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The moon is full, the wind is howling through the cemetery, and what was that noise? Did I just hear a scream come from that mad doctor’s laboratory? Today Spellburn is getting ooky spooky and discussing Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies… oh my!Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Daniel Bishop’s Campaign Elements
Transylvanian Adventures
Book of Treasure Maps (Judges Guild)
DCC RPG Annual
Links mentioned in this episode:
Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson
Con on the Cob
Washington Post Article
Crawl for the Cure at GameHoleCon!
How to Write Adventure Modules That Don’t Suck
Fear Itself RPG
Origins Game Fair 2020
Spellburn is here again with a first-time guest Marzio Muscadere, author of Steel and Fury, Death Slaves of Eternity and the winner of the 2017 Rodneys Design Award, Star Wound of Abaddon! We’re going to waste copious points of Stamina, Strength and Agility as we hang out with Marzio, learn exactly how to pronounce his name and start the countdown to DCC #100.
All this and more in on this.. Month’s? Episode of Spellburn!
Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Prison of the Mad Gods
Sailors on the Starless Sea
Hole in the Sky
Carnival of the Damned
The Star Wound of Abaddon
Death Slaves of Eternity
Links mentioned in this episode:
Steel and Fury
Crawl for the Cure at GameHoleCon!
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/
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!)
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
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)
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!
Evolved RPG! (DCC RPG Compatible!)
Comics Crawl Classics!
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!]
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
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
In the DCC world, we love our music! Even dating back to the hallowed “G+ era”, we had Doug’s DCC Music group that turned people on to tons of great tunes. For a long time we’ve wanted to do a Spellburn episode with some DCC related bands and today that dream is coming true! We’re going to talk to some inspirational musicians about DCC, music and RPGs, sources of inspiration and much more!
WE NEED YOUR LOVE AND EMAILS AT: SPELLBURNBAND@GMAIL.COM
Whispers from the Sky Spire (review blog)
ARNECON 2024
Purple Planet Horde on Backerkit
River of Lies on Backerkit
CincyCon 2024
Sailors on the Starless Sea
Skate Wizards! (By Levi / Loot the Body!)
SAINT KARLOFF LINKS!
Saint Karloff on Bandcamp
Saint Karloff Instagram
Saint Karloff on Facebook
Saint Karloff Merch
Majestic Mountain records!
Spinning the Good Stuff (Record show)
Saint Karloff on Goodman Games site
SK featured on Sanctum Secorum with Judge Bob & Judge Jen!
LOOT THE BODY LINKS!
Loot the Body on Bandcamp
Loot the Body on Instagram
Loot the Body on Youtube
In just a week we will all get a chance to travel back to the Purple Planet! The DCC Sword and Planet setting of Harley Stroh and Doug Kovacs waxes into our collective consciousness once again. The weirdling sun beats down upon us. What dusty din approaches from the broken wastes? A gaggle of 3rd party publishers! Hark! It’s the Purple Planet Horde!
WE STILL DESPERATELY NEED YOUR LOVE AND EMAILS AT: SPELLBURNBAND@GMAIL.COM
Links from this episode:
Adventures of the Purple Planet on Backerkit
101 Hex Encounters and Die, Robot (Backerkit)
Random Acts of Violet (Backerkit)
O’ Happy Dagger! (Backerkit)
River of Lies (Backerkit)
Memories of the Purple Planet
Wrath of the Orb-Men
Roll Funky Dice Heads to the Purple Planet,
Other stuff:
Crypt of the Science Wizard
DCC Zines in Zinequest!
- Joey Royale Ninja City: Drug Demon Disco – KS
- Sean Richer Snake Wolf 3 Mega Dungeon – KS
- Gregory Norton, Electi-Studio Jair’s Home for MCC and DCC RPG – BK
- The Elixir of Kosomodes
- Exhuming John Barleycorn
- Pilgrims on the Goblin Road
- H20-POCALYPSE
- Goblins! for DCC RPG
- DCC Pulp heroes – Jeremy Father Goose Shuman
- Silam No 1 & 2: DCC Zines
Hail acolytes of the Dark Master! It’s the last Spellburn of the season and we are invoking a patron! Life’s blood has been spilled; we risk the very fabric of the universe by opening a portal to the author of the Orbital Intelligences, sire of the stratosfiends, circuit councilor supreme Sean Richer of Orbital Intelligence LLC! Strap into your best dungeon kart and get ready for the Drop! This is Spellburn!
Email us all the time at Spellburnband@gmail.com!!
Links mentioned in this episode!
Indie RPG Creator Summit
Terror of the Stratosfiend products!
Dungeon Grand Prix (and friends!)
RIFTS!
Judge Jen’s podcast with Diogo!
Appendix LP – Critical Hit Parader
Happy late Turkey Day! There’s no Goodman Games holiday adventure this year but there are many holiday adventures of the past to choose from! We review and discuss prior holiday romps with none other than Marzio “the Man” Muscedere and Marc “the Efficacious Indoctrinator in Worlds of Imminent – I mean, the Don of the Dying Earth of course!” – Bruner! All this and more and wrapping up U-Con. U-CON!?!? U-CON!!! Stay tuned for Spellburn!!!
Email us at spellburnband@gmail.com!!!!
New time – Last Monday of the month on Twitch – 9PM ET!
Goodman Games – Twitch
Vampire Blood
Weird Heroes of Public Access RPG! (by Joey Royale)
The Doom that Came to Christmas Town
Guelph
House of Red Doors
Frozen In TIme
Perils of Cinder Claws
Twilight of the Solstice
The Old Gods Return
Fae Hard
World Quest of the Winter Calendar
Brimstone Cradle
It’s Halloween and we have a great crew of horror-ble fanatics to torment and terrorize your eyes (on Twitch) and your ears (on podcast). Welcome Judge Stephen, Judge — BRINKMAN… Judge Wolf-man and Thorin Thompson…. there’s not much more to stay but TRICK OR TREAT and let’s get rolling with this month’s Spellburn!
GoFundMe for Reid San Filippo!
GoFundMe for Jess Mcdeavitt!
GoFundMe for Jenell Jaquays!
The Last Will and Testament of Obediah Felkner
Creep, Skrag, Creep!
The Corpse that Love Built
They Served Brandolyn Red
Night of the Bog Beast
It Consumes!
Macabre! Vol. 1
Check out BASIC LICHES – Wolf Manzella on Youtube!
Crawl Zine #13 – Deathmatch!
Prison of the Forsaken Bear God
Thirteen Brides of Blood (Gongfarmers’ Almanac 2017)
If you’ve listened to Spellburn for a while, you know I love Third Party material– it’s what DCC is all about, the ferment, the foment, the vomit, the violence, all of it! I love to see all the new stuff that people are cooking up all the time! So that’s what we’re doing this month, with our pal Judge James Pozenel, Judge Stephen Surratt and Judge Phil Padovani! All this and more on this month’s Spellburn!
QUESTIONS? COMPLAINTS? BAD JOKES?
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Links to James stuff from this episode!
Enchiridion of the Computarchs (MCC)
Cats of Rahtlu
House of Red Doors
Links to Stephan Surratt stuff from this episode!
Brimstone Cradle and The Hills that Hunger – for Weird Frontiers!
Mutants of the Multiverse (for MCC!)
Efland: Beyond the Fields We Know!
Links to Judge Phil’s stuff from this episode!
Judge Phil’s Zine of Goodies Vol 1!
Judge Phil’s Zine of Goodies Vol 2!
Judge Phil’s Zine of Goodies Vol 3!
We’ve covered lots of DCC and related third party zines, games and adventures on Spellburn before, but Judge Jen and I are finally sitting down with … maybe the guy who started all the third party madness? Of course it’s Reverend Dak Ultimak, creator of the DCC ur-zine Crawl as well editor par excellence. And we’ll talk with Dak about ye olden days, plans for Crawl, GENCON, visit the email crypts and then– as if this wasn’t enough– we’re going to go deeper– and reminisce some more with some very special pizza-flavored guests– Joey Royale & Tim Deschene! ALL THIS AND MORE ON THIS MONTH’S SPELLBURN!!!
Crawl Magazine – all of them!
Ninja City!
Darkest Dice
Vampire Blood
One of Us
WHPA Fairhaven: Weird Heroes of Public Access
New Email for Spellburn: Spellburnband@gmail.com
DCC Dying Earth!
DCC Dying Earth: it’s every bit as beautiful and faithful to the source material as we’d hoped, but…is it as daunting as the core book? Since DCC fans have come to Spellburn for the low-down on rules for the past decade, we’ll discuss some of the chewier Dying Earth rules with Judge Will Keller, one of the Demo Night judges who cut his teeth on them. We’ll also talk about some of the more entertaining pieces in the new setting with members of the Dying Earth writing team — and we may have a couple tidbits to share from the highly-anticipated Vance Manse trip!
Links from this episode:
The Dying Earth for DCC RPG!
Dying Earth team in the Vance Manse!
War of the Cyclops Con!
There have been a lot of new people showing up in the DCC community and that means someone’s got to judge some DCC adventures! These games aren’t going to run themselves! We heard you, frantic ones! Want some tips on running DCC, provided by old hands and one-time newbies alike? We have got you covered with an all-star cast of judges to share their DCC hacks, pro tips and general judgesplaining.
Links from this episode:
Dispatches from the Raven Crowking
Carnival of the Damned
Sailors on the Starless Sea
War of the Cyclops Con
Goodman-Games.com Event site (including demos!)
So we were on hiatus for about a year… or a little more and a lot has happened between our last non-Twitch episode and our triumphant return in the holiday special! One thing I was most excited about was to talk about third party DCC & MCC stuff with some of the greatest creators in the field. So tonight I’m trying to make up for lost time with longtime MCC/DCC guys + podcast alums Forrest Aguirre & Jarredd Crader… plus some of the wackiest and most wonderful third party guys out there, Dan Steeby and David Coppolettti. Plus… a real zombie will read some old un-dead emails from the prior era of Spellburn!
Links for this episode:
Beyond the Silver Scream
Bronx Beasts
Island of Lost Souls (for Bronx Beasts)
DCC Class Alphabet
Moon Mutants
Trespassers of the Full Moon Tower
Druna, Silver Goddess of the Moon (Patron)
Joey Royale’s Get Haunted Onine Shop!
Sanctum Secorum
New MCC Core book!
Cats of Rahtlu
James P’s Patreon
Levi Combs kickstarter!
Oh no! It’s Judge Jeff’s last episode of Spellburn! We’re gonna chat about the good old days, what things are like now, and what we see in the future for ourselves and DCC.
Stuff referenced in this episode!
Xanadu – coming soon for DCC!
2020 DCC Adventure Pack (including the Heist by Harley!)
Hive of the Overmind (MCC)
Judge Jim’s Scientific Barbarian
Castles & Crusades
Judge Julian’s fanboy DCC Beta Review – 2011
Sailors on the Starless Sea
Umerican Survival Guide
DCC Lankhmar
In a world where many still crave escape but cannot attend local or out-of-town conventions, it’s important to remember that there are many worlds yet to be discovered — thanks to the DCC 3PP community! Tonight we’ll be Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG has a vibrant community supporting the game through innumerable 3rd party products, including adventures, settings, and many, many zines. Where do all these zines come from anyway? Why are they here? What are they doing to us? Why would I make a zine instead of a full fledged game or setting book? How can I do this zine thing? To kickstart or not to kickstart? We’ll talk zines on this episode of Spellburn with Chris Willett, author of Aeon, Ancient Greece, as well as tackle some emails and whatever other controversies come our way!
Stuff referenced in this episode!
Beyond the Silver Scream!
Aeon: Ancient Greece for DCC Kickstarter
Arduin Grimoire Trilogy
Tegel Manor
In a world where many still crave escape but cannot attend local or out-of-town conventions, it’s important to remember that there are many worlds yet to be discovered — thanks to the DCC 3PP community! Tonight we’ll be talking with Ed Stanek, one of the powers behind Raorgen Games, about 3 such 3PP settings.
Stuff referenced in this episode!
Albacon 2021
Aeon: Ancient Greece for DCC (future kickstarter link)
DCC Dying Earth (Kickstarter)
Raorgen Games on Drivethrurpg.com
Gateway Games (on Facebook)
Pax Lexque
Isles of the Celts
Kingdoms of Africa
We Who Are About to Die
Things Fall Apart (novel)
Red Wolf Black Leopard (novel)
Charles R Saunders (fantasy/sci author)
Albacon 2021
Hey mailbag. It’s been a long time since, well you know, since we’ve spent a whole episode reaching into you to see what we can find. Well don’t worry baby, we’re back. And today, it’s all about you!
Stuff referenced in this episode!
A Discordance with Dzyvatz (from Scott Swift & Purple Pirate)
DCC Dying Earth (Kickstarter)
Trespassers of the Full Moon Tower
X-Crawl Classics!
Blades Against Bandwidth
Empire of the East!
Temple of the Hamster
Superscript Comics and Games (Lakewood, OH)
Jean Wells
Crawl Magazine #4
Crypt of the Devil Lich Kickstarter
Doom of the Savage Kings
Tonight we continue our review of seminal DCC adventures from the days of yore… another funnel and instant classic, Hole in the Sky! We’re going to talk to Judge Brendan about Hole in the Sky, Sabbath vs. Dio, read a few emails and do the usual Spellburn stuff. Plus a new Dungeon Denizen! All this on tonight’s Spellburn!
Stuff referenced in this episode!
Hole in the Sky
X-Crawl Classics!
Blades Against Bandwidth
Hammerheart Brewing, Lino Lakes MN
DCC Dying Earth (Kickstarter)
Dungeon Denizens, featuring the Ice Ape!
City of the Damned Campaign
GENCON Program Guide 2015 (w/ Hole In the Sky fiction)
Confederacy of Dunces
Accursed Heart of the World Ender
Full Dark No Stars (Episode 104)
“From parts unknown… Secret knowledge, sacred rituals, and exotic practices. Marvel at the beauty of unbridled humankind! We have scoured the highest mountains, the driest deserts, the hottest jungles to add some spice to your life!” On this episode of Spellburn, we bring you one of the most welcoming, imaginative, and brutal DCC judges, fresh from getting his tattoos shaved… that’s right, Strongman Extraordinaire – Judge Tim Deschene!
Stuff referenced in this episode!
ONE OF US!
Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea!
X-Crawl Classics!
Crawljammer
Forbidden Lands
Silent Legions
Enter the Dagon
Acting Up In Lankhmar
Hello and welcome to the exciting 110th episode of Spellburn! You’ve tuned in for a doozy of an episode! Today we are honored to be able to make an incredible announcement. You’ve asked for it. You’ve begged for it. You wouldn’t stop talking about it. When we’d ask you to stop talking about it you just kept going on and on about it anyways. Then when we finally told you to forget about it because it wasn’t going to happen, we then discovered… wait… it IS HAPPENING! That’s right… it’s… (you’ll have to listen to the episode to find out!)
Stuff referenced in this episode!
A HUGE announcement!
Chaos Rising – (featuring the Imperishable Sorceress)
Blades Against Bandwidth
Spawn of Cyclops Con!
Episode 104 – Full Dark, No Stars
Bronx Beasts #1
We hope you were there with us at Spawn of Cyclops Con last weekend and you had a great time! If not, you’re in luck because you’re going to hear a lot about it, but that’s not all… you’re also going to hang out with Judge Daniel Joseph Bishop and we’re going to go deep into two of his greatest adventures, talk about new projects, make fun of Canada and more! All this on tonight’s episode of Spellburn!
Stuff referenced in this episode!
Crawl #9 – The Arwich Grinder- NOT sold out!
Chaos Rising – (featuring the Imperishable Sorceress)
Blades Against Bandwidth
Spawn of Cyclops Con!
Episode 104 – Full Dark, No Stars
Bronx Beasts #1
The Chained Coffin (featuring Shudder Mountains setting)
In the Prison of the Sorcerer Squid
Curse of Mistwood
The Inn in the Forest
Gary Con 2021
Happy ZineQuest season! If you’re anything like us, before long, you’ll be shuffling things around on the shelves, trying to find room for the next batch of arrivals…and you’ll find some treasures from the last two years! We’ve summoned a third-party zine author & illustrator for this episode, and we’re betting you’ll want to revisit some of his well before those new ones roll in. Welcome Joshua LH Burnett!
Stuff referenced in this episode!
Josh’s Blog!
Shudder Mountains (for DCC RPG!)
Yoon Suin by Noisms Games
Crepuscular #1 (Sanctum of the Snail!)
Them’s Monsters!
MIghty Deeds podcast
Crypt of Morgath
Work Life Magic
Draugr & Draculas
Leopard Women of Venus (DCC RPG)
Hobomancer
QAGS (Quick-Ass Gaming System)
American Barbarian (Tom Scioli)
Fletcher Hanks!
Macabre – Horror & B movies for DCC – Zinequest!