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The Game Master’s Book of Astonishing Random Tables provides hundreds of tables for nearly every worldbuilding and gameplay situation GMs may come across. Need to know what the local food is like? Roll for it. Need to know how the city’s plumbing is organized or if they have a sewer system? Roll for it. Need to know what specific pathology drives the mad draconian warlord just beyond the city’s gates? Roll for it. Want to determine what a sorcerer’s spell effects look like or what unique way they cast their spells? You know the answer!When warranted, many of the table results are “enhanced” with supplemental information to help clarify roll results, like how a particular type of government is run, or what a particular style of architecture looks like . Other tables will have a branching element, providing a path to fleshing out larger scale subjects that require more detail than can be provided with a single table. The book also includes three one-shot adventures that help GMs put the book’s tables into play right away, so that they can see exactly how helpful and enhancing they can be.The Game Master’s Book of Astonishing Random Tables fills in the holes of gameplay, enriching every scene, setting, character and event, while also adding new, unexpected elements to shake things up and keep players on their toes.

Punjar: wide-eyed madmen stalk the streets pronouncing the end of days, mail-clad priests crush the skulls of heathens underfoot, and timorous virgins are offered up in sacrifice within sooty temples. But even the greatest of shining temples and the strangest of mystery cults don’t dare to challenge the terrifying finality of death.Until now. In Blades Against Death, the adventurers cross between the realms of the living and the dead, and wager their souls in a desperate bid to steal a soul from Death’s hoary grasp. To win over the God of Dooms, you must be the most daring, stalwart and cunning and – when all else fails – willing to test your blades against Death!A mid-level adventure for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role-Playing Game, Blades against Death offers characters a once in a lifetime escapade. Those that return from the Realms of the Dead will have earned the true title of Adventurer, while those that fail will spend eternity in Death’s service.

A level 4 Adventure for DCC RPGTo save a city…to save a world!The end is nigh. A shadow falls on Punjar, and panic fills the streets. This doom cannot be fought, and it cannot be outrun. Unless…From the lightless depths below the city streets, you must find the way to P’quoth, and the indifference of the fate-denying Madka.The clock is ticking.There will be no victory without sacrifice.Without the courage, cunning, and strength to face an immortal, your souls will surely fall prey to the Dread God Al-Khazadar!

Glory & Gold Won by Sorcery & Sword You’re no hero. You’re an adventurer: a reaver, a cutpurse, a heathen-slayer, a tight-lipped warlock guarding long-dead secrets. You seek gold and glory, winning it with sword and spell, caked in the blood and filth of the weak, the dark, the demons, and the vanquished. There are treasures to be won deep underneath, and you shall have them.  Return to the glory days of fantasy with the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role-Playing Game. Adventure as 1974 intended, with modern rules grounded in the origins of sword & sorcery. Fast play, cryptic secrets, and a mysterious past await you: turn the page… RULES SET DCC RPG is a fast-paced, open-feeling rules set allowing for epic game experiences without unnecessary tethers. It uses modern game-play while paying homage to the origins of role-playing and the fun that it inspired.

Triumph & Technology Won by Mutants & Magic You’re no zero. You’re a wasteland wanderer: a mutant, a seeker, a robot-killer, a stoic shaman guarding forgotten ancient sciences. You seek triumph and technology, winning it with mutations and magic, soaked in the radiation and quantum fields of the mutated, the savage, the semi-sentient, and the artificially intelligent. There are treasures to be won in the taboo lands and ruins, and you shall have them. Return to the glory days of science fiction gaming with the Mutant Crawl Classics Role Playing Game. Adventure like it’s 1978 again, with modern rules grounded in the origins of post-apocalyptic role-playing. Fast play, a mysterious future, and 100% compatibility with the DCC RPG system await you — just activate your artifact…

The First Seven DCC RPG Adventures In One Volume! Tome of Adventure Vol. 1 collects the first 7 adventure modules published for the DCC RPG rules set, mostly written by DCC legend Harley Stroh and the DCC Dark Master, himself, Joseph Goodman. Featuring brand-new cover art by Doug Kovacs, this compilation includes: • Doom of the Savage Kings, first published as DCC #66.5 • Sailors on the Starless Sea, including the bonus level The Summoning Pits, first published as DCC #67 • The People of the Pit, including the bonus content The Assassins of the Pit, first published as DCC #68 • The Emerald Enchanter, including the mini-sequel The Emerald Enchanter Strikes Back, first published as DCC #69 • The Jewels of the Carnifex, first published as DCC #70 • The 13th Skull, including the stand-alone adventure The Balance Blade, first published as DCC #71 • Beyond the Black Gate, first published as DCC #72 Within the covers of this book lurk demonic hounds, terrible beastmen, avatars of chaos, moon devils, slumbering gods, and even more fantastic dangers, each demonstrating why Dungeon Crawl Classics is the perfect game to capture that classic “sword and sorcery” style of adventure. Whether this is your first taste of DCC RPG or you’re well acquainted with its flavor, you’ll find a feast unlike any other inside the Tome of Adventure Vol. 1!

There’s something strange blooming up at the old manor on Cob Hill. Locals hired by the new owner have gone missing. Unknown to all, an ancient blood pact is being honored, allowing a demonic being entrance into the world.DCC #103: Bloom of the Blood Garden is a 0-level funnel designed to kick off a new campaign or serve as a one-shot adventure. The adventure details the twisted gardens of Cob Hill, the crumbling manor, and the dark spaces beneath it, all of which hold terrors for the adventurers to encounter and hopefully survive. The adventure is designed for use with Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.

Hype up your XCC RPG game with this new set of dice. A set of 14 “weird” RPG dice in gold and black, for use with all of your top-rated encounters--fame and fortune are sure to follow! The Xcrawl Dice Set is a standard set of seven RPG dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d%, d12, and d20), plus the “weird” (d3, d5, d7, d14, d16, d24, and d30) dice used in the game, packaged in a clear plastic tube.

Goodman Games is pleased to present XCC #0 Murder Mountain Smackdown, the first in its line of Xcrawl Classics adventures. DJ Hard Knoxx puts out a call for wannabe superstars from all over the Empire! Can you survive his mountain playground full of beer-drinking Yetis, angry post-cryptids, ice grommits, and an extradimensional monster seeking souls? XCC #0 Murder Mountain Smackdown is a 0-level funnel perfect for kicking off a brand new Xcrawl Classics RPG campaign and a great introduction to the unique setting of Xtreme Dungeon Crawling. PCs will be either catapulted into superstardom or perish live before an audience atop Murder Mountain.

Goodman Games is happy to announce XCC #4 Death in the Dungeon of Tomorrow for Xcrawl Classics RPG. The PCs’ professional adventuring careers are doomed unless they find some way to earn enough money to become members of the Adventurer’s Guild again. Luckily, some researchers from UCLA’s Technomagic Department make them an offer: spend one weekend allowing them to map their moves onto a virtual dungeon for fast cash. What could go wrong? XCC #4 Death in the Dungeon of Tomorrow is an unpredictable Xcrawl adventure for 4th level Xcrawlers, and the first adventure to take place outside of the normal arena setting. Get ready for digital dragons, fish from space, nightmare wolves, and Xcrawl’s first ever recurring villain!

Goodman Games presents DCC #106 Trials of the Trapmaster’s Tomb. The tomb of an infamous trap-maker and necromancer opens once each year, giving desperate souls seeking fortune and glory the chance to challenge their wits against the Trapmaster’s deadliest creations and deathless guardians. Few come out alive, but those who do, go on to become heroes.DCC #106 Trials of the Trapmaster’s Tomb is a 0-level funnel adventure for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. This trap-centric adventure will challenge both the players and their characters with a plethora of death traps and supernatural foes. The toll will be high, but the fortunes to be claimed by the survivors is vast.

Goodman Games presents Fifth Edition Fantasy #26, Against the Thieves Guild, an adventure for 4th-level characters. The heroes must retrieve a magical lockbox secured in a vault secluded in a trap-laden dungeon. Sounds like a simple heist? But soon, the characters are embroiled in a centuries-old rivalry between master thieves. Assuming they survive the deathtraps, they still must deduce the secret of the enchanted lockbox!Against the Thieves Guild is an all-new 32-page softcover adventure, fully compatible with the fifth edition of the world’s first fantasy role-playing game. This adventure features numerous traps pulled from OAR #8 Grimtooth’s Old School Traps, plus several new traps. That book is not required to use this adventure, which can be easily dropped into your own campaign setting.

Seven DCC RPG Adventures In One Volume! Tome of Adventure Vol. 2 collects 7 adventure modules published for the DCC RPG rules set, mostly written by DCC legend Harley Stroh and the DCC Director of Product Development, Michael Curtis. Within the covers of this book lurk sea queens, framed wizards, terrifying giants, time-frozen robots, and even more fantastic dangers, each demonstrating why Dungeon Crawl Classics is the perfect game to capture that classic “sword and sorcery” style of adventure. Whether this is your first taste of DCC RPG or you’re well acquainted with its flavor, you’ll find a feast unlike any other inside the Tome of Adventure Vol. 2!

Adventure in the City of The Black Toga! DCC RPG Tome of Adventure Vol. 3 collects 7 adventure modules published for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar campaign setting, officially licensed from the estate of Fritz Lieber! Explore the back alleys of Lankhmar and pit yourself against thieves' guilds, undead denizens, corrupt officials, and even death itself! Each module demonstrates why Dungeon Crawl Classics is the perfect game to capture that classic “sword and sorcery” style of adventure exhibited by Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Whether this is your first taste of DCC Lankhmar or you’re well acquainted with its flavor, you’ll find a feast unlike any other inside the Tome of Adventure Vol. 3!

Prepare for Harley Stroh’s sword-and-planet fantasy epic! Your characters are cast across the cosmos to a foreign world. Left to die beneath a weirdling sun and its sickening rays, their survival depends as much upon a quick wit as a quick blade. Even the finest chain hauberk must fail beneath the crush of an alien horde.   DCC RPG Tome of Adventure Volume 4 is a level 4 exploration-style adventure spanning scores of leagues. On the Purple Planet, your characters cross hundreds of miles of alien wasteland, where they face predatory creatures, deadly mushroom jungles, and thousands of factious savage man-beasts locked in an endless war.   In the course of the sprawling hex-crawl, characters have the opportunity to assume mastery of their own warbands, pit faction against faction, plumb ancient burial mounds, respect the age-old taboos, and experiment with deadly artifacts – the remnants of the Last War.   How characters meet each challenge determines whether they discover the secrets to returning home, or slip beneath the sands of the wastes, succumbing to the perils of the Purple Planet.   For those few with the courage to remain, we offer a world for the conquering.

This hardback anthology of spine-tingling and blood-curdling adventures collects the DCC Horror line in one eerie tome. Containing DCC Horror #1-8, this is one book that will keep you up at night!

Dungeon Denizens 2 for DCC RPG is a huge full-color hardcover featuring 350+ foes and allies! Many are low-level opponents, perfect for any starting campaign, with a good selection of iconic foes such as dragons, golems, and giants!

A new printing of our celebrated game system with all-new cover artwork by William McAusland.Return to the glory days of fantasy with the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role-Playing Game. Adventure as 1974 intended, with modern rules grounded in the origins of sword & sorcery. Fast play, cryptic secrets, and a mysterious past await you: turn the page…DCC RPG is a fast-paced, open-feeling rules set allowing for epic game experiences without unnecessary tethers. It uses modern game-play while paying homage to the origins of role-playing and the fun that it inspired.

The classic adventure, now available as a hardcover! Since time immemorial you and your people have toiled in the shadow of the cyclopean ruins. Of mysterious origins and the source of many a superstition, they have always been considered a secret best left unknown by the folk of your hamlet. But now something stirs beneath the crumbling blocks. Beastmen howl in the night and your fellow villagers are snatched from their beds. With no heroes to defend you, who will rise to stand against the encircling darkness? The secrets of Chaos are yours to unearth, but at what cost to sanity or soul? An introductory adventure for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game, Sailors on the Starless Sea pits a mob of 0-level adventurers against the legacy of the Chaos Lords and their corrupted hordes. Delving beneath the crumbling ruins, the characters discover ancient crypts, a starless sea, and an ancient ziggurat, where death and treasure await in equal measure! This hardcover version also contains a gallery of alternate covers from previous printings, an essay on Doug Kovac's “Reverse Sailors”, an interview with adventure creator Harley Stroh, original sketch maps, and more!

From intrigue in the Court of Chaos to contesting against the Atomic Overlord, Dungeon Crawl Classics are never ordinary. And now seven more classic DCC RPG adventures are compiled in one beautiful tome to challenge and entertain your players. In these pages you’ll find extraplanar realms, treasure-filled towers, demon-cursed caverns, crumbling gothic manses, and radiation-scarred alien worlds to explore. Battle demons, gods, and monsters, alike, as you quest for gold, magical items, and glory…or for sheer survival! Tome of Adventure #7: Magic, Gods, and Demons contains eight exciting adventures including: Tower of the Black Pearl (Level 1 adventure): The players must race a ticking tidal clock to recover a treasure from a formerly-sunken tower. Intrigue at the Court of Chaos (Level 1 adventure): Whisked away to the Court of Chaos, the PCs find themselves pawns in a multiversal war. Who will the side with? The One Who Watches from Below (Level 1 adventure): An ocular demon haunts an accursed cave. Will the party survive the Curse of the Emerald Eye? Bride of the Black Manse (Level 3 adventure): Death is no barrier to the machinations of a family stricken with madness and desperate to buy out their contract with the forces of darkness. Dragora’s Dungeon (Level 1 adventure): The call goes out for adventurers to save an ensorcelled kingdom from the eldritch power of ancient sorcerer-kings. The Making of the Ghost Ring (Level 4 adventure): The restless ghost of a wizard needs the party to finish crafting a magic ring to find peace. Are they up to the challenge? Hole in the Sky (Level 0 funnel): The enigmatic Lady in Blue requires the party to free a powerful supernatural entity from a magical prison. How will they fare when the Wheel of Destiny spins? Against the Atomic Overlord (Level 5 adventure): A trip to a post-apocalyptic world pits the party against the mutated minions of the Atomic Overlord!

Dangers Beneath the Dying Sun!As Earth slouches towards its inevitable end untold millennia in the future, there are those who still grasp for riches, power, and magic. Scheming wizards conspire against one another while others pillage the relics of the past for their personal gain. Can you survive the plots and dangers of the Dying Earth?Tome of Adventure 8: The Dying Earth compiles nine adventures for the DCC Dying Earth campaign setting based on the amazing stories of Jack Vance. Herein you’ll find a panoply of adversaries to overcome, magics to be unearthed, and treasures to be wrested from the grips of their rightful owners. While these adventures can be used with Dungeon Crawl Classics, a copy of the DCC Dying Earth boxed set allows the judges and players to experience these scenarios as originally intended and is suggested for use.

A hardcover edition of this oft-reprinted classic early DCC RPG adventure. Inspired by the supernatural horror of Abraham Merritt, this adventure sends heroes deep into the earth to challenge The People of the Pit. Features 24 pages of bonus content not in the original softcover edition! It has been years since the last virgin was sacrificed: and now the pit beast awakens once more! Every generation it stumbles forth on undulating tentacles from its resting place deep below the great ravine, its towering blubbery mass ravaging the land before returning to slumber for decades. But this time is different. The Great Beast strikes with intelligence: bands of faceless gray-robed men emerge from the tenebrous depths, herding the beast’s roaming tentacles before them. The enigmatic people of the pit live despite the passage of ages! The earth shakes each night as they herd the primordial tentacles ever further, while the villagers ask: is any man brave enough to put the sword to this menace?

A hardcover edition of this oft-reprinted classic early DCC RPG adventure. Inspired by the supernatural horror of Abraham Merritt, this adventure sends heroes deep into the earth to challenge The People of the Pit. Features 24 pages of bonus content not in the original softcover edition! This version has a special, foil debossed cover! It has been years since the last virgin was sacrificed: and now the pit beast awakens once more! Every generation it stumbles forth on undulating tentacles from its resting place deep below the great ravine, its towering blubbery mass ravaging the land before returning to slumber for decades. But this time is different. The Great Beast strikes with intelligence: bands of faceless gray-robed men emerge from the tenebrous depths, herding the beast’s roaming tentacles before them. The enigmatic people of the pit live despite the passage of ages! The earth shakes each night as they herd the primordial tentacles ever further, while the villagers ask: is any man brave enough to put the sword to this menace?

A Level 4 Adventure for DCC RPGThe mad wizard Emirikol is terrifying the city! Striking without reason and sending his winged apes to slaughter the populace, the famous archmage has gone too far. Now a coffer of jewels is offered to those who would dare defeat him. The ever-changing walls of his Shifting Tower are guarded by a host of diabolical traps, fiendish guardians, and unimaginable terror. Will your adventurers come out victorious…or lose their very souls in the attempt?

This compilation collects seven DCC adventures previously published in hard-to-find other editions. Each short adventure is suitable for a single session. Collectively they provide adventures for characters up to 5th level!The compilation includes these adventures:Elzemon and the Blood-Drinking BoxThe Imperishable SorceressGlipkerio’s GambitThe Tower Out of TimeThe Jeweler That Dealt in StardustThe Undulating CorruptionThe Infernal Crucible of Sezrekan the Mad

Centuries past, Lady Ilse ascended to scion of House Liis by trading the archdevil Mammon what he wanted most: her immortal soul – and a diabolical betrothal. The triumph proved hollow, for every year on the eve of her fell covenant, she was beset by visions of Mammon and her foul promise. Seeking to save herself, she was buried alive, swaddled in the holy symbols of a dozen divergent faiths. This desperate ploy held Mammon at bay for centuries…but a devil can afford to wait a very long time.After hundreds of years, the last of the holy wards has fallen. The devil has come to collect his due. Tonight a storm crashes against the ancient manor house and forgotten spirits rise from the muck and mire. The fallen belfry tolls once more, announcing the hellish fete. As the adventurers arrive to explore the Black Manse, Mammon calls for his winsome bride. He will leave with a soul at the end of the night. The only question is: Whose?

A Level 1 Adventure for DCC RPGEons-old secrets slumber beneath the forbidden Ghost Ice. Since the time of the Elders, the local tribes have shunned the crawling glacier, knowing it as taboo land that slays all who tread its frigid expanse. Now, the Ghost Ice has shattered, revealing hints at deeper mysteries entombed within its icy grasp. Strange machines and wonderful horrors stir beneath the ice…Frozen in Time is a level 1 adventure for any DCC RPG campaign. It also includes new material for judges who want to send their adventurers in a Stone Age setting!Includes expanded mini-campaign setting, The Forlorn North.Please note: digest-sized edition is shrunk from regular-size edition so font size is quite small.

This is a very thick, durable cardboard version of our classic screen. In technical terms the screen is printed on 2mm thick boards, meaning when all three panels are laid upon each other whole screen is more than 6mm thick.You really have to hold it to appreciate it. This is a durable screen!

From whence comes the dread sorcerer Sezrekan, none can say, yet it is known that his physical appearance is always presaged by apparitions of strange polyhedrons that crave the blood of innocents. This set contains the very dice that Sezrekan sends forth before his arrival. You can divine numerological truths from the positions in which they fall, the better to spill the blood of your enemies.Contained within this tube you will find these 14 dice, ready for rolling on your table:D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, D8, D10, D%10, D12, D14, D16, D20, D24, and D30.Exact dice colors will vary from what’s shown.Game on!