The Treader in the Dust, now with more Dungeon Crawl Classics

I usually do projects like this in order to learn stuff, and I confess that writing this entity up was somewhat hypnotic.  Lots of Q's.  Good thing I didn't use an umlaut.  Also, InDesign has much, much juju.  Now that I have slayed it and eaten its bitter, black heart, I...  Sadly, I think that with the baby having come between then and now, I have forgotten many of the clever things I learned to put this document together.  Oh well, there's always the next project.

I offer you the Dungeon Crawl Classics patron Quachil Uttaus, an awful thing from beyond time and space that gives those who know of it extended life, a modicum of mote-y power, and a messy and dusty end.  If you don't know all this good stuff already, it's from this story by Clark Ashton Smith, which you can find over on the Eldritch Dark.

I hereby abjure you to drop it in to your DCC campaign, kill some players and NPCs with it, and let me know how it works out.

Next: more Eldrich Horrors, this time as PCs in Dungeon Crawl Classics

Burnt Offerings for your enjoyment. Flavour: Dungeon Crawl Classics

Here is a link to a Word 2003 DCC spell template, as close as I could come to the actual formatting of the book without nanometer rulers and laser-kerning calipers.  I have a couple of spells I'm fixing to convert so it's better than muckin' it up over and over.  You'll need the Duvall package and Adobe Garamond Pro to swank it up like I do, but hey.  There are alternates.  Also, Duvall is free - much love to Mr. Paul Lloyd who makes the things we read so classy.

note:  Between when I started this post and when I finished it, I sorted out Adobe Acrobat Pro and made an editable field-filled .pdf version for your happiness and general amusement.  If you use it, include #newdccspell and describe it in action or something.  That'd be cool.

Also, the finished Deep One Hybrid DCC player class.  Perform Dagon and Hydra's will on Aereth before you don your new form and take to the depths!

Working on game-system emulation, since I want to see some older games in action.  Nostalgia!  Mostly Atari 2600 stuff, (ahh Pitfall 2) but some other things.  Bushido Blade from the PSX.  I've got a fancypants desktop system from a couple of years back that'll run just about anything, so I'm excited about giving it a spin.

Below the Root.  Yeah.  I'll crank that up, too.  From the C64.

I think my eyes are bleeding from all this internetting and layout-laying.