Category: Clerics
This blog explores OSR game design through practical mechanics and table-tested ideas homebrews.
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Review: The Lesser Key to the Celestial Legion (2019), by Donn Stroud and James A. Pozenel, Jr.
Clerics are an admittedly awkward party member in Dungeons and Dragons. Their primary purpose is to worship and serve a deity. Yet, if we are being honest, this is mostly lip service in practice. The dungeon denizens they slaughter are not usually the enemies of their god. They are typically hapless blokes or beasts that…
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Better Gods for Your Game: Rethinking Deity Design
In my last post, I compared and contrasted 38 write-ups for 19 DCC deities, as found on Knights in the North’s website (2017-2020), DCC RPG Annual (2019), and Clerics of the Known Realms (2021). Of these resources, both the Annual and Clerics of the Known Realms include the exact same content for their write-ups: description,…
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A Review of Write-Ups for DCC Deities
In this post I review write-ups for DCC deities as found in the DCC RPG Annual, Knights in the North (KITN), or Clerics of the Known Realms (CKR). I compare each of their interpretations and offer my recommendations on which ones to use.
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How to Craft a Custom Disapproval Table for Dungeon Crawl Classics
This is the first of several planned posts offering advice on designing clerics and their deities. I know that clerics often receive a bad rap in the D&D community and its OSR progeny, but I absolutely adore DCC’s take on this classic class. Clerics are my favorite DCC class largely because of the disapproval mechanic.…
The Wondering Monster 