DCC RPG World-Quest of the Winter Calendar, Steve Bean Games NM

World-Quest of the Winter Calendar is a 0-level funnel* designed especially for players - and Judges - who've "been there, done that" when it comes funnels.

In World-Quest, the PCs are thrust into a lost, "living morality tale." They have to explore six chapters of the tale and interpret what they see to a god. This re-counting works like a great, big cosmic game of "Telephone," fueling a ritual that changes the very nature of their world! These changes affect the Judge's campaign setting in terms of both narrative and game mechanics.

This module weighs in at a whopping 50 pages of content: a 28-page adventure, two new Patrons - the Devil-Wraith of Grim Inchyron and The Logos of Lamushea (complete with Invoke Patron and Patron Taint tables and new Patron Spells - and a new class, elf-cousins called Zvarts.

World-Quest of the Winter Calendar is co-written by Goodman Games contract writer Steve Bean and Minneapolis DCC Society founder Julian Bernick and features development work by Goodman Games talents Roy Snyder, Brendan LaSalle and Terry Olson. Cover art is by newcomer Nathan Campos and the interior art features work by the amazing OSR veteran Thomas Denmark and another talented newcomer, Lyle Lynde.

*DCC uses a unique 0-level funnel system for character creation. Players start with 3-4 0-level peasant-type PCs with no class features, combat skill or magic and rudimentary armor and weapons. Character death is rampant in 0-level funnels and players typically finish the adventure with (hopefully) 1, or maybe 2 characters who then level up to 1st level in an adventuring class. The funnel experience gives PCs a substantial backstory and bonds them to the other PCs who endured the same "trial by fire."

Steve Bean Games owner Steve Bean is a professional writer and game designer. His author credits for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and other Goodman Games products include: the cosmic murder-mystery adventure Trials of the Toy Makers, The Rat King's River of Death (in DCC 83: The Chained Coffin) and contributions to the system neutral supplements The Monster Alphabet and 50 Fantastic Functions for the D50.