Video Preview of DCC Dying Earth: The Sorcerer’s Tower of Sanguine Slant
Apr14

Video Preview of DCC Dying Earth: The Sorcerer’s Tower of Sanguine Slant

A new video to preview the annals of adventure in the Dying Earth! From a long-lost future of strange science and mysterious magic comes DCC Dying Earth — the all-new DCC RPG setting which lets gamers play in Jack Vance’s classic world. This time out we take a look at DCC Dying Earth #2: The Sorcerer’s Tower of Sanguine Slant. When a mysterious edifice of crystalized blood arises after more than a millennia, it...

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Video Preview of DCC Dying Earth: The Laughing Idol of Lar-Shann
Apr14

Video Preview of DCC Dying Earth: The Laughing Idol of Lar-Shann

A new video to preview the annals of adventure in the Dying Earth! From a long-lost future of strange science and mysterious magic comes DCC Dying Earth — the all-new DCC RPG setting which lets gamers play in Jack Vance’s classic world. Today we take a look at a level 1 adventure from the 21st Aeon: Dungeon Crawl Classics Dying Earth #1: The Laughing Idol of Lar-Shann. A demonic force has taken residence beneath the great...

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The Dying Earth: A Case for Sword-and-Sorcery
Apr13

The Dying Earth: A Case for Sword-and-Sorcery

We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. The Dying Earth: A Case for Sword-and-Sorcery by Brian Murphy Travel into the future: to an earth with a dwindling red sun that meekly fills a dark blue sky; an earth that is on the brink of dying out; an earth where science and magic mean the same thing. ~ back cover blurb, Tales of the Dying Earth, Tor Books In 1950...

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New Third-Party PDF Releases In Our Online Store
Apr12

New Third-Party PDF Releases In Our Online Store

It’s a magnificent seven selection of super PDF releases this week! Publishers FSH Professional, Pacesetter Games, and The Keep Studios all have PDF releases for Dungeon Crawl Classics newly available on our online store! It’s seven fantastic books that are waiting for you right now! Let’s take a look! Soul for the Ocean Dark – PDF Isolated in an ocean of eternal night, a lighthouse’s divine light protects...

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New Releases for Roll20 and VTT – plus Magician’s Skull #10!
Apr12

New Releases for Roll20 and VTT – plus Magician’s Skull #10!

We’ve got things visceral, versed, and virtual for you today! Whether you want to read all-new stories of sword-and-sorcery fiction, battle your way across an arid desert, or enhance your journey to the lair of Chalychia, there’s a little something waiting for you in today’s releases! Let’s take a look! Crypt of the Devil Lich – VTT Map + Token Pack Enhance your virtual trip into the lair of Chalychia!...

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Rivalry and Betrayal in the Dying Earth
Apr12

Rivalry and Betrayal in the Dying Earth

Welcome to the wondrous far-future world of DCC Dying Earth! The DCC Dying Earth Setting is an all-new gaming universe for Dungeon Crawl Classics, inspired by the classic sword-and-sorcery works of Jack Vance. To celebrate the release of DCC Dying Earth, we are showcasing a series of articles that looks at the many unique classes, spells, equipment, mechanics, and themes that go into making DCC Dying Earth a completely new experience!...

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What is the Dying Earth?
Apr11

What is the Dying Earth?

What is the Dying Earth? by Bill Ward “A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. Once it was a tall world of cloudy mountains and bright rivers, and the sun was a blazing white ball. Ages of rain and wind have beaten and rounded the granite, and the sun is feeble and red. The continents have sunk and risen. A million cities have lifted towers, have fallen to dust. In place of the old peoples a few thousand strange souls live. There is...

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Words Weird and Wonderful: Jack Vance’s Dying Earth
Apr09

Words Weird and Wonderful: Jack Vance’s Dying Earth

We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. Words Weird and Wonderful: Jack Vance’s Dying Earth by Bill Ward By no means secondary to his innovations in diction, Jack Vance’s exacting employment of etymological rarities, conjugational novelties, and antiquated antiquaria conspires to produce a style that may only be satisfactorily appellativized as...

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Where to Start With Jack Vance
Apr07

Where to Start With Jack Vance

We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. Where to Start With Jack Vance by Bill Ward John Holbrook “Jack” Vance (1916-2013) was an extraordinarily prolific and award-winning author across multiple genres, but it is for his work in the science fiction field that he is most celebrated. ‘Science Fiction’ as a genre and marketing category is an extremely big...

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Vancian Quotations
Apr02

Vancian Quotations

We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. Vancian Quotations by Bill Ward “When you want to describe something that’s flamboyant, weird and strange, anything a little bit outrageous, wicked or nasty, you don’t do it by exposition, which can become long-winded and tiresome. You have one of your characters describe it to somebody else . . . this is almost a trade secret:...

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Save 20% And Get Free Adventures Tomorrow on Dungeon Day!
Mar03

Save 20% And Get Free Adventures Tomorrow on Dungeon Day!

Did somebody say FREE Adventures? TOMORROW we’ll have all the details on how you can nab some totally free modules for both 5E and DCC! What’s the occasion you may ask? Why, it’s Dungeon Day! Dungeon Day is a celebration in honor of the Father of the RPG, Gary Gygax. Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, Gary is a huge reason all of us have our favorite hobby—dungeon crawling! As part of this year’s...

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Dungeon Denizens Monster Mash is Tonight
Mar02

Dungeon Denizens Monster Mash is Tonight

We’re going to have a beastly good time this evening, and we hope to corral you in… Join us TODAY at 5:00 pm EST for the first Monster Mash! Yes, I know you think it will be a graveyard smash, but it’s really going to be so much more than that. We’ve got the head of development for Dungeon Denizens, Chris Doyle, on hand to talk to various designers about what it meant to be a part of this project, and more...

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