What are dungeoncrawl classics?

[GoblinGilmartin]

I heard about dungeoncrawl classics from Spoony, and i was wondering about them. are they 3.5 d&D? or is it something different? can someone explain?

[CarpeGuitarrem]

http://www.goodmangames.com/dungeoncrawlclassics.html

It's a pulp fantasy RPG that aims to take a far more classic and savage approach. It begins by having each player run four characters through a meatgrinder dungeon, until only one character remains per player.

[kaomera]

Dungeon Crawl Classics is Goodman Games' trademark for both a series of modules they've been doing for various systems (mostly 3.0 / 3.5, but a number of the modules have been converted to or even where just developed for other systems altogether) as well as a new RPG system they've developed. The modules are generally fairly old-school and overall of pretty good quality. Some of them can be pretty hard / challenging / nasty, but they do vary a bit.

Here's the webpage for the DCC series:
http://www.goodmangames.com/dungeoncrawlclassics.html

[GoblinGilmartin]

thanks guys, do you know if there are specific 3.5's instead of 3?

[kaomera]

thanks guys, do you know if there are specific 3.5's instead of 3?

I may have been mistaken about the 3e thing - I thought they started coming out a bit before 3.5 hit, but the only hard data I can find on that is the first one getting runner-up in the Ennies in 2003, which would be about the same time that 3.5 came out... Of course it would have to have been published earlier, but I'm in no way certain of the actual chronology going on there.

In any case, all the d20 ones are currently being shown as 3.5. They may well have updated the oldest ones, I know that a few of them went through multiple print runs.