Gooood Morning, crawlers! 

We’ve got a little update to go with your Saturday morning crawl-toons!

(Did you like that? I was really proud of it.) 

Let’s check in on our crawler numbers, shall we? 

33,104 crawlers and $7,810,153!

We published the $7.75 Million New Threat poll and options yesterday and this one's special.
 All the options courtesy of our dear friend Ben Wolf! So if one of them kills you in game you can blame him. 

How do I get my friend who’s only ever read Dungeon Crawler Carl to play the TTRPG with me? 

Fear not, crawlers! We’ve written up an awesome article that acts as an intro to TTRPGs. We’ve added the write-up to this update, but we’ll also be making it a downloadable PDF in our samples section. 

Psst this has an image on Incubus Mordecai if you’re trying to convince someone who might be into that 👀

Ahem, that being said— 

If you've seen any unbranded, legally distinct children playing Dungeons & Dragons in a basement on TV, you already have the basic idea. A tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) is a pen and paper game you play around a table (Virtual or physical). You and your friends take on fantastical roles and create a memorable story together, using dice rolls to decide successes and failures.

In the Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG, most players take on the role of crawlers: usually just regular people (and the occasional cat or goat) who have been dropped unexpectedly into the World Dungeon. The basic flow of the game is: You decide what your character does, you describe how you try to do it, and then the dice determine how well it goes… or how badly.

One player takes on the role of the Game Master, or GM -- Think of the GM as the System AI: they run the dungeon, introduce the challenges, stakes, and rewards, plays all the NPCs, and generally make your life difficult interesting. They're not your enemy, but they're also not exactly your friend. Their job is to make the story happen, floor by floor, as they adapt to the choices the players make. The Starter Set, Core Rulebook, and ongoing Season Pass content drops are all built to give them the tools they need to do exactly that.

The Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG is a game about surviving against odds that are pretty stacked against you. The World Dungeon is a brutal, televised dungeon crawl that fits tabletop roleplaying games perfectly. You're probably not a hero… yet. You're a nobody, or a group of nobodies, who woke up one day to find the surface world gone with nothing but mysterious stairwells left. There are achievements to earn, loot boxes to crack open, and talk show appearances to attend. And mobs. So many mobs to grind.

Character creation on Floor 3 is where things really open up. You start with dozens of backgrounds from your crawler's life before everything went sideways, or you invent your own from scratch. Build custom skills, mix and match from a roster of classes and races, and keep unlocking more options as you go deeper. Want to be a Fire Mage Arcanist who also used to be a middle school gym teacher? Go for it. The rules are built to support whatever you come up with. (Which sounds like a corpo marketing line, but is actually just true.)

While the Core Rulebook focuses on floors 3-5, it has everything you need for as long as you want to play. Classes, races, skills, loot, saferooms, mobs… you name it! 

GM’s that like to plan their own campaigns will have all the tools they could ever need to keep a campaign going indefinitely. And when Renegade drops new Season Pass content throughout the year, there's just more to work with. More floors. More chaos. More dungeon.