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Spellburn
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Spellburn
Episode 149: On to Zothique!
Marzio Muscadere barely needs any introduction any more!  He’s done a host of DCC RPG adventures, including Star Wound of Abaddon, Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen, Across the Veil of Time, House of Jade & Shadow and the beloved holiday adventure the Doom that Came to Christmas Town.  He’s also an authority on Mighty Deeds with his book Steel & Fury, as well as his own products like Death Slaves of Eternity and most recently Murder House.  He’s also just a super fun guest so we welcome him back to talk about his latest project (very near to my heart!), Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique!  Welcome Judge Marz!

Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique for DCC RPG!

Marz Press - Buy Marzio's 3rd party stuff!

The Marz page at Goodman-Games.com!

Horror Cinema Classics RPG - Preorders page!

Roxie's Rollers - WHPA Fairhaven 3PP from Shane Kablooey!

X-Crawl Classics - Road Trip - by Raorgen Games

Stratosfiend 4: Bye Bye All of Stratosfiend (Orbital Intelligence!)

Hirelings to Heroes! (Michael Spreademan funnel adventure!)

 
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 24 minutes 1 second

Spellburn
Episode 148: Invoke Eric Bloat
Hello Peace-friends and welcome to another episode of Spellburn!

Eric Bloat, the big cheese over at Bloat Games, has been in the game publishing business since 2017, when he launched his first kickstarter Dark Places & Demogorgons. Since then he has been on a tear. Many other successful crowdfunding campaigns have come and gone. So many I cannot possibly do it justice. Vigilante City, Zombies, Evolved, The Blackest Deaths and, one of my favorites, a space marine zine called Operation: Bughunt. He publishes mainly for his own system, Survive This!, but has also released versions of his games for DCC RPG and 5th ed D&D. Tonight Spellburn invokes Eric Bloat!

Bloat Games Website

Bloat Games products on Goodman Games site

Bloat Games PDF store

Bronx Beasts (Anthropomorphic for DCC RPG)

Primal Tales (Anthropomorphic for DCC)

Rats of Gim (Erica Barlow / MCC RPG!)

White Lies RPG
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2 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes 21 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 147: GENCON 2025 Wrap-up!
 

GENCON - sometimes known as the great gathering of our people!  Gamers come from far and wide to the amazing and fascinating tourist destination of – INDIANAPOLIS…  there they find… about 80,000 other gamers, lots of beer, pizza, food trucks, meeples and lines… especially lines!  But along with that, we have the best selection of RPGs and vendors in the world, and games aplenty on hand all day and all night long!  In 2012 after DCC RPG was released, there was no official presence at the con… NOW, we have a whole section in LucasOil stadium with a van, a gong of doom, organized play, tournaments and much much more!  We’ll review this year’s mighty deeds and fabulous fumbles– with people who were actually there–   on tonight’s Spellburn!

 

Judge Matt's adventure:

A Conspiracy of Ravens

 

 

Crowdburning inks for this episode!

Angels, Daemons and Beings Between V3!

Astonishing Heroes of the Public Domain

Witch Lords of Skull Mountain V2 - the Malkova Wilds

Weird Frontiers Reference Guide

Dungeon Dwellng Creatures!

 
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2 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes

Spellburn
Episode 146: Invoke David Fisher!
 

 

DCC RPG codified supernatural patrons as something in between a game mechanic and narrative device. The notion was fresh, novel, and perfectly aligned to the game’s focus on Appendix N. Patrons are so good that the concept has worked its way into other RPGs. 

The cast of patrons and gods facilitates a table’s worldbuilding. This unique quality as pieces on the chessboard of the Moorcockian eternal struggle means that the more pieces you have to play with the better.

way back in 2013, Daniel Bishop, Paul Wolfe, David Fisher, and Sean Connors collaborated to publish DCC RPG’s first patron supplement, Angels, Daemons & Beings Between. 

Of course everyone recognizes Daniel and Paul, but David Fisher was the primary artist on the project and eventually took over as its main publisher. Under the name of Shinobi 27 games he has published a ton of other stuff and has an upcoming project which we will talk about on this month's Spellburn!

 

 

Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 3 - KS promo!

Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 3 - KS launch page

Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 1

Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 2 - Fae Harder

Feast of the Preserver

Revelation of Mulmo

Trolls of Mistwood

Curse of Mistwood

The One That Got Away

Silam #1: Spike of Dosku

Silam #2: Trials of Riao

Silam #3: Now live on Kickstarter!

Zothique for DCC RPG!

Marzio's new site - Marzpress.com

Old John Stuart's Mill

Days of Future Fairhaven

Chain Censor #1 by Donn Stroud (Ruination Pilgrimage)
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3 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes 43 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 145: Instatiate Luau Lou
Is 2025 the year of the monster?  We have Dungeon Denizens 1 hitting the streets, we have a second Denizens collection on the way, and we have a huge collection of MCC mutates in Unnatural Selections from our pal (and yours) Luau Lou Hoefer.  Now he’s got a whole new ball of wax, the Gammatastic Voyage.  He’s teaching kids, he’s rockin’ Hawaiian shirts and he’s putting hawkodiles, lazer-snakes, kaiju and eye-bominations in your hot little hands.  Tonight we’re joined by Luau Lou and we’ll talk monsters, mutants, North Texas, teaching— all this and more on tonight’s Spellburn!

 

Castle Whiterock on Backerkit!

The Dying Light of Castle Whiterock (Free RPG Day adventure!)

The Key to Castle Whiterock (DCC Day Adventure!)

Summer Knights Con 20205

Dandyline Games - Luau Lou's products!

The Gammatastic Voyage - by Luau Lou

The Dare Luck Club

The One Who Watches from Below

Port Mirror

Chain Censor #1

Old John Stuart's Mill

Days of Future Fairhaven

List of DCC Adventure Modules - Wikipedia

List of DCC adventures - Goodman Games site

Gongfarmer's Almanac on DrivethruRPG.com (FREE Pdfs)

 
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4 months ago
1 hour 24 minutes 18 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 144: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
It’s been 13 years since DCC RPG was published.  The heavens thundered, the earth shifted, the stars quaked in the heavens!  Much phlogiston has been disturbed, billions of radish farmers and chicken butchers have died, much gold and glory has been won and an untold number of patrons have been assuaged (and betrayed).  There’s no second edition of DCC RPG coming, BUT that doesn’t stop me from wondering from time to time.. If there WAS… what would I do to change the game??  I threw the question out to EVERYONE and we’re gonna go through all the answers I could grab in 3 weeks to find out!

Links from this episode:

TTRPG Pickup Con

Dawn of the Dog Wizard

Castle Whiterock

Vault of the Murderworm

Make it a Fairhaven Night!

The Great Pyramid of of Atum-Isfet

Wind Rose (band) - Diggy Diggy Hole

The Wizardarium of Calabraxis

Enter the Dagon

Riders of the Phlogiston
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5 months ago
1 hour 26 minutes 45 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 143: Summon Trevor Stamper!
Our next guest has been around DCC RPG for many years.  You may know him from the very well received Tales of the Smoking Wyrm, from his Youtube show the Scrivenry, or from his ongoing Earthcrawl project which he is currently developing and funding via his patreon page. Of course you may also have said a friendly hello to him at the Goodman Games booth at Gary Con!  We welcome of course Trevor Stamper to Spellburn!

Next Round Games in Cincinnati

Earth Crawl Patreon page!

Tales of the Smoking Wyrm!

DaveCon 2025

ArneCon

Dawn of the Dog Wizard

Castle Whiterock

The Making of the Ghost Ring

Smoking Wyrm on Youtube!

Terror of the Stratosfiend

 
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6 months ago
1 hour 30 minutes 30 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 142: Spellburn’s March Madness!
It’s March and it’s Madness. 

This year, I had a fever dream of DCC RPG as a March Madness style tournament. Complete with brackets, groups, and 6 rounds of community voting. We have made it to this ultimate evening, the finale of insanity! Sometime later in this hour, the Judges J of Spellburn will crown the Champion of Madness. The supreme publication of the DCC 3PP community. 64 titles started in the tournament. 

The people have spoken and tonight we will choose the Champion of Madness. Who will it be: 

Carnival of the Damned written by David Baity published by Purple Sorcerer. 
Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland written by Brian Shutter and published by Super Savage Systems

 

Carnival of the Damned!

Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland!

Weird Frontiers RPG

Sky ov Crimson Flame

Crawl zine #9 - Arwich Grinder

Purple Sorcerer's FREE online DCC tools

 
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7 months ago
54 minutes 35 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 141: The Zine Scene
It’s February and that means Zinequest!  Across the RPG scene, there are lots and lots and LOTS of zines including those for DCC RPG!  This episode we are hanging out with three third party zine creators, we’ll talk about their projects, read some exciting emails, do some tavern talk– all this and more on this month’s Spellburn!

Links in this episode:

(Paul Wolfe): Witch Lords of Skull Mountain

(Yamil Camacho): When the Sky Comes Looking for You

(John Watson):  The Wanting Wizard

Quest for Zines

Isle of the Ancients

Dungeon Dwelling Creatures

Yard Birds for WHPA Fairhaven

Hexanomicon

321 Action - Avon by the Sea

Julio's RPG Cove

 
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8 months ago
1 hour 13 minutes 35 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 140: Taking the Fifth (edition)!
Let’s talk about the 800 pound gorilla in the room… DCC RPG is more popular than ever, played worldwide, being played on a football field in Indianapolis at GENCON… and meanwhile the Fifth edition of the world’s most popular RPG is probably more popular now than D&D was at its heyday of the 1970s!  (Especially with the kids, at least that’s what the parents tell me.)  What does this mean for DCC RPG and for Goodman Games acolytes?  How do we leverage 5E’s popularity for DCC?  What’s the Fifth Edition Fantasy line all about?   We are lucky to have a dweller in both worlds, Alex Kurowski with us tonight and we’ll talk all this and more on the first Spellburn of 2025!

 

Links mentioned in this episode!

Terror of the Underdeep (5E Goodman Games!)

Against the Thieves Guild! (Grimtooth DCC RPG!)

Against the Thieves' Guild (Fifth Edition Fantasy)

Seven Days of the Serpent God (Fifth Edition Fantasy - Dark Tower!)

The Conquest of the Chaos

X-Crawl Olympics!

When the Sky Comes Looking for You (2nd level Weird Frontiers - Zinequest!)

Disposable Future (Josh Burnett)

Yard Birds for WHPA Fairhaven

Dark Dwelling on the Praire (more Weird Frontiers - coming in March!)

(Half) Gnoll Retreat, Gnoll Surrender! Wayward studios funnel for March!

Sunday Matinee Crawls - 3 Casual Dungeons

2-page Dungeon Delves (Dungeon Denizens pre-order!)

RavenCrowKing's Blog - conversion to DCC RPG

 
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9 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes 28 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 139: Rick-N-Roll!
Happy Holidays, It’s our last Spellburn of the year, Judge James is out there riding his reindeer so we have a special guest host with us tonight - Judge Joey Royale from Joey Royale’s Pizza Party!  And our special guest tonight, the atomic overlord himself, Christopher Rick of double ziggurat fame–  we’ll talk atomic clock devices, megamaidens, rad-bombs and we’ll ASCEND THE ZIGGURAT– all this and more on the last Spellburn of 2025!

 

Links from this episode:

Christophor Rick stuff!

Youtube video for atomic clock device!

Christophor's patreon

Christophor's physical bookshop!

Christophor's drivethrurpg page

Christophor's Roll20 page

Ophoric Labs FB page!

Christophor's Bluesky!

 

Other links!

WHPA Fairhaven resources on Goodman Games website!

Nick Baran's Breaker Press

Late pledge while you still can- Unnatural selections Vol 3 by Luau Lou

Late pledge while you still can - The Sorcerer's Return

The Conquest of Chaos - sign up to follow on Backerkit!

Isle of the Ancients
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10 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes 36 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 138: Publisher Panel
Well it’s Judge James's birthday - today, November 25th, and he has some questions. Not “Where do babies come from?” or “Why, god, why?” but “How does one navigate publishing their own RPG?” So in the spirit of James becoming older, we had some friends over to celebrate and help guide us and others, on the foolish journey of creating an RPG!

Links from this episode:

Crowdburn!

Evil Never Dies by Judge Bob!

Goblin Holiday Bundle!

Golden Idol of En-Tridar (GrapeApe)

Metal Gods of the Apocalypse

Horrors of the Whispering Wood Collector's Box

The Conquest of Chaos

 

From Jim Skach:  Dynamaps!

 

From our hosts and guests tonight!

Get Haunted with Joey Royale (directory link to many sites and resources)

 

Judge James's social media and contact info:

Judge James's Discord

Judge James's Patreon

Judge James's website - Horseshark games

Judge James on Bluesky: @lectrotext.bsky.social

 

Donn Stroud's Bluesky:  donnstroud.bsky.social

Donn's Ruination Pilgrimage Discord

 

 

 
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11 months ago
1 hour 1 minute 43 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 137: Summon Nick Baran
The smell of woodfire… the crackle of leaves….. The flash of ghostly presences out of the corner of your eye… the sound of Peter Frampton coming alive (wait… wrong podcast.)   It’s almost Halloween!  We’ve survived another year, another Game Hole Con, and tonight we bring you a bloodcurdling guest from the world of DCC Dark Fantasy…. An esteemed publisher, writer and youtuber, Mr. Nick Baran (even more terrifying, he also runs a merch booth at many conventions!)  Welcome Judge Nick!

 

Links from this episode:

Nick's website - Breaker press!

Nick's Youtube Channel

Planet of the Cyclops Con

 

Crowdfunding links!

Heroic Adventure! #1 - Evil Never Dies for DCC RPG - Bob Brinkman from Explore Dungeons (maps by Brett Hess! WOW!)
Weird Heroes of Public Access by Joey Royale Get Haunted Industries
The Secret of the Whispering God Jeffrey Jones pulp sword-and-sorcery adventure 
The Sorcerer's Return Nerdronomicon Andy Edmonds Follow-up to The Sorcerer’s Fate
Unnatural Selections, Vol. 3 Luau Lou returns with his 3rd installment of mutated creatures and strange monsters for MCC/DCC
The Undergoblin Heist - RPG adventure for 5E and DCC Weird Works - Thom Denick (Tournament of Pig
 The Ashmore Herald Vol. 2: What Remains of House DuCrane Thomas Sweo ? Vol 2

(and The Ashmore Herald, Vol 1 DTRPG)


Terror From the Underdeep: A Giant Box of 5E Adventure Goodman Games 5e
Meet Yer Maker - A Weird Frontiers RPG Adventure - Long Con Press - Eddie Bartlett

 

 
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1 year ago
1 hour 6 minutes 5 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 136: Hi-Tech Hijinks
Hi-tech RPG campaigns take the fantastically magical and turn it into applied science. Tonight’s show is all space, computers, laser guns. The only swords we’ll be talking about are of the vibro variety. We're going to dive into high tech games like MCC RPG and the various DCC 3rd party publications that bring sci-fi settings to the table in this month’s episode of Spellburn!

Important!

Jess M - Gofundmepage

https://www.gofundme.com/f/e2ssx-medical-expenses-for-jessica-mcdevitt

 

 

 

Links from this episode:

 

All of TuesdayNightFiendClub offerings (Vehicle Mayhem, Star Crawl, et al)

https://goodman-games.com/store/product-category/tuesday-night-fiend-club/

 

Netcrawl Backerkit

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/8f7b4453-210b-4378-b1dd-7eefdba60d10/landing

 

Netcrawl / Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robwieland/2024/09/16/netcrawl-turns-the-internet-into-a-dungeon/

 

Deities & Demoibros

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/9874103d-65a9-4d0a-bd3e-f76dfe20e601/landing

 

Tales from the Smoking Wyrm #10 - Kickstarter!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smokingwyrm/tales-from-the-smoking-wyrm-issue-10?ref=discovery&total_hits=1771&category_id=34

 

Planet of the Cyclops Con

https://tabletop.events/conventions/planet-of-cyclops-con

 

X-Crawl pre-order:

https://goodman-games.com/store/product/xcrawl-classics-core-rulebook/

 

X-Crawl reference book:

https://goodman-games.com/store/product/xcrawl-classics-reference-booklet/

 

 
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1 year ago
1 hour 17 minutes 30 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 135: The Funnel Revisited!
We’re back from Gen Con and have some special guests to get a thorough GENCON wrap from!  But that’s not it!  We’re revisiting the and to talk about all this we have our pals, esteemed epistolary patron DM Cojo and Starless Sea Sailor impressario, Judge Harley!  All this and more on this  month’s Spellburn.

Links for this episode:

Netcrawl Backerkit - NOW LIVE!

Deities and Demibros! (for Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland) - NOW LIVE!

Circus Maximus

We Who Are About to Die (Raorgen Games)

Champions of the Goblin Market

Bloody Barbershops and Sanguine Scissors

Tales from the Smoking Wyrm! (NOW LIVE!)
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1 year ago
1 hour 18 minutes 43 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 134: Let’s Get Organized!
 

We’ve been talking about it for years, we’ve been doing it for months, and now it’s time for a deep dive on Organized Play in DCC RPG!  But not with just anyone. No more, “But how does it work?” or “What is that, anyway?”  We went to the man himself, the Slime-Lord, the judge who’s run 1000 Insane Worlds, the expert on deep space turtles, the provider of Blades against Bandwidth– yes, of course it’s X-Crawl Classics’s DJ LaBoss himself, Judge Brendan.  ALL THIS, and we’re going to talk in the tavern, prep for GENCON (and Summer Knights Con), and much much more on this month’s Spellburn.

Judge Greggory's email (for Georgia contacts):mcleroy@gmail.com

Banjo Destructo's Linktree

Email us at:  SPELLBURNBAND@GMAIL.COM

 

 
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1 year ago
1 hour 13 minutes 55 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 133: Convert This!


 

More and more great products from the days of yore are being converted into DCC. We’re only hours from the newest backerkit project Caverns of Thracia going live– a classic mega-dungeon adventure from Jennell Jaquays! We’re going to talk about Caverns of Thracia, as well as some other recent projects like Crypt of the Devil Lich, Dark Tower and more!  And our guest is conversion king Judge Bob Brinkman!

 

Shadow of the Brutacorn (NEON LORDS KICKSTARTER!)

Return of the RIpper Kickstarter!

Priesthood of Pelagia

Judge Bob's Patreon page!

Ashraf's Latest Musoke!

Jayquays receives SFWA Solstice Award!

Mighty Deeds Fillable Record form!

Judge Daniel Bishop's DCC Conversion write-up!

Daniel Bishop Patreon page!

Raven Crow King's Nest blog

DCC quick monster stats for DCC RPG!

Xanadu (for DCC)
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1 year ago
1 hour 18 minutes 34 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 132: Capes, Cowls and Crawling!
It’s a superhuman and heroic spectacular tonight on Spellburn! They said it couldn’t be done, but in true DCC tradition, they did it anyway! I’m talking of course about superheroes, masked men, vigilante crusaders, dark night detectives and of course, mutants cursed to protect a world that despises them. Earth’s Mightiest Judges are joined by some new third party designers working on superhero games for DCC … all this and more on this month’s Spellburn!

Links mentioned in this episode!

Fillable Mighty Deeds-of-Arms Record

Evolved RPG! (DCC RPG Compatible!)

Comics Crawl Classics!

Netcrawl RPG

DCC Day 2024!

Steel and Fury (Deeds for DCC RPG)

DCC RPG Organized Play

Support Ed Stanek & Raorgen's Cosmologia

[Mighty Deeds Record form- coming soon!]
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1 year ago
1 hour 17 minutes

Spellburn
Episode 131: The Gonzo Show
Neither Chuck Barris nor the Unknown Comic will be in attendance this evening. Gonzo – what is it? How do you know your game is gonzo? It is one of those things that you’ll only know when you see it? Is DCC RPG the gonzo game some purport it to be? 

Making his Spellburn debut, from Super Savage Systems, the Neon Lord himself, Brian Shutter creator of The Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland! Also making his first appearance on Spellburn is Martin Ouelet, headman at Headcheese Productions and author of Crime-Fighting Lucadores RPG!

Links from this episode:

Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland

Crime-fighting Luchadores

Netcrawl RPG - will launch September 3rd on Backerkit

Peculiar NPCs: A Deck of NPC Portraits

MURDER HOUSE! - A Level 0 DCC Horror Adventure

The One That Got Away - A zero level tournament funnel adventure

Earthcrawl

Human Occupied Landfill

Crawling Under a Broken Moon omnibus

Death is the New Pink RPG

Burger Punk

 

 
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1 year ago
1 hour 10 minutes 48 seconds

Spellburn
Episode 130: Third Party Mutants… Unite!
 

Installation 665 Kickstarter by Purple Pirate Games and Judge Julian

Netcrawl preview on DrivethruRPG!

Jair's Home - Backerkit

Mutant Mayhem Minis

CincyCon

Secrets of the World Harvesters - Purple Pirate!

Discordance at Dzyvatz by Purple Pirate

Judge Phil's Zine of Goodies (Vol 3)

Critical Hit Parader, Vol 1 (with Blue Oyster Cult adventure!)

Critical Hit Parader - ongoing podcast and weekly content!

The Doom that Came to Christmastown

The Thing in the Chimney by Judge Daniel J Bishop!

Hell Climb by Sean Richer!

Legends of Uganda Vol 1

The Canine

Village of Hommlet

 
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1 year ago
1 hour 2 minutes 58 seconds

Spellburn
A podcast about the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game and Old School gaming.