I love this series,reminds me of the early fun zany titles of the 80s that the OSR simulates.Great stuff,aiming to buy all of the books.

Crawling Under A Broken Moon takes it points from every post apocalyptic trope known in science fantasy movies, literature, gaming, and spins it through the DCC rpg system. The issue is pretty nicely packed with some very familiar material here. The first article describes maintaining the air of what its like trying to describe the post apocalyptic world to your players. There's an artifact condition table and some pretty solid advice. Next up we get the technologist and in true DCC fashion we get a nice little rounded out PC class. There's enough here to work with and add into the back part of the DCC system. This class is probably one of the most useful folks for a full post apocalyptic party. The class is pretty well balanced for a gonzo game. Over all the first couple of bits are not bad at all. Weapons of the Wastelands which includes rules for Firearms,gun smith work, and lots of familiar modern firearms and some energy weapons thrown into the mix. Twisted Menagerie gives four mutated mutant monsters for the DCC wasteland crawl campaign. The Sharkhana is a humor filled nightmare for your adventurers to encounter. The mutant menace reminds me of a certain 90's shark themed cartoon and it hits a certain nostalgia spot. The Debris Elemental is a monster I've seen used in quite a few old school rpgs and this is always a favorite to see it used in the ruins. The sentry bot is perfect for your malls of murder or ruins of doom. It comes with a complete chart for its behavior and malfunction, this looks like it would be fun to play around. The Lobstrosity is a take off on the Lovecraftian Mi Go retrofitted into the UnAmerica setting. Blooms Fashions is an adventure location that can be dropped into any mall or ruined strip mall. Not too bad of a location to drop into a game. I can see using this in some ways. Not a bad first effort for a fanzine, personally I'd wait till she goes on sale. And then grab a copy but all in all its worth the effort for a download.

If you ever wanted to adventure in the world of Thundarr the Barbarian, or if after checking out the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG thought "Man, I wish someone would make this rule system work with a Gamma World type setting", then the Crawling Under A Broken Moon fanzine is just want you've been looking for. Don't let the word 'fanzine' discourage you, as Reid San Filippo has created some top-notch content here.

A Look Inside

The neon orange cover offers an excellent logo, with so-so artwork, but don't judge this book by its cover.

Page 1 offers an Introduction, explaining the background and purpose of the fanzine - to bring the post-apocalypse to Dungeon Crawl Classics.

Page 2 provides a Table of Contents, Credits and Submission Guidelines.

Pages 3 to 5 gives tips on running DCC in a post-apocalyptic science fantasy setting, along with a useful table to determine the condition of items found.

Pages 6 to 13 offers a new DCC character class, The Technologist, which will fill a necessary role in any post-apocalyptic adventuring party.

Pages 14 to 16 provides statistics for guns in DCC. This is another essential article, as what would a post-apocalypse setting be without firearms?

Pages 17 to 22 contains four new monsters. The best one of these is the Lobstrosity, which reminded me of a Lovecraftian monster, the Mi-go, yet gave a refreshingly humorous take on the monster which fits in with a DCC post-apocalyptic setting perfectly. I hope to see more Lovecraftian monsters given same treatment in future issues.

Pages 23 and 24 describes a new location, which could be in one of the stores of a mall. I like the idea of locations in future issues fleshing out a "Mall of America" type area.

Summary and Conclusions

This fanzine is chock full of content, with much of it being very essential in order to run a post-apocalyptic campaign with the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. For what this issue does, getting both a hard copy and PDF for $4.00 is a steal. I haven't felt this thrilled by getting a magazine in the mail since Autoduel Quarterly, especially since it states next issue will have the Mutant Character Class. The bottom line is purchasing extremely useful content such as this is a very easy decision to make.