Dungeon Crawl Classics is White Hot Right Now

This is a peculiar trend, and one I have not observed yet. All of my Dungeon Crawl Classics posts are currently extremely popular and receiving a high volume of views. Wow. This is actually cool.

Thank you.

The interest in Dungeon Crawl Classics feels like they are approaching Shadowdark levels. The game is gaining popularity among ex-D&D players seeking something different, searching for old-school alternative games, and those looking for Shadowdark alternatives that are more fast-paced and built for fun. Where Shadowdark is more of a turn-by-turn survival crawl, DCC is the game built for insane, quick, and unpredictable fun, based on the classic tales of Appendix N.

I would love to see the estates of more classic authors sign up and have projects in DCC! These give the game something other games do not have: authenticity and the ability to explore classic worlds and inspirational novels in the fantasy genre. Nobody does these boxed sets like Goodman Games. They are fantastic dives into gaming history and the worlds that inspired the original D&D. While Wizards may shift more of the inspiration of the games to the original creators, the true inspirations for D&D lie in the books of Appendix N. These inspired Gygax and all the others.

And Dying Earth is awesome, do not let the strange cover art fool you! This just opens the door to all the strangeness inside, making things seem alien and special. I love these books, and they are a fantastic world to explore and be inspired by.

Gene Wolfe? Michael Shea? There are so many other fantasy authors I would love to see DCC boxed sets for. Even HP Lovecraft, with a Horror Crawl Classics boxed set of pulp investigations and creatures, all being sent into a Lovecraftian funnel of doom and madness.

Even classic authors in the public domain, such as a DCC version of Alice in Wonderland, could be a huge Kickstarter success and generate crossover interest with a gonzo, insane, psychotic dungeon romp through that world. And I can imagine the DCC's artists take on all the classic fairy tale characters, too. Other adventure writers could contribute to the Kickstarter (like Purple Planet), with a few warnings on what is in the public domain versus what is not. This would be worth the price of admission, and I would love to see this done.

Goodman Games could follow the classic 1950s Walt Disney model and retell these stories in its own style, bringing new ideas and artists to the table for this generation. There is a wealth of stories to mine in this area, Gulliver's Travels, Bram Stoker's Dracula, HG Wells' The Time Machine, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Treasure Island, among others. The ideas are as endless as the adventures in them.

Thank you again for making my DCC Day posts popular, and there are more coming where that came from!