DCC Sailors of the Starless Sea, I'll Judge/DM - preparing

 Starting to prepare. Book comes in tomorrow midday. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/dccrpg/comments/onrydv/advice_for_running_sailors_on_the_starless_sea/

• Getting below the surface level of the keep can be a gameplay bottleneck. For a convention game, err on the side of letting a plan to get through or past the large number of beastmen work so you can get to more of the adventure's wilder stuff. 

•    Does anyone have advice for OP regarding how to manage the big brawl on the ziggurat? I'd like to hear advice on it as well.
•  My 4 players had only 7 PCs between them when they finaly approached the ziggurat per boat (they decided to fight the leviathan). Handling all beastmen at once would have been impossible, so i had the beastmen stand in groups of 4 on/around the ziggurats path to the very top. If they were sneaky, they were able to only fight 1 or 2 groups of 4 beastmen at once as to not wipe the party immediately. Being level 0 means that they often die from one hit from the beastmen, so if you group fight all 22 beastmen at once they will probably fail the quest (theres still 20HP boss man afterwards).
• If your players come with 9-12 PCs into the fight, you can probably make 3-4 beastmen groups of 5-7 without it beeing a problem.     
• How'd it go to the OP?
•         Sorry of the late check in, It went great! I had 3 players who were all new to DCC, and we had a great session. They were able to placate the chaos leviathan with the censure, and then picked off a lot of the beastmen on the ziggurat with bows from a distance as the longboat approached, enabling them to fight their way to the top and tackle the chaos lord.
  

  The only thing I would change is to have a couple more players, but that's out of my hands.

  The second day of the microcon I didn't have any players for DCC, so I had the opportunity to play Car Wars for the first time, which was awesome.

  I don't know when I'll be able to run DCC in a public setting again, because with what's been going on with the delta variant. My fiancée and I have been kinda going back into isolation mode with our 8 month old, but I still plan on running it online every so often with my friends. 

•  Via Captain Corajus, yt, he gave it a perfect 20 out of 20 rating, first time ever (3 yrs ago), that's pretty impressive. I think it was his first play of DCC also, as a player.