Looking Ahead

Thank you all for supporting Star Crawl & Vehicle Mayhem! I'm extremely excited to have both books appear on the Goodman Games list of 2018's top selling 3rd party products. Star Crawl is #1 & Vehicle Mayhem is #6 on the non-zine list!

2018 Best Selling DCC Third Party Products

Star Crawl's been out for a few months, so let's talk about what's planned for the future of Tuesday Night Fiend Club.

• Games: I'm good on copies of Star Crawl, but Vehicle Mayhem is down to the last few copies. I may do a second print run soon, cleaning up a few typos I caught late & adding the rules for Virtual Mayhem. There are two other ideas I'm playing with releasing in similar format as Vehicle Mayhem, but I'd like to get some Star Crawl material out first.
• Adventures: I'm currently working on two adventures for Star Crawl (2nd & 4th level). Both will have full conversion rules to run as MCC adventures. I hope to have them printed by the end of spring. 
• Setting: I'm also writing a sort of micro-campaign setting. It will provide a complete planet for Star Crawl crews to explore, including information on the world, adventure seeds, bestiary, and a hex-crawl. It will also include a new class and I expect to include other supplemental material (such as race templates) with future setting books. I'm also thinking on adding a planet-specific occupation table for players who want their characters to originate from there. My goal is to keep each light and zine-sized. Barring any issues, the first should be out this summer.
• Conventions: Right now, in 2019 I'm only planning to attend GaryCon. I'll be running 3 Star Crawl games there (the ones listed above, plus a Star Crawl/XCrawl crossover I'm collaborating on with superstar DCC judge Mike Bolam), plus 2 Marvel Super Heroes games (all the games I'm running on the books are listed here). With any luck, I'll have a stack of adventures for sale! 
• Podcasting: I'll be appearing on the next episode of Glowburn, the MCC podcast. I'm very excited to have the opportunity to talk about gaming with that awesome crew.

On Sale: Star Crawl!

Star Crawl is now available in print and PDF!

Print purchase link (through the Goodman Games webstore)
PDF purchase link

I don't have a method for providing a discount PDF code when you buy the print version, but I'll hook you up if you buy the book. Send me an email (tuesdayfiend at gmail) with proof of purchase: either a copy of your receipt from the GG store or a photo of your favorite illustration from the book. It may take a couple days, but I'll email you a PDF direct.

Star Crawl on its way...

Star Crawl is back from the printer and copies are on their way to the Goodman Games warehouse! They should be available to purchase from them in the next two weeks. Sometime after that, I'll make the PDF available. And a few international folks have asked about the option for print on demand from Lulu to save on shipping: I'll be looking into that as well.

Here are the essential details on the book:

• $15 USD retail price ($10 for the PDF)
• 112 b&w pages
• Full size (8"x10.5") and perfect bound
• Six new classes and guidance on taking DCC & MCC characters into space
• All new Race Template rules, including twelve character races
• New weapons, armor, and equipment with rules for customization
• Bestiary of aliens & monsters
• Quick tables to help create new worlds and stellar encounters
• Includes a full 0-level funnel: The Promethean Adventure!

Star Crawl Resources

The following resources are for use with Star Crawl (available now in print on the Goodman Games web store and in PDF from DriveThruRPG).

Character Sheets

Race Templates

Character Tokens

Ship Templates (for best results print the first two pages double sided, flipped on short edge)

Cybernetics Record Sheet

Pregenerated Characters

Pregen Characters (stored on the DCC & Friends Character Repository)

Pregen Characters & Ships for Threen Station Zero

Pregen Characters for Electric Friends

Pregen Characters for The Cybernetic Underbelly (from Beyond the Flesh)

Pregen Characters for Scions of Leviathan

Supplemental Materials

Merchant Race Template (created by James Walls for the Glowburn Podcast)

Space Cowboy Class (inspired by Dave Baity's Dark Trails RPG)

Rodent Race Template (adapted from Mouseling class created by Michael Harrington for Weird Frontiers)

Star Crawl Random Alien Generator Mini-Zine (for best results, print at actual size- don't shrink to fit)
Mini-Zine folding instructions:

GaryCon XI, 2019

Event submission is open for GaryCon XI, running March 7-10, 2019. GaryCon is by far my favorite gaming convention: it's big enough to offer everything you could want to play, but small enough to avoid becoming a soulless corporate event. I've attended & run games every year since 2014 and I don't intend to break the streak anytime soon.

I've submitted 5 events so far (and I have a secret project I'm working on: if I can pull it together to test in the next month or so, I may add a session of that, too). Three of those are for Star Crawl (one of which is really just DCC XCrawl in space, so not sure that counts?) and two are for Marvel Super Heroes. Here's the tentative schedule:

Thurs, 10-2: DCC Star Crawl- The Promethean Adventure "The Promethean was once a grand and luxurious space liner and its final voyage promises to be a grand event: unfortunately, it won't be the sort the passengers hoped for! 
This will be a 0-level DCC funnel in space, using Star Crawl rules."
This is the adventure that's included in the Star Crawl rulebook. There is a lot of room for improv & going off the rails. 

Thurs, 2-6: Marvel Super Heroes: Savage Land Under Seige "Ka-Zar and Zabu have always managed to protect the many tribes of the Savage land, but when a new threat approaches, they'll need a little help from their friends!"
For the Marveling at Marvel's Marvel's podcast, I did a lot of research recently into the Savage Land which game me an idea for what I think will be a real good time.

Fri, 10-2: Marvel Super Heroes: The Champions vs The World Crime League "The Champions have built a reputation fighting for justice and freedom across the world. But a secret global crime organization has decided these heroes need to be stopped! Are Kamala, Amadeus, and their teammates up to the challenge?"
I typically stick to "classic" characters for my Marvel games (mostly because the TSR game stats only go up to 1992), but for this one I'll be statting up modern characters: Ms Marvel (Kamala), Brawn (Amadeus Cho's latest identity), young/time displaced Cyclops, Spider-Man (Miles), Viv Vision, and Nova (Sam). I'm only submitting with 6 seast, but I'll have 2 extra characters in case I have any standby players: Ironheart (Riri) and Wasp (Nadia). 

Fri, 2-6: DCC XCrawl: Gladiator Moon "The Gladiator Moons of Chardon proudly present X-Crawl! This premier event will pit gladiators against challenges pulled from across the cosmos! Can our challengers survive the deadliest game in the universe?
This no-holds-barred event will use DCC XCrawl rules in the Star Crawl setting. Characters will be provided and rules will be taught."
I'm working with Mike Bolam (architect of the DCC scene in Pittsburgh and overall badass judge) on this adventure. He and I both plan to run sessions of it during GaryCon: it should be a hoot!

Sat, 2-6: DCC Star Crawl- Threen Station Zero "The Threen were wiped out centuries ago, but your crew has a lead on an intact Threen space station. It's surely loaded with valuable relics: but you'll have to beat the Serpine pirates to the prize! 
This will be a 2nd-level DCC adventure in space, using Star Crawl rules"
This will be the first standalone adventure I release for Star Crawl. Still not sure if it'll be out in time for GaryCon (really depends on how the Star Crawl release goes), but I've run it a few times as the SC playtesting adventure. I ran it last year at GaryCon for an awesome group & learned a lot from the experience: this year it should  be even better.

Star Crawl Space Battlefield

I took a break from proofreading Star Crawl to make a starfield battlemat for space battles (completely unnecessary for play, but I think it'll add something to con games & demos). I sent the image above to the printer  for a test run (it'll be 2'x3'). If it comes out nice, I'll get a couple more made for sale.

As briefly mentioned in a earlier post, ship combat will take place in the round area to the left- each line marks off a sector (used for range & movement: most weapons have range of 1 & a ship can freely move 1 sector in a turn). At the top of each turn, all ships make maneuvering rolls (using the ship's maneuvering die type) and move their ships in ascending order of the rolls (highest roll goes last, so they have a significant tactical advantage: facing is important when shooting). Ships then fire weapons in reverse, with the last ship placed firing first (this should be familiar to X-Wing players).

If a ship attempts to flee, they move to the Pursuit Tracker. Here, maneuverability is shelved for speed: ships move forward or back based on relative speed rolls. If the fleeing ship moves off the front of the track, they successfully escape;if the pursuer catches the fleeing ship, both return to the combat field.

*Update* I got the test mat back from the printer & it looks great! I went through Banners on the Cheap, using the image linked below. I used it for games at GaryCon & it was perfect.
Space Mat Image

Star Crawl Status Update

Star Crawl is getting ever closer: based on my current estimates, it should be complete & ready for sale by October. Later than I hoped, but I think it'll be worth the delay.

A few updates on progress the past few weeks:

• The cover art has been changed to the image above. I love my space bug, but that skull's just so much more striking.
• I've gotten preliminary approval from Joseph Goodman. I'll be sending him a final version before I send it to the printers, but we're pretty much set. And this may be the first 3rd party product to bear both the "Compatible with DCC" and "Compatible with MCC" logos!
• The book will be full size (8"x11") and about 120 pages. I'll determine the cover price once I have a final cost from the printer, but I'm thinking $15-20. 
• I've started work on two follow up books: an adventure and a hex-crawl supplement. Based on the response to Star Crawl, I may try to push those through for completion by March so I can bring one (or both) to GaryCon.