Intro to DCC - "Session Zero" for New Players (Online)
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What is "Dungeon Crawl Classics"?
Dungeon Crawl Classics (or DCC for short) is a fantasy roleplaying game published by Goodman Games since 2012 which won them the 2013 Silver Ennie for "Fans' Choice for Favorite Publisher". DCC uses modern d20 game mechanics while paying homage to the origins of tabletop role-playing in the early editions of D&D from the 1970s, and its adventures draw inspiration from the classic pulp fantasy novels and "weird fiction" magazines of the 1930s-60s. It even includes licensed settings based on famous fantasy worlds such as Jack Vance's Dying Earth and Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar.
One of DCC's most unique aspects is its use of Zocchi dice (d3, d4, d5, d6, d7, d8, d10, d12, d14, d16, d20, d24, d30) for its "dice chain" mechanic used in lieu of standard +1 or -1 modifiers for various rolls. Don't worry - there's online dice rollers that can simulate these dice if you don't have them.
DCC is also famous for introducing fun things like 0-level "funnel sessions" (i.e. start with several lowly commoners and keep whichever one survives their first adventure), "carousing" rules for gaining experience by blowing your money on drinking & gambling, rules for spell failure/misfires, and a luck stat you can "burn" to boost rolls and survive otherwise-fatal mishaps -- all of which have since become common in many other OSR games.
What is a "Session Zero"?
For those who didn't know, a "Session Zero" is a non-playing session where the Game Master explains the rules of a specific RPG and helps the players create some starting characters. A Session Zero prepares players for the following session - Session 1 - where they'll begin playing the characters they've created.
How to Join: Click on the Zoom link on the scheduled date/time
PREPARATION: Before the session, please check out the Purple Sorcerer character-generator page which we'll use during our session to create four 0-level characters for a funnel: https://purplesorcerer.com/create_party.php
BTW, if you're a ChatGPT user like me, there's a pretty nifty mod called "DCC GPT" that can explain all the basic rules of DCC and even act as a Judge to run one-shot games.
What You'll Need:
- The DCC Quickstart Rules which are free to download from DriveThruRPG
- 0-level character sheet downloaded from Goodman Games.
- Set of Zocchi dice, DCC's Crawler's Companion app, or online dice simulator like Tactical Tokens.
- Zoom app (free for users) - https://zoom.us/download