Completely Unfathomable (DCC)

COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE combines the whole of Jason Sholtis’ (The Dungeon Dozen) 2018 Ennie Award-winning adventure Operation Unfathomable with its new companion volume Odious Uplands, adapted and expanded for the DCC game by Paul Wolfe (Mystic Bull Games, DAMN Magazine). All of the material from the OU Players Guide is included as well.

In Operation Unfathomable, fledgling adventurers descend into the Unfathomable Underworld, a subterranean environment of unsurpassed strangeness and peril, seemingly beyond all hope of survival, on an apparently simple mission to discover what became of a powerful group of politically important adventurers bearing a missing artifact. 

Should any of their number manage to survive, the Odious Uplands await! The brave companions emerge into the untamed wilds of Stonespear Province, a land bathed in the dim radiance and ineffable influence of the Chaos Aurora and inhabited by all manner of megafauna, vicious saber-toothed apes, Woolly Neanderthal rangers, scarcely describable entities staggering forth from the Underworld, and other adventurers seeking their fortunes. 

COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE includes:

• A fully described section of the Underworld, a subterranean cross-roads populated with scads of unique monsters, NPCs, Chaos Godlings, and intruders from neighboring realities to confound, befriend, ignore, or destroy PCs (and/or eachother). A high-level adventure for a rabble of 0-level nobodies.  

• The lands above also overflow with opportunity for adventure: fresh PCs can loot the buried Tower of Enlightenment, waylay Underworld merchants, or join archeological expeditions to the Fossil Forest, among heaps of options. As PCs advance, they might help thwart an Underworld incursion, attempt to destroy a wanton Godling, or seek the fabled Chaos Converter atop Mount Impossible.  

• Fort Enterprise, a fully detailed wilderness settlement whose high anti-monster walls provide reliable shelter from Mastodonian behemoths and other local terrors. PCs embroiled within must instead contend with the worst monsters of them all – human beings! Jobs posted daily! Free jolly, flavorless lichen ale! 

• 5 new DCC classes including the Citizen Lich and Underworld Ranger, or play as an a Woolly Neanderthal or Underworld Otter

• A selection of terrifying new patrons and associated spells

• 335 pages jam packed with maps and 250+ illustrations

• Three variant covers to choose from, each designed by Hydra Coop’s own Trey Causey

"Gonzo, fanciful, hyper-realistic, it is one of the most imaginative, and fun, things you will ever run...There’s little to no game balance present, it’s the brave little tailors vs The Strange. At heart, a pretty straightforward cave crawl looking for the pretext item, it shouts Come At Me Bro, at every turn, daring the party, over and over again, to engage. Enticing them. Luring them. Magnificent." -- Bryce Lynch, on Operation Unfathomable

"Operation Unfathomable is perhaps the first OSR "dungeon" I've seen (with the possible exception of Michael Curtis's Stonehell) that truly mines the "mythic underworld" concept for all its worth. Imagine Richard Sharpe Shaver's Lemurian ravings as drawn by Jack Kirby in the throes of a fever dream and you're on your way to getting a small sense of what Sholtis presents here...By almost any measure, Operation Unfathomable is a triumph, an extremely imaginative adventure and setting, attractively presented and chock full of reckless old school dungeon delving fun. I cannot recommend it highly enough." -- James Maliszewski

DOWNLOAD THE 11"x17" DM's MAP, Player's Map, and Character Sheet here

A Message from Galandigrius

Chief Advisor to Krofax, Governor of Stonespear Province 

“Hear me now Judges, Game Masters, Referees of Planet Earth – and heed my words!  Only you and your stalwart players can hasten the inevitable victory of Order in this treacherous, Chaos-tainted wilderness! With your noble aid (and the equally noble sacrifices of so many luckless ‘player characters’) we shall together bring forth the fabulous riches of the Underworld and forever render these Odious Uplands odious no more! I implore you in the name of the Ten Thousand Gods of Law, and what’s more, lay upon you my most eldritch geas! Purchase this volume at once, or writhe for unspeakable eons in a specially prepared Hell of my selection!”  

Note: The Authors abhor the use of intrusive or coercive enchantments and dweomers of any kind, and condemn all threats of eternal metaphysical punishments wherever and whenever they occur. We explicitly disavow the actions and statements of the wizard Galandigrius. (Except the part about buying this book.)