Tenkar's Tavern: Looking For Ideas For The August DCC RPG Contest

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Looking For Ideas For The August DCC RPG Contest

I'd like to get the August DCC RPG Monthly Contest up and running sometime this weekend. Although I have a few ideas of my own, nothing compares to the ideas you guys and gals come up with.
So, give me some! ;)

If I go with your idea, I'll buy you one issue of Toys for the Sandbox (your choice) AND a copy of Tangents #1 - The Barrow Mound.

See, you can win just by helping the contest :)

(and yes, I still need to cut last month's list down to 100 professions ;)

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AndrewAugust 22, 2012 at 9:48 PM
Your contests are great.

How about "best reason for X monster to be in Y location?" with the idea of working up a map (maybe a Dyson map, or a Jackson map) keyed in response to the motive?
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Erik TenkarAugust 22, 2012 at 9:50 PM
I'd love to shake Matt down for a map, but he has extremely full hands these days.

That is an interesting idea...
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JasonZavodaAugust 22, 2012 at 10:45 PM

How about best adventure titles and scenario ideas, like "The Face in the Deep" where the players are sent to investigate a haunting that is scaring off the local fishermen. An underwater low-level adventure.

Or "The Lost Blade and the Bonefield" where the players go in search of a prince's sword in the middle of a cursed battlefield. They are opposed by the restless dead, a foul necromancer and another band of adventurers on the same quest.
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ScrivenerBAugust 22, 2012 at 11:01 PM
Hm....something short, but DCC. How about a new corruption result? You could compile the best entries into a new corruption table.

I tried to post this once, hope it didn't end up elsewhere.
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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