2024-08-28 Return to the Starless Sea pt 1

Survivors

• Craig - Blake the Exile
• Marc - Dr Zeta Gemcrusher the Surgeon
• Nick - Price the Agitator
• Micah - Greg the Bounty Hunter
• Boyd - Strawberry the Whaler

Race and Advancing to 1st-level

Your survivors can be leveled up to first-level characters for future games as honored survivors of a DCC funnel. These were rolled up using a tournament setting on Purple Sorcerer website without an ancestry/race, so feel free to decide that any of these were a halfling, elf, dwarf, etc when selecting your 1st-level class.

How it Went

We ran the first day of the Gen Con 2023 DCC module: Return to the Starless Sea. This was a tournament zero-level funnel which is normally scored on things like:

• time to complete in a 4-hour sitting
• Number of surviving peasants from a pile of 50 random characters
• Extra easter eggs and accomplishments along the way

The dungeon is big, with potentially looping paths and plenty of random events in the hallways between rooms. We completed the equivalent of a 5 room dungeon:

1. Through the Breach
2. Foreshadowing the Chaos Lord
3. Wandering the Corridors
4. Penned In
5. The Ziggurat

The first encounter, built to teach the players to negotiate for advantages on the DCC dice chain when crossing a dangerous gateway as how luck rolls function ended up murdering almost half the party.

By the end of the first room and the first peasant refresh, two players had all 4 of their peasants murdered.