Dungeon Crawl Classics

Has anyone played this game? I've been reading the core book a bit here and there lately and it looks like an absolute blast. Very reminiscent of old school D&D with some more modern takes on some aspects.

Just curious if anyone else had given it a chance yet?

I heard great thing about it but haven't given it a look. Sounds like characters die a lot (don't you make five when you start playing, and the one that survives gets to move on to 1st level?)

Yeah, they use a funnel system for character creation.

1. Old school rolling stats (3d6 in order)
2. Create 3-5 level ZERO characters
3. Run them through a mini-dungeon
4. Everyone who survives advances to level one

I read the entire core book today (with the exception of the specific spells)

The classes are all very flavorful and distinct (elf, dwarf, and halfling are classes as well as races)

There's a cool luck stat that gets added to critical hit tables, subtracted from critical fumble tables, as well as added to a random thing determined at start (Could be melee attack rolls, all damage rolls, spell rolls: There are thirty different things that it can be added to.

I've been poking around for details. Any place one could buy the book for under $70? (which is the cheapest I've seen)

You can get the PDF for $25 at DriveThruRPG.com (Don't forget to use GP's referral link if you buy it there!)

I can't find the book for less than $70 though :(

DTR now has yet more of my money. :-)

(And GP should have more of that sweet referral.... whatever GP gets when someone uses the link)

I had obviously heard that the artwork was retro style and there was a lot of it but I was not prepared for this level of awesomeness. First pass through the book will simply be looking at the illustrations.

All of my spare time for the evening has just been claimed...


PHB AD&D


DCC

I've enjoyed what I read, and I plan to run a game here eventually

IN!