Dungeon Crawl Classics: Tales From the Smoking Wyrm

Welcome to the Tales from the Smoking Wyrm, a DCC fanzine drawing from the history of zines.

The Wyrm is a big fan of gaming zines of all stripes, and we hope to bring you the same high-quality content for a DCC audience! Our issues contain features, usable by players and judges alike! 

• Paladins—A new take on an old class
• Cthulhu as Patron—Why choose the lesser of neutrals?
• Culpepper’s Herbal—Herbs for your game
• The Silver Ball—A mysterious way to add and remove characters to and from the game
• Telepathic Rats—Expanded rules for a plucky companion
• Rites & Rituals, Part I—How taking the long road to power can reap huge benefits
• Onward Retainer—An adventuring comic in an old-school style, starring the Legion
• Wyrm Words—A crossword puzzle of all the Gygaxian words in the first issue

This is the standard edition version of issue 1.

• King of Beasts—A new patron. Bonding with the wild side gives you distinct advantages!
• Dwarven Jäger—A subclass of dwarf with a very useful skillset.
• Rites & Rituals, Part II—A close-up look at three rituals aimed at those of religious bent. Want to know why unholy creatures burst into flames when they cross the threshold into holy ground? We show you how, along with other mysteries! Includes rules for Pious Deed die.
• Culpepper’s Herbal—More herbs for your game. We continue building out an herbal catalog that all adventurers can take advantage of, even in the darkest of times.
• The Shoggoth—A classic monster from deep in our adventuring subconscious finally flexes its full muscles! Also includes a find familiar spell for Cthulhu cultists to gain Shoggoth familiars!
• Onward Retainer—The second installment of an adventuring comic in the old school style, starring The Legion
• Wyrm Words—A word find puzzle of all the Gygaxian words in the second issue—this way, a definition is never in doubt!

This is the standard edition version of issue 2.

• New Patron: Krampus—The Horned Ooser himself as patron for lawfully righteous wizards and elves looking to keep people in line, even if they need the devil to do it! Krampus comes with a full write-up, including a new feature we are adding to all our patrons: a rumors table, to help introduce this patron into game play. Everything you expect to see in a full write-up is present, plus rules for the waxing and waning of Krampus' influence over the seasons, and ways in which characters can become Get of Krampus!
• Cullpepper's Herbal—This installment of Cullpepper's Herbal focuses on the herbs that are most thought of in the holiday season: Holly, Mistletoe, and Ivy.
• Krampus missions—Sure, you signed up to help the old Bartl curb the wicked, but now he goes and assigns you actual missions? Included in this article are 7 missions that adherents of Krampus can be assigned in return for their invoking his name! These missions are suitable for inserting into game play pretty much anywhere, and are sure to challenge those who have pledged a deal with Klaubauf himself.
• Mari Lwyd—An old Welsh tradition come to life! In this article, the judge can develop a Mari Lwyd that will challenge characters in truly unique ways.
• Weapons of Krampus—Need to know what the difference between a single stick and a birch stick bundle is?  Or how Krampus makes that basket hold so many of the wicked? Read on for all the twisted details of the weapons Krampus and his minions employ!
• Yeti—Abominable snowmen, or allies of the Migo? In this article we investigate the Yeti as myth and legend. Further, we explore the Lovecraftian connection with this creature and the Migo, and present a Yeti that bridges all the above, and is refreshingly new and dangerous!
• Onward Retainer, starring the Legion—The ninth installment of our adventuring comic in an old school style, brought to you by Joel Phillips! 
• Wyrm Words—A word puzzle of all the Gygaxian words in the ninth issue—this way, a definition is never in doubt! Also included are the answers to the Issue #8's Wyrm Words. 

This is the standard edition version of issue 9.

Our tenth issue contains nine features, usable by both players and judges:

• New Patron: Mimir—Straight out of Norse legends and onto your gaming table! Mimir is perfect for wizards and elves, but also trolls—since he is a giant and related to trolls in norse mythology. 
• Cullpepper's Herbal—This installment of Cullpepper's Herbal focuses on the herbs, beets, betony, and possibly the leaves of Yggdrisal itself, if we can squeeze them in!
• Mimir missions—Want to use that new patron, but not sure how to workout that patron quid-pro-quo? The giant of knowledge likes to challenge his followers, and rewards them richly if they succeed. 7 mini-challenges to challenge those who barter for knowledge with Mimir.
• Expanded Occupations—100 more occupations to make your 0-level peasants even more peasanty. Rules for integrating this table with the DCC RPG rulebook list—giving you 200 occupations to work from! Long live occupational diversity!
• Alternate DCC Skill system—This brief update to the standard rules delivers the full dice chain to skill checks with little modification to the game itself.
• Piety in DCC—This short article gives you some additional scope and rules for those who believe. Bringing a little faith to every character can be a very good thing.
• Flail Snails!—A classic re-imagined into four different DCC adversaries!
• Onward Retainer, starring the Legion—The tenth installment of our adventuring comic in an old school style, brought to you by Joel Phillips!
• Wyrm Words—A word puzzle of all the Gygaxian words in the tenth issue—this way, a definition is never in doubt! Also included are the answers to the Issue #9's Wyrm Words. 

This is the standard edition version of issue 10.