Dwarves, Warriors & Mighty Deeds: A DCC Fan page

Reaper Miniatures, painted by Mark Tasaka 2016

The Character Funnel is a unique feature of the Dungeon Crawl Classics role-playing system; it the starting point of every new DCC campaign. In the Character Funnel, a band of lowly zero-level peasants, armed only with the tools from their humble occupations, sets off on an adventure to prove that they are worthy of being called Adventurers. Most will perish on this first adventurer, but those few who do survive will earn the right of choosing a character class (unless they are Dwarves, Elves or Halflings, in which case their race become their class), and start new lives as First Level Characters

The Zero-Level Character Generator is designed to allow Players and Judges (the title used for GMs in DCC) the ability to quickly generates zero-level characters. This generator allows for options for increasing the survivability of the characters by modifying the 3d6 ability score rolls and by maximzing the number of hit points the characters start off with. As well, there are options of selecting specific races and occupations for the characters.

If you are a Judge wanting to created zero-level non-player characters, who are tougher than the zero-level character funnel characters (i.e d8 hit points, have actual weapons, armour, etc.), the Level 0 NPC Generator will allow you to do this.