PC selection

Core book PCs:

0-level Occupation: Elven glassblower
Strength: 6 (-1)
Agility: 5 (-2)
Stamina: 15 (+1)
Personality: 9 (0)
Intelligence: 9 (0)
Luck: 16 (+2)
AC: 8; HP: 3
Weapon: Hammer (as club) -1 (1d4-1)
Speed: 30; Init: -2; Ref: -2; Fort: 1; Will: 0
Equipment: Thieves' tools (25 gp)
Starting Funds: 29 cp
Lucky sign: Righteous heart (Turn unholy checks) (+2)
Languages: Common, Elf
Racial Traits: Elven traits: Heightened senses, iron vulnerability

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0-level Occupation: Dwarven stonemason
Strength: 4 (-2)
Agility: 3 (-3)
Stamina: 11 (0)
Personality: 18 (+3)
Intelligence: 5 (-2)
Luck: 9 (0)
AC: 7; HP: 1
Weapon: Hammer (as club) -2 (1d4-2)
Speed: 20; Init: -3; Ref: -3; Fort: 0; Will: 3
Equipment: Chest - empty (2 gp)
Starting Funds: 30 cp
Lucky sign: Birdsong (Number of languages) (+0)
Languages: Common, Dwarf
Racial Traits: Dwarven ability: Infravision

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0-level Occupation: Ditch digger
Strength: 16 (+2)
Agility: 10 (0)
Stamina: 6 (-1)
Personality: 16 (+2)
Intelligence: 11 (0)
Luck: 18 (+3)
AC: 10; HP: 3
Weapon: Shovel (as staff) +2 (1d4+2)
Speed: 30; Init: 0; Ref: 0; Fort: -1; Will: 2
Equipment: Rope - 50' (25 cp)
Starting Funds: 40 cp
Lucky sign: Warrior's arm (Critical hit tables) (+3)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Miller-baker
Strength: 12 (0)
Agility: 14 (+1)
Stamina: 8 (-1)
Personality: 12 (0)
Intelligence: 8 (-1)
Luck: 13 (+1)
AC: 11; HP: 2
Weapon: Club +0 (1d4)
Speed: 30; Init: 1; Ref: 1; Fort: -1; Will: 0
Equipment: Torch (1 cp)
Starting Funds: 22 cp
Lucky sign: Raised by wolves (Unarmed attack rolls) (+1)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Ditch digger
Strength: 18 (+3)
Agility: 8 (-1)
Stamina: 18 (+3)
Personality: 12 (0)
Intelligence: 16 (+2)
Luck: 15 (+1)
AC: 9; HP: 4
Weapon: Shovel (as staff) +3 (1d4+3)
Speed: 30; Init: -1; Ref: 0; Fort: 3; Will: 0
Equipment: Chalk - 1 piece (1 cp)
Starting Funds: 31 cp
Lucky sign: Struck by lightning (Reflex saving throws) (+1)
Languages: Common, Bugbear, Hobgoblin

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0-level Occupation: Elven artisan
Strength: 3 (-3)
Agility: 18 (+3)
Stamina: 10 (0)
Personality: 3 (-3)
Intelligence: 16 (+2)
Luck: 12 (0)
AC: 13; HP: 2
Weapon: Staff -3 (1d4-3)
Speed: 30; Init: 3; Ref: 3; Fort: 0; Will: -3
Equipment: Sack (large) (12 cp)
Starting Funds: 40 cp
Lucky sign: Guardian angel (Savings throws to escape traps) (+0)
Languages: Common, Elf, Dragon, Alignment
Racial Traits: Elven traits: Heightened senses, iron vulnerability

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0-level Occupation: Merchant
Strength: 12 (0)
Agility: 18 (+3)
Stamina: 11 (0)
Personality: 18 (+3)
Intelligence: 9 (0)
Luck: 3 (-3)
AC: 13; HP: 4
Weapon: Dagger +0 (1d4)
Speed: 30; Init: 3; Ref: 3; Fort: 0; Will: 3
Equipment: Rations (1 day) (5 cp)
Starting Funds: 44 cp
Lucky sign: Survived the plague (Magical healing) (-3)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Fortune-teller
Strength: 11 (0)
Agility: 14 (+1)
Stamina: 9 (0)
Personality: 14 (+1)
Intelligence: 10 (0)
Luck: 7 (-1)
AC: 11; HP: 4
Weapon: Dagger +0 (1d4)
Speed: 30; Init: 1; Ref: 1; Fort: 0; Will: 1
Equipment: Torch (1 cp)
Starting Funds: 31 cp
Lucky sign: Righteous heart (Turn unholy checks) (-1)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Halfling dyer
Strength: 14 (+1)
Agility: 14 (+1)
Stamina: 18 (+3)
Personality: 4 (-2)
Intelligence: 12 (0)
Luck: 17 (+2)
AC: 11; HP: 4
Weapon: Staff +1 (1d4+1)
Speed: 20; Init: 1; Ref: 1; Fort: 3; Will: -2
Equipment: Hammer - small (5 sp)
Starting Funds: 27 cp
Lucky sign: Fortunate date (Missile fire attack rolls) (+2)
Languages: Common, Halfling
Racial Traits: Halfling ability: Infravision

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0-level Occupation: Noble
Strength: 16 (+2)
Agility: 15 (+1)
Stamina: 10 (0)
Personality: 3 (-3)
Intelligence: 15 (+1)
Luck: 15 (+1)
AC: 11; HP: 1
Weapon: Longsword +2 (1d8+2)
Speed: 30; Init: 1; Ref: 1; Fort: 0; Will: -2
Equipment: Holy symbol (25 gp)
Starting Funds: 53 cp
Lucky sign: Resisted temptation (Willpower saving throws) (+1)
Languages: Common, Alignment

Hubris PCs

0-level Occupation: Carpenter
Strength: 10 (0)
Agility: 14 (+1)
Stamina: 11 (0)
Personality: 15 (+1)
Intelligence: 14 (+1)
Luck: 12 (0)
AC: 11; HP: 3
Weapon: Handaxe +0 (1d6)
Speed: 30; Init: 1; Ref: 1; Fort: 0; Will: 1
Equipment: Torch (1 cp)
Starting Funds: 33 cp
Lucky sign: Bountiful harvest (Hit points, applies each level) (+0)
Languages: Common, Minotaur

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0-level Occupation: Dancer
Strength: 12 (0)
Agility: 11 (0)
Stamina: 4 (-2)
Personality: 15 (+1)
Intelligence: 8 (-1)
Luck: 7 (-1)
AC: 10; HP: 1
Weapon: Staff +0 (1d4)
Speed: 30; Init: 0; Ref: 0; Fort: -2; Will: 1
Equipment: Rations (1 day) (5 cp)
Starting Funds: 34 cp
Lucky sign: Righteous heart (Turn unholy checks) (-1)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Kenku Spy
Strength: 8 (-1)
Agility: 12 (0)
Stamina: 13 (+1)
Personality: 8 (-1)
Intelligence: 11 (0)
Luck: 12 (0)
AC: 10; HP: 4
Weapon: Short sword -1 (1d6-1)
Speed: 30; Init: 0; Ref: 0; Fort: 1; Will: -1
Equipment: Hammer - small (5 sp)
Starting Funds: 29 cp
Lucky sign: Fortunate date (Missile fire attack rolls) (+0)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Raving Lunatic
Strength: 18 (+3)
Agility: 13 (+1)
Stamina: 13 (+1)
Personality: 13 (+1)
Intelligence: 10 (0)
Luck: 12 (0)
AC: 11; HP: 4
Weapon: Board with nail in it +3 (1d4+3)
Speed: 30; Init: 1; Ref: 1; Fort: 1; Will: 1
Equipment: Rope - 50' (25 cp)
Starting Funds: 25 cp
Lucky sign: Harsh winter (All attack rolls) (+0)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Anarchist
Strength: 4 (-2)
Agility: 8 (-1)
Stamina: 15 (+1)
Personality: 14 (+1)
Intelligence: 12 (0)
Luck: 12 (0)
AC: 9; HP: 4
Weapon: Short sword -2 (1d6-2)
Speed: 30; Init: -1; Ref: -1; Fort: 1; Will: 1
Equipment: Oil - 1 flask (2 sp)
Starting Funds: 17 cp
Lucky sign: Righteous heart (Turn unholy checks) (+0)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Miner
Strength: 6 (-1)
Agility: 12 (0)
Stamina: 4 (-2)
Personality: 11 (0)
Intelligence: 8 (-1)
Luck: 13 (+1)
AC: 10; HP: 1
Weapon: Pickaxe -1 (1d4-1)
Speed: 30; Init: 0; Ref: 0; Fort: -2; Will: 0
Equipment: Chalk - 1 piece (1 cp)
Starting Funds: 42 cp
Lucky sign: Seventh son (Spell checks) (+1)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Ekrask Tracker
Strength: 17 (+2)
Agility: 16 (+2)
Stamina: 4 (-2)
Personality: 11 (0)
Intelligence: 14 (+1)
Luck: 12 (0)
AC: 12; HP: 1
Weapon: Short sword +2 (1d6+2)
Speed: 30; Init: 2; Ref: 2; Fort: -2; Will: 0
Equipment: Flint and steel (15 cp)
Starting Funds: 27 cp
Lucky sign: Seventh son (Spell checks) (+0)
Languages: Common, Alignment

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0-level Occupation: Actor
Strength: 15 (+1)
Agility: 13 (+1)
Stamina: 13 (+1)
Personality: 16 (+2)
Intelligence: 5 (-2)
Luck: 14 (+1)
AC: 11; HP: 5
Weapon: Staff +1 (1d4+1)
Speed: 30; Init: 1; Ref: 1; Fort: 1; Will: 2
Equipment: Chain 10' (30 gp)
Starting Funds: 32 cp
Lucky sign: Four-leafed clover (Find secret doors) (+1)
Languages: Common

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0-level Occupation: Half Demon Exile
Strength: 13 (+1)
Agility: 13 (+1)
Stamina: 12 (0)
Personality: 8 (-1)
Intelligence: 13 (+1)
Luck: 13 (+1)
AC: 11; HP: 3
Weapon: Staff +2 (1d4+1)
Speed: 30; Init: 1; Ref: 1; Fort: 0; Will: -1
Equipment: Pole - 10-foot (15 cp)
Starting Funds: 37 cp
Lucky sign: The bull (Melee attack rolls) (+1)
Languages: Common, Alignment

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0-level Occupation: Cartographer
Strength: 16 (+2)
Agility: 16 (+2)
Stamina: 14 (+1)
Personality: 14 (+1)
Intelligence: 16 (+2)
Luck: 14 (+1)
AC: 12; HP: 3
Weapon: Drafting compass +3 (1d4+2)
Speed: 30; Init: 2; Ref: 2; Fort: 1; Will: 1
Equipment: Candle (1 cp)
Starting Funds: 33 cp
Lucky sign: The bull (Melee attack rolls) (+1)
Languages: Common, Kobold, Ogre

Going to yoink the -3 personality noble, if that’s alright! :D

Done, add him to your character sheet!

I'll take the Cartographer at the end of the Hubris list!

Done

Do we take one character each?
I'll take The Half Demon Exile

Just 1 but from either list. Half-demon is yours.

Greets everyone!

First pick: RAVING LUNATIC!

Done. Round 2! Everyone pick their next character!

I'll take the Actor with an intelligence of 5!

Lol I'll be he's great at remembering his lines.

Unlucky Merchant!

You need all the luck you can get so this character is doomed lol.

I'll take the Ditch Digger.

There are two ditch diggers lol.

I see, I take the Strength: 18 ditch digger.

I better take the Ditch Digger's brother -- the other Ditch Digger!

Round 3!

Fortune Teller! If I may be so bold as to go twice, that is. But at the end of the line each time, perhaps that's fair. ;)

So far: Raving Lunatic, Ditch Digger Jr., Fortune Teller.

I’ll take the tracker with no stamina to track!

Done and done! I'm surprised how slowly the non-human characters were picked. Interesting!

Let's see who digs the deepest ditch.

I'll take the Dancer.

I can take another from the Hubris list, right?

Yeah, I just split the lists up to be easier to modify. You can think of them as just one big list.

Halfling dyer for me.

So far that"s cartographer, actor, halfling dyer.

Looks like everyone's done their third round picks, so I'll keep the ball rolling and choose the Hubris carpenter as my fourth and final pick.

Round 4, I'll go with the Kenku Spy? (Presume that's just an an Avarian? I know what a D&D Kenku is.)

Which begs the question -- are we playing on the world of Hubris?

Dropped the peeps on a sheet and submitted it. Need to figure out the image linking bit.

I'll take the Anarchist.

I’ll take the baker!

All right, everyone has their characters. No elves or dwarves for you lot! Also yes this takes place on Hubris. Everyone make a Luck check to see if you start with a random tattoo. If you get a success, roll 1d10 for the type of tattoo.

A roll for each character, I’m guessing?

Yes

Urg, KCC caught some errors in the math calculations. After you submit your characters I will fix them.

Ok updated. If you haven't done your character sheet yet, you don't need to make any modifications.

I forgot to include the number 17, and I had two -1 modifiers instead of a -1 and -2 lol. They're all fixed now.

Tattoo for ditch digger: The full moon. The moon is a symbol of Shul, who watches over sailors as they make long sea voyages. Gain +1 Luck bonus when out on the ocean.
Tattoo for spy: Kobold and Halfling. Kobolds are fantastic swimmers, and everyone is familiar with halfling luck; both species nearly always survive the sinking of a ship. Thus, tattooing a kobold on the top of one foot and a halfling on top of the other foot confers good fortune for surviving a shipwreck/sinking in open water. All rolls related to swimming or falling overboard are rolled one step higher on the die chain.

It occurs to me that a kenku doesn't have skin that can be tattooed on, so you can give that tattoo to any other character you'd like.

Here they go...

Here comes some rolls, plus checking the images worked

Roll!

Yeah, Luck checks in DCC are 1d20, unmodified, roll at or under your Luck score.

I knew that! I was just making sure everyone else was up to speed on the rules! 😌

Ooooh, you know, I knew that, but I didn't read "If you get a success..." so I thought it was a roll adding the modifier to get a number that was on some kind of Tatoo Table. :P

All the characters, except the Anarchist get a tattoo.

Ogion
Ditch digger - Rope "bracelet": a knotted rope around the wrists. Grants +2 to any checks involving ropes.
Dancer - Treasure chest: A sailor with a treasure chest tattooed on his or her chest gets a free secret check whenever they pass within 20' of hidden coins or gems.
Half-demon - Giant beaver: The giant beaver is a fearsome opponent, and the tattoo instills bravery. You roll any saves vs. fear effects at one die higher on the dice chain.

Len
Halfling dyer - HOLD and FAST: The letters HOLD and FAST are tattooed upon the knuckles of each hand, granting a character +2 on all climb checks.

KCC
Eggo - compass rose on the forearm. Character is never lost as long as they can see the stars.
Merilda - A tattoo of a mermaid on the back. Roll all swim checks one step higher on the dice chain.

There has been one repeat, so I'm waiting to see what KCC rolls for his tattoos. I'll try to make sure each person gets a unique one.

Still waiting on @ogion to submit his characters.

Eggo the Tracker succeeded.

Merilda the Noble succeeded.

Ok all tattoos have been assigned!

give me a couple of hours. I'm in a middle of a mess at work.
If your need to start, go ahead. I'll catch up.

No worries, it's almost my bedtime anyway.

Okay, I fixed the known issues on my sheet and recorded the cool tattoo that Sandra the Halfling Dyer has on her knuckles. Let me know if there are any issues or anything I am missing. Character selection was a blast, looking forward to these poor bastards trying to survive.

Great. I also added your luck bonus to your melee attacks so they are correctly at +3 now.

Characters Submitted.

Awesome, accepted. I also added your lucky bonus to the relevant abilities. Just need some character art and you're good to go!

Wednesday is my busiest day so I'll get things kicked off tonight.

Nope those were the only two mistakes.

If you assign each name a separate variable then yes you should be able to populate them anytime you call that variable.

I forgot to give rumors, so I'm just going to assign some to each player, and assume all of the PCs you control are aware of the same rumors.

KCC: Dwarves are unlucky—it’s well known having a dwarf onboard a ship will cause misfortune. Red-haired people on a ship are especially unlucky, even more so than dwarves. A red sky at night means good weather and, conversely, a red sky in the morning indicates an impending storm.

Len: Each ship has a Klabautermann—a water kobold—associated with it, for a ship that fails to obtain a Klabautermann cannot survive its maiden voyage. The Klabautermann can sometimes be heard singing sea shanties, but is never seen except when the ship is doomed. The Klabautermann can be called through song to help repair ships or protect the faithful.

Ogion: It’s considered bad luck to have three lit lanterns in the same compartment. Seabirds must not be harmed—the presence of seabirds brings good fortune for finding land and/or safety. Conversely, causing any harm to a seabird is terribly unlucky.

Harrigan: Dolphins swimming alongside a ship are a sign of good luck. Sharks swimming alongside a ship are a sign of bad luck. Captain de Keradel left one of her crew on the island before you set sail. The abandoned sailor looked deathly ill.

Lol

What are the leads we have to go on then? There’s the creature that needs to be killed and the ship that might be approaching.

Have we examined all the doors?

There's 1 room on the main deck that still hasn't been explored, the poop deck, plus the bottom 2 levels of the boat left to explore.

It's the room next to that one.

I don't remember you going to the second door. Didn't you grab the book, tell people about the herbs in bottles, then run outside when the alarm was shouted? Maybe I missed you going to the second door but I am sure I didn't describe it yet lol.

No biggie, but yeah, I think you missed it.
No worries, but Dengus's intent is to also check that other side.

Gotcha, missed/forgot the last line. I put Dengus with the other 2 PCs.

Coolio.

And with that, we are finished! I hope everyone enjoyed the nautical adventure. I definitely took some liberties with the module as written lol.

Thanks for running the game, nezz! As my first DCC funnel, it was a great experience.

Glad to hear it! Your characters were very fun!

Dish! Thanks for running!

More stalking by the creature, there's an option to swim out and check under the hull. I guess not too much different. Just more stalking and a final potential showdown with the creature. Blocking the hatches and setting fire to the boat was a great tactic and definitely not something the module planned for haha.