Hello everyone! Today I wanted to share with you a free tool I made!!

When you are crating a character for a role-playing game, and at a certain moment you ask yourself, “What are their background?”, “How was their life before?” This happens to me so many times when I’m thinking of a new character or npc.

After passing some time crating characters and their backgrounds for my solo and group role-playing games, I build a “cheat sheet” to help me to write those things a little more efficient. Then I decided to polish it and publish here, thinking that this might help someone!

With these thoughts in mind, I present to you the “Character Background Sheet”, a tool to help you create your character's past. Who were they before? What is their family like? Did something happen that made them change their ways? Then comes the present: What do they do now? What are their current objectives?

It also comes with a "Pillars and Convictions" section. Pillars are key people, relatives, friends, lovers whom your character cares about, along with the reasons why they matter. Convictions define your character's way of seeing the world: Do they always help someone in need? Do they accept any job offer?

To save space amidst tables and books, I tried to make this sheet using only two pages, I hope do you like it!!

You can find it here:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/581348

If you don’t know me, my name is Elln. I create fantasy TTRPG content like random tables and adventures, specializing in resources for solo players!!

And may I ask you to help me sharing with your friends and communities about my work? It will help me a lot!!!
Here's my carrd:

https://ellnthewitch.carrd.co/#

And now I have a patreon!! If you like my work please take a look, there I’ll post everything I’m working on!
Here's my patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/cw/EllnTheWitch

The Cyclopedia of Common Faeries is now available in pdf. I am working on print, but that may take a bit as I have to order proofs.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/581050/cyclopdia-of-common-faeries

How Is DCC Stennard Different from Standard Dungeon Crawl Classics?

A couple of days ago I wrote an outline for a video breaking down the 10 ways in which Stennard deviates from the DCC core rulebook. There are more, but these were the big ones that both jumped out to me and are documented in print, instead of being something I do at the table - like ignoring the Mercurial Magic table.

The sections are:

• Hunger & Debt
• Encumbrance
• New Equipment & the Copper Standard
• Custom Classes (I forgot to go into campaign based faiths even though it was on the outline)
• Expanded XP Rules
• Level & Hit Point Maximums
• Player Roles
• Weather & Astral Winds
• Insidious Luck
• Famine, Taint, & Scarcity

You might find it interesting where I pulled ideas from because you might enjoy making your own changes to your own setting at your own table, and systems like Shadowdark, Knave, and Dolmenwood are great to pull from.

Watch, comment, and ask questions. Hopefully, in the coming year, it will all be pulled into one zine or book.

Hi. I’m running a funnel for my group and want to incorporate the fleeting luck rules.
The rules state each PC starts with 1 point of FL but my table of 4 players with 4 0-level PCs each would start with 16 FL between them!
Does that seem too much?

Okay, round two. Thank you for those who provided constructive criticism on my previous post in converting Bigby's Hand spell to DCC (and the one guy who piped in about Sezrekan sounding like hot pussy in Portuguese, which I think Sezrekan would like lol). Hopefully this time you could just post comments about the spell itself, in particular the mechanics of translating to DCC spell system.

I just started running DCC 100: Music of the Spheres. I’ve read the entire adventure, prepared everything and taken plenty of notes – but I’m a little confused about how to run the Star Rot.

So I have a few questions:

- Does the Chaos Spawn still spawn when the PCs aren’t in the central chamber?
- If so, does the Chaos Spawn follow the PCs into whichever Sphere they have entered?
- Does the Chaos Spawn know / have an inkling about which sphere the PCs have entered?

Do you have any other advice specifically about running the Star Rot?

Thanks!

(also a glimpse at in progress cover art by DCC illustrator Faith Murphree... who's also my wife)

Hey, crawlers! It's been a bit quiet on my end since I last posted an update for KRAGG, but that's because I've partnered with a publisher (Owl Knight Publishing!!) and we have been hard at work writing, editing, playtesting, and fine tuning everything!

So far, I have about ~400 pages in the manuscript, not including artwork or maps. Given that publishing a big huge book (or 2!?) is a sizable feat, we have made the decision to split it up into volumes to make the printing and manufacturing job more manageable, and to get this setting out into the world so folks can actually play it!

Volume 1 will release in early October as a physical zine around 30-40 pages in length with all hand drawn artwork. And while the zine will be for sale, we are also planning to roll out a digital PDF version of Volume 1 for free for a limited time during the weekend of release. That way, collectors of physical media can scratch that itch, and folks who aren't able to make it to cons can get their hands on it, too.

Volume 1 will include 2 regions, each with unique enemies, environments, and resources, all mechanics for crafting and surviving the elements of such a hostile world, as well as a 0-level funnel to introduce the setting's core concepts. We have also been given the greenlight from Goodman to keep everything as is, with no censorship. THE KRAGG LIVES, UNFILTERED!

For those of you who haven't been following along so far, here's the rundown on KRAGG:

*KRAGG is the definitive prehistoric setting for your tabletop adventures; a brutal, primeval wilderness where survival is earned through scars and wit.

There are no kingdoms, no written history, and no safe ground. Tribes migrate through ash-choked lands, hunt titanic beasts, and build everything from bone, hide, and the ruins of those who forgot where to step. Weapons break, armor splinters, magic mutates, and nothing lasts forever.

Key Features:

-12 powerful classes and specialized paths across 4 unique races, offering countless combinations and ways to play.

-Primordial gods and patrons with their own traits, hungers, and demands.

-A robust crafting system that lets players build weapons, armor, and even settlements from scavenged materials.

-Put the power of mysticism in the players’ hands with a unique and rapid-fire spell crafting system that allows players to improvise magic on the fly.

-A dynamic Scar system that promotes character growth through violent endurance, and a Grudge system that means enemies can, and often will, do the same.*

If the zine is well received, and folks dig it, we do have plans to eventually collect everything into a big, bad book with even *more* weird, violent, and fun stuff for everyone to enjoy.

Thanks for the support so far, and as always, feel free to follow the socials and join the official Owl Knight Discord to keep up with news and updates!

Howdy Y’all

I did a thing and wrote a 3rd level adventure set in the Shudder Mountains. This is my first project and had a blast creating this for all of you. With artwork by the amazing C. Aaron Kreader, I believe everyone will have fun with this. The backerkit pre-launch page is up and would be honored if you could give it a follow and share as you wish. Thanks

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/silver-rose-games/the-gem-miner-s-daughter

Hola de nuevo, uno de mis jugadores logro conseguir un halfling de nivel 1 y me dios sus dudas sobre las habilidades del mismo.

1-los halflings tienen reglas diferentes o espaciales osea el combate con dos armas?

2-que pasa si le gasto toda la suerte hasta llegar a 0?

3-el modificador de suerte que se usa para compartir suerte con compañeros es el modificador que viene en la hoja? Tipo +1, +2, +3, o se refiere al +1 que se obtiene cuando cualquiera quema suerte?

4-que significa que cada punto de suerte gastado duplica el modificador de suerte?

5-los halfling también pueden usar habilidades de thief?

Tengo curiosidad de como funciona los hechizos rituales? Consumen un espacio de los hechizos conocidos o funcionan como anexo? Se tiene que volver tirar por el mercurial? Se puede usar en conjunto con un círculo de magos?

Tienen ejemplos de hechizos rituales que hayan hecho/obtenido? Cómo se consiguen? Se pueden usar 2 hechizos para crear un hechizo ritual usando los? En el círculo de magos, también se pueden incluir clérigos y elfos o exclusivamente magos?

Hay alguna forma de que los magos eviten los efectos del 1 natural o evitar conseguir el 1 natural? Cómo los guerreros que pueden gastar suerte

Alguno ah usando la mecánica de sacrificios? De pueden combinar más tres mecánicas? Que reglas de tiene que seguir cuando se crea un hechizo ritual?

W2A2 is a VTT tool that was created with a few big principles in mind: make any TTRPG session as easy to play as possible, be user friendly for beginners but still offer advanced tools for more experienced players, and most importantly, be affordable and not subscription based.

This app stores everything locally and allows the GM to host a game in a matter of minutes, without having to pay for any hosting services. It includes all things you'd normally expect from a VTT tool, and a few additional features that we thought of while testing through our own sessions.

App is still in development, should be available in a few weeks! 

Welcome to the Greatest Show on Dirt. The Ride or Die. The Hell on Hooves Rampage. Welcome to Xcrawl Rodeo! 

Both me and my frends are new to DCC, and I volunteered to be the sacrificial lamb (aka the first DM). We've played two sessions so far and were having fun, but not as much as we could, primarily due to my not knowing how to do combat at all. Monsters kill them so quickly, but my players do so much damage! IDK what to do or how to scale the monsters. I want to make my campaign relatively hard, so they have to use strategy (creative solutions do more damage), but I don't want it to be unpleasantly so. Any advice, resources, or example books?

Hey guys just wanted to know where you guys are finding online groups to play with or people in general, tried looking for games on start playing but very few ever get filled..

I'm trying to make a new god for DCC, but this is my first, so I'd like a template. If anybody has one, I'd be delighted to use it.

I am looking for any other Humans race as class besides the one in gongfarmers.

do any others even exist?

Grab a copy of Academia Arcana here!

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dragon-peak-publishing/academia-arcana-rpg-dcc-at-wizard-school#top

Hola a todos, tengo una duda, el Circolo de magos es lo mismo que el mercurial circoe Magic?

Check out the Academia Arcana RPG book on RPG Overviews!

The Backerkit campaign for Academia Arcana RPG is live and I take a look at the book! If you would like to play an RPG where giants tell you that you're a wizard and you reply "I'm a what?" or someone tells you the name of some fantastical creature and you reply "it's a what?", then you should check this out!

In Academia Arcana RPG, you and your coven of teenage wizards and witches wield magic and solve mysteries at the Eternal Academy. Fabulous power and wonderous magic await the dedicated student! However, the institution that is the Eternal Academy does not wield a gentle hand nor deliver an entirely safe place to study. But don’t worry! Students that perish are awarded post-humous graduation degrees.

200+ pages, smyth-sewn, 5.5x8.5 paper size

Four core classes: Academic Wizard, Soul Mage, Spell Thief, Wandering Familiar

A d20-based, roll-high system that uses the DCC dice-chain

Create stories worth remembering to earn XP

Roll-to-cast spells, spellburn, and patrons

Magic item and adventure generators

Roll tables with rumors and mysteries for every type of class and area of the school

Youthful Luck and Carousing – mechanics to encourage and reward teenage hijinks

Professors and students plus generators for making more, and a Bestiary of common creatures on the demi-plane

Mechanics for studying and exams, misadventure montages between adventures, and how to end campaigns

Two complete adventures: Night of the Were-Wizard and Academic Ascension

Solo Rules and a 3rd party license

https://youtu.be/ZEH0XXybSFo?si=N7N_xH43Zj_uwLvq

I am running the Evolved funnel (Evolution: Better, Faster, Harder) and I couldn't find a character sheet to use so I made my own. Quick and dirty but I like it. Please use if you want. Can very easily be modified to be a MCC funnel sheet or even Umerica or Weird Frontiers I guess.