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The Sanctum Secorum podcast plumbs the depths of Appendix N as it applies to DCC RPG. Each show reviews one piece of Appendix N media — be it literature or film — and then discusses how to bring aspects of it to the table for your DCC game. We explore how the selected piece might already easily fit into particular modules and DCC settings, and we highlight one specific DCC module that really ties into the Appendix N material.

Enter the Sanctum Secorum… and be inspired.

News: April Contest Winners

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Our April contest theme was “Gonzo”, an anything goes sort of category. We were wholly unprepared for the amount of submissions that we would receive. Seriously, we will have content from the April entries popping up for a long time because…Wow! Several folks certainly wanted to be sure of a win and avalanche of content was the result (we should have contests more often). After being up all night, the drawing is finally done and soon I will enter the Prize Closet of Mysterytm to select our runner up’s prize.

As rolled at random, our winners are

1st Place – Daniel J Bishop’s The Altar of Woeful Consumption
* 1 copy of Super No. 1 Food Tower
* 1 sheet of pregen characters

2nd Place – Ian Shears’ Patron spell, Infernal Voice
* To be determined by the Prize Closet of Mysterytm

Look for these fantastic entries in upcoming Sanctum Secorum Companions!

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Bearmageddon: Bear Crab

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The new Kickstarter for Bears Want to Kill You has already surpassed its funding requirement and is in to stretch goal territory. Next up a fold out illustration and, after that, a slipcase for the hardcover edition. If there is one thing that we DCC folks go crazy for, it is slipcases! Let’s try to make this happen!

In the meantime, we continue to build on our partnership with Axe Cop co-creator Ethan Nicolle in an effort to warn of the impending bearmageddon as well as bring nightmarish inspiration to your DCC table.

Bear Crab
“The bear crab has been scientifically proven to give more nightmares than any other creature.”
     – Dickinson Killdeer, Dickinson Killdeer’s Guide to Bears of the Apocalypse

These crustaceans are ocean dwelling in nature and are dependent on salt water to survive. Magically constructed, bear crabs have no organs but their brains, hearts and gills. They are incredibly hard to kill and are considered by some to be immortal.

Bear crab: Init +2; Atk bite +6 melee (1d10) or claw +4 melee (3d5); AC 22; HD 8d10; MV 20’; Act 2d20; SP regeneration, immune to crits; SV Fort +8, Ref +6, Will +3; AL C.

 Regeneration: The bear crab regenerates 5 hit points per round.

 

 

Bear crab (both art and concept) are the creation of Axe Cop co-creator Ethan Nicolle (@axecop) and is used with his kind permission. These, and a slew of other ursine horrors can be found in the pages of Bearmageddon as well as within Dickinson Killdeer’s Guide to Bears of the Apocalypse.

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News: Sanctum Secorum Bonus Companion – Free RPG Day 2017

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Created as a “best of” item to give away at the table of a select few judges,  you too can now grab the Sanctum Secorum’s Free RPG Day 2017 release. Files were sent out to a handful of judges around the country who were running tables for Free RPG Day. The only way to get it was to be at one of a very limited number of tables. Of course, this might signal that there might be something special to come as the road crew’s ranks swell with Guardian’s of Secrets.

Keep an eye out!

In the meantime – Get the free Sanctum Secorum #25b HERE!

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News: February Contest Winners!

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As rolled at random, our winners are

1st Place – R.S. Tilton’s The Huntsman
* 1 copy of Super No. 1 Food Tower
* 1 sheet of pregen characters

2nd Pace – Ari-Matti Piippo’s Ancient Hyperborean (in Companion #32)
* 1 copy of Cthulhu’s Reign edited by Darrell Schweitzer
* Sanctum Secorum and DCC swag

Look for R.S. Tilton’s winning entry in the forthcoming Sanctum Secorum Companion #33!

 

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