent ape, and strange technology. All of this screamed 1930s pulp adventure to me, so I revisited my plan to set aside our usual characters in favour of something different. Instead of medieval fantasy, I’m re-skinning Moon-Slaves as pulp adventure. Instead of warriors, wizards, and clerics, players will choose from classes like Adventurer, Explorer, Cultist, and Inventor. And instead of a linear adventure like we usually run, this mini-campaign (which we’ll play out over two or three sessions) will be about exploring the island and dealing with threats as they arise.

I’m working out the details on the new classes (which are really just minor tweaks on the current ones, as I’m less interested in reinventing the wheel as I am in putting a new spin on the game we’ve been playing monthly for the last year) and making some minor changes to the written material to give it a pulp feel (for example, turning one of the antagonists into a mad scientist).

The first session is scheduled for late March, and based on how much of the island they explore then I’ll decide if we need one or two more sessions. And if ‘Pulp Crawl Classics’ is a hit, maybe we’ll bring the new characters back for another adventure (or campaign) down the line.

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Game Recap: Doctor Who and the Death Trap

Last night I got to run my original Doctor Who RPG scenario for a new group of players. The set-up is as follows:

The Doctor and his companions awake to find themselves aboard an abandoned space station orbiting a black hole. A stranger appears on the view screen and informs them that the orbit is decaying, they don’t have the TARDIS (or the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver), and they aren’t alone on the station. They have one hour to escape from the station before it falls into the black hole.

As these were all people who hadn’t played the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game before, I taught them the rules as we went along. We had three people, playing as the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, and Rory (a fourth who was going to play as River Song wasn’t able to make it).

It was a good session. While no one attempted a British accent, they did act in character. The players mostly followed the route I expected, although there were a couple of surprises (no one thought to use the computer to scan the station to find the TARDIS, but I had a back-up plan to reveal its location) and they avoided some of the bigger pitfalls by rolling well.

When it came to the final encounter, I’d purposefully kept my notes pretty sparse because I wanted the players to provide their own ideas for defeating the bad guys and escaping the station. They did not disappoint, coming up with a three-pronged strategy that allowed them to neutralize their opponents without using any actual weapons (and without getting shot themselves, thanks to the Doctor’s very effective distraction of simply waltzing into the hanger bay and asking a bunch of annoying questions about the enemy space ship parked there).

It was a short session, wrapped up in less than 90 minutes, but I think it was a good introduction to the game system and everyone seemed to have fun. Although I have my monthly Dungeon Crawl game and a couple other RPG plans on the horizon (more about those in future posts), I’d very much like to get this group together for another session in the near future. After all, they still don’t know who kidnapped them and left them on that space station in the first place...

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I finally got a new Doctor Who game scheduled. I only have three RSVPs for the event, but that’s actually fine because Doctor Who works better with just two or three players (part of the reason I made my last group a UNIT campaign was because that lends itself to 5-6 players). The scenario we’ll be playing is one I wrote myself, a short introductory game I hope will give the players a feel for the Doctor Who RPG and maybe get them interested in an on-going campaign. At the players’ request, they’ll be using the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, and River Song (I’ll have a Rory character sheet handy in case we get a walk-in).

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A new era of Doctor Who is dawning…

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At first glance, I’m not crazy about this logo. But then, I never really liked the Russell T. Davis era one, and the first Moffat logo took some getting used to. The animated version in the video BBC posted works better, so maybe it’s just that it doesn’t play well as a static image. Either way, I’m sure it will grow on me.

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Back from hiatus

I haven’t posted here in a while. Our gaming group went on hiatus for the holidays, and I just sort of got out of the habit of blogging again. But I’ve got some RPG stuff on the horizon, so I expect to have more to talk about in the coming weeks.

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One year ago I returned to my hometown in Grey County, Ontario, Canada, to meet up with my brother and our high school friends for a one day roleplaying game session.

I had wanted to do something for my birthday in the fall, and the idea of a weekend of roleplaying games with old friends had been in my mind as early as that spring. The logistics of getting people down to Texas didn’t seem feasible, and since my whole high school RPG group still lives within a few hours of our hometown it just made sense to do it there. I reached out to everybody to gauge their interest, and although most hadn’t played a game in years everybody liked the idea (although they could only do a single day of games due to schedules).  And so, the very first Grey County Con was born.

We settled on three games for the day. I’d run the newest Star Wars game from Fantasy Flight and Dungeon Crawl Classics (both of which would be new to everyone but me) and my friend Dave would run Shadowrun, our primary game through most of high school (and the one he’d kept going sporadically over the years with his friends). Between games we’d have breaks for junk food/beer runs, and to eat lunch and dinner.

Over the course of the day, I learned that with this group nostalgia beats trying new things. Everyone loved Shadowrun, and they all came ready with inventive character sketches that were fleshed out over a lengthy character creation session (I’d created mine ahead of time, a paranoid corporate whistle blower who deals in information to stay one step ahead of the people he double crossed). But when it came to Star Wars, the familiarity of the setting wasn’t enough to get some people past the strange new rules (we’d played the old West End Games version a lot back in high school), and they didn’t feel the same investment in the supplied pre-gen characters as they did with characters they created themselves.

Dungeon Crawl Classics was better received, maybe because they didn’t have anything to compare it to (the only fantasy game we’d played together was Earthdawn, and we’d barely gotten into that before going our separate ways after graduation). But we also never played a game as lethal as Dungeon Crawl, and some players didn’t enjoy having their 0 level farmers cut down before they even got a chance to act (it was also the last game of the night, and none of us are as young as we used to be so energy levels were waning).

Even with those bumps in the road, everyone seemed to have a great time. We all agreed it could make a great annual tradition, but scheduling Grey County Con II for 2017 proved too difficult. Still, I’m hopeful that won’t be the last time we all meet up to play.

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Meet the 13th Doctor’s new friends! Yasmin (Mandip Gill), Ryan (Tosin Cole), and Graham (Bradley Walsh) 

For more information and details, head to Anglophenia or click here!

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I really like this news. I don’t know any of the new cast members, but just the general shakeup that a full TARDIS would bring is encouraging. The show has been back for more than a decade now, that’s enough time for any show to get stale. Simply making the Doctor a woman, while a great move, isn’t enough. But going back to a three companion model for the first time since the Peter Davison era is a pretty big change to the New Who status quo, and could help differentiate Chris Chibnall’s Doctor Who from the Russell Davies and Steven Moffat years.

It also feels like a deliberate attempt to bring the show back to its origins (especially coming on the heels of a First Doctor appearance in this year’s Christmas special). In 1963 the Doctor was an old man with a young female companion, and they were joined by a man and woman in their mid-to-late-30s. In 2018 we’ll have a young woman Doctor with an older male companion, joined by a man and woman in their mid-to-late-20s. There have also been comments hinting at more historical stories for series eleven, which definitely suggests a version of Who that embraces its roots.

Of course, this is assuming that all three will be joining the Thirteenth Doctor in her adventures. Back when Danny Pink was announced for series eight, I assumed we’d be getting him and Clara as the new Ian and Barbara but things didn’t work out that way. Maybe Yasmin and Ryan will be Earth-bound characters we see periodically, or each will only appear in part of the upcoming season, or both feature prominently in just a short run of episodes. There’s no way to know yet. But the possibility for three regular companions is there.

Change has been the only constant in 50+ years of Doctor Who. Whether it’s replacing William Hartnell with Patrick Troughton, trading in base-under-siege stories for UNIT ones, casting the first young Doctor with Peter Davison or having the first “old” Doctor of the modern era in Peter Capaldi, the show always keeps changing. It’s one of the things I love about Doctor Who, and I’m excited to see what change is coming with series eleven.

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If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me they bury me some place I don’t want to be you’ll dig me up and transport me, unceremoniously away from the swollen city breeze, garbage bag trees, whispers of disease, and acts of enormity. And lower me slowly, sadly, and properly. Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy.

“At The Hundredth Meridian”, The Tragically Hip (via liketheappliance)

Still can’t believe Gord Downie is gone.

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Game Recap: Ravenloft

Yesterday I finally got to run my Dungeon Crawl Classics version of Ravenloft! I took the original AD&D module and ported it over to the DCC rules system, as well as scaling it down to fit into one four hour session. The end result was a more streamlined story that I think retained the gothic horror mood of the original.

Things didn’t get off to a great start as we only had three of our expected seven RSVPs. Our group has been playing monthly since January, and I’m used to a little fluctuation in party size, but we’ve never had that many last minute cancellations (or unexplained no-shows) at once. So the party was less than half of the expected size, and one of the three was a first time player. Which would explain all of the deaths...

Dungeon Crawl is a deadly game, but after get you get past the 0 Level Funnel game the characters generally have enough hit points to survive most combat encounters. But then this wasn’t really a DCC game, it was an AD&D one intended for a large party of higher level characters. We had a total of four character deaths, three of which were undone by magical healing (and two of the deaths happened to the same character). The only permanent casualty was an NPC being run by a player to help bolster the party’s numbers. Our Cleric just wasn’t able to bring him back.

In Dungeon Crawl characters can “burn” Luck points to increase their roll totals. Halflings can burn Luck to help others, and ours ended up burning 10 of his 11 Luck points over the course of the adventure. Without him, there would have been a lot more casualties, so it’s a good thing that player didn’t choose to play a Warrior instead (which he considered, as the other two PCs were magic users and there was some concern about having enough muscle).

As for the adventure itself, the party did a good job of exploring the castle, finding all of the hidden objects needed to destroy Count Strahd Von Zarovich. In scaling things down, I re-drew the castle map to give it fewer levels and rooms. As a result, the characters were more or less funneled in the direction I needed them to go to tell the story (although they did surprise me a few times by passing over certain rooms or going up or down stairs to explore different levels at times I was not expecting). In terms of monsters, ghouls proved the deadliest opponent throughout (they made short work of the zombies, and were smart enough not to release the werewolf from his cage). By the time they faced off against Strahd in his crypt, they were armed with both a magical sword that could deal permanent damage to Strahd (the Sunsword) and the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind which allowed them to incapacitate the vampire (but not before he launched the fireball that incinerated that one NPC).

In the end, the evil was defeated and the curse lifted. The party walked out of Castle Ravenloft with some magical weapons and a lot of gold, and everyone seemed to have a good time. I really enjoyed the experience of modifying an existing module for Dungeon Crawl Classics, and I think it was good practice for when I try and write completely original adventures. And most importantly, I feel like it was a good Hallowe’en adventure for the October edition of the Monthly Crawl.

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A look back at UNIT Adventures

In the short time I’ve been back into roleplaying games, I’ve had three different groups that met for regular sessions. Right now it’s the Monthly Crawl (Dungeon Crawl Classics), and before that I had a group for the Star City Heroes campaign I wrote about previously. But the very first group I formed after moving to Texas was for the Doctor Who roleplaying game, Adventures In Time And Space.

Adventures In Time And Space does a great job of capturing the spirit of Doctor Who. For example, initiative isn’t determined by a statistic or a dice roll like in other games. Instead, it’s based on what you’re going to do on your turn. If you’re going to talk, you go first. If you’re going to fight, you go last. In between, there are turns for people who are going to do something (like try to open a door with their sonic screwdriver) or run away. It’s a simple change, but it’s fundamentally Whovian to say that the people who will talk their way out of trouble should get to act before the ones who would shoot at stuff.

After reading through the core rulebook I did a couple of test sessions with friends, but I was itching to get a regular game going. However, the very same qualities that make Who so appealing as a viewer (that its stories can be set literally anywhere in the universe, at any point in history) made starting a Doctor Who campaign daunting. I wasn’t even sure which Doctor to use, as my own tastes run more to Classic Who but prospective players may only have seen the new series. I needed a setting that was a little bit limited in scope but offered all of the fun of the Doctor Who universe.

Enter, UNIT.

Some of my first episodes as a kid were ones featuring the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, so I’ve always had a soft spot for Earth-bound stories of alien invasions and mad scientists. Having my players be members of UNIT would allow me to keep the world familiar but pull from Who’s extensive history for my villains and threats. I chose 1985 for the setting, making the PCs a new team that found themselves working for a post-Lethbridge-Stewart organization many thought was past its prime (a major subplot involved a member of parliament who wanted the UK to pull out of the organization). Rather than spending a lot of time on character creation, I created a handful of PCs for my players to choose from. Upon arriving at our first game, I asked each person if they wanted to play a soldier or a scientist, and if their character was male or female. Based on their answers, I handed out character sheets. The team became:

Tamsin Devereaux, a brilliant young scientist who joined UNIT because of her teenage crush on the Doctor

Alec Harford, the grizzled commanding officer who hates the Doctor (he lost a lot of good friends during the years he was their scientific adviser) and is secretly in love with Tamsin

Inessa Deminov (aka Domino), a Russian soldier who joined UNIT after witnessing a Terileptil ship crash in Afghanistan

Robbie Barnes, an adrenaline junkie medic who drives fast and talks faster

Penny Farthing, secret agent with a mysterious past (a cat burglar from the twenty-first century, the Seventh Doctor hid her in the 1980s and occasionally asks her for favours)

In series one, the team met the Doctor (first a fake Third Doctor, and then the real Fourth), learned of a mysterious group that was essentially the evil version of UNIT, and saved the world from the resurgent WOTAN (last seen in the First Doctor story “The War Machines”). Before that game, the player running Harford told me he had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. We agreed to have the character go out in a blaze of glory -- right after confessing his feelings for Tamsin.

In series two the team got a new leader (Jonas Kilpatrick, a paper pusher who finds his courage when forced to join the team in the field), traveled to a parallel universe where they fought alongside the King Arthur mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story “Battlefield”, and matched wits with the Master himself.

The finale saw the team thrown into the past, where they got to meet a the famous Brigadier and work alongside a younger version of their old friend Alec Harford. Now knowing his true feelings for her, Tamsin chose to stay behind to be with Harford and become UNIT’s scientific adviser (she was there waiting for them upon their return, a decade older and ready with a plan to help the team save the world).

After two successful seasons, UNIT Adventures went on hiatus so I could come up with some new stories. But then I got the idea for Star City Heroes and started that up (with mostly the same group of players).

It’s been almost two years since we wrapped up UNIT Adventures, and I’m feeling the pull of the Doctor Who roleplaying game again. This time I want to try an actual Doctor and companions campaign. I’ve put out feelers to my old UNIT Adventures players to see if they’re interested. Hopefully I’ll have a brand new Doctor Who campaign to write about here down the line.

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Star City Heroes: An Arroverse Campaign

With all of the CW superhero shows returning next week, I thought I’d write about a campaign I had going set within the Arrowverse.

Star City Heroes was set between seasons 3 and 4 of “Arrow” (so spoilers for seasons 3 and beyond ahead). The concept was that, with the Arrow gone (presumed dead, though viewers knew better), new heroes had risen to take his place. The game used the DC Heroes RPG system (which I’ve already written about), so I already had the stats for a variety of ‘street level’ heroes (ones who hadn’t appeared on any of the Arrowverse shows but fit with the style of that world) the players could choose from (and the ones I didn’t have were easy enough to make).

Available player characters included the Question (Vic Sage, an investigative journalist by day and masked vigilante by night), Blue Beetle (Ted Kord, a goofy gadget-crazy millionaire who fights crime for kicks), Wildcat (Yolanda Montez, a protege of Ted Grant who discovers his secret past and takes up his former heroic identity to kick some ass), the Sandman (Wesley Dodds, a playboy and amateur detective whose prophetic dreams help him solve mysteries) and Black Lightning (the only metahuman, Jefferson Pierce was a science teacher in Central City who got powers from the particle accelerator explosion and moved to Star City to keep his family safe). I also included Kate Spencer as Manhunter (retconning her season 2 death by saying she’d actually gone into hiding and spent the following year training to become a vigilante) and Katana who had been on “Arrow” in season 3.

My players chose Blue Beetle, Manhunter, the Question, and Katana. Because they were the basis for Niteowl and Rorschach in Watchmen, I suggested that Blue Beetle and the Question should start the campaign as partners, then introduced the other heroes over the course of the first adventure (which featured a cameo by Black Canary, appearing as an NPC). In a later session, a friend of mine from work (who is a fan of the shows but had never played a roleplaying game) asked to sit in. Rather than handing him a hero he wasn’t familiar with, I wrote the Ronnie Raymond Firestorm into the campaign (which didn’t really fit the timeline since Firestorm was M.I.A. during that time period, but it was a fun character for him to play).

Unfortunately, we didn’t get to meet many times before season 4 of “Arrow” began (the arbitrary end point I’d set for the campaign) and scheduling problems kept me from getting to run the big ‘series finale’ I’d written to explain why none of the heroes were still active when the show came back. Then two of the players moved away, and Star City Heroes just sort of fizzled out. It’s too bad, because we had a good group that seemed to enjoy playing as those characters, and I feel like there were lots of story opportunities in an Arrow-less Arrowverse.

I’ve had other ideas for games set within the CW shared multiverse (I’d really like to do a version of the Death of Superman comic story set on Supergirl’s Earth, and I thought about incorporating the Legends of Tomorrow into a campaign based on the old Armageddon 2001 crossover event), but I’ve been busy with other systems and just haven’t tried to get a new DC Heroes group going. Maybe the new seasons of “Arrow”, “The Flash”, “Legends of Tomorrow”, and “Supergirl” will inspire me to revisit some of those ideas or resurrect Star City Heroes.

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I’m really wanting to get a new regular RPG going, but there are just too many different games I want to play. I’ve been thinking about doing a Doctor Who campaign since the Thirteenth Doctor was announced, I’d love to try out that new Star Trek Adventures system, and I still haven’t played a full session of Metamorphosis Alpha since reading through the rule book. The problem is I can’t do them all at once, and each would require a fair bit of planning (as well as brushing up on or learning rule systems). 

The other thing they’d require is players, and since the group I have now is for Dungeon Crawl Classics it might make sense to stick with that for the time being. But I want to do something different from the D&D-style adventures we’ve been playing since January, which is why I’m leaning towards a new standalone campaign using the Purple Planet setting.

Introduced in the Peril On The Purple Planet box set, it’s a ‘sword & planet’ setting like Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom stories (A Princess of Mars, Warlord of Mars, etc). I like the idea of doing one big self-contained campaign that starts with the characters being transported to the Purple Planet and ends with them finding their way home. I’d also probably use accelerated XP rewards for the sessions so the heroes can get to Level 5 (or beyond) before the last adventure (progress in DCC is generally pretty slow, which is why after months of consistent play only a couple of our regulars have achieved Level 2 with their characters).

Of course, that’s assuming my current group is up for putting their current characters on pause long enough to play through this campaign, or play both at the same time (which would require me to step down as GM in the regular game). If not, I might try and get Adventures On The Purple Planet going at the new store that’s closer to my house (provided there’s an audience for it there).

None of this addresses my desire to get a Doctor Who or Star Trek game going, but it would allow me to stretch my creative muscles a bit and run games in more of a sci-fi environment (even if it’s still closer to fantasy).

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I’ve spent my week off going through the original Castle Ravenloft adventure module from AD&D and figuring out how to convert it to Dungeon Crawl Classics for the Hallowe'en edition of the Monthly Crawl. I thought (hoped?) it would be a simple matter of figuring out DCC stats for creatures and traps, but I quickly discovered that the written adventure is much too long and complex to tackle in a single session. So I’m doing a lot of rewriting, cutting out sections of the adventure but then adding new material so what’s left still makes sense. It’s going to be a pretty big undertaking when it’s all said and done, but I think the result will be a really fun session of gothic horror themed Dungeon crawling.

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Update:

I ended up redrawing the map for Castle Ravenloft, scaling it down significantly so the party has time to explore it in a single adventure. This meant basically rewriting all of the text because doors go to different rooms/appear in different locations/etc., which obviously took a lot of time. What I now have is a truncated version of the original module that still includes a majority of the mysteries, traps, and monsters. Next step is going through the document and adding stats for the various monsters the PCs will encounter.

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Was out of town last week and had the pleasure of sitting in on a friend’s regular Dungeons & Dragons game which her fiance GMs. D&D is not my game, but I know 5e well enough to keep up, and the game was written as a one-shot where each of us woke up in new bodies with no knowledge of our own skills or abilities so character creation and an encyclopedic knowledge of the different classes and races wasn’t required.

The group was welcoming and the game was fun, but it was a good reminder that some gamers focus more heavily on the roleplaying part of roleplaying games. Unlike our Dungeon Crawl Classics games which are nearly constant action, in this 3+ hour session we only engaged in combat one time. The rest of the evening was spent working through puzzles, talking our way in and out of trouble, and just general problem solving.

The next time I’m back, I plan to bring my Dungeon Crawl book and dice so I can run her group through a game to see how they like it. I expect the change of pace will be just as shocking for them as it was for me, and hopefully they’ll have as much fun with my game as I did with theirs.

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I’ve spent my week off going through the original Castle Ravenloft adventure module from AD&D and figuring out how to convert it to Dungeon Crawl Classics for the Hallowe'en edition of the Monthly Crawl. I thought (hoped?) it would be a simple matter of figuring out DCC stats for creatures and traps, but I quickly discovered that the written adventure is much too long and complex to tackle in a single session. So I’m doing a lot of rewriting, cutting out sections of the adventure but then adding new material so what’s left still makes sense. It’s going to be a pretty big undertaking when it’s all said and done, but I think the result will be a really fun session of gothic horror themed Dungeon crawling.