Before DCC Lankhmar, There Was…Punjar!
Before DCC Lankhmar, There Was…Punjar! By Daniel J. Bishop The DCC Lankhmar boxed set is at the printer and on its way to becoming a physical reality. For years, DCC RPG fans have talked about Lankhmar. But before the Goodman Gang set their sights on Lankhmar, there was another fantasy city we worked on: Punjar. Brainchild of Harley Stroh, Punjar could almost be “Lankhmar before we had Lankhmar.” We bring this history to your...
Forgotten Treasure: DCC #26: The Scaly God
Forgotten Treasure: The Scaly God Rick Maffei isn’t someone who is probably known to a lot of current DCC RPG fans, but he was the author of many excellent Goodman Games products in the days of 3E and 4E. He wrote for the Dungeon Crawl Classics line, the Age of Cthulhu line, and had an article in the original version of How to Write Adventure Modules That Don’t Suck! So even if you haven’t heard of him, know that...
Forgotten Treasure: The Croaking Fane
Forgotten Treasure: The Croaking Fane If demonic amphibians are your thing (and you know they are), then DCC #77: The Croaking Fane is a must have adventure for your collection. In this level 3 module by Michael Curtis, the followers of the amphibian god Schaphigroadaz have mysteriously vanished, leaving their temples in the swamp empty. The adventurers travel through muck and mire to explore one such temple, determined to see what...
Forgotten Treasure: The Adventure Begins
Forgotten Treasure: The Adventure Begins Back in the days of 3.5E Dungeon Crawl Classics, Joseph Goodman decided he wanted to publish a tome of 1st level adventures. That idea turned into the very first hardcover DCC product- DCC #29: The Adventure Begins. Aside from just being a fantastic collection of low-level excitement, The Adventure Begins has quite a few connections to the DCC RPG of today. If you followed DCC back in the...
Forgotten Treasure: Crypt of the Devil-Lich
Forgotten Treasure: Crypt of the Devil-Lich Before the Hypercube of Myt, before The Seven Pits of Sezrekan, before DCC RPG even existed as its own game, the Dungeon Crawl Classics tournament was a much-anticipated event at every Gen Con. Using all their cunning and conserving resources as much as possible, could your characters survive the perils of whatever killer dungeon the Goodman Games stable of writers cooked up that year? And...
Forgotten Treasure: Death In Luxor
Forgotten Treasure: Death in Luxor Over the years of producing old school dungeon crawls, Joseph Goodman noticed that a lot of Dungeon Crawl Classics fans were also HP Lovecraft fans. It’s only natural, of course, given that Lovecraft is one of the authors in Appendix N, and he also features prominently in the history of D&D. It therefore seemed reasonable for Goodman Games to release products for the Call of Cthulhu game...
Forgotten Treasure: The Old God’s Return
Forgotten Treasure: The Old God’s Return In The Old God’s Return, a slumbering god awakens in the Forlorn North. The heroes are chosen as champions of the Lord of Flickering Flames and are tasked with battling this forgotten evil. It is the very first of the now-traditional holiday DCC RPG adventures published. The winter holidays and DCC RPG aren’t two things you’d immediately think go together well, but this...
Forgotten Treasure: The One Who Watches From Below
Forgotten Treasure: The One Who Watches From Below DCC #81: The One Who Watches From Below by Jobe Bittman is an adventure that oozes with dark Appendix N flavor. Eyeballs, earthworms, a curse, and one of the most memorable covers of the entire DCC line make it destined to be a dungeon crawl classic in every sense. The adventure came to be in a pretty unorthodox way, though. The 2012 Free RPG Day adventure included a “Mystery...
Forgotten Treasure: Emirikol Was Framed!
Forgotten Treasure: Emirikol Was Framed! The hook for DCC #73: Emirikol Was Framed! is pretty straightforward: the archmage Emirikol has gone crazy, terrifying the city and slaughtering people! Brave adventurers are needed to defeat him. But since it’s a DCC module by Michael Curtis, you know it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. In fact, Emirikol Was Framed! is the first DCC RPG adventure that...
Forgotten Treasure: The Emerald Enchanter
Forgotten Treasure: The Emerald Enchanter The Emerald Enchanter was one of the initial modules released when the DCC RPG rules first came out. Written by none other than the Dark Master Joseph Goodman himself, the module takes adventurers into the stronghold of a wizard who is performing strange magical experiments on the folk of their home village. A dungeon crawl in the truest sense, the introductory text plunks the party down right...
Forgotten Treasure: Beyond the Black Gate
Forgotten Treasure: Beyond the Black Gate DCC #72: Beyond the Black Gate is an adventure that isn’t talked about in DCC circles as much as more iconic ones, but it is a very important milestone in DCC RPG becoming what it is. It is the first time a new patron was presented outside of the core rulebook, the first time an adventure featured travel to another dimension, and it was the first “high level” DCC adventure. Harley Stroh is an...
Forgotten Treasure: Hole in the Sky
Forgotten Treasure: Hole in the Sky Hello fans! Welcome to “Forgotten Treasure”, a weekly feature wherein we discuss a gemstone from the Goodman Games backlist – something published more than a year ago and still worth playing! Some weeks we will delve deep into the catalog of things only available in PDF, and some weeks (like this one) we’ll talk about a more recent backlist item. The lucky book that gets to...