My Free RPG Day was a good one.
YottaQuest (in Cincinnati) really does a great job. They ordered 4 complete kits and ran something like 19 separate rpg and board game events from 9:30am until midnight.
Anyone could take one item, if you played in an event you got another, and if you ran an event you got two more*.
I signed up as a player for
The Undulating Corruption (run by adminfoo) and ran
The Jeweler That Dealt in Stardust myself. It was a long day (9:30am-7:30pm) but completely worth it.
I played the Dwarf from the
pregens in
The Undulating Corruption. Dwarves are rapidly becoming my favorite DCC RPG class/race. Jim Wampler, who does the
Marvin the Mage webcomic, played the corrupted Wizard. The other two players were new to DCC RPG, but seemed to really dig it. They particularly loved the crit and fumble tables.
I won’t spoil the adventure, but we were successful in slaying the monster (thanks to the Cleric rolling a natural 20 on his spell check for Bolt From The Blue (
91 points of damage!) but the Wizard remained corrupted (actually
more corrupted, due to rolling a 1 the first time he tried to cast a spell).
I had 4 players for
The Jeweler That Dealt in Stardust. Each one chose one of the
official pregens and I randomly assigned them a 3rd level Thief generated using the indispensable
Purple Sorcerer Upper Level Character Generator**.
Only one of the players (who chose the Cleric) had any prior experience w/ DCC RPG. Fortunately they all took to it like ducks to water. Mid-session two of the four went over to the register and bought dice on the spot even though I had brought 4 sets.
Again, no spoilers, but a good time appeared to be shared by all. Lots of spontaneous cheers and high fives.

Photos courtesy of YottaQuest*I took an extra copy of the DCC adventures for my GF (she’s credited as a playtester for TJtDiS) and I got her a Q-Workshop D6.
**Seriously,
in·dis·pen·sa·ble. if you haven't already backed his
Kickstarter project, you really, really should.