Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. […]
Originally published February 28th 2025
I wanted there to be more playable material for spelljammer. So I made this horrific dungeon heavy on cosmic horror metamorphosis that doesn't feature mindflayers.
Here is a pdf if you wanna print it.
And a plain text version.
Edit: I've not cleaned it up and provided versions for mothership and dungeon crawl classics.
I wrote a cleric spell for spelljamming clerics in DCC and technically a spell for wizards but honestly this is just a spelljammer generator alongside a spelljammer randomizer. This document assumes you have access to the spelljammer boxed set already.
If you want to download these as pdfs these can be found here.
Special thanks to Blark and Sean.
Originally published December 6th 2024
Someone in the Goodman games discord server asked about changing DCC to not have monsters roll to attack but instead have player characters roll to defend. Here is how I would do it
Convert player character armor class to descending, this means a +2 agility bonus translates to an unarmored AC 8. Wearing full plate means that you subtract 8 from your AC…
I recently got done reading the first of the Imaro book by Charles R Saunders. Wonderful book, you should read it. I wrote up two of the spells I saw in the book for use in Dungeon Crawl Classics
If you want a pdf of this it can be found here
Originally published November 10th 2024
I recently did a solo hexcrawl of The Wilderlands of High fantasy using Dungeon Crawl Classics. I ran the game one in game day per real life day. I didn't use any special solo rules, I just used standard Basic Expert encounter procedures and a set of playing cards called into the weird. Let me tell you how things went down.
Day 1
Helane wakes in the…
Originally published August 24th 2024
The Dreaming Lake
Chimera
To create a chimera roll to determine how many d10 HD it has. Roll 1d8, dice explode.
A chimera hasas follows.
Result
1-4 2 Heads, 1 Tail
5-7 2 Heads, 2 Tails
8-10 3 Heads, 2 Tails
11-13 3 Heads, 3 Tails
14-16 4 Heads, 3 Tails
17-19 4 Heads, 4 Tails
20-22 5 Heads, 4 Tails
23-32 5 Heads, 5 Tails
33+ Ever shifting as…
Originally published July 29th 2024
I recently put together some zines of various house rules related stuff for my DCC games. It's nice to have all of these various things in print. Below I will detail all of the house rules I run with and their providence if need be.
House Rules
Crits & Fumbles
Originally published June 26th 2024
Warriors need to have their innards protected. The best way to do that is to wear armor. Here are the common armors in the Birini region.
Cotton
Unprocessed cotton between fabric, creating a very soft armor that dampens impacts and is hard to pierce.
BX 6[13], 50 GP, 100cn
DCC +3, -1, –,d6,50 GP
Lamellar, Porcelain
Pieces of Thrion ceramic overlapping…
Originally published June 24th 2024
I’ve watched quite a few westerns* recently and also been watching a friend of mine play a samurai video game so quick draws are on the mind. Here are some rules for quick draws both modern and archaic for a bunch of different games.
The core of the system is simple: two people stand looking each other dead in the eyes, weapons sheathed. An opposed check is…
Originally published June 21st 2024
Oludammi, the Back-End of the Ass
Animal Aspirant, Crocodile
Will be described in the future Monsters.MD conversion.
Barbarians
Will be described in the future Monsters.MD conversion.
Death-Cleric Rukh-Vile
Init: +2; Atk: Staff +2 Melee (1d4); Crit III/1d10; AC 10; HD 3d8; MV 30’; Act 1d20; SP Magic, Grisly Demise: SV Fort +1, Ref +1, Will +2; AL…
Originally published July 11th 2024
Here lies the beginning of my conversion of The Bronze Lands setting book to DCC. If you want any actual context as to what this is click here, it's free. This will be an irregularly posted part of my blog as I do the conversion two areas at a time until I eventually get to the unfinished Luke Gearing Monster document.
Beyond the Mountains
Ancient…
Originally published May 8th 2024
I will be starting up a Krevborna game in dcc some time soon. If anyone wants to do the same I have made a custom occupation table as well as an appended appendix L.
Originally published January 14th 2024
I made this a while back. Untested. Have Fun.
A pdf for download can be found here