An interesting game of DCC that I played this week with some of my friends.
The Cast:
Valentine the Cursed Burglar
Cortez the Sailor
Maximus the King's Squire
Gale, Briz, and Blake the traveling elves
Darius the escaped Slave
Aina the "older sister" and younger Elyza, female con-artists
John the chaotic Heretic Farmer
Siddarma the batty Fortune Teller
Pimptruchio the well-spoken, pig-riding dwarf
Georgia the Drunken Scribe
Roric the Jolly Fruit Salesman
Thumble the Yellow, Halfling glovemaker
Jace Ty, the depressive ropemaker
The session this time mostly focused on setting up the parties and preparing for the start of the adventure.
Characters featured were Cortez, Maximus, Blake, Darius, John, Elyza, Pimptruchio, and Roric with the others in background roles. The characters were controlled by four different players and we were running through the DCC #0 module to start out our funnel (spoilers ahead).
Darius, the slave, jumped off of the slave ship (off camera, something I regret not fleshing out) and Cortez was sent after him.
Maximus is a squire sent from a foreign kingdom to assist with the current Ogre problem.
The two con artists steal a few silver coins (using the performance rules from Pathfinder as a distraction) and manage to make out with a meal as well as profit.
Along with the two women, Valentine and the elves enter the bar. John is already present, but it is not wildly obvious until later.
Pimptruchio, the wild boar riding dwarf smashes into the bar, accidently impaling the elven lawyer named Blake (he had 6 intelligence and failed out of law school, so he was not missed.)
Things heated up when the irritated John used his mug of beer to ignite the lowly elf, dooming his soul to oblivion and earning John a point of luck from the forces of Chaos.
The Merry Riot Inn worked to extinguish the fire as the guests piled out.
Meanwhile, as Cortez exits the inn, he catches a glimpse of the tan-skinned Darius running shirtless toward the farmland. A dramatic foot chase erupted and one Dex contest later the slave managed to outrun his captor. I used a simple contest rather than complex chase rules since they were mostly running in an open field with no obstacles or time limit, and this is actually how it is meant to be resolved based on D20SRD (under movement). After Darius manages to fight off Cortez, pushing him to the ground with a grapple check and a fumble by the sailor he retreats back to town.
Thumble hides inside the brewery after the commotion with the wild pig. He finds a secret stash of drugs hidden by the brewers and snatches a bag for himself. I've hinted that it is probably some form of Halfling cocaine or opium, and will totally take the chance to use some drug rules from PF and 3.5.
The last highlight in town was Roric visiting the old man Tarik outside of town. Roric heard about a strange rat who fled towards the Ogre's cave and decided to hunt it down. The old man who battled the ogre before hands Roric (who does not use a bow) his lucky black hefted arrow and wishes him good luck.
Roric also met with Darius and provided him clothes and support. The charity earned him a point of luck from the forces of Good (I'm using the nine-alignments). Darius now owes a debt to the man and follows him on his quest.
Two parties formed:
Max, Valentine (a friend of Max), John, Siddarama, Georgia, the Dwarf Pig-Rider, the remaining elves, and the two thieving girls (hoping to loot the dead bodies of the adventurers) head for the Ogre.
Jace, Thumble, and Roric (controlled by the same player), join with Darius to locate the mysterious rat who was described as killing a dog much bigger than it.
Cortez remained in town to search for Darius after getting up, effectively deciding it was safer to stay in town and at least make sure one character would be alive by the end. Plus a sailor would be no use inside of a dry cave anyway.
Next week the adventure continues, and we have a running theme of placing bets on characters.
The thief party basically bet that the entire ogre party will die and the rat hunters will lose characters as well.
I bet that Aina would be the next one to die, since she is among the weakest characters currently, but looking over the roster it could easily be anyone's game.
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