“When wizards make war the earth trembles, the sky screams, and reality buckles.” I’ve voiced my irritation over the DCC spell duel rules multiple times in the past, and stated that it’s the most likely thing I’ll rewrite eventually. Well, that eventually is now. The root of the problem here is that my group recently […]
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“They walk the floes, never stop. They are cold meat, blood of ice. They die, we eat. Always less, herds never grow.” – Geskarr, northern barbarian This week’s article on KitN was communally created on the DCC RPG Facebook group (link here). It continues the frosty theme of recent weeks, as the north is covered
“Ha, well, someone ‘as to do it. Shovel what you keep putting out. They call us gongfarmers. Us, we’re the heroes Yous ju’s don’ know it.” This is an absolutely shameless marketing post: If you haven’t already, do check out bygrinstow‘s Night Soil zine. It’s full of excellent stuff for all you DCC gongfarmers: magic,
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“Each winter, inevitably, the snow elves come. Descending from the freezing mountains like an insidious creeping avalanche, their raiders prey upon the rural settlers of the foothills, ravaging their towns and stealing what they can before disappearing into the cold snow.” Continuing our series of articles to fit the local weather patterns, here are the
“Formally under the Elfland court, Lady Wyel lives in the cold north of the Elflands. Her touch is frozen, her hand is cold.” The Cold Lady of the Elflands was a necessity for our campaign, and I’m absolutely joyful as Antti joins us as a writer on the blog. There’s a civil war going on
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“Ho ho hoo!” – Jolly Old St. Nicholas of Yule Mountain Just too late for the holidays, it’s the patron we all remember growing up: jolly ole Saint Nicholas! He is fairly unique in that none of his abilities can be used on the caster themselves and that he requires a character be generous to
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“Books, grimoires, fetishes… objects of lore, and power. I sense them all, I know their power. I must have it for my own.” The arcane archivist is an alternative magic user class for DCC. I wrote it up based on popular demand, as my players have recently realised the value of utility wizards, Detect magic,
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The inaugural post for the new year is another collaboration with the Sanctum Secorum podcast. Check out the space dwarf race in the companion volume, along with other excellent content! The space dwarves are actually based on a really vivid dream I had a few months back. I’ll eventually work them out to a full
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“The City owns those who Belong.” The City of Ironwall was one of the main campaign locations for the second season of our ongoing DCC campaign. It is a large, sprawling place, with adventure hooks and mysterious dangers galore. I finally managed to complete the article describing its districts, and here it is for all
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Hello there! The below is the first of what will hopefully be a series of spells/patrons. It’s certainty one to spice up a spell list if nothing else. A few notes on the spell and it’s usage: Should a player select this one for use the Judge will now need to at least make an
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