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it's a tough call... as a 6th level sorcerer, getting to cast one of these great spells 4x per day is pretty tough to compare to evasion: Displacement: Attacks miss subject 50%. Fireball: 1d6 damage per level, 20-ft. radius. Gaseous Form: Subject becomes insubstantial and can fly slowly. Haste: One ...

By casting the "Silence" spell centered on the dire bats, they can no longer use their sonar to guide them, and they effectively become blind. At that point I have the bats make a will save or crash to the ground, rider in tow. If they succeed with their will save, they are disciplined en...

I think a lot of people unaccustomed to XCrawl would casually dismiss the monk - but with the very physical nature of many XCrawl events (think obstacle courses, battle of the network stars, puzzles or encounters requiring maneuverability, timing or precision) skills-heavy characters are even more v...

Let's just say, hypothetically, if you were to have a pool of 6 pre-generated seventh-level PCs to customize a team of 4 XCrawlers from, what sort of characters do you think would make the decision most agonizing? I'm currently leaning toward the following classifications/roles, fulfilled by the fol...

I'll be there bright and early on Wednesday, and I'll try to wander by after I help set up the Goodman Games booth. After that, I'm always up for something relaxing - like killing PCs or being killed by a malevolent GM.

I think Sellout is one of the best supplements for any RPGs in any system - it adds so many more options, so much more depth and would easily be dubbed a "core book" if published by WotC... The XCrawl main rulebook paints the overall picture for the setting and the genre, and Sellout is th...

Sweetness!

I've been looking forward to these for a long time, as you can imagine... Keep 'em comin' ...!

excellent! my plan is working perfectly....

Clan Yeoman will like XCrawl

N'Haaz-aua wrote:Four 0 level halflings locked in a cottage with a rabid house cat, imagine the roleplaying possibilities!

/joking!
//not really

Actually, that kinda' sounds like something I ran for you guys once, doesn't it? except it was a zombie puppy, if I recall...

can't wait to hear more about it... very excited to see what this year's tournament entails.

XCrawl is definitely worth checking out... The main rulebook wraps up a lot of the flavor, and has a great adventure in the back, and the Sellout! supplement is one of the better game supplements for any RPG out there... if this were a WotC product, then Sellout! would definitely be considered one o...

I'm eager to see what's been decided behind the scenes. I know there were a lot of great ideas bandied about and discussed since wrapping up Palace in the Wastes last year.

I can't wait to read all about how folks are going to die this year!

As I skim through the books and start to prep for an adventure I'm writing, I am curious what the standard XCrawl position is on looting... I can't seem to find anything in the books, but something is tugging at the back of my mind. I'm working under the assumption (and mindset) that XCrawl particip...

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I have not in my home games - but I do have secret doors where camera crews, cleaning crews or guest stars enter or exit the various rooms. My XCrawl game setting is a mix of American Gladiator, televised obstacle course, The Running Man and Paranoia -- there are lots of things going on behind the s...

Glad to hear you've all enjoyed Interludes. It was a challenge (a lot of fun, but still a challenge) to develop as wide a variety of adventures as I could that still had a common thread running through them. I've DM'd a half dozen different groups through the Eye of the Night episode (scenario 1) an...

Thanks for the nod. I really liked the concept I pitched to Joseph about the inter-related adventures, each originally designed to be a one- or two-nighter ... I'm glad you've enjoyed it so far, as well. I'd also love to see other adventures in the Interludes mold, to see a series of related scenari...

I'm a big advocate of this, too! I would love to read about the gripping adventures taking place in the tough, grinding Dungeon Crawl Classics environments and settings.

DCC #30 - Vault of the Dragon Kings is based around the history of Dragonkind, and their former masters, the Dragon Kings - tasked by the creator gods to watch over and protect the Dragons as the world developed. It was the 2005 GenCon Tournament module, and is very, very challenging. While the tour...

Archon, a local gaming convention here in St. Louis, went very well. I ran two sessions of A Question of Morels from DCC #29 The Adventure Begins . There are a few minor spoilers mixed in here, but nothing too plot destroying. It's mostly the interesting anecdotes. Session 1: The first group worked ...

Well, we just wrapped up our first two sessions of XCrawl -- the Phoenix Open XCrawl. I designed it myself, being partial to that sort of thing, as the first "Pro" XCrawl event for teams mired in the minor leagues or playing amateur events. Think of it as a proving ground to separate the p...

Each module in the DCC line includes scaling information to adjust the challenge up or down to tailor the adventure to different parties. Each chapter of Interludes includes this sort of scaling information, as well. For a party of characters level 3-4, adding just a few more critters to a few of th...

Awesome! Glad to hear someone else diving into Interludes... Keep us posted on how it goes. I always love hearing stories of how folks use the module... Make it part of an overarching campaign? Run them as individual adventures in the down-time of other stuff? Etc.

Just dropping a line to mention that I was thrilled to pick up all the XCrawl books at GenCon. At first I wasn't sure what to make of the game, but after reading the core rulebook, my mind was a twitter with the possibilities. As with most RPG games, I've tweaked and modified things slightly to fit ...

Part of the tournament format is taking that character that, on the surface, looks like a dud....but then finding the strategy that maximizes them fully. Indeed. This is true even during the playtesting stages -- when we rigorously rough up each of the different PCs and use different PC combiniatio...