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Having beaten off the chickensaurs, the surviving cavemen raced for the next room. As they entered, they felt the world shift again...the prehistoric jungle faded, replaced by rolling green hills and forests. Entering the room, they found cots with wooden chests at the end, pegs on the wall and green cloaks upon the pegs. Inside the chests were green cloths, but far too small for brawny cave women and men! But the cloaks looked stylish! Looking out a window on the far side of the room, one of the cavefolk spotted something big and winged fly overhead. The group left and walked back to the room on the opposite side of the "village green". As shifting took place again and they were back in the prehistoric jungle, several vomiting! A howl of chickensaurs - reinforced by friends - inspired the party to run back to "fantasyland". After recovering from the terror pee or pooping, the party tried the wooden door opposite the cot and chest room. Inside was a princess room. ...

The Clan of Ogg, a primitive group of cave dwellers living on the odd tundra, have sent a party of their bravest hunters, gatherers, and others to investigate a fallen piece of their Sun God Suss. Unfortunately, the Gift has fallen in the Dread Forrest, a distant and foreboding wooded area in a great depression zone. Our (0-level) heroes set out in a straight line for the forest (surprisingly, John is very direct in his tactics). After half a day crossing the hunting lands the party encountered a wounded lion dragging a strange corpse of a red man. To get a closer look, the party fought the lion (losing one in the process) and looked over the red corpse, one took the remains of a silver tunic the strange man wore and all were impressed by the 7 fingered hands. The party continued their journey and camped for the night. Through the night they were attacked by hyenadeons, which killed three more of the party.  Just before entering the forest, the party encountered a party from ...

The Adventure: I am running B4: The Lost City from Basic D&D as a Dungeon Crawl Classics dester adventure.  The Cast ​ ​John as Bram the Hobbit (KIA) and Badger II the Child Wizard ​ ​Marshall as Nissandra (the 0-level, later Wizard), Billy (the 0-level, later Thief) and Fitzburt the 0-level, later corpse) ​ Wyatt as Avery the Cleric of Law and Cletus the Space Cowboy​   ​ ​ This session started with the Chaotic characters slipping away from the main party (that had a temporary alliance with the Brotherhood of Gorm (the Bearded Lawful Statue on the roof). As a result, Bram the Hobbit and Fitzburt the 0-level made off on their own looking for treasure or just investigating this tier of the pyramid. Of high excitement, they found a band of Easy Rock music playing Sprites that the characters traded a chest of copper pieces for a crate of some sketchy looking tubes and decorations...the use for which was never discovered as Fitzburt walking into a room filled with a weak and...

The Cast: John as Lady Fiona (rich archaeologist dabbler) ​Wyatt as Frank (Conspiracy journalist) Nick as William Ware (war hero and American Consul) ​Kathy as Annie O'Keefe (Hurst paper journalist ​) ​ The party traveled to the Isle of Pines to try to resolve the mystery of Monsenior Valdez's murder and the slaying of their friend and boon companion Luther. At Nueva Garona, the big town on the island, they were offered by Captain Pasadizo to go on a tour of the pirate ruins. At a bar they met Lady Fiona, who told the group that the ruins were not that of pirates, but likely a monastic enclave. Sounding good, the group did a little research and used Luther's boat to head there the next day.  ​ ​Arriving just before low tide, the gang was able to see many building were revealed by the receding waters. Wandering, the group discovered a bell tower, a chapel, Annie found a journal from Monsignor Valdez. On the right path, Annie and Lady Fiona were drawn to a cistern filled with...

The Cast: John as Bram the Hobbit and Badger the Orphan Wyatt as Cletus the Cowboy and Avery the Bastion of Law Marshall as Nisarde the good and Billy and Fitzburt  the criminals Dropped in a desert by the Court of Chaos, our survivors Bram the Hobbit and Badger the newly made orphan wizard(John) and Cletus the Cowboy and Avery the Bastion (Wyatt) having destroyed their home world (accidentally) meet the survivors of a caravan Nisandre, Billy, and Fitzburt (Marshall). Dying of dehydration, the total group finds a ruined city in the middle of the Holy Desert Rakaru...something none of the natives (Marshall's gang) have ever heard of before.  In the abandoned desert city they find the ruins of a step pyramid. Finding no water anywhere else, they head to the pyramid to find three god-statues on top and a body at a door. Entering, they encounter killer glow beetles, blue gecko lizards, and finally, the Brotherhood of Grom (Albino Lawful warriors). Cletus and Avery face off...

The Cast: John as Mr. Phillips 68 yr old retired Dutch engineer Kathy as Victoria, Proper English collegette with leftist leanings and Giovanni the Italian Hitman Nick as Clifton, English test pilot and Dr. O'Sullivan IRA informant  Wyatt as Max Webber, SIS spy in Vienna ​ ​ The group begins the Guglehogt cafe after escaping fron the Mexican Occult Bookstore and the Viennese police. Max's control Maso pietro comes to him with orders for the group to leave for Rome to a) get out of town and b) investigate some problems with the SIS agents in Rome.  ​ ​Before they leave though, the group wants to wrap up the Erlichmann case. Mr Phillips gets a summons from Ernst Pretzche (occult advisor to Hitler and owner of the Mexican Occult Bookshop). With Victoria as his ghost, Phillips returns to the scene for the previous day's crime...and nothing seems to show that there had been a shootout. Odd. ​ ​Meeting with Pretzche, the strage little man wants a lock of Phillips hair in exchange...

Cast: ​Wyatt as Avery the Martyr and Destroyer of World, and Cletus the Warrior ​John as Bram the Hobbit and Mick the Ditch Digging Thief, and later, Badger, Jr the orphan wizard ​Badger the Snitch as himself ​ ​ ​ Soooo... ​Bram (Hobbit) and Mick (Thief) were exiting the Lowlife Tavern after planning a robbery with Badger the Snitch, when Avery the Lawful and Cletus the Badass met them on the street and asked innocently, "What are you guys doing?"  Before the two cons could answer, the four noticed a puppet show starting on the filthy village green of Nulb. A young man started ginning up the audience about the "...madness at the Court of Chaos." When all went black for our heroes.  ​ They opened their eyes and found themselves (and Badger) in the presence of Five Lords of Chaos; a big brute guy, some undead chick, a dude with two arms for a face, a giant eye on chicken legs, and some disfigured giant mutant dude.  ​ ​The Lords wanted the heroes to travel to the Pl...

The Cast: John as Mr. Phillips 68 yr old retired Dutch engineer Kathy as Victoria, Proper English collegette with leftist leanings Nick as Clifton, English test pilot and introducing Wyatt as Max Webber, SIS spy in Vienna Group escapes across the Czech border with Austria. Three of the party are still badly wounded Giovanni, O'Sullivan and Clifton. They are taken in by a (British) Secret Service man in Vienna, Max Weber, and stashed in the basement of the Goglehof, a cafe in central Vienna.  Max is contacted by an old flame, Gisela, who he suspects as a spy for the Abwehr (German Intelligence).  Max co-ops Victoria and Phillips into helping him with Gisela. They will watch over the meeting as it could be a trap. At the meet, Gisela shares that she is in Vienna to bury her fiance, a Dr. Erlichman who died under mysterious circumstances. Gisela is sure that he was murdered, (implying the Nazi government did it) and she wants Max to find out. She also implies that she knows th...

Cast (player and most memorable character: John - Mick the Digger, Fagin the Mndicant Nick - Ope the orphan, Dirk Digger (the ditch digger) Wyatt - Cletus the Ranch Hand, and Avery the transracial elf to human Charlie - Centipedemon & Chickenman (the Oppossum chicken thief)   This guy was a hero... The gang of zero levels was on their way to the big city when the caravan leader Hassin ditched them in the crap village of Nulb. Down to their last coppers, and unwilling to treat with the scout Farid, the group instead sought wealth in the ancient and mysterious Barrow Moors. After an assault by a crypt thing  and a rain of poisonous centipedes (the survivors of whom became pets to Centipedemon...) the group found big treasure looting a small barrow of gold and silver. Not trusting the Reeve to deal fairly, they tried another barrow (a big one they'd seen earlier, before getting distracted). As they entered, they discovered that someone had been there before a...

The Cast: Frank - Conspiracy Theorist Annie - Sensationalist Reporter Luther - Jamaican Ship Captain Aston Wainwright - Brit Archaeologist  Consul William Ware - US Embassy political appointee The group started out heading to the US Consulate with Luther helping the shaken Annie - still upset from the more than creepy events of last episode. They had decided that after finding some of the unsettling aspects of the case (heart ripped out, seeming immortal artist Hilario, etc) that it was time to brief at least one of the group's employers (the US Government). Hence, they met Consul Ware, who interrogated them about the whole death of the Monsignor and the odd goings on. Frank finally showed up, and thankfully did not share all of his conspiracy theories at once - so Consul Ware opted to accompany the group to visit the Order of Father Fernando north of Havana.  At the monastery, the group chased down Brother Antonio and questioned him about the Monsignor. Luther ...

Cast MI 6 Deniable Assets: Mr. Phillips (John) - older Dutch Engineer Clifton - (Nick) - English Aviator Victoria (Kathy) - English Scholar (maybe a little left of center) Giovanni (Abandoned PC) - Italian hitman Dr. O'Sullivan (Abandoned PC) - IRA Informant and Medical doctor (also left of center) Radislav (Abandoned PC) - White Russian mercenary (KIA) Czech Resistance: Alex (Conrad) - A religious, if sometimes thief, young man Pavel (Julian) - An ex-student in Prague, possibly a communist  The session started with a very distributed party; Clifton and Mr. Phillips were with Father Andrej at the observation post overlooking Castle Karlstein, while Pavel, Giovanni, Victoria, Dr. O'Sullivan with a gang of Father Andrej's partisans in the woods. Father Andrej's plan was to sneak into Castle Hammerstein (he had an inside woman who would let him and the partisans in) and then free the children. Clifton and Mr. Phillips were pretty sure that he was nuts and wanted to try to ...

The Cast: John as Luthor, Jamaican ship captain Kathy as Annie, Sensationalist Reporter Jason as Aston Wainwright, Archeologist Annie and Luthor were enjoying the sights of Havana when contacted by a O'Neil Williams from the US Consulate. He asked Annie over drinks to look into the strange death of the Monsignor Valdez, a Church of Rome official who had been in Cuba for perhaps a month as a investigator into the proposed Sainthood of a Father Fernandez - a former Inquisitor who had established a Monastic Order in Cuba in the 1570s. At the same time, archaeologist Professor Aston Wainwright. also in Havana, was asked by the Catholic Church to look into the murder of Msr. Valdez. The three combined efforts and after a briefing by Monsignor de Borbon about what had happened to Valdez - locked room mystery, desiccated body, heart removed, they went to the scene of the crime.  The body had been removed, but that was all, and outside the room a small shrine (candles and rosary) ha...

Cast MI 6 Deniable Assets: ​ ​Mr. Phillips (John) - older Dutch Engineer ​Clifford - (Nick) - English Aviator ​Victoria (Kathy) - English Scholar (maybe a little left of center) ​Giovanni (Abandoned PC) - Italian hitman ​Dr, O'Sullivan (Abandoned PC) - IRA Informant and Medical doctor (also left of center) ​Radislav (Abandoned PC) - White Russian mercenary (KIA) Czech Resistance: Alex (Conrad) - A religious, if sometimes thief, young man ​Pavel (Julian) - An ex-student in Prague, possibly a communist ​ ​ ​ At the end of last session we left the MI6 agents with two Czech survivors of a massacre, in a small clearing now covered with bodies of dead Germans, Czech partisans and the dead Radoslav. ​ ​The two resistance members, Alex and Pavel offered to take the party to a safe house in Grosseplacen, but first Alex insisted on taking care of the bodies. He was deeply religious, although a poor thief. He almost immediately was in an arguement with Pavel, an ex-student in Pr...

Cast: Frank - conspiracy theorist Annie - sensationalist reporter for the Hurst papers Luther - Jamaican trawler captain and adventurer Charlie - Archaeology grad student in search of the Fountain of Youth After the death of Nadla last episode the group retreated to a hospital or in Frank's case went on the lam. Also, arriving to search for the Fountain of Youth at the wrong time, was Charlie Gould, an archaeology grad student from Miskatonic University and onetime classmate of Bosley the missing historian.  ​After much shenanigans, the party regrouped and headed in search of Jacinta, the daughter of the dead Nalda. After preparing themselves, the group headed into El Yunque rain forest.  They soon found an old man with a fishing boat who offered to take them to Jacinta's home for $2. So down river they went into the primordial Yunque, travelling for miles through a primordial jungle.  After miles of river, they came upon a dock leading up to a yellow and green ...

Again gaming with the ever surprising Noah Steven's, this time in Dark Dreary Old England (or something like it). Pumped at trying the Transylvanian Adventure rules - an early alt setting for DCC (think Victorian Hammer films). The Cast: Noah - The Judge Mark - Theo Wells, Neutral Wizard (1st Level)/ Outlaw Michael - Dubo, African Albino (oft confused with being a vampire), Neutral Thief/Cutpurse Carver - Blue-eyed buxom blonde brute Huntress from the Appalachie Mountains, Neutral {This group is BEGGING for a Druid/Neutral Cleric} The band started at Highdark Hall at some kind of fete.  Afterwards, we were to  meet with the (butler?head zombie?) named Ricketts...who we were all SURE was some kind of undead. Anyway, Lord Highdark had a problem for us...his plumbing was backed up. A little confused, the three agents looked at each other and professed a lack of both plumbing training and the requisite Union card. Rotting Rickets assured the party that it was a more 'un...

When I spotted Noah posting a game on the DCCRPG Google group, set for Thursday night, I was hooked. Past experience with Noah as a Judge was he runs a pretty fast paced and wild game - sold! Noah'd posted either Sour Springs Hollow or another funnel (with a vote on which) - but I could not tell you what that other funnel was - I latched onto the Sour Springs / Chained Coffin adventure - which I've wanted to run or play in for a while. I passed my Luck check and the voting was something like 78% for Sour Springs...winning! Players and 0-Levels Cast: Todd Lars the Potato farmer and his goat Cloe Frederick the Arm Wrestler, a woodcutter Eric Bo the witch liquor bootleggers asst Carver the muscular buxom blonde woodcutter Paul Jules the Dwarf Jeff the Woodcutter The characters were invited to the 140th Birthday Party of  Ando Moscovitch in Absentia (a Hobbit with a shady past). Each arrived with their gifts - and a most of the part were woodcutters, Ando ...