![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
🎪 Unreview: Dungeon Crawl Classics
Jan. 16th, 2026 04:13 pmThis is not a solo game, though many people play it (and other OSR games) solo, and adventures are abundant and easy to acquire. So when the 90+ item bundle came up on Humblebundle, I decided to invest a dollar to have the basic rules in case I ever want to consult them.
And my instincts were right; right now I’m looking for poison rules, so that was a dollar well spent. (Joke’s on me: while ‘poison’ is found on 60 pages and I have now learnt that a thief needs to make a handling check or poison himself if they wish to utilise poison, finding actual rules needs Appendix P; they’re pretty draconian with many featuring permanent penalties, e.g losing 1d6 intelligence or permanent paralysis that cannot be healed. Hurray.)
Am I going to read more of this? Probably not unless I am really, really bored, because I have a million (only slight exaggeration) game systems I want to read and that’s not counting the thousand or so items I’ve snagged in bundles. I figure I can keep myself occupied with things I’m curious about for the next four to five years, and I’m likely to grab more games if one of my wishlist titles comes up on sale or someone makes a new game that I’m curious about.
( Complaints )
I love what DnD and RPGs in general have evolved into. I want to see more of the whimsical, imaginative, nuanced forms of play and less ogre smash.
Verdict: 🎪 Not for me.
And my instincts were right; right now I’m looking for poison rules, so that was a dollar well spent. (Joke’s on me: while ‘poison’ is found on 60 pages and I have now learnt that a thief needs to make a handling check or poison himself if they wish to utilise poison, finding actual rules needs Appendix P; they’re pretty draconian with many featuring permanent penalties, e.g losing 1d6 intelligence or permanent paralysis that cannot be healed. Hurray.)
Am I going to read more of this? Probably not unless I am really, really bored, because I have a million (only slight exaggeration) game systems I want to read and that’s not counting the thousand or so items I’ve snagged in bundles. I figure I can keep myself occupied with things I’m curious about for the next four to five years, and I’m likely to grab more games if one of my wishlist titles comes up on sale or someone makes a new game that I’m curious about.
( Complaints )
I love what DnD and RPGs in general have evolved into. I want to see more of the whimsical, imaginative, nuanced forms of play and less ogre smash.
Verdict: 🎪 Not for me.
