I wanted to announce a couple World Tour events in Pittsburgh, PA.
August 3, 2013
6:30ish - 10:30ish
GASP Games Day
DCC #67 Sailors on the Starless Sea.
http://www.gaspgamer.com/
http://eonsreach.com/gaspforum/index.php?topic=6449.0
(Forums are heavily locked down, and require registration to access. Sorry.)
I'm going to start this off as a one-shot, with the potential to turn it into an ongoing game, if there is interest. It would be fairly episodic dungeon delves, allowing people who want to check it out to drop in and out. At the first session. we'll start with character generation and a zero-level funnel adventure.
September 14, 2013
6:30ish - 10:30ish
GASP Games Day
TBD
http://www.gaspgamer.com/
http://eonsreach.com/gaspforum/index.php?topic=6449.0
Assuming there is enough interest, I'll continue the adventure the following month. Characters that survive the first session will level up. I'll have a few pre-gens on hand for drop-ins. Or you could run in with a posse of 0-levels and see if any make it out alive.
November 10, 2013
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
GASPcon XIV
DCC 77.5 The Tower Out of Time
http://www.gaspgamer.com/
http://warhorn.net/gaspcon-xiv/schedule ... 2013-11-10
From out of the past comes an ancient evil to plague the present! A mystifying tower crowned by a blinding blood-red light has appeared in the forest, arriving as a never-before-seen comet burns in the sky above. Is its arrival a harbinger of terrible times ahead? Only those heroes brave enough to confront what lurks behind the inexplicable walls of the Pharos of Scales can solve the mystery of the tower’s puzzling arrival! A second level DCC RPG Adventure by Michael Curtis. Pregenerated characters will be provided.
I'll update this thread as more information becomes available. Thanks!
DCC World Tour Hits Pittsburgh, PA
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The first session at GASP Games Day was a resounding success.
I ended up with 7 players, some familiar with the basics of DCC, some regular RPG players, and a few with a very limited knowledge of RPGs in general. We started with a 0-Level Funnel, with each player controlling three towns people. We had astronomers, farmers (complete with pigs, ducks, chickens and a goat!), barristers, cutpurses, diggers (both grave and ditch), and more. 21 in total. I had to nerf the final encounter due to time, but I think everyone still had a lot of fun.
By the end of the adventure, we had whittled them down to about ten, who will achieve level 1. We'll kick off the next adventure in a month (September 14).
I ended up with 7 players, some familiar with the basics of DCC, some regular RPG players, and a few with a very limited knowledge of RPGs in general. We started with a 0-Level Funnel, with each player controlling three towns people. We had astronomers, farmers (complete with pigs, ducks, chickens and a goat!), barristers, cutpurses, diggers (both grave and ditch), and more. 21 in total. I had to nerf the final encounter due to time, but I think everyone still had a lot of fun.
By the end of the adventure, we had whittled them down to about ten, who will achieve level 1. We'll kick off the next adventure in a month (September 14).
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Re: DCC World Tour Hits Pittsburgh, PA
Working out the details now, but I'll hopefully be running some sessions at Phantom of the Attic Games in the Oakland neighborhood. More details when I have them.
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Picking up again, I'll be running games at GASP Games Day in December, January, and February:
December 14, 2013
6:30ish - 10:30ish
GASP Games Day
Either Continue DCC 66.5 - Doom of the Savage Kings or play DCC Holiday Module - The Old God's Return (to be determined at Games Day by the players present).
http://www.gaspgamer.com/
http://eonsreach.com/gaspforum/index.php?topic=6449.0
(Forums are heavily locked down, and require registration to access. Sorry.)
December --
Option 1. Pick up where we left off back in September. It's been a while. I had to miss October, then the Con hit in November. Here's an update of where we left it:
When we last left out "heroes", they had survived the Starless Seas and were unceremoniously dumped into a strange land. Finding a road, the adventurers head toward a village marked on a sign, Hirot. On the way, the crossed the path of a group of townspeople leading a young woman. She was to be sacrificed to a mythical wolf that prowls the lands. Not wanting to get involved the party continued to town.
Hearing additional rumors in town, the group, still still feeling confident from their previous adventure, decide to tackle the beast. They met with Ymae, the mad widow, who was rumored to know how to bind the beast. She promised to share her secret if one in the party agreed to marry her. (Unfortunately, I can't remember who stepped up for this, but we can figure it out Saturday). She requires hair from a corpse to weave into shackles, using the same magic she used to protect her own home.
The PCs also learned of a mythical weapon, Ulfheonar's Wolf-Spear, supposedly left in the cursed Tomb of Ulfheonar. They set off to the Tomb, exploring a few rooms, before we had to call it a night.
Option 2. Hold off on that and I run the special holiday-themed adventure from Michael Curtis "The Old God's Return". It's designed for 1st level characters, and we could just roll up some guys at level one. I'd also be game if some folks wanted to run a few guys at level 0. Here's the "box text" from the module:
A shivering plague. Knives glinting in the moonlight. A frigid mountain drifting in the sky. These ominous events attend the return of an evil long forgotten by Man. On the night of the winter solstice, when the world is balanced on a knife’s edge in the battle between fire and ice, a slumbering deity awakes. Now, only those heroes chosen as the champions of the Lord of Flickering Flames can end this growing threat before it reclaims its former malevolence and reminds the world why the old forests are places to be feared…
We can figure out a way for Survivors of the Old Gods to get over to the other game with a quick narrative and a hand-wave, I'm sure.
December 14, 2013
6:30ish - 10:30ish
GASP Games Day
Either Continue DCC 66.5 - Doom of the Savage Kings or play DCC Holiday Module - The Old God's Return (to be determined at Games Day by the players present).
http://www.gaspgamer.com/
http://eonsreach.com/gaspforum/index.php?topic=6449.0
(Forums are heavily locked down, and require registration to access. Sorry.)
December --
Option 1. Pick up where we left off back in September. It's been a while. I had to miss October, then the Con hit in November. Here's an update of where we left it:
When we last left out "heroes", they had survived the Starless Seas and were unceremoniously dumped into a strange land. Finding a road, the adventurers head toward a village marked on a sign, Hirot. On the way, the crossed the path of a group of townspeople leading a young woman. She was to be sacrificed to a mythical wolf that prowls the lands. Not wanting to get involved the party continued to town.
Hearing additional rumors in town, the group, still still feeling confident from their previous adventure, decide to tackle the beast. They met with Ymae, the mad widow, who was rumored to know how to bind the beast. She promised to share her secret if one in the party agreed to marry her. (Unfortunately, I can't remember who stepped up for this, but we can figure it out Saturday). She requires hair from a corpse to weave into shackles, using the same magic she used to protect her own home.
The PCs also learned of a mythical weapon, Ulfheonar's Wolf-Spear, supposedly left in the cursed Tomb of Ulfheonar. They set off to the Tomb, exploring a few rooms, before we had to call it a night.
Option 2. Hold off on that and I run the special holiday-themed adventure from Michael Curtis "The Old God's Return". It's designed for 1st level characters, and we could just roll up some guys at level one. I'd also be game if some folks wanted to run a few guys at level 0. Here's the "box text" from the module:
A shivering plague. Knives glinting in the moonlight. A frigid mountain drifting in the sky. These ominous events attend the return of an evil long forgotten by Man. On the night of the winter solstice, when the world is balanced on a knife’s edge in the battle between fire and ice, a slumbering deity awakes. Now, only those heroes chosen as the champions of the Lord of Flickering Flames can end this growing threat before it reclaims its former malevolence and reminds the world why the old forests are places to be feared…
We can figure out a way for Survivors of the Old Gods to get over to the other game with a quick narrative and a hand-wave, I'm sure.
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Re: DCC World Tour Hits Pittsburgh, PA
January 11, 2014
10:00ish - 2:00ish
GASP Games Day
DCC 80.5 - Glipkerio’s Gambit
http://www.gaspgamer.com/
http://eonsreach.com/gaspforum/index.php?topic=6651.0
(Forums are heavily locked down, and require registration to access. Sorry.)
I normally run an open, on going DCC game in the third slot at Games Day. Unfortunately, I had a little scheduling snafu and I have to leave before our evening slot in January. I lieu of canceling completely, I'd like to run a one-shot, special adventure in the first slot (10 am - 2 pm). Like all the DCC games, this will be open to anyone interested in the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. It's another of Goodman's DCC Road Crew Only Adventures -- "Glipkerio’s Gambit", a level 2 adventure. I'll have some pre-gens available. This adventure is only available to those running the game in public places, so it will be a rare opportunity to play it!
Atop the highest spire of Mount Tyche, your patron’s temple is under attack. A demonic miasma rolls down the frost-blasted peaks leaving a vile stench and foul magics in its wake. Winged black creatures roost along the crumbling solitary road to the temple. The bloodthirsty shrieks of snow apes and the moans of the tortured dead echo from the jagged rocks above. Your patron has saved your skin more times than you can count. Now it is your turn!
10:00ish - 2:00ish
GASP Games Day
DCC 80.5 - Glipkerio’s Gambit
http://www.gaspgamer.com/
http://eonsreach.com/gaspforum/index.php?topic=6651.0
(Forums are heavily locked down, and require registration to access. Sorry.)
I normally run an open, on going DCC game in the third slot at Games Day. Unfortunately, I had a little scheduling snafu and I have to leave before our evening slot in January. I lieu of canceling completely, I'd like to run a one-shot, special adventure in the first slot (10 am - 2 pm). Like all the DCC games, this will be open to anyone interested in the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. It's another of Goodman's DCC Road Crew Only Adventures -- "Glipkerio’s Gambit", a level 2 adventure. I'll have some pre-gens available. This adventure is only available to those running the game in public places, so it will be a rare opportunity to play it!
Atop the highest spire of Mount Tyche, your patron’s temple is under attack. A demonic miasma rolls down the frost-blasted peaks leaving a vile stench and foul magics in its wake. Winged black creatures roost along the crumbling solitary road to the temple. The bloodthirsty shrieks of snow apes and the moans of the tortured dead echo from the jagged rocks above. Your patron has saved your skin more times than you can count. Now it is your turn!