RPG News you can peruse (Jobe Bittman)

Coming after the announcement for Top32, 

Goodman Games announces the winner of the Mystery Map contest, not me...heh

Mystery Map Winner Announced – We are very excited to announce the winner of our Mystery Map Adventure Design Competition. Congratulations to Jobe Bittman for his submission, “The One Who Watches From Below.” Look for it in stores later this year! Thanks to everyone who entered – the submissions were great and the competition was fierce.

Jobe seems to be living the dream, He wins the Mystery Map contest for Goodman Games, and he's an RPG Superstar contender, having made Top 32 with the,

Quiver of Spiderkind Aura moderate conjuration; CL 8th
Slot —; Price 32,000 gp; Weight 2 lbs.
Description This chitinous quiver resembles an elongated spider’s abdomen, and comfortably holds 20 arrows. When placed on the back, thin segmented legs wrap around the wearer to hold it in place. Pedipalps near the quiver’s opening can be commanded to secure a thick strand of spider silk to the end of a drawn arrow 20 times per day. The unnaturally high tensile strength of spider’s thread allows the projectile to be used like a lightweight harpoon. A ranged attack made with the arrow on a target within 50 feet temporarily grants the Grapple special ability (Ultimate Combat) to the firing weapon. When securely anchored, the spider silk can also be used for climbing. The silk can support 500 lbs of weight before snapping. Every 50 feet of silk used for climbing consumes a single daily use of the item’s power.
Construction Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, Web; Cost 16,000 gp

Monday Updates

So today I'll be updating some previous threads, for now,

Update#1
The Judge Dredd Miniatures Block War Kickstarter is approaching 60k, with 4 days remaining.

more updates to follow later this evening.

Update#2
DCCRPG Contest, 23 days remain for the DCCRPG design contest. Entries are due by  October 31st.

Reviews - The Dungeon Alphabet (Goodman Games)

As I needed a quick review to do, without a lot of analysis of game rules and such (like I have to do with any of the Abandoned Arts Class Acts supplements), I decided to review The Dungeon Alphabet tonight.


The Dungeon Alphabet (Goodman Games)
System-less reference supplement.

Designing dungeons is as easy as A, B, C! The Dungeon Alphabet compiles twenty-six classic dungeon design elements in one place to assist the game master in creating subterranean challenges. A is for Altar, B is for Books, and C is for Caves: the Dungeon Alphabet has advice, hints, and randomized tables that bring new life to your adventures. Suitable for any rules system, the entries are accompanied by outstanding art from classic fantasy illustrators, with a foreword by noted game designer Zeb Cook. 

This is a great little supplement. Whether you're needing something fast, like a book title, or you're trying to design a classic feeling adventure, this is great reference. For example; You know you want the treasure to be hidden, so you open up to N for "No Stone left Unturned", and roll on the Hidden In/By table with a d20, rolling a 15 you determine the gem is hidden inside a fireplace, hidden under the ashes or stashed in the chimney.
This book gives lots of advice for making OSR more fun, and frankly, even newer systems can benefit from this. Actually with this book, you can make those newer games less sterile, and more fun, because, while there have been some amazing advances in the rules systems, some of the newer mods have lost it, which is why I really like DCCRPG so much lately.

The book features some amazing artwork which definitely invokes in my mind, the incredible worlds of the old school dungeons, with classic feeling artwork by Erol Otus, Jeff Easley, Jim Holloway & Jim Roslof, how can you NOT be inspired?

This is a hard-bound book, with a low $9.99 price tag. Or $7.99 for PDF at DrivethruRPG. It's fun, and filled with great tables, and advice.

Critical Hit! 20/20



Now, I remember seeing that a Dungeon Alphabet 2 is in the works also, that will be sweet.

Dungeon Crawl Classics - Map Adventure Design Competition

So, this has been out there for quite awhile now, DCC RPG with their Free RPG Day offering have a $1000 design contest, basically it's an 1000 word outline of an adventure in addition to completing the map in the DCC RPG style. So it's pretty cool, it combines artistic cartography with creative design.

Now I haven't been able to find a free version anywhere, so unless you got it at Free RPG Day, if you want to get in on the action get it from RPG Now for $4.99, and you get two adventures for DCC RPG also.

Edit: Free version is here: http://www.goodman-games.com/mysterymap.html Thanks Anony! I had tried navigating to it, but I couldn't locate it.

DCCRPG by Goodman Games

So, Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG is coming out in April (not February like the poster says.) I did do some beta testing of this game, let's just say it's just brutal, you actually roll up multiple 0 level characters, and proceed into a killzone....err dungeon. If you have a character survive, then you will make it to level 1. 

It's designed like an OD&D game, not the modern role-playing game, but a deadly, haphazard, monster-strewn dungeon crawl. I would definitely love to play this at cons though! Some of the best old school D&D modules were convention tournament modules.