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Thank you. Bought it. Read it. Using it and loving it. I've decided that Hubris is where murder hobos go when they die. But I can't tell if Hubris is Murder Hobo Heaven or Murder Hobo Hell.
I absolutely love giving each wizards spellbook its own traits and personality. Having that many spells collected together should definitely warp and change the book thats holding them.
This seems like a setting that would be at home in the pages of Heavy Metal magazine (or in the movie). I get a distinctly over-the-top pulp science fantasy feel. It sounds like it could be a LOT of fun. Like you’d want to play classic rock type songs as a soundtrack.
So THAT'S what those dice are for. I found a set a long time ago with a d3, a d5, a d7, a d16, a d24, and a d30. I've found uses for the d3 plenty of times, but I've never used any of the others.
This looks amazing! Thanks for your wonderful reviews and videos. Love Maze Rats! Anyone notice around 09:51, page 244, the D6: Games/Music table lists "Hootenanny"? That's hilarious and is the kind of thing that really makes me want to get this book.
This looks really interesting. When I first saw it on DTRPG I was rollign my eyes because it was another Setting book of wich we got more than anyone could ever run or remember. But it actually seems to have some really usefull stuff in it. If you have not yet checked it out, Transylvanian Adventures for DCC is pretty neat too. its a rules expansion that tries to evoke 60s and 70s Hammer horror movies and has a ton of random tables (it is DCC after all^^). My favourite probably is the Very Bad Things table to determine the effects of being a monster hunter.
Brilliant I will be getting the hardcopy of this at the end of the month (have some POD codes on the way so I will get things in bulk) Excited for this, will use it for lots of stuff, DCC, MCC, Shadowdark, Mork Borg :-) lots of tables can be used in anything. Mix this with MCC would be fun for sure just kitbash everything ha
At one point in the video you hinted at an “dragons becoming chaos elements as they are” (or something like that) trope emerging in the literature. I’m super intrigued by that concept too but am having a rough time trying to google it since I’m not even quite sure what I’m asking for lol. If you don’t mind, a quick Appendix N on that shit would be extremely appreciated!! Thanks dude!!!
I recently received a huge packet of DCC material from their fourth printing kickstarter. I('m trying to convince my friends to try this game. I playtested DCC several years ago. I enjoyed the game Joseph Goodman ran. This setting looks like it would go well with DCC AND MCC.
Outstanding review! Ordered Hubris and DCC tonight. And my Hubris came is softcover and I'm quite dissapointed to say the least. The website didn't even mention the cover.
Ooh, two comments on your reviews in one day....stalking! I gave me Hubris softcover away to an amigo last week (everyone LOVES this book) and want to replace it....is the DriveThru hardback/softcover better than the Lulu POD in terms of paper and print quality?
What are the ?funky dice? You can effectively simulate any of them by taking regular dice, subtracting 1 (say, a d8 to get 0-7) & ignoring the 0. Or, alternatively, d8-d8 say.
I love the look of those location tables as well. I would have likely passed on this before seeing this video. I wish more setting books took this approach instead of having everything pre determined and set in stone. Good review, many thanks.
Great video! Book looks awesome, Im considering picking up a copy, evern though I dont own DCC (yet) I can see it being useful in many different game systems
I am amazed at how is that despite Paizo having color arts, the art itself is not great. I like the retro feeling of DCC and also I love the epic arts of Conan Monolith Edition components, despite of that game being incomplete inside the box. Conan rulebooks are incomplete and the site to download the new ones is down.
You know I'm super interested in playing DCC.....but damn if their books are not awesome. I picked up their free RPG day booklet and I totally want to run it using another system. Side note about the weird dice, if someone uses Virtual Tabletops then the funny dice is not an issue at all.
I have the DCC rulebook, it just felt really clunky and rule heavy, though I loved all of the random tables. That being said, I'm a huge fan of gonzo, so I'm going to give this one a try.
I'm inclined to agree. For instance, I really like the spell casting chart which differentiates the effects depending on the caster's level and roll, but I think that might be really difficult to use at the table, where looking all these things up can slow down play.
Thanks for this review!! I'm a big fan of gonzo-style fantasy works, even though I haven't yet run any of those settings myself. As a semi-related question: are there any OSR-type games that you're aware of that ditch the race-as-class feature? I've been hacking OSR-type rules into my 5e games because I love the old-school feel and aesthetic, but am just not a fan of race-as-class.
Most of the people I know who run OSR games don't do the race-as-class thing. Whitehack is a great modern OSR game with a very freeform approach to race and class, but if you want something more retrocloney then Swords and Wizardry (both the core and complete versions) have you choosing a race and a class. Many OSR systems like The Black Hack, Maze Rats, or the upcoming Lamentations of the Flame Princess rules don't have rules for non-humans at all. You can just say that you're a demihuman and it doesn't effect your class abilities.
James Raggi has been working on it for years. It's supposed to come out...at some point. His new magic rules are in the Vaginas Are Magic! free hardback supplement he gave away at Free RPG Day.
Great review! It convinced me to buy this book... but I just need to make sure I can start a good DCC RPG group before investing in it. Unfortunately, I find D&D gets all the spotlight.
It says a Sword & Sorcery setting... but I didn't see much in the way of S&S there. A fair bit of weird science-fantasy mixed with standard D&D type fantasy, but not really SS
Thanks for this but I don't know where to start with Dungeon Crawl Classics, there are so many modules. The Lankhamar series of modules looks interesting as it's based on the Grey Mouser books. Hubris looks good though.
@@brunneng38 you can get the boxed set from the U.S. still amazon but I think even that is missing 6-8 of the adventures and maybe the cloth map all of which I think can be bought separately.
I hate funky dice. They're not statistically equivalent on all sides, and they're a sleazy way to force players to pay for dice that are only ever used for one particular tabletop game.
Reputable merchants (oxymoron, right?) only sell dice that test for balance using statistics and honest scientific method. The d10 is not a Platonic Solid but I bet you dont talk shhh! Was Gary Gygax wrong for employing d10s?
I homebrewed my own step-die system using all these dice. I use it to run every setting, making conversions as needed. I wouldn't switch back to a standard system for anything.
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Thank you. Bought it. Read it. Using it and loving it. I've decided that Hubris is where murder hobos go when they die. But I can't tell if Hubris is Murder Hobo Heaven or Murder Hobo Hell.
I absolutely love giving each wizards spellbook its own traits and personality. Having that many spells collected together should definitely warp and change the book thats holding them.
Me too. Awesome idea.
I wasn’t going to get this at first but after this video I can’t imagine my life without it now!
This seems like a setting that would be at home in the pages of Heavy Metal magazine (or in the movie). I get a distinctly over-the-top pulp science fantasy feel. It sounds like it could be a LOT of fun. Like you’d want to play classic rock type songs as a soundtrack.
12:50 Love their taste in music!
Thx guys for these channels I just wanna start a solo d&d game and I'm the amount of info overcomes me
The DCC dice rolling app is free
love your videos dude. keep making them!
So THAT'S what those dice are for. I found a set a long time ago with a d3, a d5, a d7, a d16, a d24, and a d30. I've found uses for the d3 plenty of times, but I've never used any of the others.
This looks amazing! Thanks for your wonderful reviews and videos. Love Maze Rats!
Anyone notice around 09:51, page 244, the D6: Games/Music table lists "Hootenanny"? That's hilarious and is the kind of thing that really makes me want to get this book.
This looks really interesting. When I first saw it on DTRPG I was rollign my eyes because it was another Setting book of wich we got more than anyone could ever run or remember. But it actually seems to have some really usefull stuff in it.
If you have not yet checked it out, Transylvanian Adventures for DCC is pretty neat too. its a rules expansion that tries to evoke 60s and 70s Hammer horror movies and has a ton of random tables (it is DCC after all^^). My favourite probably is the Very Bad Things table to determine the effects of being a monster hunter.
I never understand that point of view: the world is a piece of art in itself; it doesn't need to be useful for anything at all.
Brilliant I will be getting the hardcopy of this at the end of the month (have some POD codes on the way so I will get things in bulk) Excited for this, will use it for lots of stuff, DCC, MCC, Shadowdark, Mork Borg :-) lots of tables can be used in anything. Mix this with MCC would be fun for sure just kitbash everything ha
I bought Hubris right away, thanks for the review!
At one point in the video you hinted at an “dragons becoming chaos elements as they are” (or something like that) trope emerging in the literature. I’m super intrigued by that concept too but am having a rough time trying to google it since I’m not even quite sure what I’m asking for lol. If you don’t mind, a quick Appendix N on that shit would be extremely appreciated!! Thanks dude!!!
I recently received a huge packet of DCC material from their fourth printing kickstarter. I('m trying to convince my friends to try this game. I playtested DCC several years ago. I enjoyed the game Joseph Goodman ran. This setting looks like it would go well with DCC AND MCC.
This book is the shit. I don't even run dungeon crawl classics and this book has shaped my campaign this year.
Awesome artwork
First time hearing about this book. I need it
Outstanding review! Ordered Hubris and DCC tonight. And my Hubris came is softcover and I'm quite dissapointed to say the least. The website didn't even mention the cover.
The softcover isn't great from Lulu
Ordered this DCC, MCC, and 1/2 pound of dice gonna be awesome with my judges screen for xmas!
I hope you really dig it! My experiences with DCC have been pretty rad so far.
How much work is involved to convert DCC modules to something like LotFP or ACK?
Ooh, two comments on your reviews in one day....stalking! I gave me Hubris softcover away to an amigo last week (everyone LOVES this book) and want to replace it....is the DriveThru hardback/softcover better than the Lulu POD in terms of paper and print quality?
Awesome review! You convinced me to but this book, many thanks!
What are the ?funky dice? You can effectively simulate any of them by taking regular dice, subtracting 1 (say, a d8 to get 0-7) & ignoring the 0. Or, alternatively, d8-d8 say.
I love the look of those location tables as well. I would have likely passed on this before seeing this video. I wish more setting books took this approach instead of having everything pre determined and set in stone.
Good review, many thanks.
Thanks
Have you looked at Veins of the Earth? It's by the Deep Carbon Observatory author.
I am super excited about Veins of the Earth, just haven't gotten my hands on it yet.
I want to hear about this too. I hear China Mieville gave it high praise.
This looks awesome, I'll hopefully pick it up at some point. It seems similar in some ways to Perdition, it's worth checking out.
Hi Barry! Didn't expect to find you here ;-)
Great video! Book looks awesome, Im considering picking up a copy, evern though I dont own DCC (yet) I can see it being useful in many different game systems
d6 d10 = d60 Right?
Sure, just count the 6 on the d6 as a 0, and have a result of 00 equal 60.
I am amazed at how is that despite Paizo having color arts, the art itself is not great. I like the retro feeling of DCC and also I love the epic arts of Conan Monolith Edition components, despite of that game being incomplete inside the box. Conan rulebooks are incomplete and the site to download the new ones is down.
You know I'm super interested in playing DCC.....but damn if their books are not awesome. I picked up their free RPG day booklet and I totally want to run it using another system. Side note about the weird dice, if someone uses Virtual Tabletops then the funny dice is not an issue at all.
True enough. But the DCC RPG book's Funky Dice section has a paragraph on how to use the standard polyhedrals for the Zocchi dice rolls
Are talking about tomb of the hollow star module? Or the one with the town where everyone is being mind controlled by some cult?
There's also a free dice roller app you can get for your phone: The Crawler.
I have the DCC rulebook, it just felt really clunky and rule heavy, though I loved all of the random tables. That being said, I'm a huge fan of gonzo, so I'm going to give this one a try.
I'm inclined to agree. For instance, I really like the spell casting chart which differentiates the effects depending on the caster's level and roll, but I think that might be really difficult to use at the table, where looking all these things up can slow down play.
Thanks for this review!! I'm a big fan of gonzo-style fantasy works, even though I haven't yet run any of those settings myself. As a semi-related question: are there any OSR-type games that you're aware of that ditch the race-as-class feature? I've been hacking OSR-type rules into my 5e games because I love the old-school feel and aesthetic, but am just not a fan of race-as-class.
Most of the people I know who run OSR games don't do the race-as-class thing. Whitehack is a great modern OSR game with a very freeform approach to race and class, but if you want something more retrocloney then Swords and Wizardry (both the core and complete versions) have you choosing a race and a class. Many OSR systems like The Black Hack, Maze Rats, or the upcoming Lamentations of the Flame Princess rules don't have rules for non-humans at all. You can just say that you're a demihuman and it doesn't effect your class abilities.
Thanks for the info! I wasn't aware LotFP was updating their ruleset.
James Raggi has been working on it for years. It's supposed to come out...at some point. His new magic rules are in the Vaginas Are Magic! free hardback supplement he gave away at Free RPG Day.
This looks like a really rich resource!
" thick substantial and fun to hold in your hand"
Great review! It convinced me to buy this book... but I just need to make sure I can start a good DCC RPG group before investing in it. Unfortunately, I find D&D gets all the spotlight.
It says a Sword & Sorcery setting... but I didn't see much in the way of S&S there. A fair bit of weird science-fantasy mixed with standard D&D type fantasy, but not really SS
Thanks for this but I don't know where to start with Dungeon Crawl Classics, there are so many modules. The Lankhamar series of modules looks interesting as it's based on the Grey Mouser books. Hubris looks good though.
The Lankhamar expansion is what’s making me want to buy the core book. Loved that book series.
@@brunneng38 you can get the boxed set from the U.S. still amazon but I think even that is missing 6-8 of the adventures and maybe the cloth map all of which I think can be bought separately.
Dave Dogge Thanks Dave. I’m heading over to Amazon to take a look.
Love DCC!
"Not enough diseases are detailed in D & D, and this makes up for that." 9:03
This seems like it has everything I found lacking in DCC.
forget "funky dice". Det a dice app for your phone.
Heresy
lol holy shit buying this right now
I hate funky dice. They're not statistically equivalent on all sides, and they're a sleazy way to force players to pay for dice that are only ever used for one particular tabletop game.
I don't know, if you play a lot of OSR games and like to hack them you'll almost certainly find a use for them.
Reputable merchants (oxymoron, right?) only sell dice that test for balance using statistics and honest scientific method.
The d10 is not a Platonic Solid but I bet you dont talk shhh!
Was Gary Gygax wrong for employing d10s?
They have a DCC 'funky dice' roller app that is free.
It's called "Crawler's Companion" by Purple Sorcerer Games.
I homebrewed my own step-die system using all these dice. I use it to run every setting, making conversions as needed. I wouldn't switch back to a standard system for anything.
Eh, I do not like the system. Class-based. Too many tables. Thanks for showing it.