Anyway, I've been running out of DCC materials that catch my attention, and I promised Stan that I wouldn't look too closely at Purple Sorcerer Games - this because he's thinking of running one of their DCC adventures! But there's still plenty of other stuff, and I can't really help myself.
Just the other day I was re-reading the excellent The Black Hack. I am intrigued by an OSR game that requires players to make all the dice rolls. Attacking? Roll to hit. Being attacked? Roll to avoid. TBH also introduces a unique mechanic to simplify and abstract bookkeeping for supplies: resource dice. Quantities of identical items are roughly measured by a die of a certain size (d20 for "a lot," d12 for "a bunch," and so-on until d4). When a character uses one of these items, roll the resource die - on a 1-2, drop the die size by one (e.g. a d12 becomes a d10). If the resource die was a d4, rolling 1-2 means that it's depleted.
Anyway, something I picked up recently was the very intriguing Crypts and Things Remastered. Written by Newt Newport and published by d101 Games, available on DriveThruRPG in hardcover, softcover and PDF forms. Like TBH, it's a (relatively) simple OSR game with a number of unique mechanics. The rules are tightly bound to the setting, which is a very specific swords-and-sorcery world that draws heavily from Appendix N literature.
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So let's get into some specifics. What's to love about C&T?
