Category: DCC RPG

Ring Side Report- RPG review of From Gongfarming to Grave Digging: A Manual of Skills for DCC RPG

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Product- From Gongfarming to Grave Digging: A Manual of Skills for DCC RPG

System- DCC RPG

Producer- Miniature Giant Space Hamster Press

Price- $5.99  here https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/544420/from-gongfarming-to-grave-digging-a-manual-of-skills-for-dcc-rpg?affiliate_id=658618  

TL; DR- A solid fit for adding more rules to DCC RPG. 98%

Basics-  What can you do?  Let’s bring skills to DCC RPG.  This book gives a simple skill system to DCC RPG.  You start with one and gain at first level and every odd level after.  When you use a skill you are trained in you roll a d20 and add your ability modifier.  If you use a skill you don’t know you roll a d10.  It’s a DC 10 to succeed.

Mechanics or Crunch-  How much do you like 3.5?  That’s how much you will like this system.  I think there are a bit too many skills compared to how many you get.  It’s VERY related to the number of skills for 3.5 DnD.  That’s not bad, but your character won’t have many compared to the total number.  That’s annoying, but VERY on brand for DCC RPG where min-maxing is for nerds.  5/5

Theme or Fluff- The rules to explain how to use skills are less than a page.  The explanation of what each skill  is several pages.  This is on brand for DCC.  Again, this system LOVES crazy/gonzo and dosn’t want people to min/max characters.  It fits.  5/5

Execution-  I like what’s here, but I might need an example or two.  The idea of rolling a d20 vs a d10 is explained decently, but show that.  There is some tell, but not much show in how to use the rules.  The explanation of the skills works.  I’d just like more examples. 4.5/5

Summary-  This is a fun product, but I want more examples.  Share with me how to use skills mechanically.  The absolute mechanics of them fit, but demonstrate the use a bit more to help me apply. Then again, DCC isn’t a game of rules.  It’s “vibes”.  If you like that and want skills, then this is awesome! 98%

Daily Punch 10-9-25 Hunger undead vulnerabilities

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More undead penalties! You hungry?

Hunger
Level: 1Range SelfDuration: permanentCasting time: noneSave: none
GeneralYou’re just hungry!
Manifestationroll 1d4: (1) You eat flesh and your body grows. (2) You eat and chunks fall out of your rotting body (3)You must draw the soul out of the target. (4) Suck fluids out of the target
1Roll this mutation check again, plus roll one additional defect.
2-4If you don’t eat every hour, you lose 1d8 hit points
5-7If you don’t eat every 1d8 hours, you lose 1d8 hit points
8-11If you don’t eat every 2d8 hours, you lose 1d6 hit points
12-15If you don’t eat every 3d8 hours, you lose 1d6 hit points
16-17If you don’t eat every 4d8 hours, you lose 1d3 hit points
18-19You have to eat?
20+Every day you don’t eat, you gain 1d3 temporary hit points.

Daily Punch 9-30-25 Rest Requirements undead drawback for DCC RPG

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Where do you sleep?

Rest Requirements
Level: 1Range SelfDuration: permanentCasting time: noneSave: none
GeneralYou need specific requirements to rest
Manifestationroll 1d4: (1) You must rest in your coffin. (2) You must rest in a graveyard (3)You must sleep on the soil of your homeland. (4) You must rest in a pool of blood
1Roll this mutation check again, plus roll one additional defect.
2-4If you do not rest as required, you die by morning
5-7If you do not rest as required, you do not regain hit points and you lose 2d8 hit points instead
8-11If you do not rest as required, you do not regain hit points and you lose 1d8 hit points instead
12-15If you do not rest as required, you do not regain hit points and you lose 1d4 hit points instead
16-17If you do not rest as required, you do not regain hit points.
18-19Who cares where you sleep?
20+If you do not rest as required, you actually gain 1d8 temp hit points!

Daily Punch 9-18-25 Physical Degradation undead drawback for DCC RPG!

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Being dead isn’t all its cracked up to be. Undead drawbacks continue!

Physical Degradation
Level: 1Range SelfDuration: perminentCasting time: noneSave: none
GeneralYou have just wasted away in death
Manifestationroll 1d4: (1) Your body as wasted away. (2) As you died, your muscles rotted away (3)You’ve sunken into yourself. (4) You’ve shrunk and dehidrated
1Roll this mutation check again, plus roll one additional defect.
2-4Reduce your stamina by 1d4 and your Strength by 1d4
5-7Reduce your stamina by 1d3 and your Strength by 1d3
8-11Reduce your stamina by 1d2 and your Strength by 1d2
12-15Reduce your stamina by 1 and your Strength by 1
16-17Roll a 1d2. On a 1, reduce your stamina by 1. On a 2, reduce your Strength by 1
18-19You’ve survived death well
20+Increase your stamina by 1 and your Strength by 1.

Daily Punch 9-16-25 True Name undead drawback for DCC RPG

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how about more drawbacks to being undead!

True Name
Level: 1Range SelfDuration: perminentCasting time: noneSave: none
GeneralNames have power!
Manifestationroll 1d4: (1) Uttering your true name renduces you a doll to the will of another. (2)Your real name causes you to lose consciousness until the power is done (3)You are awake, but must fight your bodies pull to do another bidding. (4) You feel happy to do what you are told upon hearing your name
1Roll this mutation check again, plus roll one additional defect.
2-4You must follow the command of those who say your true name if you fail a DC 20 WIll save for 1d6 hours
5-7You must follow the command of those who say your true name if you fail a DC 18 WIll save for 1d6 turns
8-11You must follow the command of those who say your true name if you fail a DC 16 WIll save for 1d6 round
12-15You must follow the command of those who say your true name if you fail a DC 14 WIll save for 1d3 round
16-17You must follow the command of those who say your true name if you fail a DC 12 WIll save for 1d2 round
18-19Your name makes your ears slightly blush
20+You must never say your true name, but upon its being said you gain 1d3 actions

Daily Punch 9-11-25 Rotting negative quality for DCC RPG

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More negatives to be an undead!

Rotting
Level: 1Range SelfDuration: perminentCasting time: noneSave: none
GeneralYou are simpling falling apart
Manifestationroll 1d4: (1) Your body falls apart comically. (2)Your body rots and slofs off like rotting meat (3)You actively decompose in front of others. (4) You waste away with not trace
1Roll this mutation check again, plus roll one additional defect.
2-4You do not heal each night and you take 1d8 damage every day when you rest
5-7You do not heal each night and you take 1d6 damage every day when you rest
8-11You do not heal each night and you take 1d4 damage every day when you rest
12-15You do not heal each night and you take 1d3 damage every day when you rest
16-17You do not heal every night
18-19You look dead but no one cares.
20+You heal normally every night

Daily Punch 9-2-25 Religious Vulnerability for DCC RPG

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Back to more DCC fun for my Undead creatures!

Religious Vulnerability
Level: 1Range SelfDuration: permanentCasting time: noneSave: none
GeneralYou become vulnerable to a religious symbol. this symbol must be of one you could encounter on a daily bases from the area you are from.
Manifestationroll 1d4: (1) You begin to smoke and then burn at the sight of the symbol (2) Light shoots out of the symbol and begins to burn you (3)An invisible force pushes you down and back from the symbol (4) your brain is wracked by the words of that god and you are punished as an abomination by it
1Roll this mutation check again, plus roll one additional defect.
2-4You are weak to the symbol and while within 100 feet of the symbol, church, or holy ground of the god you light on holy fire 1d6 damage every minute
5-7You are weak to the symbol and while within 100 feet of the symbol, church, or holy ground of the god you light on holy fire 1d6 damage every 10 minutes
8-11You are weak to the symbol and while within 30 feet of the symbol, church, or holy ground of the god you light on holy fire 1d6 damage every 10 minutes
12-15You are weak to the symbol and while within 30 feet of the symbol, church, or holy ground of the god you light on holy fire 1d3 damage every 10 minutes
16-17You are weak to the symbol and while within five feet of the symbol, church, or holy ground of the god you light on holy fire 1d2 damage every 10 minutes
18-19You glow with the light of the god that hates you when shown wearing the holy symbol
20+You heal 1d4 hit points every hour while wearing the holy symbol

Daily Punch 8-19-25 Sunlight Vulnerability for DCC RPG

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IT BURNS!

Sunlight Vulnerability
Level: 1Range SelfDuration: perminentCasting time: noneSave: none
GeneralThe light, it burns!
Manifestationroll 1d4: (1) You skin crackles and burns black (2) you litteraly light on fire (3)Your begin to blister and turn read (4) you beging to speed rot in the light
1Roll this mutation check again, plus roll one additional defect.
2-4You are weak to the sun and while in the sun you take 1d6 damage every 10 minutes in the light
5-7You are weak to the sun and while in the sun you take 1d4 damage every 10 minutes in the light
8-11You are weak to the sun and while in the sun you take 1d3 damage every 10 minutes in the light
12-15You are weak to the sun and while in the sun you take 1d2 damage every 10 minutes in the light
16-17You are weak to the sun and while in the sun you take 1 damage every 10 minutes in the light
18-19You sparkle in the sunlight
20+You heal 1d4 hit points every hour in the sun

Ring Side Report- RPG review of Grave Robbers of Thracia

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Product– Grave Robbers of Thracia

System- DCC RPG

Producer– Goodman Games

Price– OUT SOON!

TL; DR-A great intro to an adventure series!  100%

Basics–  Where are they going?  The dead walk and towns disappear.  Where did they go and can you save your town?

Mechanics or Crunch– God I love a good funnel.  I also want to get a good quick intro to Thracia.  This gives me the mechanical intro to DCC and whittles down the players.  This is a solid, basic funnel.  5/5

Theme or Fluff–  I don’t know much about Thracia, and this gives you the basics of the world.  The world can’t be fully explained, but you get some monsters, some gods, and a fun intro to the world.  It’s enough to hook you for more.  5/5

Execution–  This is Goodman Games.  They know how to write adventures and their audiences.  I love everything here.  5/5

Summary–  This is a good funnel by a good company.  I also love fighting undead, so this is a match made in heaven.  After this adventure, I can’t wait to hop into the larger Caverns of Thracia adventure!  100%

Ring Side Report- RPG review of Dungeon Crawl Classics #107: Forgotten Dangers

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Product– Dungeon Crawl Classics #107: Forgotten Dangers

System- Dungeon Crawl Classics

Producer– Goodreads

Price– $10.99 here  https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/506125/dungeon-crawl-classics-107-forgotten-dangers?affiliate_id=658618 

TL; DR– Good intro DCC RPG One-shots.  97% 

Basics–  Let’s jump in!  Forgotten dangers is a group of six random DCC adventures.  They are not really connected to each other, but they are small, bite sized fun that you can drop into any DCC game.

Mechanics or Crunch–  These adventures are set up well enough to be the right mix of deadly and fun. The crunch here works.  There are crazy powerful items to play with as well as crazy powerful dangers.  It’s solid DCC RPG fun. 5/5

Theme or Fluff–   The individual adventures are fantastic, but I wish there was a connection between them.  The individual adventures are all bat crap crazy, and that’s exactly what you play DCC for.  The fault is the individuals are not connected.  The adventures are good, but I wish they were a bit connected.  4.5/5

Execution–  Solid layout, text, art, and flow make this an easy read. If you need an adventure for a session you did not prepare for, these adventures, while a bit simple, are enough that you have a solid four hours and can just hop right in as a GM.  5/5

Summary– I love DCC RPG.  I love random one shots.  This product is just those.  It’s fun, but I wish this was a campaign or written where it could be.  But without flow, this is still just solid fun to run with your friends. 97%