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ffuturesDCC Essentials
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/DCCEssentials
This revived April 2021 Dungeon Crawl Classics Essentials Bundle is one of two offers in progress featuring Dungeon Crawl Classics, the Goodman Games FRPG of gold and glory won by sorcery and sword. This Essentials offer is the ideal starting point for newcomers, with the core rulebook and popular introductory modules for a bargain price. The new companion offer, DCC Chaos Rising, adds recent DCC RPG modules including the Empire of the East campaign sourcebook and many adventures for character levels 1-6.After establishing the Dungeon Crawl Classics brand with five dozen old-school D&D 3.x modules published under the d20 license (2005-2011) – we featured almost all of these in our Fifty-Dungeon Megabundle this past May – Joseph Goodman introduced his own standalone DCC RPG in 2011. Since then the game has steadily gained ground, strengthened by stalwart Goodman designers like Michael Curtis and Harley Stroh as well as TSR-era artists like Erol Otus, Jeff Easley, and Jeff Dee. DCC's third-party support is also vigorous; hundreds of small publishers have embraced one of the gaming field's most supportive licenses. A high-power October 2015 Kickstarter campaign for the corebook's fourth printing raised US$215K from 2,259 backers.
Not exactly a retro-clone but suffused with old-timey brio, DCC RPG glories in its own loopy and lurid, giddy and gaudy aesthetic. Its inspiration – the most colorful sources in Gary Gygax's "Appendix N: Inspiration and Education Reading" in the original AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide – shows in DCC RPG module titles like The Sinister Sutures of the Semptress, The Corpse That Love Built, The Accursed Heart of the World Ender, The Croaking Fane, The Dread God Al-Khazadar, and Creep, Skrag, Creep! In all these heady adventures it's easy to stay focused on DCC RPG's goal: "Adventure as 1974 intended you to."
We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) for these two Dungeon Crawl Classics offers goes to the charity designated by publisher Joseph Goodman, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. For more than 30 years the SF-Marin Food Bank has worked to end hunger in the San Francisco Bay Area, where one in four neighbors is at risk of hunger.
The total retail value of the titles in this Dungeon Crawl Classics Essentials revival is US$51. Customers who pay just US$14.95 get all four titles in this revived offer's DCC Essentials Collection (retail value $51) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete DCC RPG rulebook (retail price $25), the Gen Con tournament module The Black Heart of Thakulon the Undying (retail $14), and the popular "funnel" adventure Sailors on the Starless Sea (retail $7), as well as the DCC Judge's Screen.
DCC Chaos Rising
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/DCC2Chaos
This all-new DCC Chaos Rising Bundle is the second of two offers in progress featuring Dungeon Crawl Classics, the Goodman Games FRPG of gold and glory won by sorcery and sword. Chaos Rising is a new companion to the revived April 2021 Dungeon Crawl Classics Essentials, which presents the core DCC RPG rulebook and popular introductory modules. If you're new to the game, start there.This Chaos Rising offer adds recent DCC RPG modules for character levels 1-6, plus the 2021 Empire of the East licensed campaign sourcebook based on the post-apocalyptic fantasy novels in the Earth's End sequence by author Fred Saberhagen.
We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) for these two Dungeon Crawl Classics offers goes to the charity designated by publisher Joseph Goodman, the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. For more than 30 years the SF-Marin Food Bank has worked to end hunger in the San Francisco Bay Area, where one in four neighbors is at risk of hunger.
The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$135. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all five modules in this offer's Low-Level Collection (retail value $50) as DRM-free ebooks, including the zero-level "funnel" campaign kickoff The Accursed Heart of the World Ender (retail price $10), the level-1 convention module Well of the Worm (retail $10), and three level-2 modules: The Inn At Five Points (retail $10), Blood for the Serpent King (retail $10), and Dread on Demon Crown Hill (retail $10).
Those who pay more than this offer's threshold (average) price, which is set at $29.95 to start, also get this offer's entire Higher-Level Collection with six more adventures and sourcebooks worth an additional $85, including the eponymous seven-module collection Chaos Rising (retail price $10), the Empire of the East sourcebook (retail $30), and four modules for levels 4-6: Dread God Al-Khazadar (retail $10), Journey to the Center of Aereth (retail $15), Lost City of Barako (retail $10), and Lairs of Lost Agharta (retail $10).
Last year I said "I'm not really very interested in either of these offers - in a lot of ways the system seems to be a reversion to the earliest years of RPGs, when adventurers did nothing but break down doors and smash heads, sometimes described as the "murder hobo" style of play. The presentation is a bit basic, and seems to be trying to sell even more weird dice than most players already own. I can't really see any special saving graces. But if you want the system this is a cheap way to buy it!" I really don't see much reason to change this opinion.
