YouTube: Let’s cut open Dungeon Crawl Classics and see how it bleeds

Dave Thaumavore's RPG Reviews is a great channel, and the above is one of the classic reviews of DCC, providing a great introduction to the system and its ethos. As always, please like the video, watch the video through, and subscribe to the channel! This is great, positive, and hobby-forward content that I love.

This is the best introduction to the game that I have seen, presented positively, pointing out the good and the bad points, and laying out the most important differences between this game and others.

A classic DCC video from the hobby community, and worth watching, even for those of us who know the game. It is a great inspiration for new players and veterans alike.

YouTube: The Best Solo RPG Experience? (DCC)

This is a fun video that I just stumbled upon. A solo playthrough of DC from Legends & Dice Cafe. The video has this rough-cut charm with pauses, delays, random comments, laughs, and a raw, unedited format that is just like being in the room with someone.

"The art in here is super sick. I enjoy it a great deal." - video, 16:50

It's a lot of fun to listen to in the background, and it's also a positive, refreshing experience of listening to someone learn and play DCC solo. Even filling out the character sheets by hand is fun to listen to. Please like and subscribe! I'm always on the lookout for under-the-radar videos that offer a more positive perspective on the hobby than the constant Wizards drama we see on D&D YouTube.

The highlighting in that book drives me crazy! To each their own, your books are yours to do what you want with, and I love it.

We need more of this positive, fun content in our hobby.

Video: Bankruptcy SCANDAL rocks TTRPGs!

Professor Dungeon Master is a great channel. Please watch his video all the way through, like, and subscribe. This one is good information on the Diamond bankruptcy and how it will devastate some companies. What can we do?

For the companies affected, now is the time to step up and buy direct from them. Pre-order any of the affected releases from them now. If you see cheap books being liquidated, do not buy them, regardless of how great a deal they are. They were wrongly taken from the publisher, so blacklist them from your purchases. As a community, we don't buy stolen books. I can wait a few weeks or months if the company that makes the games I love pulls through this mess.

This is not about getting a great deal.

This is about helping the companies we love survive.

If you're interested in other books from these great companies, purchase them now. Support those you love. Every direct sale helps. Do not purchase through Amazon or any other seller, except on the company's website or at your local game store.

Step up.

Now is your time.

Video: Alignment Isn’t Outdated. It’s at the Core of D&D.

Alignment is not in D&D 2024 or Tales of the Valiant. They removed this concept from the game. Today's video discusses this topic, and it's a good one. Please watch it all the way through, like, and subscribe to this channel.

If anything will be the nail in the coffin for "new 5E," it will be this one fact. Classic fantasy worlds do not work without alignment systems. They become modern, nothingness, relativism, and mush. The concepts of good and evil disappear, and the call for heroism is silenced.

Once you remove alignment, there is no reason to play these games.

YouTube: I'M SWITCHING to ShadowDark RPG - Here's Why (2024)

Today's video on why a creator is switching to Shadowdark is excellent. All the points are great, and I feel exactly how they do. There is one misconception about resting near the end (pointed out in the comments), so note that - "taking a rest" is not easy in this game, takes a lot of resources, and is not guaranteed. It is an easy mistake to make, coming from 5E, where "resting" is an entitlement, and you can do it in a closet of an evil cult's temple while they and Cthulhu are walking around outside.

Like and subscribe to the creator! He also covers OSE on his channel, and a few OSE fans are in the comments. Both are great games, which is why we cover them here. Like some in the comments, I can see why some like OSE better, and excellent points are also made there.

But they do belong together. Fans of one can be fans of the other quickly, and the OSE and Shadowdark communities are more family to each other than at odds over tiny differences.

YouTube: 10 Shadowdark rules you probably missed

Wow, I did not know some of these and had assumed the CON hit point modifier was applied at every level and STR modified damage. I was wrong! This is a great video-short, useful, and straight to the point. There are the answers to those questions, plus a few more surprises, in the video. Highly recommended!

The video's creator's BackerKit is still taking late pledges, and Unnatural Selection is a great add-on to the game.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/dungeon-damsel-creations/unnatural-selection-a-shadowdark-supplement

Watch the video, like & subscribe to the creator, and support their book!

YouTube: Gen Con Booth Preview 2024 (Goodman Games)

The Gen Con booth preview for Goodman Games just dropped, and the best piece of info in here is that there are doing a second printing of Dark Tower will be in stock in about 2 months, so the end of September or October. This is one of the out-of-stock items I am tracking for DCC, and I kick myself for not jumping in on this one. That said, more are coming!