The Jam

What's good, hosers. Welcome to Get Razed, the first ever Dirtbags! compatible community content jam, made possible by the incredible Kickstarter backers who helped fund our campaign earlier this year.

Don't own the game?

We got you covered! Get the Dirtbags! quickstarter guide, completely free!

Sale & Swag

We're so excited to get Dirtbags! into the hands of third-party content creators that the book and PDF are currently on sale, until July 31st. Get 10% off your Dirtbags! book the discount code GetRazed.

You can also help support Dirtbags! and this content jam by picking up a Get Razed commemorative Dirtbags! T-Shirt or other The Dungeon's Key swag.

Discord

Make sure to join the official Dirtbags! discord server

Hashtag

Use the #dbgetrazed hashtag on your social media posts and itch.io project for visibility!

The Book

Winning submissions will be compiled into an A5 or Digest sized softcover book that will be available on DriveThruRPG as print-on-demand. We reserve the right to edit for content, spelling, grammar, and layout. Additional art, writing, and layout elements may also be added. Books will be sold at cost and not for profit. The PDF of the book will also be made available for free on dirtbagsrpg.com and drivethrurpg.com.

Winners that are selected for inclusion in the printed book will be sent a non-exclusive, non-expiring publishing contract from The Dungeon's Key Inc. for including their work in the printed book.

Participants still own their original content and are granting The Dungeon's Key a license to distribute their works in the book and on our website. Participants are welcome to sell their works under the Dirtbags! third-party license, however submissions must be listed as free or pay-what-you-want for the duration of the Get Razed community content jam.

Categories

Participants must submit their submissions into one of four categories. Limit one submission per submitter per category, though multiple entries of content may be combined into one submission.

Operation & Tour of Duty

Page requirement: 2-16 pages.

Operations are short adventures that typically takes players one to three sessions to complete (though longer play is certainly viable). A Tour of Duty consists of any number of Operations to form a narrative arc, anywhere from 2 to 5 operations.

Limited to one submission per participant.

Role

Page requirement: 1 per role, up to to 8 roles.

Roles are like character classes that players can use as a foundation for characters. Each Role should include at least the following:

• An ability score requirement  (Bones, Cunning, or Nerves, in any combination)
• Three Loadouts to choose from
• Three Traits to choose from

Multiple Role entries are permitted but must be lumped together as a single submission.

Supplement

Page requirement: 2-16

Supplements extend the Dirtbags! game play experience, these could be (but are not limited to):

• New equipment, weapons, armor, energizers, etc.
• New enemies, bugs, factions, etc.
• Auxiliary tables (generators, random tables, trickets, etc.)
• New game settings
• World building tools
• Optional rules

Multiple Supplement entries are permitted but must be lumped together as a single submission.

Miscellaneous

Page requirement: 2-16

Anything not covered by the above categories. This could include puzzles, encounters, art assets, tokens, maps, music, web tools, VTT integration, or other.

Note that mixed media entries (such as music, web tools, etc.) can be submitted but may not be included in the printed book.

Multiple Miscellaneous entries are permitted but must be lumped together as a single submission.

Prizes

• Best Writing and Content — $100
• Best Original Art — $100
• Best Layout and Graphic Design — $100

• Best Operation & Tour of Duty — $75, $25 (1 runner-up)
• Best Role — $75, $25 (1 runner-up)
• Best Supplement — $75, $25 (1 runner-up)
• Best Miscellaneous — $75, $25 (1 runner-up)

• Winning submission will receive one free printed copy the Get Razed softcover from DriveThruRPG.
• All participants that meet the rules and guidelines will receive a Get Razed die cut sticker and a holographic Dirtheads die cut sticker (limit 3 per submission, and one per contributor).
• Prize money and books will be sent to the primary creator. Stickers will be mailed directory to contributors.

**Prizes are listed in CAD

Judges

• Faith Berrett — Veteran Game Master and long-time Dirtbags! playtester.
• Kevin Welch — Co-host of Whispers of the Dying Lands podcast, cast member and editor for Flail to the Face actual-play, and cast member for Wandering Monsters actual-play.
• W. Tanner Kirk — TTRPG content creator and host of Paladin Prose YouTube channel.
• Jean Luc Lariviere-Lacombe — Author, designer, publisher of Dirtbags! and owner of The Dungeon's Key

Rules & Guidelines

• There is no purchase necessary for joining the Dirtbags! Get Razed Community Content Jam.
• Submissions must be in English.
• No submissions may include racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, discriminatory content, nor should they include depictions of slavery or sexual violence of any kind. The Dungeon's Key reserves the right to withdraw / remove submissions it believes violates the spirit of this rule. Entries that are removed will not be considered for prizes or included in the printed material.
• No entry is permitted to make use of generative AI (MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, Chat GPT) or other similar technologies.
• Participants may submit to multiple categories, however multiple entries to the same category must be lumped into a single submission. For example, submit 5 character Roles as a single submission, not 5 separate submissions. We strongly recommend emphasizing quality over quantity.
• Entries that make use of public domain images are welcome and encouraged. Attributions must be include as needed.
• Collaboration is welcome and encouraged. Join the official Dirtbags! Discord server and find other creators. For example, writers looking for designers looking for artists.
• Submissions must abide by the Dirtbags! third-party license and should include it as a separate page. Do not embed the third-party license or logo in your content, graphic design, or layout, as it may interfere with the print-on-demand book in the event that your submission is selected as a winner.
• All submissions for consideration in the printed book should be formatted for Digest (5.5" x 8.5") paper size with 0.125" bleed. See templates below for more details.
• Entries deemed as “low effort” by the judges may be disqualified. For example, walls of text with little to no formatting, etc.
• The Dungeon's Key and judges reserve the right to disqualify any entries they deem to not meet these rules and guidelines.
• Winners must have a valid Paypal account to receive their prize.

Files and Links

• Affinity Publisher and In-Design layout templates

This looks a little familiar...

This community content jam is unashamedly inspired by Cabin Fever, Pirate Borg's first third-party content jam. We absolutely love Limithron's (and Stockholm Kartell's ) stance on royalty-free commercial licensing and can't wait to see what our incredible community of content creators drums up.