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Roeder wrote: Wed Feb 01, 2023 3:43 pm
Mickey242 wrote: Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:44 pm
Roeder wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 6:20 pm Anyone been following the Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro/OGL fiasco?

Yowza.
Eplain please. Whats happening, I'm out of the loop.
Wizards made an unwise power grab that backfired.

This blog post sums it up really well but there is a TON of coverage on it all over the youtubes, etc.

https://pocgamer.com/archives/1930
I guess I just don't get it... It's a table top game that is a framework for playing. You can just do whatever you'd like, it's just rules.

I ended up making friends with the main artists of DCC. We have a daily chat group. It was fun to read what they had to say about the TSR/Wizards fiasco, some of them worked for those companies, so they had some really personal things to say.

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cakes wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:11 pm I've got an open meetup group that plays DCC every last Sunday of the month.

If you have never played Dungeon Crawl Classics, it's a DnD-like table top RPG that is light on rules, heavy on fantasy, and it gets better the more gonzo you go. This particular group, we do everything from classic DnD-like dungeon crawls to drunken hillbilly vampire escapades to futuristic apocalypse motorcar chases to deadly live television game shows.

No experience necessary and we love having players that are new to the game. It's very casual and designed to allow players the freedom to show up or not, the story will continue.

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/chicago-dungeon-crawls/
Our next event: https://meetu.ps/e/Lh5Sv/1hSvR/i
Do you still run these? I always wanted to play dnd when I was a kid, but Satan and all that. Now, i have my kid every Sunday. But could get a sitter once a month for sure.

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bumble wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 7:16 pm
cakes wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:11 pm I've got an open meetup group that plays DCC every last Sunday of the month.

If you have never played Dungeon Crawl Classics, it's a DnD-like table top RPG that is light on rules, heavy on fantasy, and it gets better the more gonzo you go. This particular group, we do everything from classic DnD-like dungeon crawls to drunken hillbilly vampire escapades to futuristic apocalypse motorcar chases to deadly live television game shows.

No experience necessary and we love having players that are new to the game. It's very casual and designed to allow players the freedom to show up or not, the story will continue.

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/chicago-dungeon-crawls/
Our next event: https://meetu.ps/e/Lh5Sv/1hSvR/i
Do you still run these? I always wanted to play dnd when I was a kid, but Satan and all that. Now, i have my kid every Sunday. But could get a sitter once a month for sure.
They are still alive and running, but are run mainly by another member in person in Chicago at DMen tap. I would love to run a monthly campaign again. I only stopped because I had my second daughter, but now that she's approaching 1, I would have some of my time back again. We are self-organizing, any member can organize games.

I just got two DCC sets that I want to run: Dying Earth and X Crawl.

You can join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/QgUm2gku

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I got the Old School Essentials box last November, and finally pulled a group together to play this week. We're going to make it a regular thing, going some of the 1st party published adventures, first with Basic set and then with Advanced, to see which one we dig more.

I'm in love with it. If I remember correctly, I attempted to participate in an OSE game over the Panorama that was put on by one of you gentlemen (Cakes?) - I ended up not doing that, but the PDFs you provided made it back into rotation around the time of the Wizards fuckery. So thanks for that, 4 years later <3
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I'm using ChatGPT to GM solo a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay campaign I've wanted to play for thirty years... The Enemy Within. One of the "all time greats" of roleplaying campaigns. It's such a great setting.
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For just over a year now I've been running a game using North Wind Publishing's Hyperborea game. It's just me, my brother and a friend of his but they each have a secondary character (from the other two players never playing more than one night). There's also a bunch of npc bouncing around.

I love the setting. Heavily based on Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea but with lots from his other settings and a good chunk of Howard and Lovecraft thrown in. No elves or other Tolkien things. Instead you get lost Vikings, Celts, Atlanteans, and Lovecraft aliens. There's some great pulp sci-fi blended in. There's some cultural blindspots like the name used for the Inuit culture, but we just fix that in playing. We have been using the publisher's Xambaala module as the mini setting with various dungeons transplanted to the area which is an ancient half ruined city nearly swallowed by the encroaching sands. All very conducive to plugging all sorts of stuff. I've also created a good deal of content for the area, fleshing out little leads in the official description.

Mechanically, it is like a thoughtfully streamlined AD&D which retains lots of cool options. Hits the sweet spot of simplicity and crunch for me. The coolest thing is all the classes and subclasses. Instead of multi-classing you just get new classes that fulfill those roles like fighter-mage, priest-thief, but also lots of really cool and unique things like Runegraver. I mostly like little tweaks like bumping thief fighting accuracy to be on par with clerics and wizards up to what thieves used to be. Also, fighters and their subclasses get a ton of combat actions (no meta currency needed) and even more optional actions. My group refers to it as the fighter's spell book. I think most of it was in AD&D, but its much more straightforward here.

I've never DMed before and only really played a summer long 2E game back in college. It's been pretty easy, but I get in these creative moods and make months of content over a weekend. We use roll20 as we can't always meet in person. This is clunky, but my fondness for map-making and sticking to very basic features makes it worth while.

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