Jewels of the Carnifex | RPG Review | Dungeon Crawl Classics

[@WizardOfAtlantis]

DCC artwork is just so spot-on. It pushes all the right buttons!

[@spaceranger7683]

YES! Love it when you cover DCC content. These guys not only 'get it' regarding the golden era of gaming, but everything they do is like an open love letter to it.

[@captcorajus]

Very well said. Yes I agree!

[@midnightgreen8319]

Dungeon Crawl Classics has completely become my favorite game system. It's exactly what I want in a game

[@Silversmith70]

20k subs now, I am proud of you Cap! Its been a long road and I have learned much from you. Thank you!

[@captcorajus]

Aww man, thanks. So happy to hear my videos were helpful! Game on!

[@Minodrec]

Yeah ! I love your review style. Nice to see some DCC on the channel.especially Stroh work. I hope this year will bring you some Hyperborea content too. :)

[@captcorajus]

No doubt. There's a new module in the works. You'll see it here!

[@robofeeney]

This is one of DCCs most deadly modules! Getting ready to run it using Advanced Fighting Fantasy, so what great timing to see your take on it

[@sumdude4281]

Look forward to more DCC reviews!

[@hotemet]

More like this, please!

[@2plus2isfive]

Great review! And I absolutely agree with you, Harley Stroh's work is super inspirational for creating your own homebrew dungeons. Also, I believe the cover is buy Peter Mullen.

[@captcorajus]

Just reading the credits on the cover page. :)

[@robofeeney]

There's two different covers! Oddly enough, for the mullen reprint they didn't update the interior information

[@2plus2isfive]

@@robofeeney ah ok! Thanks for that.

[@midnightgreen8319]

The spider cover is Mullen, the other monster thing is Kovacs

[@chriskirby9408]

Would love to see some MCC reviews

[@VaGuS343]

Did you know that that quote 'you are what we once were and we are what you will be' is a quote from a real world ossuary. Well it's the paraphrasing of these words in Italian. “What you are, we once were. What we are, you someday will be.“ The crypt if the Cappuccins in Rome, which I had the pleasure to visit.

[@natemercer7538]

More DCC Cap! I love it!

[@choffman138]

More DCC, please! This review got a subscribe out of me!

[@josullivan5604]

this looks fun and fast, i adore the maps

[@sunsin1592]

One of the best things about the DCC modules is that most can be run in one session.

[@Khasimir]

Great review for an all time great adventure. I've run this (reskinned of course) a number of times at conventions for Hyperborea, so I especially love the shout out that it's highly compatible with other OSR systems. I think a 58 is an apt score, as Harley writes enough nuanced detail where there should be an appealing aspect for practically every type of player that can sit at your table.

[@captcorajus]

I plan on running this for my Hyperborea group

[@Khasimir]

@@captcorajus hopefully none of them have played in my con game, lol. The cool thing is that Jewels is easy enough to tweak to fit seamlessly into a campaign. You and your group should have a lot of fun with this adventure.

[@larkans.7540]

Always love w new video! Gonna run this with ose. Keep of the good work capt

[@matthewconstantine5015]

I grabbed this a couple months ago with the idea of retooling it a bit and using it for DCC Lankhmar....not that I'm actually running Lankhmar at this point. But one day, maybe.

[@ekashotersen]

Great video as always.

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

Good review, Captcorajus. And a high score to boot, congratulations. Unless I have my monsters mixed up, I'm pretty sure the carnifex from time to time appears as a very hard to beat monster in the mmo, Adventurequest. I always wondered if it was an Adventurequest original. Now I see by you mentioning Jewels Of The Carnifex being a very old module I can I hope safely assume Adventurequest borowed it from Jewels. Thank you.

[@robofeeney]

Carnifex just means "flesh maker" or "flesh god/master" in Latin. It's been used in a lot of different fantasy and sci fi works!

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

@@robofeeney Thank you, Christopher Feeney. Good to know. If a god takes human form on Earth is that god a carnifex? Just wondering.

[@chaosgyro]

I gotta pick this up right now! I pretty much exclusively run modules; not because I don't like to tell my own stories, but because I'm dog@#$% at making fun dungeons. I set up my players as members of a long running mercenary company (their first characters were the founders) that has found itself an unwilling adversary of dark powers beyond understanding. This little romp could be a great "audition" for their next generation of characters to join the company.

[@danielrowan4716]

Captain - I have a campaign that this adventure would perfectly fit into. Cults, evil artifacts, ancient Lovecraftian gods…. I’ll check it out.

[@captcorajus]

Glad I could help!

[@TallDude73]

Any 1st Edition AD&D module review coming up? Back in the 1980's, Judges Guild put out some cool AD&D modules as well.

[@captcorajus]

If you look at my back catalog, I've got a TON of AD&D 1E module reviews. Certainly more coming in the future. Perhaps even a Judges Guild module (cough.. Dark Tower, cough, cough)

[@Arcboltkonrad13]

I really need to find a DCC campaign...

[@captcorajus]

It is so cool.

[@Arcboltkonrad13]

@@captcorajus Agreed! I have the core book, a set of the dice (glow in the dark!) and a few adventures but literally no one in my group is interested in it because "too many weird dice and tables to roll on"

[@jamesonstalanthasyu]

When was this originally released?

[@captcorajus]

2012

[@josullivan5604]

a 58!!! whoa! has there ever been a 60 is this the best score?

[@captcorajus]

I haven't had a 60 yet since I started the new rating, but I have given out three 20's before, though its rare.

[@josullivan5604]

@@captcorajus maybe something from this new Shadowdark game will be the first. it’s getting a lot of hype!

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

Thanks whoever you are for the like to my comment. Thanks, Captcorajus for the heart to my comment. Both appreciated.

[@krinkrin5982]

Gonna be honest, having played 40k, I had a very different image in mind.

[@jacobwilbers9852]

Same here, but a 40k carni with boneswords would be like 15th level would be kinda cool to homebrew, maybe a genestealer cult on a Comet. You have to stop them before they call in the hivefleet. Maybe the leader has a carnifex as a body guard.

[@richmcgee434]

Carnifex is Latin, translates best to butcher, torturer, executioner. Nothing to do with Tyranids.

[@jacobwilbers9852]

@Rich McGee I know what it means in Latin and it kinda does when they have a bioform called a carnifex in 40k the module might have even been the inspiration for the carnifex in 40k.