Favorite DM Resources?
Favorite DM Resources?
Hi Everyone! I'm planning on running a shortish campaign for my friends when we go vacation in a few weeks. I plan on running Sailors on the Starless Sea, then transitioning into Doom of the Savage Kings, and just seeing where things go from there. I've previously run Sailors for a group of friends and it went over amazingly, but otherwise I don't have any further experience with the system. My real question is regarding DM Resources. Do any of you guys have any resources (paid for or free) that have really helped you run the game? Any optional rules that have helped out, or general tips and tricks for a relatively new judge?
Kind of jealous but beware of exhaustion after that much judging! 🙂 I don't know if I can be of much help beyond suggesting the vast Goodman Games catalog on DriveThruRPG (read the reviews) or The Gongfarmer Almanac volumes which are free and also contain adventures. Myself I like to cobble together dungeons from real life places, ideas from books, games etc., and random RPG materials but do this when you feel confident. One also has to have energy...
Advice, for what it's worth: I feel that from reading and watching about OSR and DCC people can get a very exaggerated idea of how big and deadly the dungeons should be, especially for non-veteran players. Myself I nerf "official" monsters and traps and still feel very close to massacring PCs all the time. Don't be afraid of adjusting to taste. A dungeon module is actually good for many sessions if they explore it thoroughly, which they probably will if you will tell them it's easy to die. Make sure they're aware of the Luck and spellburn mechanic, since the game seems balanced around this.
Thanks for the suggestions!
You may wish to, if you haven't already, check out https://www.purplesorcerer.com/
Has oodles of free tools for Judges; 0-level character creators, grimoire generators and their Crawler html app is so useful at the tabletop
Happy to see a DCC community here! I don't have much to add on this topic as I love running the premade modules, I just bought the first volume of the tome of adventures and am excited to run it solo and with my group.