Before I started blogging recaps for our DCC campaign, I sent progressively longer recaps via text. Here is a sampling of those pre-Icosaheathen’s recaps. All misspellings have been left intact for your reading pleasure.
9.7.24 (the precap)
This Thursday we play Dungeon Crawl Classics! Gird your loins, peasants, for doom awaits! We’ll start with fast and fun character creation- everyone begins with 3-4 level 0 characters. And then it’s into the meat grinder.
Same time and same place (maison de Smith). Check out the free rules if you’re curious, but don’t feel obligated to do so. The basic rules are that easy for seasoned TTRPG nerds to pick up.
12.6.24
To recap- it was a night of traps and ambushes. The Brothers Underhill were at the brink of death and Stacia proved why you always need a cleric. The Knaves 3 explored incendiary attacks. And Randy Savage, as played by Jim, performed feats of derring-do that really showed off what a warrior can do. And I forgot all about Umbobo, who was probably better off for it.
And finally, let’s pour one out for who died by being crushed to death by falling rocks, in what’s becoming a real pattern for Jim’s characters.
But the wolf-spear of Ulfeonar and a magic drinking horn have been recovered (along with a wolf pelt worth at least 200gp). Next week, back to the village of Hirot! Will the party face the Hound again? Will Randy and the widow be wed? And will Jim even bother naming his new character?
1.3.25
Quick recap of last night: no one died but the Hound, Pennywise delivered the coup de grace, gravity is more dangerous than monsters, and Randy almost died but didn’t so he can still marry the widow. Next time the party returns to Hirot. Will it be a wedding for the ages? Will the Knaves Three set the great hall on fire? And is that level 2 just around the corner?
2.6.25
Last week our party got to know the tiny village of Mitra’s Cross, renowned for its Shrine to Mitra and its weeping lady statue. And while the statue was supposed to offer blessings, it has proven more adept at doling out whoop ass.
You met an old innkeeper named Vani, a yoked stablemaster named Ken, and an “acolyte of Mitra” named Sword Dak who turned invisible when his sinister nature became apparent.
You also got chomped on by some local fauna 🦎and fought some singing skeletons 💀
Tonight we’ll resume the battle already in progress with the acid eye beam blasting basalt statue!
2.14.25
To further recap, Stacia answered a riddle from an angelic beaver correctly (to my utter delight) and was rewarded via divine dentistry the mortal teeth of Mitra. So along with her cats eyes, elf ears and bewitched bosom, her mouth is now full of magical, 1000 year old teeth. If ever there was a hero in the truest DCC sense, it’s her.
The party also met Gabbro the Stone Giant, Randy had a divine vision to get Gabbro to remove the stones that bury the true shrine of Mitra, and Vani and Ken’s true nature was revealed (surprise, they’re 300 year old Set cultists). Oh, and there is that temple of Set that killed 40% of the party in just the first room.
Next time we’ll begin outside of that cursed place.
3.1.25
DCC recap! It was another wild one this week, featuring not one but two dismemberments, a boss fight and another death. Things kicked off Calvert cheating death with a solid luck roll and a little Underhill magic. After exploring the Grand Hall of Set and not triggering the lethal traps inside, our heroes discovered a secret passageway to a hidden crypt. Two sarcophagi were found, one had a mummified baby (the aforementioned one pushed into a fire), another had a vicious snake ghoul wrapped around it. Inside was the Staff of Imhotep and a leonid warrior corpse.
Recap to continue in another text…
A tunnel was followed to an illusory wall, which on the other side had a tavern-sized (that’s the official description) snake which the party made fairly short work on. The Knaves cut off its head and already had knavey plans for what to do with it.
From there another phantasmic wall was passed into room designed for dead body disposal- a pit in the middle which contained two decomposing priests, whose holy symbols identified one as the missing Rupert.
Another room beyond that one contained 3 pools. One was fiery red, another frosty blue and a final one which turned out to be a chimney of sorts leading to another chamber…
Finally, the party encountered Mehna, the hungry, hungry hipposaurus. After monologuing about “the Fang” in the statue behind him that he was weary of guarding, the Runt of Set (official description), attacked the party, devouring Calvert’s left arm (dude can’t get a break) and Poundfoolish’s right leg. Butcher was slain by a snake person, and Rolland announced he had a do not resuscitate order, making the Knaves 3 name increasingly inaccurate but all the more charming.
Chandler grabbed “the Fang” from the statue, which resulted in a blast of eldritch energy and a message from apparently Set himself, saying his “my Sons await you at the tower.”
Oh, and I got to make the joke that this battle really cost the party an arm and a leg and I’ve never been happier.
Next time, we conclude By Mitra’s Bones, Meet Thy Doom! Err, probably anyway.
