Weird Frontiers continues.

 Dm 10 pin at the helm. I am on break atm.

I personally love props and costumes in RP, i think they help convey the vibe to all. So I have some prop boxes of various gaming props. 

Socially anti social and her husband my Nephew, the Lich..

Doc good feels, the gun slinger.

Three of my funnels died in initial adventure. The TPK due to gambler bad card pull, led me to borrow one of my neices funnel chars... a nun with healing bonus birth sign. So now me as Revalator.

The adventure continues,.....

Weird Frontiers (DCC wild west plus haunted and horror)

 Taking a DMing break my cohort DM 10pin is at bat running the latest. 

Its DCC crossed with steam punk and magic plus a bit of monsters and horror. Alternate history durring early civil war some cultists unleashed Cthulu and the elder gods on the world. All of humanity teamed up to fight off the monsters. (us vs them) 

The world is as such....

And plays a lot like this below. 

Any of you gentle readers should be asking, where is the rant?

Well its short and sweet: DCC funnels are THE WORST.  They play like an rpg version of Betrayal at the house on the hill.  Which is a fun game but in an rpg? No Bueno. 

The funnel breaks immersion, is gratuitous violence and player death only for the reason of a body count. I know the DCC designer believes the body reminds the deadliness of the game, but it doesn't. People know know dungeon crawling is dangerous! killing 1/2 to 3/4 of the starting characters is only fun in a gory macabre orgy of death sort of way. 

The role players don't attach to their characters, The power games try to safe guard the guys with good stats and some attempt to kill all of their funnel characters for fun. 

It took 2 sessions the run the funnel: 2 sessions where NO ONE played the character they wanted to play. (who enjoys playing a zero level nobody with 1 to 4 hps?) No class, no skills, no abilities, just a herd of meat for the grinder. 

The funnel adventures can be quite good, so i tweak them and run them as level 1 adventures. 

I have ran 1 funnel and played in 1, i will not be doing another in either capacity. If you want a good game opener look to Lankhmar: the "Meet" is a glorious concept. It starts the adventure with minimal back story and then drops you in "Medias res".

Much more fun, cut to the chase and start strong, work it out as you go.

The funnel, needs to die and stay dead. 

Creative begging (plus neo dictionary entries)

 This new era of games companies and writers shilling for your cash even before the product is available gives me pains. The only thing worse are the Tubbies (Tubbies: Noun person or persons who make videos and post them online in an attempt to garner money, ad revenue or patreon supporters.)

People managed to publish gaming products before this wave of beganceering over took the net.  (Beganceering: noun, adverts comments and pleas for finacial backing of a product or Tubbie pleading for money via various methods and websites)

Alot of people will argue that the almighty Kickstarter and Patreon allow creatives the freedom to create. I 

Call it what it really is BEGGING. its wormed its way into every segment of creativity. 

Every tubbie has a patron, every designer a slew of kickstarters that needs your backing. They "need" your subscription, notifications, monthly backing etc... 

Its the new norm of game publishing, beganceering rules the smaller companies. My two favorite game companies have a stable of kickstarters going each. 

Worse still the false sense of comradery that arises from podcasts and subscriptions to tubbies channels. News flash, your a cash cow for them. Your not a friend, chum or otherwise. 

My unpopular opinion:

My personal advice, Dont subscribe dont back dont patreon just dont. 

There is more to watch on the internet than you could ever see, dont pay to create more. You dont need to subscribe to a tubbie, new videos from them will appear thanks to googles algorithm. Also game products will be published with out prebuying it.   

Or better yet take some time, put on some creative inducing music and write your own stuff. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af8ltlcZNi0

GM cards

 Noticed at Gary Con, alot of people trying to hastily connect. Sharing emails etc... Decided to do something about this for future gaming events. 

For the low low price of 28 bucks for 100, including shipping... GM cards! (bossiness cards) Why have gamers not been doing this? 

House rules: my DCC campaigns.

 I have my house rules on a discord server my group uses to communicate. I thought having them in a more accessible place on web might also help, and or inspire other DM's.

Pic DM Daisey and me.

The following are my house rules. 

Rat coins came from a Gary Con Lankhmar Judge. They awarded for ratting out fellow players on rules errors, dice fudging etc...

Long over due Garycon update

 

Jim, Me (Chris), Rod, and Rich.

Gary Con, second trip, first time GMing (scheduled) Ran 4 games of 2e Gamma World. 

Despite the DCC shirt that was the first Gamma World Game i ran. Also the only one i got picture of everyone who played.

The Grand Geneva Hotel was again fantastic, the Chop House restaurant was top notch. Best steak I have ever had. 

Will be releasing the 4 adventures i ran shortly on my MEWE page. https://mewe.com/chkusel.21  You can also reach out to me on Discord for copies if you want. I will post here when they are typed up. 

Played in 2 games , a DCC Lankhmar 

And 2nd year in a row played in Steve Chenault (Troll Lord Games) C&C game.

Lastly the crew decided to get vests with club patches, still havent gotten the final patch designed. but you can see we are wearing them in all the pics. 

New campaign

 Embarked on a new campaign started in Denmark.

Using this DCC product for world info. 

Funnel was brutal as mentioned previously. 

The usualy suspects include:

• RK, Tine and Reba playing Witches of Tyfia (goddess of fertility) 
• Jim a bear berzerker
• Austin a necromancer 
• Tiffany a human assassin
• Michael as a human cleric of the moon god
• Beri as a shaman, focus on rock spirits
• Kenneth as an elven ranger

Will write up more on the adventures in future posts. We are at session number 5 all are 2nd level now and they are sailing about trying to get to Paris, but got side tracked.