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Where did you find the rules for healing that you use?

Once your child adopts a TTRPG they can never know love again.

Yeah, I play DCC with my kids and have adopted the Shadowdark turn ordering to help make sure I get something from everyone. Also, with respect to the "evil" stuff, from my experience girls can hang there in general. When my oldest was 7 all she really played with were dolls and animals, doing the stereotypical girl stuff. But one day she asked to play with my Warhammer 40k army, which were Orks. I said sure and she took the biggest one, and had him start shooting and impaling all the other ones, then putting them in one of my battlewagons. I asked her what he was doing and she said "collecting dead people". Alrighty then.

Super cool channel. I have just subscribed. Why the name Wasabi? You are located in Japan by chancee?

My friends and I have been messing with a short campaign using the weird wizard playtest. if it makes you feel any better, priests do get quite a bit stronger later on and fit quite well into a hybrid caster/fighter role. My priest is probably one of my favorite characters I've ever played. Mages get WAY stronger but also get almost no health or defense as they level, making them extremely fragile glass cannons. if your mage doesn't have at least one other party member looking out for their welfare somehow they're going to go down real quick.

Agreed on mechanics, story layout and everything you said. Excellent video. I subscribed.

Well done!! I'm one of the player's on the Dungeon Musings channel and always appreciate your letting us know when you have a stream. We haven't played DCC on the channel, but I'm a huge fan and have most of the official DCC products plus many of the 3rd-party ones. This is a great video for giving folks a quick overview about what makes the game fun and easier than they might think. Kudos!

Interesting, it sounds a lot mechanically like Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsey.

Thanks so much for this, I'm circling running a regular game soon and getting this advice really helps bolster my confidence!

I dont necessarily think you are wrong about the virgin queen trope. On the other hand, Queen Elizabeth the 1st was considered to be a great monarch, and yet she never married and likely died a virgin. So...

When I ran this module, my group gathered around the closed sarcophagus to collectively beat the strength DC to reveal the wraith. The wraith won the initiative with its cursed sword. Its first strike was enough to kill a player, giving the sword an extra attack. The die was vengeful, & the the players were cut down all around the sarcophagus till none were left. The remaining survivors fled down the hallway & eventually defeating the wraith to attain its sword. Creeping down the hall, an enemy surprise attacked the players as they were huddled together killing one of them. Next to attack was the one with the wraith sword. He cut down the enemy with one hit, which the sword required an extra attack as the player was huddled with his friends. He had to swing again, cutting down & killing two of his comrades. It was a rough night, full of sorrow & tears. It was fkn EPIC! The 4 survivors are awaiting their level 1 adventure.

17:40 when you started talking about the Virgin Queen, I totally vibed with. I read through the scenario (3 times now not including the video) and I always wondered why they needed to mention that. I might just change it a bit to remove that extra purity nonsense. And happy for the shout out. Greatly appreciated. I plan to run The Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen soon actually so this came out at the right time. I do wish their was monster variety as you mentioned. I might ask the dcc reddit or discord for advice there too!

I pretty much agree with all of your takes, besides the lethality of the adventure, although two of the players were being very haphazard. I actually felt like it was fair, not too deadly, not a cake walk. I had 5 players with 3 characters each and I want to say about 8 or 9 died. One player lost all of his characters and then 2 replacements. Other than that, I totally agree about the puzzles. The only one that took them a while was the paintings on the walls, and I want to say the answer was book, so they had to touch the book in one of the paintings. Overall most of the combat was dealt with relatively easily, the hardest fight was the boss. They dealt with Yoros pretty easily, but the mobs from the tomb area just before the boss split the party, and they took a while figuring out they had to destroy the braziers. All-in-all everyone had a really good time. Like your group mine only had a single lawful character left by the time they found the shield and magical weapon (sword?). That character ended up sacrificing themself during the boss fight, so the group came away with almost zero treasure.

Oh cool! I ran this adventure and really liked it, excited to see what your opinion is.

I mean, you mentioned it so you knew someone was going to comment... 😂 Classic adventure and fantasy stories have female characters who are paragons of purity, beauty, kindness etc because these are common feminine virtues held by most cultures, and definitely be western European derived cultures to be aspirational. I rarely hear people complain that male characters are expected to be brave, selfless, skillful and protective, which are traditional masculine virtues in the same vein. These archetypes exist in many cultures because they are useful virtues to aim towards for a multitude of reasons, sometimes social and sometimes biological. The BBEG queen and her pact with an infernal being in exchange for unnatural life is a counterpoint for the purity of the entombed queen. That whatever dark being she has her pact with is thirsting for her soul, and that he will inevitably have it, could be read as an illustration of the end of such impurity. In any case, good review, and I'll definitely pick this one up!

You know I LOVE DCC- layouts are absolute trash though

I just ran this recently and the module felt deadly enough to us. I suppose like you said, DCC can be swingy like that. 4 players, killed half of them overall even with the replacements and in the final fight the players began to seriously vocalize the fear of a TPK. They were really sweatin bullets lol. Parsing 700 words to find info for how to run a room is def annoying, the DCC module tax. I enjoyed the funnel over all, I think it's solid and worth running.

Running OSR adventures with the superior layout, but using DCC rules feels like the best of both worlds. Thank you so much for these recaps / DCC adventure reports!

Question for you, I agree with what you're saying about some of the DCC adventure layouts, but they are still some of the slimmest adventures I have found in any system. Do you have some favorites (adventures) that are even more concise or lack a bunch of flowery / superfluous text?

"All pure and shit" has to be my favorite quote from this.

Looking forward to when you put out 'Hot 'n Heavy Halls of the Slut Lords' But for real, less puritanical ideas of virtue in fantasy are long overdue.

Love your Lankhmar stuff! I've been converting DCC Lankhmar into 5e instead of trying to get my mostly casual crew into a new system... However!: What would you think of: Portal under the stars funnel into > masks heist "meet" with whatever PCs survive?

I feel like it would be cool to play this in the Darkest Dungeon universe.

This is probably my favorite RPG for the speed and diversity allowed to players and GMs alike. My first campaign was with 2 players, and was happening between sessions of another game with serious scheduling issues. We ran the Dark Deeds in Last Hope module as the intro, which I highly recommend for new players and GMs alike, and it ended badly due to player action and inaction. From there they brought the survivors to a new town (and lost most of them to a giant pig attack) and spent their novice levels making a name for themselves. Another group of refugees arrived after and the town was a bit over filled with people, but the refugee mayor offered the players work in retrieving his signet ring from the old town, leading to the players favorite quest. They got 1 horse and were chased by wolves most of the way there. The horse was killed shortly before arrival by a dire wolf, which then chased them into town and trapped them in a house, mocking them and toying with them before setting it on fire and forcing them out. They had to run through the abandoned streets in the dark with a torch to fight off that one and another that was hanging out in the town, which they did through some pretty excellent innate synergy between rogues and priests. Surviving the fight, they decided to book it through the mansion, get the ring, and get it. Mansion is of course haunted, with the shadows attacking them and the rogue getting a mark of darkness and taking a quirk to have fear of the dark. Through a combination of candles, torches, and ripping off every window curtain they could, they made their way through the mansion wounded but alive and acquired the ring, a pistol, and a randomly generated magic item (a drum that could vanish and reappear with a word), and began the nerve wracking trip home on foot, hiding from wolves and beastmen alike. This was all session 4.

I’ve used a lot of the things in this book over the years

So is it as combat focused as D&D? How does it handle social interactions?

Been running a “serious” (non-gonzo) campaign on the official Goodman Twitch stream for a few years now (with occasional pauses). The system works really well for pretty much any style. Ours is a science-fantasy lost colony campaign about future humanity stuck on a medieval-magical frontier world. It’s called Pretenders to the Throne.

3rd edition was great. When 4th edition came out, I went back to 3rd because I did not want to play a paper MMORPG. When 5th came out, I played it until I realized the system was broken and went back to third. Now I'm somewhere in between BECMI and 3rd

For those who don't know, there's a new game from the same set of rules named Shadow of the Weird Wizard, which is less grimmdark, more tactic and slightly more heroic. If you think this game is a bit too dark and deadly, that's your game.

I think the core of Shadowdark is really fantastic. I play mostly DCC but if I were to heavily homebrew a D20 system I would start with Shadowdark as the base.

I own that book from back in the 3.5 days. It was a lot of fun to use in my home brew campaign way back when.

Conversion is pretty easy to 5e. All checks go from base 10 to 8, and you can easily swap out the 3e creature stat blocks with 5e.

Crazy awesome beholder house party should in its own right should be an adventure. And I run old school games, this is definitely impressive. I could use that beholder room in some of my old school games like MORK BORG or DCC!

The reason it gets ignored right now is the really good stuff has been redone well already, and the rest of d20 faff was mostly shovelware.

3/3.5 was my intro to the hobby a way back when. I like seeing this content as it's fun nostalgia.

I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this. ^ ^ I always love books that are some kind of collection of content you can easily pick up and drop in .

Better than Grimtooth's? ;) In all seriousness, I always love seeing challenge ideas that aren't just combat or social. Thanks for sharing.

As @PetesDracolich mentioned, the Goodman Games content from this era is pretty cool. Worth taking a look for sure.

Beholder House Party is a band I would listen to.

The 3.0, 3.5 era is sick! The third party really came through in 3.5. 3.0 being the first edition from Wizards after acquiring TSR. I think 3.0, 3.5 is most similar to 5E making it highly relevant for today's TTRPG player. I love bringing out the old stuff for new players in game because most likely, they never seen it before. Also Goodman Games old 3.5 modules are awesome. It reminds me of today’s kids rockin Jordan’s but never actually saw him play. 2 to 3.0 is the Jordan era of gaming. Oddly Jordan played for the Washington Wizards after TSR was acquired by Wizards. Pardon my analogy. You rock Wasabi!

3./5 is such a great supported edition.

There were a bunch of great books for 3/.5 era that could reasonably be lifted for other systems as long as you’re not trying to be to faithful to the crunch of the math for monsters, subclasses, etc.

The art is all I need to know it's worthy every penny.

No skills?

Is this it's own rpg, or is this a system agnostic supplement?? Asking because I haven't heard of it before

As a Call of Cthulhu Veteran that one plot line you mentioned around 6:20 is 100% a plot I could see. You'd definitely see it in Pulp Cthulhu for sure. I could see myself picking this up for a dcc horror one shot too. I definitely will put this on my list of books to look into.

I still prefer 2e D&D. DCC is fun, for sure. Better than 5e in my opinion. I think 5e is too clunky. Ocean's Eleven? The original Brat Pack version or the Clooney/Pitt version?

I, sadly, cannot recommend this book. There are a couple of cool spells, sure. But way too often it's just flavor, and no substance. And they have a weird policy where they don't allow you to buy PDF only version if you are in Europe, which feels very cashgrabby. And I'm saying this from perspective of someone who was looking for "scary, dangerous, costly magic" system for my into the odd hack