Let us pray for Shelter so that those who left us behind may one day find their way home. Mothers are all important, and I found the DCC deity list a little lacking in protective and mothering goddesses. Enter Auranne, the Expectant, designed to fill the role of a simple deity providing succour to the […]
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This week’s piece is dedicated to all of the parents who play DCC with their kids – I know there’s a bunch of you out there based on social media discussion. A lot of the content we post on the site is a little gloomy and rough around the edges, and doesn’t necessarily jive well
We’ve been enjoying some well-deserved downtime before the hustle that is the start of 2020. So, we’ll end the year with a lighter note: helper sheets for tracking your yearly DCC! I got the idea for this piece from a discussion on the DCC RPG Facebook group, and most of the trackable entries on the
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“In the heart of winter hide your hearth, lest cold Knut take it’s warmth away.” – old boreal proverb Our Solstice offering is a mean monster: Knut from the North, the Half-Troll Horror. Loosely based on old Finnish Christmas lore, Knut made his very successful debut appearance in our seasonal game last weekend. Luckily, the
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“We’re now a quarter of an inch tall and sixty-four feet from the house. That’s the equivalent of 3.2 miles, that’s a long way, even for a man of science.” – The Szalinski kids, “Honey I shrunk the kids” (1989) This week’s piece is essentially a reverse of the Enlarge spell. I’ve been thinking a
“Wax on, wax off.” – Mr. Miyagi To crown Bright Week, today’s piece is a tantalizing DCC teaser from something we’ve been working on for a while: a full supplement based on pit fighting (containing fighters, tourneys and more), along with a module to make full use of the ruleset! This all started more than
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“Blast it all! We’ve wycrows in tha chimneys again!Call in the sootjacks and send them up th’ flume.Quick-like now, before we have ta quench the forge!” – Krennvold Rockhammer, forgemaster of the Silverstone Colony Today’s piece is inspired by the excellent Legend of Grimrock game series. I completed both games recently, and enjoyed them quite
“Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point can be artificially produced.” John Dee, occultist to the Queen After writing the previous piece I started thinking about my process for generating rules for games, both as a Judge and for professional reasons. Additionally, I was feeling a little rusty after the
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This is the animal in man This is the animal in you This is the animal in man Coming true – “Animal in man“, Dead Prez (2000) I’ve always loved the concept of a wizard duel. The only spell for any sort of shapeshifts in DCC I found was the 4th
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Notwithstanding, as a dog hath a day, so may I perchance have time to declare it in deeds. Queen Elizabeth I This week’s piece is a set of guidelines for generating and managing animal companions in DCC. I opted to build the rules without class association, as I think that in the spirit of DCC
