Podcast – Spellburn: Recent Episodes
Jen Brinkman, Julian Bernick, Jeff Goad
Tonight’s spellburn is going to be a great show. Tonight we Invoke Patron Bond!
Since the dawn of Spellburn the Judges J have called to the void, our aim is to commune with the great powers of imagination and the worthy wordsmiths of Goodman Games and the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Community. We now unreservedly spellburn our life essences in service to the DCC RPG community to invoke Mihailo Tešić
Sickle & Torch on KS by Mihailo!
The Three Wizard Conundru – Fifth Edition Fantasy
The Siege of Bonemoore Keep
DCC Dying Earth
Seekers ov the Other Worlds
Crawl Megazine! by Rev. Dak Ultimak!
Castle Whiterock – Launching in April – Follow now!
The Carnivorous Cauldron (Castle Whiterock tie-in)
Can U Dig It? Neon Lords by Judge Kablooey!
Plushie Crawl Classics
20sided Store in Brooklyn
Tomes of Adventures – Collections of Goodman Games adventures!
The 998th Conclave of Wizards
Netcrawl
Judge Mathieu’s gloirious colorings of DCC!
Some say DCC RPG is just for one-shots. Some say it’s a great campaign game. Some say it’s a great con game. Some say it’s perfect for the home table. Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. One thing you don’t hear a lot about is high level adventures in DCC RPG! Why not? And let’s make some and let’s talk about some! I’m Judge Julian and with me tonight is a partner in crime in the 10th Doomstar, a 10th level adventure for DCC RPG. We’ll talk about that and the other adventures that push DCC to its limits, as well as how you might enjoy running and playing your own high level DCC adventures!
The 10th Doomstar
Sign up for the newsletter from Dragon Peak Publishing
New Year’s Evil (for Xcrawl)
Colossus, Arise
Congrats to James on winning the Golden Fez!
Tower of Faces
Dungeon Grand Prix: Smuggler’s Pass
Sinister Sutures of the Sempstress
Imprisoned in the God-Skull
Prison of the Forsaken Bear God
Burger Wars!
Mouth of Mentius
Curse of Mistwood
Just when you think everything has been done and there are no more frontiers, Goodman Games answers the question no one had in their brains. “What if we make adventures based on classic pinball games?” Of course the answer to that question is Pinball Crawl Classics (live on Backerkit right now). On this episode of Spellburn, we’ll talk pinball adventure design shop with 3/5ths of the Pinball Crawl Classics designers on hand.
Links for this episode:
Old School Adventures & Pinball Crawl Classics
The 10th Doomstar – 10th level adventure for DCC RPG!
Submissions open NOW for Gongfarmers’ Alamanac 2026
Whistlepig Breakdown – new adventure for Shudder Mountains!
Return to Crater Valley (VHS era DCC from LOZ!)
Fiction magazines:
SWORDS AGAINST! from Mystic Bull/Paul Wolfe
New Edge Sword & Sworcery (NESS) from Oliver Brackenbury!
It’s hard to believe but here we are in Spellburn’s 150th episode. It’s been 13 years of Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and 12 plus years of Judges J! We wanted to mark the occasion by breaking things up a little bit with a very special guest tonight– the Dark Master who started at all, sending his thralls far and wide over the land, bringing chaos and cultists to every friendly local gaming store in search of Kovacs covers and funky dice. And what a ride it has been– Emerald Enchanters, Savage Kings, Lankhmar, Dying Earth, Purple Planet, Shudder Mountains and even MCC RPG, not to mention the million or so multiversal variants out there like Umerica, Weird Frontiers and many many more!
We’re going to talk about how we got here in 2025, where we are today and most importantly we’re going to scry the future of DCC RPG (and Goodman Games) with the help of the Dark Master!
Pinball Crawl Classics & Old School Adventures! Launching in January 2026!
Follow Castle Whiterock for 2026!
Game Hole Con 2026
X-Crawl Rodeo!
Unnatural Selections Vol. 4
Tales from the Smoking Wyrm #11
Tower of the Black Pearl
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!)
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
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!
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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!]
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!
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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!
Podcast: Podcast
Exploring Your Inner Ham!
This episode on Spellburn, we’re interviewing Brendan LaSalle and introducing a new co-host. Listen to find out who!
Joseph Goodman and his minions discuss the exciting new releases coming from Goodman Games in 2016.
This week on Spellburn, the Judges J get the band back together for a very special show on the Mutant Crawl Classics RPG.
This week on Spellburn, the Judges J have cast a ritualized version of Invoke Patron to summon a very special guest, Terry Olson. Terry has written several Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures for Goodman Games and even contributed a letter to the Monster Alphabet.
This week on Spellburn, we’re going to delve yet again into the mailbag of holding. And, man, you won’t believe how enormous this bag has grown. We’ve got letters stacked up to the ceiling.
This week on Spellburn, we’re going to help out some of the new Wizards out there, by giving you a spell primer! That’s right, we’re going to go over the list of 1st-level arcane spells.
This week on Spellburn, we take the wayback machine to give a recap of the world’s largest gaming convention! We’ll look at the new DCC RPG releases - or at least that huge Goodman Games Program Guide -and find out more about the DCC events and tournaments that were run. Let’s do a belated Gen Con Wrap-up!
Today on Spellburn, your intrepid hosts take a look at monsters and DCC. From a look at some of our favorite monsters in the core rule book to making monsters mysterious and even a look at incorporating the Monster Alphabet into your game!
This week on Spellburn your hardy hosts delve into the treasure vaults to uncover every adventurer’s favorite loot: magic items! We’re going to dive deep into the rules for potions, scrolls, magic staffs, magic swords, rods, wands, and more...
This week on Spellburn we talk about Free RPG Day, take a brief journey into our Mailbag of Doom, and reveal the next Dungeon Denizen. Links mentioned in this episode: Free RPG Day http://freerpgday.com/ DCC Judge’s Screen http://www.goodman-games.com/FRPGD15preview.html Podcast: Download
Joseph Goodman and his minions – plus special guest Robert Bledsaw II – preview and discuss the exciting new releases coming from Goodman Games in 2015, including new Judges Guild reprints, DCC Lankhmar Patrons, Against the Atomic Overlord, Road Crew 2015 info, Metamorphosis Alpha: Epsilon City, and the official announcement of Mutant Crawl Classics RPG! […]
This week on the show we explore the dynamics and play style of the DCC Tournament Funnel. Invented by Harley Stroh and debuted at Gen Con 2014 with his adventure “The Seven Pits of Sezrekan,” the tournament funnel has proven instantly popular with convention goers, and is now being featured in Road Crew 2015 releases […]
This week on Spellburn we take an in-depth look at Dungeon Crawl Classic’s dragons! Everything from what makes them unique to using the Dragon tables to create our very own dragon on tonight’s episode. Links mentioned in this episode: Chuck Whelon Kickstarter (Look for the DCC RPG original artwork) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whelon/pewfell-in-drain-of-chaos Death Frost Doom http://www.lotfp.com/RPG/products/death-frost-doom Cheryl […]
This week on Spellburn, we return from a holiday and deadline-enforced hiatus to welcome a guy that we’ve been trying to get on the show forever. Tonight, we welcome notable publisher and author of third party adventures for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Thick Skull Adventures’ own Stephen Newton. Links mentioned on the show: […]
This is it, Burners! It took us to 1 and 1/2 years to make our spellcheck, but we’ve finally summoned Goodman Games head honcho and the creator of the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Joseph Goodman to the podcast! Join us for a candid conversation with the canny creative force behind the fantasy role playing game […]
Adventures! Adventures! Come and get your adventures! This week on Spellburn we’re going to review three recent Third Party Publisher adventures for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game: Claytonian JP’s “The Wizardarium of Calabraxis,” Carl Bussler and Eric Hoffman’s “Prayers of the Forgotten,” and Stephen Newton’s “Stronghold of the Wood Giant Shaman.” Links […]
This week on Spellburn we do something that wizards in the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game absolutely, never, ever do. We’re going to share some of our knowledge of advanced magic. Beyond simple spellchecks or spellburn, we’re going to delve deep into and talk about the lesser-known areas of the DCC magic system, including […]
This week on Spellburn, we finally succeed in summoning forth the Reverend Dak J. Ultimak, one of the driving forces behind the DCC RPG fanzine scene, including the ‘zine that started it all, Crawl! Join us tonight as we ask Dak about his work on his own various zines and publications, plus his mighty editorial […]
This week we review Gen Con 2014 and all the golden DCC RPG goodness unleashed therein. Join us as the two Judges who attended the con struggle to maintain post-con coherency and voice quality, while the other two express their feelings of excitement and envy. We talk about all the DCC RPG new releases, forth-coming […]
Joseph Goodman and crew – plus special guests – preview and discuss the exciting new releases coming from Goodman Games in 2014 and 2015, including official DCC RPG dice, new adventures, the DCC Annual, and lots of other old school gaming goodness! Don’t have time to watch the video? Here’s an audio-only version (please […]
This episode we welcome DCC RPG writer and game designer Harley Stroh back to the show, and ask him all about his latest adventure, “Peril on the Purple Planet.” Harley tells us what’s new under a weirdling sun with Goodman Games’ latest all-star box set kickstarter, as well as sharing the goods with us on lots […]
This week on the show we discuss, dissect, and maybe even disagree about the best practices for the superior judging and running of DCC RPG games. What are the most important Judging “do’s and don’t’s”? That’s what we’ll try and answer on this episode of Spellburn… And don’t forget to check out this episode’s winning […]
This week on the show we welcome special guest Jon Marr, creator and head wizard at Purple Sorcerer Games. We’ll be asking Jon about some of the best third-party DCC RPG adventures ever published, his uber-useful family of online tools and mobile apps, and some top-secret forthcoming products. Also! We have a Spellburn Free RPG […]
This week we empty out the email bag and get all caught up on listener emails, we share a new Dungeon Denizens winner – mostly to get Daniel J. Bishop off our backs, those of us who have hit the convention trail share our experiences, and Judge Jobe shares his tips and tricks on how […]
This week our four judges take a look at the Halfling class in DCC RPG. From the halfling’s race-as-class abilities as party luck battery to two-weapon fighting to sneaking and hiding, we cover it all – even the sensitive subject of halfling manscaping! Links mentioned in this episode: Angels, Demons, and Beings Inbetween […]
This week we welcome a fourth permanent co-host to the program, the inestimable Judge Jen, a.k.a. DCC RPG stalwart Jen Brinkman! And if that wasn’t enough shock and awe for you, this episode we’re also welcoming back for his third appearance – fourth if you count the infamous “lost pilot” – DCC RPG scribe Manly […]
This week we’re taking a look at the profusion of DCC RPG fanzines available to players and judges. If a game can be measured by the groundswell of support that it receives from its fans, then the world of DCC RPG suffers from an overabundance of riches. Links mentioned in this episode: Edgar […]
We’re back, baby! And this week the Three Amigos recap and review Gary Con VI, the first game convention attended by all three judges. We talk about the “What’s New at Goodman Games” seminar, games we played and players we killed. Plus! We announce the winner of the write up a Doug Kovacs monster contest! […]
The judges, Jim, Jobe, and Jeffrey, have journeyed to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to attend Gary Con 6. We’re still busy running and playing games, but we wanted to share some of the awesome with our listeners. On Friday morning, we recorded the “What’s happening at Goodman Games” seminar. No spoilers, but you don’t want to […]
The biggest selling points of the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG aren’t just its old school vibe, easy-to-learn mechanics, and gonzo play style – it’s the art, which visually embodies all of these qualities in spades. Tonight, we’re privileged to talk with one of the primary architects of the visuals for the DCC RPG world and […]
It’s our end-of-the-year wrap up episode of Spellburn, and we’re glad that you’ve all come along for the ride with us. We couldn’t have done it without an active audience out there downloading and listening to this podcast, as well as contributing your feedback, emails, and show suggestions. This episode we talk about our favorite […]
“Enter freely, and of your own will…” This week on Spellburn, we have a special guest for just in time for “Fangsgiving.” Our summon patron spell went awry and opened a portal to an alternate universe… a new world of gods and monsters! Tonight we’re interviewing one of our most requested guests – Scott Mathis, […]
This week on Spellburn we drift a little from our talk purely about Dungeon Crawl Classics and branch into topics about OSR gaming in general. First up is a look at how players and judges react to a system where everything is not codified. DCC RPG gives the game back to the judges and throws […]
This week on Spellburn we have perhaps the most important guests we’ve ever had on the show – you guys! It’s time for a show starring our listeners, or in less fancy terminology, it’s time to empty out the enormous bag of emails that have been piling up to the virtual rafters. Links mentioned […]
This week on Spellburn we continue our basic survey of characters classes with the thief class. Not the rogue, not the reprovisioner, not the specialist… the thief! And as you might expect, in Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG the thief class is everything fun you remember about classic RPG thieves turned up to an 11. Links […]
This week the Spellburners talk to renowned and prolific writer of adventures for DCC RPG (and many other RPGs), as well as one of the prime wizards at Purple Duck Games, Daniel Bishop! Hear all about Daniel’s published and upcoming adventures, as well as some tips and tricks on how to motivate your players to […]
Welcome to our greatest episode yet! Tonight we’re going to take a look at one of the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG’s defining game mechanics. When two wizards meet in a world where magic is wild, dangerous, and often barely understood by mere mortals, chaos quickly ensues. Two wizards go in, and only one wizard walks […]
This week on Spellburn, we’re continuing our series of up-close-and-personal looks at individual character classes. Tonight, by popular listener request, we’re going to cover the cleric class, which in Dungeon Crawl Classics, is NOT your father’s d20 heal-bot. Second only to fighters and dwarves in raw melee power, this divine class casts spells without armor […]
The Spellburners are finally recovered from Gen Con 2013, but our pain is your gain, because this week we’re discussing all the dungeon crawling news, noteworthy events, and even how we met Hugh the Barbarian, all at this years’ Gen Con. Plus we talk about Goodman Game’s upcoming slate of DCC RPG adventures, including a […]
This week on Spellburn, we invited a bonafide Dungeon Crawl Classics neophyte to the show to share his reviews, rants, and reservations about our favorite system. You know we love this game – we’re doing a podcast about it – but what about everyone’s favorite grumpy grognard from two of our sister podcasts, Save or […]
Welcome to our best episode yet, with genial game writer and gentleman grognard Harley Stroh. Harley has written over 40 adventures for Goodman Games, including the some of the most infamous, like Sailors on the Starless Sea, Blades Against Death, and Colossus Arise! Join us as Harley discusses his passions and projects, and shares some […]
This week on Spellburn we’re jumping straight to the front of the marching order to spotlight warriors and dwarves. In the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, these two fighter classes aren’t your typical hack-and-slash, one-trick war-ponies. Between Mighty Deeds of Arms and improved critical hit ranges, there’s just the right amount of skull-crushing style to make […]
This week on Spellburn we take a look at wizard magic! Described by some as a set of rules that out-Vancian the Vancian Magic System, we’ll take you through the entire system with some live-play examples. From spellchecks to mercurial magic effects to spell corruption to patrons, we’ll find out what happens to those who […]
This week on Spellburn we take a look at 3rd party publishers and the products that have been released for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. For a system only a year-and-a-hald old, there is already an enormous assemblage of efficacious adventures, supplements, and tools for use with DCC RPG – many of them free to […]
This week our party’s wizard burned his Strength, Agility, and Stamina down to 1 to max out his Invoke Patron check and ended up rolling a natural 20. A portal opened to the Plane of Looming Deadlines and out stepped out the indefatigable Michael Curtis. Michael is the author of several DCC RPG adventures and […]
This week on Spellburn we take a look at one of the system’s distinguishing features, the character funnel, in which many level zero peasants will meet their untimely demise.
Welcome to Spellburn, a new podcast about the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game. In this premier episode, your dungeon-crawling hosts, Jim, Jobe and Jeffrey, introduce themselves, take you on a brief tour of the new role playing game, and offer advice to players and judges alike on how to get started with the Dungeon […]