I handled 2 hardcopies a year or two ago, but didn't buy one because the bindings were suspect.  Cool looking game.  Someone else must have bought them though, because they were gone afterwards from my FLGS.

Doug Kovacs deserves much more recognition than he gets.

Quote from: Razor 007;1080035I handled 2 hardcopies a year or two ago, but didn't buy one because the bindings were suspect.  Cool looking game.  Someone else must have bought them though, because they were gone afterwards from my FLGS.

I think it's beginning to show its age now. A cool-ish gimmick though, at the time.

At it's heart, DCC is a simple game with pretty simple rules. Most of the book is full of spell tables and I wish that Goodman had chosen to sell a thinner book with a bunch of non-bound spell sheets separate. It might have changed many people's opinion of the game.

There are several varieties of DCC out there -- the main DCC system, MCC (Mutant Crawl Classics) if you like a Gamma World style game, Under the Broken Moon for Thundarr or post apocalyptic style gaming, and the DCC Lankhmar system will be released very soon. I'm pretty sure the Transylvanian Adventures setting got released already for gothic horror, and there are probably others that escape my memory at the moment. These rules sets are all pretty much compatible with each other, if you want a "kitchen sink" style campaign.

And yes, Doug Kovacs artwork is awesome and really helps to create a vibe for the game. He's a blast as a DM as well.