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Dungeon Crawl Classics

Visit your local participating game store on Saturday, June 18 to pick up your Free RPG Day goodies! Goodman Games is offering the DCC RPG Adventure Starter, which contains a brief introduction to the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game AND two adventures! This module includes a level 0-1 adventure for kick-starting your campaign, and a level 5 adventure to sample higher-level play. Visit www.freeRPGday.com to find a participating retailer today!

If you’re playing DCC RPG on Free RPG Day, be sure to download the DCC RPG beta rules and participate in our open playtest!

And even if you’re not sure whether you’ll play DCC RPG at your local game store, you can be ready for a pickup game by downloading our DCC RPG Quick Start Rules.

See you on Free RPG Day!

HarnWorld: Fortified Manor. Free PDF

DICEY BUSINESS
Columbia Games News

HarnWorld edition
August 21, 2010

Fortified Manor. Free PDF Download

The newest article from the Harn Writer’s Guild is a 16 page Free PDF available from Lythia.com.

Link: http://www.lythia.com/2010/08/fortified-manor/

This article describes a large, fortified manor house. It is unnamed and intended to be usable in any fantasy campaign. It is an example of the sort of manor house that might be found on a large, wealthy estate. The lord of such a manor is only one step below a baron and can afford to build a fine stone manor house, support a large household, and live in an impressive style. It may be a newly constructed manor in a dangerous frontier region where such strong defences are necessary or it might be an old, long-settled manor whose defences are now merely a reminder of days gone by.

The writer made a deliberate choice not to name this manor, so that GMs could feel free to insert it anywhere they need a large stone manor house. He hopes it proves to be of use to GMs and PCs alike.

The article includes floor plans of the manor house, description of the household, adventure hooks and Game Master (B&W) and Player (color) local area maps showing the manor and adjacent village.

This is a Harn Writer’s Guild Production: Written by Kerry Mould, Maps by Kerry Mould & Thomas Shook, Art by Richard Luschek, Editing by Brent Bailey.

Enjoy! Be sure to check out the other free downloads at lythia.com while you are there!

Map Tool

“MapTool virtualizes the battle map, miniatures, and wet-erase markers. In combination with Voice over IP software this allows GMs and Players to get together virtually and interact much like they would at a session around the table.

The virtual tabletop in MapTool can do things that the classic battle map couldn’t easily do. Prepared maps from other software can just be dropped into the background and tokens moved over the top. You can also save the entire campaign at any point to resume later.”

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GURPS High-Tech

GURPS High-Tech

All the Gear Is Here!

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