And still another bundle - Purple Sorcerer

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Dungeon-bashing stuff for the Dungeon Crawl Classics game from Purple Sorcerer Games - on offer for one week only.

https://bundleofholding.com/quick/Purple

This all-new Purple Sorcerer DCC Quick Deal presents adventures from Purple Sorcerer Games for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG from Goodman Games. One of the oldest third-party DCC publishers, Purple Sorcerer produces free online DCC generators and that indispensable DCC utility, the Crawler's Companion. Purple Sorcerer's DCC scenarios feature introductory "funnel" settings with gaudy vistas, melodramatic characters, and deadly perils.

In introducing the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG to a newcomer, where might you start? Maybe with the distinctive (not to say lurid) DCC swords-and-sorcery tone, inspired by pulp-era fantasy authors enshrined in Appendix N? With its oddball step-dice, like the d16, d24, and d30? Wherever you start, soon you'll be waving your arms and laughing as you reach DCC's most notable/notorious practice, the funnel.

A funnel is a deadly introductory adventure for large numbers of novice characters. It's easy to generate zero-level DCC characters, which is handy because they die like kobolds. Every player sends four of these fragile, unfledged serfs into some meat-grinder labyrinth. The fortunate few who overcome the odds probably accrete character traits, background details, and motivations scene by scene. At the end, each player advances one lucky survivor to 1st level, and here the campaign begins.

Purple Sorcerer's Jon Marr published one of the first and most popular DCC funnels, Perils of the Sunken City for 15 0-level characters. Since then Purple has brought forth half a dozen heavily playtested, charmingly bloodthirsty funnels that show a brio, a cheery exuberance in sending noobs to their dooms in caverns, canyons, swamps, haunted Blackwater Manor (where the dumbwaiter is occupied by a diseased raccoon), and (this is true) a Carnival of the Damned with a Tilt-a-Whirl, a snake pit, a petting zoo, a Bone Coaster, and Whack-a-Mole. A moment of silence, if you will, for the battalions of hapless 0-level not-yet-PCs who have fallen to these delightful dangers. Now Bundle customers can honor their memory by sending their own neophytes through some of the most popular "funnels" in the game's history – for an unbeatable bargain price – with this Purple Sorcerer DCC Quick Deal.

(These adventures require the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG rulebook, which isn't included in this offer. But the DCC RPG is part of our Alternatives to D&D offer in progress.)

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.)

The total retail value of the adventure modules in this offer is US$45. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all four titles (containing ten complete Dungeon Crawl Classics modules) in our Purple Collection as DRM-free ebooks:

• The Sunken City Omnibus collection of introductory adventures (with Perils of the Sunken City, Ooze Pits of Jonas Gralk, A Gathering of the Marked, and Lair of the Mist Men)
• The Sullenlands Adventure Omnibus & Guide (containing Nebin Pendlebrook's Perilous Pantry, Frost Fang Expedition, and Crypt in Cadaver Canyon – plus a fourth complete adventure, The Bellows of Bromforge, not available for separate purchase)
• Carnival of the Damned
• Escape From the Shrouded Fen

Unfortunately this is a bundle that doesn't interest me at all, since I'm not really a fan of this sort of fantasy game any more. Having said that, this sort of elimination game can be fun in the right circumstances, though I'm  not convinced that it's always the best way to get characters started. I still have fond memories of an SF con where something like 20 players turned up for a Judge Dredd game I was running, and rather than turn them away I ran an impromptu "Rookies on their final assessment have to deal with a huge car chase" thing and killed, injured, or arrested everyone who messed up until I was down to a reasonable number of players. I think several players learned some important lessons about firing explosive bullets on a crowded road with 200KPH traffic that day... but I digress.

It's pretty cheap and looks like it has some useful stuff if you like this sort of gaming. It's just not for me.