This
auction is for the Dungeon Crawl Classics DCC # 29 The ADVENTURE BEGINS, An
Adventure Compilation for Characters Levels 1-2 by GOODMAN GAMES.
This can be
used with any Dungeons and Dragons system (though written for 3.0/3.5), as well
as Paizo's Pathfinder and is easily adapted to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Second Edition, AD&D, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, Hackmaster, Castles & Crusades and
OSRIC.
Remember
the good old days, when adventures were underground, NPCs were there to be
killed, and the finale of every dungeon was the dragon on the 20th level? Those
days are back. Dungeon Crawl Classics don’t waste your time with long-winded
speeches, weird campaign settings, or NPCs who aren’t meant to be killed. Each
adventure is 100% good, solid dungeon crawl, with the monsters you know, the
traps you fear, and the secret doors you know are there somewhere.
Let
the adventure begin! This compilation of twenty all-new 1st-level adventures is
especially designed to kick-start new campaigns. Written by experienced
adventure authors, these stand-alone modules will challenge your heroes with
war-worms, hang-gliding kobolds, a hundred-foot-tall colossus, giant bees, an
ancient wizard’s tower, trained monkeys, dangerous mushrooms, a gigantic white
salamander — and more!
If
you enjoy this adventure, look for the rest of the Dungeon Crawl Classics
series!
Features:
All-new
cover art by legendary TSR artist Jim Roslof!
TWENTY
adventures for 1st-level characters, every one of them suitable for
kick-starting an entire campaign
A
wide variety of plot hooks and unique encounters to spice up your game
Writers:
Bret Boyd, Michael Ferguson, Andrew Hind, Phillip Larwood, Jeff LaSala, Brendan
LaSalle, Jason Little, Rob Manning, Greg Oppedisano, Adrian Pommier, George
Strayton, Harley Stroh, Michael Tresca, Dieter Zimmerman
Front
Cover Artist: Jim Roslof
Back
Cover Artist: Brad McDevitt
Cartographer:
Jeremy Simmons
Posted
By Media Minion on Jan 11, 2017 | 0 comments
Forgotten
Treasure: The Adventure Begins
DCC
#29: The Adventure Begins
DCC
#29: The Adventure Begins was the first hardcover DCC product.
Back
in the days of 3.5E Dungeon Crawl Classics, Joseph Goodman decided he wanted to
publish a tome of 1st level adventures. That idea turned into the very first
hardcover DCC product- DCC #29: The Adventure Begins. Aside from just being a
fantastic collection of low-level excitement, The Adventure Begins has quite a
few connections to the DCC RPG of today. If you followed DCC back in the
pre-DCC RPG days, you’ll recognize a lot of the names involved in this project:
Adrian Pommier, Phillip Larwood, Andrew Hind, Michael Ferguson, Jeff LaSala,
and others. But never fear, even those who are hard core DCC RPG fans can find
a lot to like in this book: adventures by Harley Stroh, Brendan LaSalle, and
Dieter Zimmerman; and art by Stefan Poag, Brad McDevitt, Doug Kovacs, and Jim
Roslof.
DCC
RPG collectors will probably recognize the art on the cover as the same Jim
Roslof cover from DCC #76.5: Well of the Worm. That’s because Well of the Worm
was originally an adventure in this book! According to its author Harley Stroh,
“The adventure was the first of several adventures written after REH’s classic,
Worms of the Earth. The setting was inspired by the war-torn landscape featured
in Kurosawa’s epics – muddy earth saturated with blood and torn from the stamp
of hob-nailed boots and the hooves of warhorses.” Doug Kovacs did the interior
art for the adventure “bringing two of my favorite artists together,” says
Harley, “thoroughly outclassing the adventure’s author.”
Harley
has a second adventure in DCC #29 that DCC RPG fans will also know: “Tower of
the Black Pearl”. Tower of the Black Pearl is notable for the first appearance
of the sorcerer who would one day be known as Sezrekan. In the original
adventure, he spells his name Sezrakan. “He goes through a couple spelling
changes between 3.5 and DCC RPG,” says Harley, “It’s a demonology thing. I had
no plans for Sez at the time, but it brings me no end of delight to see that he
lives on in gaming tables around the world.”
Tower
sports an optional ending where every good-aligned PC (or NPC) hero in the
world is slain as the tower’s magic comes to a tragic end. Harley loves it.
“This sort of world-shattering event is usually saved for RPG novels, or
barring that, 20th level adventures. That Goodman Games was willing to let it
be written into a first-level adventure certainly presaged the DCC RPG.” The
adventure has a couple tributes that may not be obvious. The pirate captain
Savage Quenn is named for Jeffrey Quinn, the author of the very first DCC
adventure Idylls of the Rat King. Quenn’s rapier is named Whisker, which is a
nod to Gray Mouser’s blades Scalpel and Cat’s Claw. Tower of the Black Pearl
was converted to DCC RPG as DCC #79.5: Tower of the Black Pearl.
Brendan
LaSalle’s contribution to The Adventure Begins has not yet been converted to
DCC RPG, but it’s still a fun time! “When Kobolds Fly” pits the adventurers
against a gang of hang-gliding kobolds. The original title for the adventure
was “The Kobolds From Hell”, but Joseph Goodman renamed it. “I am very pleased
with the change,” Brendan admits. “I think I would feel ill-used if I bought an
adventure called ‘The Kobolds From Hell’ and found the titular humanoids had no
actual infernal background.”
The
main inspiration for this adventure was a story from an issue of Savage Sword
of Conan magazine, “Claws of the Osprey”. In it, a genius inventor betrays his
king and is stranded on a high plateau by Conan, only to build himself a set of
working wing out of the body of a giant osprey and return for his revenge. “I
love Savage Sword of Conan,” says Brendan, “and when I moved to Houston in 1983
and started playing D&D with kids on my block I adapted many plots,
settings, and monsters from its wonderfully-drawn pages for my ongoing
campaign. ‘When Kobolds Fly’ is a little tribute to those days when I was a
fledgling GM playing with a fun little group in Texas. Its a lot like the
challenges I would have sent after that crew, who I played with until I moved
to Georgia in 1985.”
The
Adventure Begins also contains Dieter Zimmerman’s first published adventure.
“The Plague Wight’s Revenge” infects the characters with horrible diseases, and
has them face off against monsters no 1st level characters should rightfully be
able to defeat: minotaurs. “Disease can be a scary, scary threat to characters
who can’t cast Cure Disease at will,” Dieter says. “They have to wonder how bad
the untreated disease will get. Will it kill them? Will its effects be
permanent?”
If
anyone wonders how easy it is to convert low level 3.5E adventures to DCC RPG,
it’s pretty easy. Dieter tells a story of a group he knows: “A friend of mine
ran ‘Plague Wight’ for his DCC RPG group, converting it on the fly. The funny
part is, even though I’ve known him for years, he didn’t realize until
afterwards that he ran an adventure I wrote!”
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has been DISCONTINUED and is RARE.
CONDITION:
Item: VERY GOOD – CLEAN – NO WRITING
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