From the introduction:
Fire in the sky! Blood on the moon! Xcrawl and Dungeon Crawl Classics join forces to bring you Xcrawl Classics, the World’s Funnest Death Sport!
Xcrawl is an unexpected blend of genre elements that create an offbeat adventure game of strategic dungeon crawl action, in a harsh dystopic setting of absolute authoritarianism and rigid class conflict, with a quirky alternate modern history, a carnival mirror view of the strange world we live in, and a treatise on the phenomenon of fame in our celebrity-worshipping culture. It’s a grand strategic challenge that forces out-of-the box thinking by presenting crawlers with improbable situations that they simply could not discover in a standard fantasy setting. Most of all, Xcrawl is fun—monster-slaying, sports-car-winning, crowd-pumping, face-on-the-cereal-box fun!