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  Some wires got crossed, or maybe you just drew poorly. Regardless, your powers are always on, despite how convenient it would be to turn them off. Being a constant danger to everyone around you makes you develop a loner attitude fairly quickly. Origin: Any. If the origin requires equipment you also need that equipment to live or cannot remove it for other reasons. Advanced Skills 3 Hand to Hand Fighting 2 Stealth Possessions A shockingly fragile power inhibitor. Special: Activating your powers has no Stamina cost, as they are always active. Variations: Life Drainer. Your very touch is anathema to life, gain Absorb Stamina (Power). Dynamo. Your body is constantly producing blasts of uncontrollable energy, gain Energy Blast (Power 3). Radiant Energy. You are constantly radiating off intense energy, gain Elemental Form (Power 4). Uncontrollable Strength. You are strong, too strong, gain Superstrength (Power 4). However you must test your luck ever...

No too long ago I made a postmortem on the process of creating half of a megadungeon over the course of a month. Well I have decided to post a super rough draft of the first half of the dungeon. It's entirely unedited, and it will all have to be redone in a lot of spaces because I am not gonna be publishing DCC stuff in any official capacity after the whole judge's guild thing so eventually this will all get retooled for BX instead. You can find it here.

 I made another spelljammer dungeon... It's free. You can check it here.

  So there’s a very well founded sentiment amongst a lot of people in the ttrpg space, a sort of disdain for fifth edition dungeons & dragons. I get it, if you are the person who always running the games and but don’t want to be every time you bring it up with your other friends that there is something you want to try so it would be more fun for them and they keep looking you in the eyes and saying no. It feels terrible and on top of it you gotta play a game that's so bad that I will not run it unless payed to. Especially when you get off that train, it can feel electric to hear other people say what you are thinking and hear other disillusioned people. But what's up with the people who are constantly begging internet randos to play other games? Deploying on the regular “I'm begging you please play another game”.  I'm sure you have encountered this before, if not this exact turn of phrase you might also know them from their other tendencies. The sort of ...

So I run an open table D&D game for a youth center. I got myself a notion that I had two months before I was gonna be running a game so I might as well try doing some daily dungeon keying and by the time I had to run a game then I’d have something sizable to run for the folks at the youth center, an d I could keep expanding it until I had a full megadungeon to one day release. I started brainstorming and decided on a general outline of the dungeon I came to this general premise The Burrow: heavily overgrown complex that while technically underground is only so by a foot or two of topsoil and has enough cave ins that natural light isn't unheard of ????: more standard dungeon, no strong theme but heavy aesthetic contrast with the barrows above with darkness and no greenery. The Grand Ossuary: massive catacomb complex teeming with undead. The caves of prehistory: like cavemen and shit can be found here, decidedly natural as opposed to the two prior levels, heavy focus on ...

  I wanted there to be more playable material for spelljammer. So I made this horrific dungeon heavy on cosmic horror metamorphosis that doesn't feature mindflayers.   Here is a pdf if you wanna print it. And a plain text version. Edit: I've not cleaned it up and provided versions for mothership and dungeon crawl classics.

  I wrote a cleric spell for spelljamming clerics in DCC and technically a spell for wizards but honestly this is just a spelljammer generator alongside a spelljammer randomizer. This document assumes you have access to the spelljammer boxed set already.     If you want to download these as pdfs these can be found here. Special thanks to Blark and Sean.    

  Someone in the Goodman games discord server asked about changing DCC to not have monsters roll to attack but instead have player characters roll to defend. Here is how I would do it Convert player character armor class to descending, this means a +2 agility bonus translates to  an unarmored AC 8. Wearing full plate means that you subtract 8 from your AC instead of adding. When a character is attacked they make an armor roll against an attack's difficulty class. Their armor roll modifier is their armor class. Each attack has a difficulty class determined by what the traditional attack modifier is. This is calculated by subtracting the attack bonus from 20.  To succeed at an armor roll the player character must roll under the difficulty class, similar to luck. A natural 20 still means a critical hit and a natural 1 still means a fumble. This system keeps in place ascending monster armor class. If the lack of parity there annoys you you could also conve...

  I recently got done reading the first of the Imaro book by Charles R Saunders. Wonderful book, you should read it. I wrote up two of the spells I saw in the book for use in Dungeon Crawl Classics  If you want a PDF of this it can be found here.

  I recently did a solo hexcrawl of The Wilderlands of High fantasy using Dungeon Crawl Classics. I ran the game one in game day per real life day. I didn't use any special solo rules, I just used standard Basic Expert encounter procedures and a set of playing cards called into the weird. Let me tell you how things went down.   Day 1 Helane wakes in the middle of the woods. Her head pounds, she doesn't know where she is or what she was doing before hand. Unwilling to die in the woods she begins heading north, finding her way into a grasslands with a river heading east. She sets up camp, 4 rations left. Day 2 As the night went on she noticed light's and smoke from a town directly north of her. Not wishing to ford the river she follows it upstream into the hills. There she finds an adventuring party of 7 or so huddled around a wounded beastman. With uncertainty wracking her she makes contact. Realizing she is a wizard they ask her if she is come from the order of...

The first adventure for the upon the northern isthmus campaign setting has been released. I don't post about it much but it does exist a quite extensively in my brain. You can find it as a free blogpost on my itch.io with downloads of a pdf version being available for purchase. https://500poundsofnothing.itch.io/whatliesbelow

  Wide-eyed peasants tell tales of horrible chain encrusted creatures, their flesh bleeding as the metal digs deeper and deeper into them.. Chain devils, they chant. They are not entirely wrong. However the bound is not the denizen of hell, the bound in their victim. The chains themselves are what puppet these corpses. Their purpose is inscrutable but their means are simple, kill and puppet a moral victim, kill as many other mortals as they can and drag them back into the pits of hell. When not puppeting a corpse the chains of hell take on the form of a great serpent. Chains of Hell, Serpent Form (Type II Demon): Init +3; Atk Bladed Bite +10 Melee (1d12+5) or Tearing Tail +6 Melee (1d8+Bleed), Grapple +5 Melee (Bleed); Crit Dn / d6; AC 18 (Metal Nature); HD 5d14; MV 40’; Act 1d30 + 1d16; SP Demonc Traits, Demonic Combatants, Bleed, Variable Nature, Puppeting; SV Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +2; AL C. Demonic Traits: As a Type II Demon a chain of hell can speak, read mind...