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The Kickstarter for Good Guys Finish Last is fully funded. I believe the last time this game was printed officially was 1993. Still the best Super Hero Game of all time.
I have to wonder… how do so many of the osr writers come up with such wild, visceral, and intriguing dungeons and monsters? I can barely think of anything that lightly strays from traditional fantasy tropes. I have serious respect for their ingenuity.
When you get very little sleep - for example, because you're desperately trying to finish an OSR expansion book before your deadline - all sorts of wonderful creative things happen as your sense of reality erodes.
I remember this being quite a big deal when it came out. I think it was the book that really sold people on the idea that oldschool systems can be a great system for new, creative, and original campaigns, and doesn't have to be only like what D&D was in the 80s. If I remember right, Patrick once said or wrote that his first RPG was D&D 4th edition, so he saw the Basic/Expert rules in a different light than the people who had been playing with them for 30 years.
DCO is one of my top five adventures of all time. I completely agree that this new addition, along with Veins of the Earth, are a captivating read that always sparks my imagination. What a wonderful pair of talents!
Thank you for making me aware of this. I've been turned on to OSR generally and Scrap Princess / Stuart's work through your videos. Their work is incredible. I can't wait to have this in my hot little hands and frustrate my players with this. The original is so good, and a remaster sounds dope.
oh man that stalactite dungeon is awesome! everything in them is packed with interesting hooks and weird magic/physics that I'd love to drip throughout my underdark. thanks for sharing this!
This is the adventure that taught me that the PC’s worst nightmare is not a lich, not a dragon, not even a humanoid, cannibal giant-it’s a rival band of adventurers.
Some review requests- Scenic Dunsworth - this is a cult OSR adventure that I've only just discovered. I didn't realise is was popular as one of the main things about it is that it is so relplayable. The Pale Lady - OMG such a good adventure! It's a little mature, but wow this adventure is short good, and could go many different directions. Such a great time to have!!!
Just some advice. If you run this adventure I would suggest you pick and choose elements and adapt them to your playstyle, don't try to run it raw. Its wonderfully full of flavor, but I had trouble understanding some of it so I was useful to occasional simplify it.
Wow, wished a independent filmmaker would think about making a series of movies about this story world. For gaming this would be practically infinite place to explore as complex and dense as just this valley, dam structure ,drained lake region is huge, the entire other complex in the "underground/stalagtite" cities region. To be done right, it would take quite awhile to generate and interact with. Looks really intriguing. Wish i had time that i could mess with it. Lol
The name comes from a satellite that was build to search for carbon in the gases of stars in deep space. The disappointment that it's not actually an observatory that stares down into the earth instead of up into the sky inspired the whole dungeon.
I looked that up and it seems real-life Deep Carbon Observatory is a research project concerning processes involving carbon beneath the surface of the Earth, including microorganisms of deep biosphere.
Question: could this wonderful sounding adventure be reskinned for Gamma World? As sort of an Ancient installation, with the magic items tech items, spellcasters as mutants with powers, etc?
