Finished Game: DCC Doom of the Savage Kings

For a couple of years running now, I've had a gaming resolution to run a Dungeon Crawl Classics game that wasn't just a funnel. Funnels are a ball, but a big chunk of what makes DCC so special doesn't come on-stage until the characters hit first level. So last February I fired up the classic Harley Stroh module, Doom of the Savage Kings, and invited @Len , @KCC , @Ciriaco and @Darkstar8 to the game.

Despite the fact that it's just a sixteen page adventure (with three full-page maps!), it took us until today to complete it. More than 14 months, over 1500 in-character posts, about 77 GP pages of gaming goodness. Finishing a game, as many here know, is no easy thing, so kudos to my players for sticking it out when they thought they were probably signing up for something that would last half as long as it did.

All that said, this was one of my very favorite PbP experiences ever, and I've been doing this a long time. The cleric who was terrified of his god (Aldric), the always-bold and mouthy wizard (Anora the Blue), the murderous and loveable thief (Dufgal), and the sneering, human-disparaging elf (Tyravasiel-Llir) -- this was an incredible cast of characters from the get-go. They only got better and more interesting as the game progressed, which made it all the more dramatic and painful when most of them died rather suddenly.

Fantastic game, you four, and here's to more like it!

Congratulation for completing the game!

Congratulations!! 🎆

Woot! Congrats!

Congrats! Always feels great to complete a game!

Congratulations, all of you!

Congrats! Finished and sounds like an aweome time was had!

Congratulations! It's heartening to hear about completing a PbP game and having such a great time with everyone's characters!

Congrats, that's awesome!

Congratulations! And it's even publicly available to read!

Almost all my games are. Not because they're worth reading, per say, but because someone new to all this might grok the PbP end of the hobby a little better or faster if there are a variety of games they can skim or dig into.

Sounds like you all had a great time, woot!

Well done all of you :)

Huzzah!

Has it really been a year?

Wow. The time has flown by, and I've been richly entertained throughout. I think that's a testament to the quality of Harrigan's GMing, and to the engagement and creativity of my fellow players. I didn't even mind my character's shabby death!

Congratulations to all. It was great fun.

Shot full of arrows by low-lives put up to it by the Jarl! Not your finest hour...

I feel very fortunate to have reached out to Harrigan at the right time and even more fortunate that he took me on as a player. This was by far my favorite PbP game ever. I learned so much about running the long game. Harrigan kept us all engaged for over a year to "complete" a single level one adventure.

And, as the only character to survive, my sweet murderous gongfarmer is hoping to find a 2nd level game somewhere.

Congratulations on the game, such an achievement to reach a game end and to have such engagement as well.

Congrats on completing the game!

Congratulations, brave adventurers.


^ That's a 🏆 in what I think of as an OSR style.