New DCC Dwarven Jobs & Backgrounds

In this post, we continue to flesh out the slightly samey-trending jobs of DCCRPG. Or just use this for whatever Dweorg characters you make in other games. 

 I tried to envision a society that is often underground and deals with fantastic flora and fauna. No doubt they kill and eat many underworlders too. Also, my thing about dweorgas being made out of treasure is seeded in here.

1. Turnspit (rat-skewer rotator “one time I roasted a wumpus”)

   • Trained Weapon: Spit-rod (as club)

   • Trade Goods: Roasted meat skewer, apron stained with grease, underworld cookbook

2. Pick-harness (battlefield scavenger and smith)

   • Trained Weapon: Crowbar (as club)

   • Trade Goods: Salvaged armor scraps, pouch of rivets, rags of various oil saturations

3. Pinchpenny or Clutchfist ("Strict financial records must be kept." Note that Dwarven greed is primarily centered around building new dwarves of precious materials, lest abominations be made.)

   • Trained Weapon: Coin purse (as flail)

   • Trade Goods: Ledger of debts, pouch of copper coins

4. Sawbones ("Bite down on this")

   • Trained Weapon: Bonesaw (as dagger)

   • Trade Goods: Healing salve, set of surgical tools, leather dentata

5. Gulchcup (bartender/shroom-wine sommlier/mine quartermaster)

   • Trained Weapon: Tankard (as club)

   • Trade Goods: Firkin of moss-ale, drinking goat-horn

6. Mix-metal (silversmith that works in pewter and copper too)

   • Trained Weapon: Ingot-hammer (as club)

   • Trade Goods: Ingot of silver, set of jeweler’s tools, planishing-hammer, damascene pauldrons, mithril wire

7. Pick-lock (locksmith/trapsmith)

   • Trained Weapon: Crowbar (as club)

   • Trade Goods: Lockpicks, pouch of stolen trinkets, fine tools & screws

8. Chiurge-dirt or Chiurgydirty (gem-miner/sapper)

   • Trained Weapon: Pickaxe (as ax)

   • Trade Goods: Pouch of gemstones, miner’s lantern, shovel, battle-scars

9. Boxsqueeze ("I play. You sing. We split the tips.")

   • Trained Weapon: Knife

   • Trade Goods: Squeezebox, plaque of folk tunes

10. Waxcrack (Cave apiarist and fissure sealer)

    • Trained Weapon: Candle-iron (as club)  

    • Trade Goods: Blocks of tallow, wick coils, sealed letters, bee-censer

11. Shite-poke (“Aye, me if only goat-gong were as good as dwarf-dung...”)

    • Trained Weapon: Shovel (as ax)

    • Trade Goods: Bag of manure, gardening gloves

12. Fetch-water

    • Trained Weapon: Yoke (as staff)

    • Trade Goods: Rope, cave-bear bladders, dowsing-rod

13. Sweep-chimney (spelunkers and declunks the sooty tubes that lead out)

    • Trained Weapon: Broom (as staff and extendible rod)

    • Trade Goods: Bag of soot, cleaning rags

14. Turnwheel (“I got an ax to grind...”)

    • Trained Weapon: Wrench (as club), awl (as dagger)

    • Trade Goods: Brass gears, leather belts, whetstone

15. Blowcoal

    • Trained Weapon: Fire-poker (as club)

    • Trade Goods: Bag of coal, bellows, faggot-craddle

16. Forge-ax ( “No nobler weapon than an ax. Hammers are for forging.”

    • Trained Weapon: Forge-hammer (as club), and an axe, of course

    • Trade Goods: Bundle of iron ingots, whetstone

17. Blasstunnel

    • Trained Weapon: Dynamite plunger (as club)

    • Trade Goods: Satchel of blasting powder, miner’s goggles, bag of guano powder

18. Guard-horde

    • Trained Weapon: Halberd, small shield

    • Trade Goods: Iron keyring, set of manacles

19. Gempolish (lapidary)

    • Trained Weapon: Gem cutter (as dagger)

    • Trade Goods: Pouch of uncut gems, polishing cloth, jeweler's lathe

20. Bitesheep (fiery preacher allowed to level as a cleric of a dweog-god)

    • Trained Weapon: Holy rune-graven censer (as flail)

    • Trade Goods: Tome of sermons, vial of holy water

21. Fist-bread (pit-fighter)

    • Trained Weapon: Brass knuckles

    • Trade Goods: Bloodstained bandages, pouch of betting tokens

22. BrightStatue (clan statue-breeder)

    • Trained Weapon: Chisel (as dagger)

    • Trade Goods: Small stone statue, block of marble, gold-leaf

23. Spout-deep (deep lore sage)

    • Trained Weapon: Rune-etched staff (as quarterstaff)

    • Trade Goods: Ancient tome, vial of glowing ink, tattoos of lore

24. WardShaft

    • Trained Weapon: Spear

    • Trade Goods: Map of tunnels, horn for signaling, lantern, mirror on a stick

25. Gather-growth ( “vegi-pigmies are good eating”)

    • Trained Weapon: Sickle (as dagger)

    • Trade Goods: Basket of edible mushrooms, spore pouch, moss-nori sheets

26. Brewdank (professional drunk)

    • Trained Weapon: Keg tap (as club)

    • Trade Goods: Barrel of fungal ale, drinking horn

27. Rake-ore

    • Trained Weapon: Sorting rake (as staff)

    • Trade Goods: Pouch of rare ores, magnifying lens

28. Splashwall

    • Trained Weapon: Paintbrush (as dart)

    • Trade Goods: Pots of pigment, sketchbook

29. Graverune

    • Trained Weapon: Chisel (as dagger)

    • Trade Goods: Set of runestones, hammer

30. Skewerfish

    • Trained Weapon: Fishing spear

    • Trade Goods: Net, fish-trap, bucket of blind cave fish

31. Breathlamp

    • Trained Weapon: Lamp pole (as staff)

    • Trade Goods: Flask of oil, set of matches, pot of glowworms

32. Scaresong (tongue for hire)

    • Trained Weapon: Tuning fork (as dagger)

    • Trade Goods: Hurdy-gurdy, sheet of ancient songs

33. Keep-pig

    • Trained Weapon: Butcher's knife (as ax)

    • Trade Goods: Bag of offal, a potbellied cave-pig

34. Chartdeep (depths plunger that goad pet giant worms to help clear passages)

    • Trained Weapon: Worm-prick (as spear)

    • Trade Goods: Map of the deep, ink and quill, scroll, soup-pellets, giant earthworm

35. Crack-coal (fire-starters that use heat to aid mining)

    • Trained Weapon: Log-dog (as mace)

    • Trade Goods: Compound saw, chains, miner’s lantern

36. Gather-blud

    • Trained Weapon: Oil can (as club)

    • Trade Goods: Flask of lamp oil, funnel, firkin of pitch

37. Dig-root

    • Trained Weapon: Spade (as ax)

    • Trade Goods: Bundle of edible roots, trowel

38. Husbandgoat ("They're not ready!")

    • Trained Weapon: Crook (as staff)

    • Trade Goods: d3 blind cave goats, milking pail

39. Mill-bone

    • Trained Weapon: Grindstone (as club)

    • Trade Goods: Bag of flour, bag of bone-meal, mortar and pistil
      

40. Catch-rat

    • Trained Weapon: Trap-cage (as flail)

    • Trade Goods: Cage of live rats, smoked rat jerky

41. Breed-worm (breed both small and giant varieties)

    • Trained Weapon: Shovel (as staff)

    • Trade Goods: Jar of cave worms, compost bin, mull-moss, cave-silk, grunting-sticks

42. Vent-gas

    • Trained Weapon: Venting rod (as spear)

    • Trade Goods: Gas mask, bladders

43. Sunder-stone

    • Trained Weapon: Chisel (as dagger)

    • Trade Goods: Block of marble, hammer, pins and feathers (shims)

44. Mend-tunnel

    • Trained Weapon: Hammer (as club)

    • Trade Goods: Bag of stone bricks, mortar, nails

45. Guide-deep

    • Trained Weapon: Lantern pole (as staff)

    • Trade Goods: Map of the deep, flask of oil, homing-bat

46. Bake-ash

    • Trained Weapon: Tongs (as club)

    • Trade Goods: Loaf of ash-baked bread, bag of flour

47. Dry-mold

    • Trained Weapon: Drying rack crook (as staff)

    • Trade Goods: Bundle of dried mushrooms, spore pouch

48. Scout-deep 

    • Trained Weapon: Dagger

    • Trade Goods: Map of uncharted tunnels, climbing gear, homing bat, rock-ghuillie suit, cave-eye salve

49. Pebble-stone

    • Trained Weapon: Sledgehammer (as club)

    • Trade Goods: Bag of gravel, chisel

50. Slay-chud

    • Trained Weapon: Sword

    • Trade Goods: Chud-leather armor, shield

Introducing Shremlane Hexcrawl

I’ve had a few groups visit Shremlane over the years, and have been tinkering with it since like 2012. It’s basically a misery crawl, but hopefully the odd encounters keep the players coming back. I’m trying to iron out the procedures for the latest foray. Those groping trees are really stressful!

Procedures:

Enter new hex or get to midway point→Roll 2d6

• Sides add to seven→Underworld entrance spotted! Permanent find; mark it.
• Sides are adjacent numbers→Trail spotted. Trails are not permanent. The trees are dicks.
• Sides match→Encounter! Roll a d20 the first time, d30 the second, and d60 the third+ time.

Travel times & stress cost: 

Always confirm the times to start a day, add extra time for incidentals, rations should be consumed every six hours (stress if you skip meals).

• king’s road: On hour per ½ hex/Two hours per hex. No stress
• trail: Two hours per ½ hex/Four hours per hex. One stress point
• no trail or road: Three hours per ½ hex/Six hours per hex. Three stress points

Background:

Shremlane forest is a cursed place. A generation or so in the past, it was host to a group of peace-loving humans called the Shmisdanis. Then, as always seems to happen, barbarians invaded from the north, sacked the stronghold of the Shmisdanis which was also the heart of the forest, and then went on their way. People say that the barbarians were after the treasure of the Shmisdanis. Others say the Shmisdanis failed to keep up the accords they had created with nature and the forest, thus letting the barbarians slip in as punishment. No doubt more blood than sap was shed that day.

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d12 cool ass treasures drawn from real life.

You can show your players these pictures as you dole out the pelf!

1.  Ring with Minerva Bust 
2. Dark Ivory Articulated Doll (or the mummy that it came with) 
3. Bronze head with gold ear-rings 
4.  Tattle-tell slave collar
5. An abacus-ring 
6. Really old pants 
7. a dragonfly helmet 
8. Oil lamp in the shape of a foot cuz everyone thinks that'll smell good 
9. Shut up I can have a second roman ring in my list 
10. The Lycurgus Cup, drag me to hell
11. bubbly copper scorpion fossil 
12. DMs that don't use safety tools are dicks 
    

 

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