A few of my favorite ever dungeons function on this monumental and absurdly low-cost tabletop RPG bundle
There’s an actual artwork to a very good dungeon. Not only a collection of rooms filled with monsters, however an interconnected, intriguing puzzle field of issues to find, poke at, and break.
Goodman Video games has been making a number of the greatest ever for years now, as a part of its Dungeon Crawl Classics collection. They’re unapologetically old skool—bizarre, scary, and completely bursting with creativity. So I am excited to see that Humble Bundle is providing an enormous bundle of DCC books, together with a number of the coolest adventures it is launched over the past decade and alter.
These are all written for the Dungeon Crawl Classics system—Goodman Video games’ gonzo tackle the unique D&D guidelines—however are simply tailored to any system constructed for retro dungeon crawling, akin to Outdated Faculty Necessities, Mörk Borg, Shadowdark, or Knave.
The 98 merchandise tier is the standout right here, providing all of the adventures in PDF type, plus the DCC core rulebook, dietary supplements, and property for digital tabletop play, for $18 / £13.43. I do know we’re most likely all a bit jaded to large bundles at this level, however that basically is a wild quantity of stuff for the cash.
Quite a lot of my favorite ever dungeons are in there, together with:
- Folks of the Pit: A disturbing journey down into the lair of tentacle-worshipping cultists.
- The Croaking Fane: A temple to a demonic frog god that also crawls along with his slimy progeny.
- Frozen in Time: A genre-bending journey that sends caveman right into a secret haven of sci-fi superscience.
- Sailors on the Starless Sea: A lethal introductory journey designed to weed out the weak out of your get together, and reward survivors with some brilliantly memorable setpieces.
However actually, in the event you fired an arrow anyplace at this lot, you would be assured to hit one thing good—it is an intimidating quantity of high-quality modules.
Unusually for Humble Bundle, I would say there’s additionally a couple of tier price contemplating with this one. The cheaper 46 merchandise tier ($10 / £7.46) nonetheless offers you extra adventures than you may most likely ever get the prospect to run and, importantly, nonetheless consists of the DCC core rulebook, so you are not left and not using a go-to system to make use of them with.
Even the 5 merchandise tier—accessible for simply $1 / 74p—is sensibly put collectively, providing an inexpensive approach to seize the core rulebook together with a few nice adventures.
The dearer 99 merchandise tier is the place issues do get somewhat odd. For greater than twice the value of the 98 merchandise tier, the additional advantage is 4 bodily books—however they’re adventures chosen at random. I do know RPG followers love rolling the cube but it surely appears odd to take a chance on which of the various adventures you may get a tough copy of, particularly as anybody shopping for that is most likely already comfy with purely digital possession anyway.
The bundle is out there for 9 extra days at time of writing, so it ought to be going off sale on January 22—so in the event you’re eager to plunge your gamers right into a marketing campaign filled with inexplicable strangeness and surreal terrors, make certain to select your tier earlier than then.