DCC Day at Dragon’s Lair

Greetings adventurers! Saturday July 19th was Dungeon Crawl Classics Day. This is a celebration all things DCC (as well as Mutant and X-Crawl Classics) sponsored by Goodman Games. Taking place at FLGS across the world once a year Judges present special DCC adventures for any and all to come and play a little bit of DCC, and get some cool stuff. The event is run free of charge for those both experienced and brand new to DCC. This year I made it out to Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy here in Austin, TX for some DCC goodness. 

I planned carefully so that I could play in my new friend Matt “Grape Ape” Robertson’s DCC game and arrived early, perhaps too early as I found out the game would not start until some two hours later. 

Alas, I did some shopping and picked up some DCC day specials along with some great DCC adventures. I sat down and started to look over my new purchases and was soon joined by others ready to throw down some DCC action. 

Soon Grape Ape arrived and began his set up. I struck up some amazing conversations with my new acquaintances and we swapped many gaming stories before the game began. Three full tables eventually assembled for both DCC and MCC with ours being the first to fill up. Grape Ape is the Community Outreach Liaison at Goodman Games and lives nearby here in Texas (Check out his Rules as Written Podcast on the official Goodman Games You Tube channel.) We have met several times at various conventions and events but have never gamed together, until now. Judge Grape Ape ran The DCC Day special: The Key to Castle Whiterock and boy was it a hoot!

I’m not going to throw out any spoilers but in the end my character ended up dead and we didn’t get the Key to Castle Whiterock. I can’t say how much fun I had playing in Grape Ape’s game, I seriously felt like I was 12 years old again playing in my first Fantasy RPG adventures. Everyone had a great time, we got some great freebes from Goodman Games and some neat swag from Grape Ape for participating in the game. I must give shout outs to all the excellent players in our game. You guys are amazing. Kudos to Keith (Gosshus the Cleric who by far has the most deity disapproval I have seen in any game I’ve played in my entire life!), Chaz (our giant-sized Wizard), Tony (Jasper the gold and silver sniffin dwarf. I’ll reach out to you soon and hopefully we can start our own gongfarmer local!), Ryan (Haldr the elf devote of none other than Sezrekan himself. Maybe someday you can convince us to teleport 100 miles away from the dungeon!) and last, but not least, Hector (Wat the primitive warrior MVP who had the most Mighty Deeds and saved our skins more than once, in the end I know you tried to save me but smashed all your fingers, you can have Squire Bedford’s share of the treasure.) A special Thank You to Grape Ape for organizing this fantastic event and running such a great game (I am so going to steal your goblin voice in my next game.) To my fellow adventurers I salute you until we meet and adventure again.