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?

EMAIL SPELLBURN AT:  [email protected]

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:  [email protected]

DCC Dying Earth!

X-Crawl Classics is official!  The Kickstarter’s live, it’s rolling and X-Crawl Mania’s running wild!  We will hang out with DJ Laboss, AKA Judge Brendan, and we’ll go deep into X-Crawl classics, the kickstarter, and the latest on stretch goals, X-Crawl Insider, 3rd party X-crawling and more!

All this and a reunion with Judge Jarrett and third party crawler Stella Condrey on this month’s Spellburn!

Links from this episode:

XCrawl Core Rulebook Kickstarter!

XCrawl- Dungeonbattle Brooklyn!

Goodman Games XCrawl page

Space Penguin Ink!

Beyond the Silver Scream

DCC’s been a gold standard of oldschool gaming for 10 years! There’s a ton of great content out there, from Goodman Games, from 3^rd party publishers, free internet resources like Purple Sorcerer, and even (GUGHGHGBLLEAH) social media.  But what about people who make it happen behind the scenes?  Every adventure is full of good writing and art, but needs an editor and (really, really) needs a playtester or 20!  Tonight we talk to some of our favorites (and Judge Jen!)  Plus other gossip and malingering and a visit to the Email crypt!  All this and more on this month’s Spellburn!

Links from this episode:

Playtest for DCC & MCC!!

The Great Visp Hunt (DCC Dying Earth adventure)

DCC for Free RPG Day: Piercing the Demon’s Eye

DCC Day is July 23rd, 2023!

Tales of the Smoking Wyrm

Tales of the Smoking Wyrm 7 & 8 Kickstarter

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!

And today we have a special guest here to help us answer YOUR emails! You may know her from Blades Against Bandwidth, DCC College, or that time she killed all four of your level 0 characters at Gen Con… Judge Haley Skach!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Tabletop RPG Pickup Con

Shudder Mountains (for DCC RPG!)

Yoon Suin by Noisms Games

The Emerald Enchanter

2017 Free RPG Day For DCC featuring Gnole House

Against the Atomic Overlords

Journey to the Center of the Aereth

The One Who Watches from Below

Dieter’s DCC RPG Playlist on Spotify

DCC G+ Playlist + Spotify (over 24 hours.. 2500+ songs!)

Judge Jeff’s DCC Spotify Playlist

Monsterhearts RPG

Mike Wilson – artist in DCC RPG core book

DCC RPG Core book – German Edition

Vicki Lalonde on Appendix N Episode 80 – EGB and the Stone Age

New Year’s Evil

Crawling Under a Broken Moon #5 (Featuring the Aetherian Hero inspired by He-Man?)

If you are scared to get your sci-fi chocolate in my fantasy peanut butter, turn back now!  Tonight we look at the forthcoming Empire of the East product for DCC RPG.  Our special guest is none other than RPG writer and designer Jason Vey!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure 2020!

Empire of the East by Goodman Games

Empire of the East series by Fred Saberhagen

Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural RPG (by Jason)

Blades Against Bandwidth (ep 1, Youtube)

Castles & Crusades

Spellcraft & Swordplay RPG (by Jason!)

Unisystem RPG

Tower Out of Time

Amazing Adventures (Troll Lord Games)

Nightbane RPG

OSR

We have a very special – and overdue – guest for this show! To some, he may be just a mysterious name on the credits page of your DCC RPG core book, or even a guitar-wielding pirate. But we know him as the original embodiment of Hugh Heftblade and the author of the fantastic funnel, “Not in Kansas Anymore.” That’s right — the elusive Dieter Zimmerman has been summoned! We’ll talk about Dragonmech, DCC backstory, crazy photo shoots, music, and more!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Not in Kanas Anymore (2016 GENCON Program Guide)

Dragonmech RPG (Info)

Dragonmech RPG Pdf link

GENCON 2014 Program Guide (featuring kickass picture of Judge Jobe and Dieter as Hugh)

Knave RPG

Dragonmeet (UK Convention)

Battle Royale event: Slave Pits of Lost Agartha

Spawn of Cyclops Con

Evercon

Vaesen RPG

Harlem Unbound

Creep Skrag Creep!

Dragora’s (or Dragor’s) Dungeon

Dragonmech page (archived from old GG site)

Bride of Cyclops Con! (Oct 16-18)

The Charwoman’s Shadow

Book of Whispers for Never Going Home RPG

GG Joe Profile for: Musk Goblin

DCC RPG Humble Bundle

2015 GENCON Program Guide (with Black Feather Blade)

The Wizardarium (Dieter’s Bookstore)

The Long Con 2020 (Nov 13-15)

RPG Alliance Con 2020 (Nov 21- 22)

Podcast: Podcast

Ever wonder what it’s like to play a 10th level DCC RPG adventure? Well we did too! So Judge Brendan is here to run us through his unpublished 10th level adventure, Full Dark No Stars!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Gongfarmer’s Almanac 2015 Vol 6 – Paul Wolfe’s Virtual Funnel

Continuing our Classic Adventure series, we pick up with DCC #80– Intrigue at the Court of Chaos!  This adventure has it all– plane-hopping, cosmic entities, potion puzzles and well, lots of intrigue!  We’ll talk about how this adventure came to be with none other than its author, Manly Michael Curtis himself!  All this and more on this week’s Spellburn!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

NEW! Mighty Deeds podcast for DCC

Ziggurat of the Mega-Maiden

Blades Against Bandwidth (ep 1, Youtube)

Pelgrane Press

Dracula AD 1972

Blowup (movie)

Intrigue at the Court of Chaos

Death by Nexus

The 13th Skull (with the Balance Blade)

Intrigue at the Court of Chaos (Kovacs cover)

Jim Holloway (artist)

World Quest of the Winter Calendar (Funnel adventure)

DCC RPG Annual

Michael Curtis Patreon page

Bride of Cyclops Con! (Oct 16-18)

TTRPGPickupCon (Sept 19-20)

Con on the Cob 2020 (Oct 1-4)

AlbaCon (Oct 3-4)

Autumn Revel 1 (Oct 9-12 presented by Gary Con)

GameHoleCon Virtual 2020 (Nov 5-8)

The Long Con 2020 (Nov 13-15)

RPG Alliance Con 2020 (Nov 21- 22)

Podcast: Podcast

We’ve made it two-thirds of the way through the year. Most of us are stuck in the land of online gaming for the foreseeable future, there’s a slight chill to the air in some regions, and you all know the impending nightmare that awaits us … It’s the REVENGE of the MAILBAG!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Star Crawl

Ziggurat of the Mega-Maiden

The Salty Funnel for DCC!

Treasury of Archaic Names

Blades Against Bandwidth (ep 1, Youtube)

Hobonomicon

Pelgrane Press

Dragon Magazine #66

King Kull stories – Robert Howard

Peril on the Purple Planet

Bride of Cyclops Con! (Oct 16-18)

TTRPGPickupCon (Sept 19-20)

Con on the Cob 2020 (Oct 1-4)

AlbaCon (Oct 3-4)

Autumn Revel 1 (Oct 9-12 presented by Gary Con)

GameHoleCon Virtual 2020 (Nov 5-8)

The Long Con 2020 (Nov 13-15)

RPG Alliance Con 2020 (Nov 21- 22)

The continuation of Episode #100.  Judge Jen runs us through part of DCC #100 “The Music of the Spheres is Chaos!”  Featuring original Spellburner, Judge Jeffrey Tadlock!

Links to adventures and other stuff in this adventure:

Jeffrey Tadlock’s Iron Tavern Podcast (DCC Actual Play!)

Journey to the Center of Aereth

A prototype of the spinning wheel used in the adventure!

What better way to celebrate the 100th episode of Spellburn than by showcasing some of the upcoming 100th Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure! And how are we going to showcase it? With some ACTUAL PLAY! That’s right folks, the day our listeners have been clamouing for and Judge Jen has been dreading!

Links to adventures and other stuff in this adventure:

Jeffrey Tadlock’s Iron Tavern Podcast (DCC Actual Play!)

Cirque

Journey to the Center of Aereth

A prototype of the spinning wheel used in the adventure!

We’re approaching DCC# 100 and we’re also approaching Spellburn 100! What better way to celebrate an anniversary than to reflect on some great stuff of the past 8 years!  I want to do a series of episodes on classic (and maybe even new and unsung!) adventures and there’s obviously no better place to start than Sailors on the Starless Sea!  We’ll find out if it was the first or second funnel with the world’s foremost authority on Sailors and on many more DCC adventures!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Egg of the Phoenix module (TSR)

Purple Sorcerer Tools

Albacon!

Blades Against Bandwidth

Founders and Legends

DCC Dying Earth

Seven Pits of Sezrekan (Tournament)

Doom of the Savage Kings

Sailors on the Starless Sea (all versions)

Tegel Manor

The 1980s D&D Cartoon

Doom of the Savage Kings

DCC #28 Into the Wilds

Well of the Worm

Metal Hurlant Magazine

Return to the Starless Sea

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.” What’s in a curse? At most gaming tables, they’re uttered by players when critical failures pop up. But curses in DCC are an under-utilized mechanic! They’re not just for the Shudfolk! If you’re looking to switch up your NPC casters to make them unpredictable, offer a touch of magic to players without overpowering the party, or spice up your treasure hauls, curses are the way to go.

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Blades Against Bandwidth

Purple Sorcerer Tools

Grimtooth’s Museum of Death

The Emerald Enchanter

GENCON 2016 Program Guide (including Not in Kansas Any More funnel adventure)

DCC Dying Earth

Mothership RPG

OSE (Old School Essentials)

Mario Bava’s Black Sunday

Tabletop RPG Pickup Con

The Chained Coffin (Shudder Mountains adventure and setting)

Sanctum Secorum #29 free zine (with curses!)

Gongfarmer’s Almanacs

Doom of the Savage Kings

50 Fantastic Functions for the D50

Perils of Cinder Claws

Jose Luis T. Cardoso — Fey Curses

(More Curses) – Knights in the North (Ari-Matti & co.-written by Giles)

“Hello DCC Days! For those listening on your podcatchers, this was a very special LIVE episode where we are answering emails in addition to any questions folks wanna ask us on Twitch!”

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Spellburn Live @ DCC Days – Twitch

DCC Days – June 11-14, 2020

Blades Against Bandwidth

Empire of the East for DCC

Creep, Skrag, Creep!

The One Who Watches from Below

The Queen of Elfland’s Son

The Rats of Ilthmar

The Tower Out of Time

DCC Dying Earth

City State of the Invincible Overlord (Original)

Mothership RPG

OSE (Old School Essentials)

3TRPG Podcast (Harrison Hunt, Foreign Beggars, et al)

Planescape

The Bleak Shore

Neon Knights

Intrigue at the Court of Chaos

Youme.Social

What has the COVID wrought on the gaming community?  One silver lining in all the con cancellations and lack of gamer funk as well as physical hugs is that we have had the opportunity to meet lots of new friends via Zoom, Roll20, Hangouts and more!   This extends far beyond the continental US across the oceans and even to Europe!  Svebor Midzic joins us as our third international guest to talk virtual gaming, DCC, Dying Earth and just whatever the hell he wants to talk about!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

DCC Days – June 11-14, 2020

Blades Against Bandwidth

Empire of the East for DCC

Creep, Skrag, Creep!

Home for the Holideath

Dungeon Games (Fort Myers)

Tower Games (Minneapolis)

The Source Comics and Games (St. Paul)

Indiana

Veins of the Earth

Mothership RPG

M.P. Shiel

Yoon-Suin

Curse of Strahd

Leni Reifenstahl

Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings

Dragonlance

Zweihander

DCC Lankhmar

Gord the Rogue (Gary Gygax)

Journey to the Center of Aereth

No matter what your tenure as a fan of DCC RPG, you know that this gaming community embraces fan-made material like few others. And that means we also embrace those creators! Our guest for this show has been drafting & sketching DCC monsters since 2012 on his “Appendix M” blog. Until now, we’ve all known him as the silent “Bygrinstow”, the madman behind the Hot Dog Suit class – but tonight we unveil another Judge J: Jon Wilson!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

DCC Day – June 13, 2020

Night Soil!

Working Class Alphabet

Monster Extractor

Liber Arcanum (spells for DCC RPG!)

Dice Bags!

Critters, Creatures and Denizens

Bygrinstow- Inner Ham homepage

Accursed Heart of the World-Ender

Erol Otus

A Record of the Most Unfortunate Doings at Castle Bash… Julian’s Poetry Book!

Mothership RPG

Cyclops Con roundup

Nowhere City

Star Wars RPG (Fantasy Flight)

Rats of Ilthmar

Alien RPG

The Dungeoneer

Gary Con may have been cancelled but Virtual Gary Con seemed to be quite the hit! And now Goodman Games is hosting its own online convention this weekend – Cyclops Con! So today we’re talking about online gaming in the world of Social Distancing!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

CYCLOPS CON!

Con of Champions

Sailors on the Starless Sea

DCC: The Purple Planet

Blades Against Death

The Tower Out of Time

Nebin Pendelbrook’s Perilous Pantry

Sailors on the Starless Sea

Jewels of the Carnifex

Shadow Under Devil’s Reef

Operation Whitebox

Mork Borg

Purple Sorcerer Dice Roller

Fantasy Grounds for DCC RPG

Roll20.net

Goodman Games on Twitch!

Hobbs On Twitch

The Spellburn podcast is now on its 93rd episode!  It’s hard to believe, but it’s true! Back when Judge Jim, Jeffrey and Jobe started Spellburn, they were mainly setting out to verbally pore over the new Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.   Eight years later, Spellburn is here to stay, but there are other great podcasts about DCC out there, including the Foreign Beggars, Ravenlord and Dirt Boy Blues Actual Play podcasts done by Harrison Hunt and friends, known collectively as the Tabletop Twats.   We’re excited to have another International DCC superstar with us today!

Stuff referenced in this episode!

3T RPG Podcast!

Sailors on the Starless Sea

Intrigue at the Court of Chaos

City of the Damned

Chained Coffin (including Sour Spring Hollow funnel adventure)

Umerican Survival Guide

Bronx Beasts Vol 1

13th Skull

The Croaking Fane

Cyber Crawl Classics

Terror of the Stratosfiend

Maid the RPG

Wild Die Podcast

3T Actual Play games on Youtube: START HERE – Foreign Beggars #1

100 Weird Widgets (from 3T rpg publishing)

Escape from Station 17

Hubris, noun: excessive pride or self-confidence that leads a person to disregard the divinely-fixed limits on human action in an order of chaos.

While defying the gods is no longer viewed as a crime, as it was in ancient Greece, it is regarded as a tragic flaw in the human psyche. That said, if you’ve read anything on the Land of Hubris, World of Visceral Adventure, you’re not surprised that it spawns from the DCC community. It may be hubristic of us, but we’re pretty proud of this episode.

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Hubris for DCC RPG

Death is the New Pink

Mike’s Dungeons

City of the Damned

The Hobonomicon (Doug Kovacs & friends)

In the Shadow of the Ruby Tricepticon (Tribute to Niel Peart)

House of the Red Doors

Terror of the Stratosfiend

Podcast: Mike Evans and Friends

Crawl for the Cure at Gary Con 2020!

Do you guys remember the year 2016? Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump competed for Mr. and Mrs. America, Justin Beiber was the top of the charts, and people were gleefully wandering into traffic while playing Pokemon Go. And if you were anything like me, you weren’t paying attention to any of that, because you were OBSESSED with DCC RPG. So today, we’ll take a look at the amazing contributions made by folks like us for our community way back in 2016.

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Terror of the Stratosfiend #2

Metamorphosis Alpha: Doom on the Warden

Jewels of the Carnifex

City of the Damned

Gongfarmer’s Almanac 2016

Deserts of Desolation

Well of the Worm

Ben Marra & Zack Soto GM Screen

Blades and Lazers by Ben Marra

Dreams in the Witch House

DCC Lankhmar

Go to the cons, hang out on the Tweeters and the Faceboxes, and sooner or later, you’ll hear some internet guy or black-tshirt person making the assertion that “DCC is great for one-shot games, but it would never work for a campaign.”  IS IT TRUE? We’re going to find out with none other than Andy Action, campaign OSR Judge extraordinaire as well as yours truly and a little help from Judge Jen and Judge Jeff. All this and more on this daymonthweek’s epsiode of Spellburn!

Adventures referenced in this episode!

Peril on the Purple Planet!

The Meat Grinder

Crypts of Indormancy

Other links from this episode!

Mutant Crawl Classics

Netherlands

Ernest Ernie & The Sincerities

Twin Temple

Quicksand

Spellburn is back with another first-time guest, an author of third-party DCC adventures that have already become cult classics. Players who’ve tried to escape an insane computer while fighting a yeti, explored temple ruins while beset by giant hamsters, or failed to leave an evil, sentient inn once getting sucked in, will know the press name: Vance Games.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Temple of the Hamster

Mother’s Maze

Escape from the Demon Inn

Prison of the Mad Gods

The Farmers’ Almanac is an annual American periodical that has been in continuous publication since 1818. Whereas the Gongfarmer’s Almanac is an interdimensional zine that has been in continuous publication since MMXV… and today we are taking a long-overdue deep-dive into the original five volumes published in 2015!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Gongfarmer’s Almanac 2015 (Collected – $8)

Gongfarmer’s Almanac 2015 (PDF) FREE!

Julio’s RPG Cove

The Necromancer

Sahuagin

Gish

Bulette

Old School Essentials

The Mighty PoAg, God of Illuminated Scripts

Lankhmar

Red Door (from Wall of Kovacs)

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It’s impossible to keep up with all the great stuff being put out for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG! It seems like every day has a new barrage of kickstarters, Goodman Games announcements and hot rumors. But what the heck, I figured we might review some of our favorite projects and get the word out, since the abundance of content for DCC is something that makes our community great!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Perils of the Sunken City

Silent Nightfall (Campaign Elements)

Glipkerio’s Gambit

Campaign Elements – The Black Goat

Links mentioned in this episode:

Bronx Beasts

Dark Shadows

Terror of the Stratosfiend

Knights In the North.com (Pile of the Bone Daggers)

Phantasmagoria

Country Crawl Classics

Star Crawl

Appendix N Book Club

Sanctum Secorum

Ashcan Edition?

Gongfarmer’s Almanacs!

Mutant Crawl Classics

Necromolds: Monster Battles!

The trees have turned, the air is crisp, and the soothing sound of chanting carries on the breeze… And just when we think it’s safe to relax, it’s an avalanche! It’s the dreaded, corrupted MAILBAG!!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

The Dread God Al-Khazadhar

Outlive, Outsmart, Outkill

Sailors on the Starless Sea

Creeping Beauties of the Wood

Carnival of the Damned

Links mentioned in this episode:

Bronx Beasts

Crypts and Things

Coliseum Bar, Madison WI

Bunnies & Burrows

Crawl for the Cure at GameHoleCon!

A. Merritt

John Williams

Mega-Heroes RPG (by Judge Jim!)

Barry Windsor Smith’s Conan

John Buscema’s Conan

Savage Sword of Conan

Samuel R. Delaney

Ghostlike Crime

DCC RPG Annual

Aasimar

Monster Alphabet

Gongfarmer’s Almanacs!

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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!

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!

Lankhmar is huge! Thousands of people dwell within the eleven quarters that make up the City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokes. Anyone new to town is bound to run into some issues. Were you meeting with that fence to offload some newfound treasures tonight at the corner of Carter Street and Cash Street? …or was that Carter and Crafts Street? Or was it that alleyway just off the corner, between those abandoned shops? On the other side of the table — judges, the party may be looking for a place to lay low for a few weeks after barely escaping some dicey carousing results, but you don’t have any locales in mind from the modules you’ve gone over thus far.

Fear not! We’ve imported “Keeper” Bob Brinkman from the Sanctum Secorum podcast to show us how easy it is to give your players what they (and you) need. While working on the Lankhmar setting, he ran the campaign playtest almost entirely as a sandbox, and gave the community the resulting fully fleshed-out neighborhood. He’s here today to go over the last of the 3 source books in the Lankhmar boxed set with us, and we’re going to start a neighborhood map together!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

DCC Lankhmar Setting Boxed Set!

Blasphemy and Larceny in Lankhmar

Castle In the Sky – 5th Edition Fantasy

The Forgotten Hive – 5th Edition Fantasy

Links mentioned in this episode:

Queering The Dungeon Email: [email protected] !

Umerican Road Atlas

City of the Damned Campaign

DCC RPG ROCKS group on Facebook

DCCRPG Group on Mewe

Goodman Games Forums

Sanctum Secorum

Black Ink Red Film Podcast with Stephen Newton

The Twisted Menagerie

Crawling for the Cure at GameHoleCon!

Streets of Avalon Kickstarter

OSR Bundle of Holding 6

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Judge Harley, Judge Jen, Judge Haley and Judge Brendan do a master class on DCC RPG!

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Sometimes you come back from the con and instead of pulling all the stops out to do that interesting and informative episode on Clerics, or the birthmarks of djinnis or the ecology of the space-wombat or whatever, you just want to talk about the Con and maybe sneak some relevant content in there… like in this case!

Having just arrived back from GENCON 2019, we have the opportunity not only to round up a great show but also we have James Pozenel on board to talk tournaments with us!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Fae Hard! (0 Level Adventure by James Pozenel)

Geas of the Star-Chons

Sailors on the Starless Sea

Hole in the Sky

House of the Red Doors (from GG events site)

Angels, Daemons and Beings In-Between Vol 2

The Lesser Key to the Celestial Legion

Death by Nexus

Hypercube of Myt

The Shambling Un-Dead

Carnival of the Damned

Enter the Dagon

Links mentioned in this episode:

Crawl for the Cure at GameHoleCon!

Clearwater Con

U-Con

Purple Sorcerer DCC/MCC tools

DCC Reference Booklets

Mothership: Dead Planet

Swordfish Islands & Silent Titans!

Road Crew Zine

Roadcrew zine contact: [email protected]

Gongfarmers Almanac

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The Dark Master & friends update us on: X-Crawl, DCC Dying Earth, Judges’ Guild Vol. 2, DCC Lankhmar, Empire of the East, The Lost City, DCC Tournament, DCC #100 and DCC Day!

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Alright everyone. Today is an important day in the history of Spellburn. We are finally going to address the elephant in the room. The Cleric Class. You might be saying to yourself “But Jeff. Spellburn already covered the Cleric class. You know, back with the original line-up. Back when the show was still good.” And to that, I would respond first with “How dare you?” and second with “Yeah, true. But they didn’t discuss the real problem at hand, which is that WE DON’T NEED CLERICS, WE JUST NEED TO GIVE WIZARDS HEALING MAGIC!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

The Lesser Key to the Celestial Legion

Links mentioned in this episode:

Motership RPG

UK Games Expo 2020

DCC RPG Lankhmar

Drink Spin Run podcast

The Bible

Angels, Daemons and Beings In Between (vol. 2)

Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett

DCC RPG Annual

The Blue Star, by Fletcherr Pratt

Random Esoteric Creature Generator

Space (I believe in) – Pixies Song

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The DCC Annual was released (on .pdf) to kickstart backers earlier this year and we are concluding our review of the Annual and its numerous fun features!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

The Peasant’s Fell Bargain

Jewels of the Carnifex

Intrigue at the Court of Chaos

Journey to the Center of the Aereth

Beyond the Black Gate

Tower Out of Time

Links mentioned in this episode:

Carmine Infantino’s text box hand

Origins 2019 DCC RPG Tournament

Sedlec Ossuary (“Bone-church”) Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

Judge Jobe

Whitesnake (and Tawny Kitaen)

The Evil One

Judge Jeff’s d1200 Spell Table!

Random Screed by Hobbs

Back cover of White Plume Mountain

Mutant Crawl Classics RPG

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We’re way behind on emails but now it’s time to catch up!  Thanks for emailing us!  Keep them coming!

Links mentioned in this episode:

City of the Damned Campaign on Obsidian Portal

Gongfarmers’ Almanac

Mothership RPG

Dungeon Games, Florida

NecronomiCON, Florida

Bardmageddon (musical group)

DCC Class Cards

Spelljammer (AD&D 2nd Edition)

Crawljammer #1

Star Crawl

Crawl #11 (The Seafaring Issue)

D.A.M.N. Magazine #3 (featuring Cojo’s Portal to the Plane of Probability)

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Howdy Pardners!  If you’re already a fan of Dungeon Crawl Classics, you have been bombarded with Kickstarter after Kickstarter for DCC products – and that’s just in the first 5 months of 2019! The best part, for our community, is that the majority of these projects have been put out — successfully, I might add — by a whole posse of third-party publishers! We wish we could’ve herded all the polecats and promoted EACH of them, but the stars have finally aligned so we can share one of these with you before its completion!  Let’s see how that cat jumps!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Carnival of the Damned

Links mentioned in this episode:

Dark Trails

Black Powder Black Magic

Hubris

Zweihander

Mutant Crawl Classics

Sancum Secorum

Gaming and BS

Sanjulian’s artwork

DCC Lankhmar

Unforgiven

Transylvanian Adventurers

GENCON 2018 Program Guide

Spellburn (song by Saint Karloff)

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For generations, it has been whispered of in the back-alleys of Punjar… for untold aeons, a secret on the lips of Sezrekan, shared only with the most devoted of his servants…  its power unlocking hidden ways of the Gods, new pacts with mind-bending Patrons, precious artifacts of startling puissance and, perhaps most sanity-stretching of all .. the hirsute glory of THE MUSTACHE…  yes.. From the dark, hideous forges of Northern California, the Dark Master has unleashed a tide of chaos that could only be that legendary work, so long a rumor…. but always FEARED to be real… THE DCC RPG ANNUAL!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Secrets of the World Harvesters

Dragora’s Dungeon

Riders on the Phlogiston (2018 DCC Tournament)

Children of the Fallen Sun (MCC RPG)

Links mentioned in this episode:

Weird Realms (FLGS in Cleveland)

DCC RPG Annual

DCC Lankhmar

Mothership RPG

Star Crawl

Unearthed Arcana

Lost Continent of Mu

New Glitter Wizard Album- Opera Villains

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Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Home for the Holideath (Mutant Crawl Classics RPG)

DCC Lankhmar

Links mentioned in this episode:

Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcers of Hyperborea

Tabletop Twats RPG podcast

Second Edition

The Blue Star

The Bleak Shore

Patrons of Lankhmar

Call of Cthullhu RPG

Mutant Crawl Classics RPG

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The Dark Master (and minions) update us on:  The Dying Earth!  Dungeon Crawl Classics #100!  DCC Art!  The Hobonomicon!  X-Crawl!  The new Judges’ Guild Compilation!  Tales from the Magician’s Skull (Sanjulian cover!)  The Cthulhu Alphabet!   The Star Wound of Abbadon (DCC #99)!  Fred Saberhagen’s Empire of the East!  Expedition to Barrier Peaks!  Lankhmar covers and printer proofs! DCC 5th Printing covers (including the EGYPTIAN LICH)!  New Zine (WE ARE THE ROAD CREW!)  Shudder Mountains and DCC Annual!   And a Jeff Easley original and a tribute to the DCC Community!  All this and more on this special What’s New with Goodman Games, brought to you by Spellburn!

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“You’re no hero,” the DCC RPG rulebook iconically says. “You’re an adventurer: a reaver, a cutpurse, a heathen-slayer, a tight-lipped warlock guarding long-dead secrets.” While our characters may be seeking gold and glory caked in the blood and filth of the weak, as players, it can be extra fun and satisfying doing it all for a good reason. Whether you’re buying raffle tickets at Drinking & Dragons, pledging support to Extra Life campaigns, raising money for charities through Lawful Good Gaming, helping David Baity raise money for kitties in need, or helping support the hard work Jon Marr does for us all in his annual campaign, raising money for good causes while gaming is a long-standing DCC tradition…

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Halfmen of Hirsute Hollow

The Black Heart of Thakulon the Undying

The Inn at Five Points (Real life version)

DCC Lankhmar

Escape from the Presidents’ Hall (Blogpost)

Links mentioned in this episode:

Lawful Good Gaming (on Twitter)

David Baity Charity Raffle

Roll 4 Change

Weird Realms (FLGS)

Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea

Savage Worlds RPG

The Quantum Ogre

Van Hagar

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Tonight we burn ability points with a man who’s been with DCC from the beginning.  Brad McDevitt has worked with Goodman Games since the 3.5 era and has contributed art to the core rulebook, X-Crawl, Mutant Crawl Classics, Age of Cthulhu and a ton of work for many other companies as well.  He also runs his own clip-art business and moonlights as a ninja. We’ll talk with Brad, try to make Judge Jen tell us things about the DCC Annual and just generally do our best to annoy the Goad…. All this and more on this episode of Spellburn!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Halfmen of Hirsute Hollow

Hole in the Sky

The Chained Coffin

Links mentioned in this episode:

DCC Annual Kickstarter

Virgil Finlay

Expendables RPG

Nightlife RPG

Brontosaurus Rex

Clip Art Scatters

Dark Trails!

Brad’s Art Site

Brad’s Art Book (from Goodman Games!)

X-Crawl!

The Monster Alphabet

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Chances are, you’ve heard a ton about the new Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar material. In this episode of Spellburn, we will go through some of the crucial differences from DCC RPG, including steps for character generation and some of the basic things new players can expect in the setting. Whether you backed the Kickstarter, have already explored the City of a Thousand Score Smokes, have fully dipped your toes into the River Hlal (yuck!), or are completely new to Fritz Leiber and his classic urban fantasy setting, we hope to uncover some of the mystery for you – in what is sure to be the first of a series of acclimating to DCC Lankhmar.

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Greenwood of the Fey Sovereign

Links mentioned in this episode:

Con on the Cob 2018!

DCC Lankhmar Kickstarter

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We are so behind in our emails that our mailbag is overflowing! We have nearly thirty emails dating back more than seven months so we are gonna dive right into in.  I’m Judge Jeff and with me tonight are Judge Jen (greetings!) and Judge Julian (salutations!)  Normally, we would go to Tavern talk and talk about our recent gaming but every minute of this episode is precious, so we are going to skip it and go right to the meat of the episode… SUMMON EMAIL…

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Greenwood of the Fey Sovereign

The Apocalypse Ark

Into the Borderlands

Elzamon and the Blood Drinking Box

Neon Knights

Treasure Vaults of Zadabad

Swordfish Islands

DCC Lankhmar

Intrigue at the Court of Chaos

Beyond the Black Gate

Queen of Elfland’s Son

Man-Bait for the Soul-Stealers

Sailors on the Starless Sea

Tower of the Black Pearl

Links mentioned in this episode:

DCC Tournament

Ray Harryhausen

HOBONOMICON

The Brooklyn Strategist

Swordfish Islands Conversion for DCC

Shadow Lass

Chris Hooker’s Alternate Spellburn Table

Torchbearer the RPG

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The Dark Master updates us on: Print & PDF, Isle of Dread, Mutant Crawl Classics, Mutant Mayhem Minis, Lankhmar, Cthulhu Alphabet, Tales from the Magician’s Skull, Road Crew, Judges’ Guild! and of course DCC RPG (Star Wound!  DCC #100!  New Printing!  Chained Coffin!  Dying Earth! X-Crawl Classics!  The DCC Tournament!)

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Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG was forged in the fires of Appendix N literature and nothing can be or will be more Appendix N than the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.  Today our guest is Jon Hook who has written for Age of Cthulhu as well as DCC RPG. We’ll explore Lovecraft, oldschool Chaosium, DCC RPG and more on this episode of Spellburn!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Chaos Rising (Featuring Elzamon and the Blood Drinking Box)
Sailors on the Starless Sea
Doom of the Savage Kings
Shadow Under Devil’s Reef

Links mentioned in this episode:

For Matthew who emailed us on this episode, the link to the character sheet in question is here, thanks (Naturally) to Purple Sorcerer.

On the Style/Format drop-down, pick “Tourney: DCC General”

Funnel Tourney Character Sheets with Stamp Space

Goodman Games announces Cthulhu Alphabet!
Goodman Games 2017 GENCON Program Guide
Age of Cthulhu
Hobbs & Friends of the OSR
Miskatonic University Podcast
Mutant Crawl Classics RPG
Terminal City Tabletop Convention
Cleveland
Dungeons & Drag Queens
Weird Realms
Into the Borderlands (Reprint of Module B1)
Runequest

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Following the annual holiday of our people — Free RPG Day — it seems fitting to invoke another Road Crew judge onto the show! Tonight’s guest brings DCC RPG to game shops at least twice a week, in addition to convention appearances. And, in the spirit of inclusivity, we’re ecstatic to welcome the very FIRST guest to the show who … shall we say, differs a bit from every other guest we have invoked here on Spellburn.

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Carnival of the Damned
Sailors on the Starless Sea
Tower of the Black Pearl
Tower Out of Time
Doom of the Savage Kings
The Croaking Fane
Temple of the Hamster

Links mentioned in this episode:

Mutant Crawl Classics RPG
Cleveland
Dungeons & Drag Queens
Weird Realms
Better World Books
Sharp Swords and Sinister Spells

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On this episode of Spellburn we are going to talk about playing in the sandbox. What is a sandbox campaign and how might it help you up your DCC game? Well luckily for all you out there in podcast-land, we have the author “Dispatches from the Raven Crowking Vol. III: Building the Sandbox” with us tonight to help us explore this topic, the incomparable Raven Crowking himself!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Nebin Pendlebrook’s Perilous Pantry
The Frost Fang Expedition
Hole in the Sky
The Isle of Dread
Angels, Daemons and Beings In Between
Shadow Under Devil’s Reef
Jewels of the Carnifex
The Sea Queen Escapes
Haunting of Larvik Island
Attack of the Frawgs
Caverns of Thracia
The Thing in the Chimney

Links mentioned in this episode:

Raven Crowking (Daniel J Bishop) Conversion notes for DCC
The Campaign Elements series (vol 1)
Vornheim
Wilderlands of HIgh Fantasy
Dick Sprang
Adventurer’s Almanac
GM Gems

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We love DCC RPG, but you know what makes it even better?  Putting your own customized home table stamp right on the game you play.   We asked the Spellburnt legions to send us some houserules and you did! We’ll review the lot, yak about the pros and cons and I’m going to try my damndest to make each one of us adopt one of these houserules tonight for our next session!   All this and more on the next episode of the Kids-tested, Hobbs-approved Spellburn!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Free RPG day handout 2017 (Incl. Gnole House)
(Upcoming from Stephen Newton/Thick Skull Adventures) The Last Will and Testament of Obediah Felkner

Links mentioned in this episode:
Chris Hooker’s Alternate Spellburn Table
Crawl! No. 2 (Broken Shields rules)
Hubris (setting for DCC RPG!)
Marc Elsenheimer’s Disapproval Rules!
Updated blog post for Marc Elsenheimer’s House Rules!

Julio Manganaro Silva’s Advancement Chart!

Consistency:

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (1841).

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Another Gary Con has come and gone and what a grand con it was!  One of the few things missing was the “What’s New with Goodman Games?” seminar.  Yes, for the first time in over 5 years, we got no seminar.  This means that this is also the first time in 5 years that Spellburn has been unable to share that recording with those who were unable to join us in Lake Geneva!   So in its stead, we have gathered to share some of our standout moments of the week as well as some of the things coming along down the pipeline from both the official and the third party publishing quarters!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Shadow Under Devil’s Reef
Neon Knights
Tower of Faces (Sanjulian cover!)
Hive of the Overmind
Warlords of ATOZ

Links mentioned in this episode:
Crawl-Thulhu #1
Red Dragon Inn
Delta Green
Top Secret the RPG
DCC Lankhmar
Dark Heresey
Umerican Survival Guide (Crawling Under a Broken Moon, 2nd edition!) 🙂
Hobbs & Nemesis “The Bathroom Interviews” – Not Safe For Work
Darlene (classic RPG artist!)
Tomb of Horrors

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Like many listening, I first encountered the mysterious world of Aéreth in the pages of the DCC RPG Core Book. Many others listening will remember the world of Aéreth from back in the days when Dungeon Crawl Classics wasn’t the name of a roleplaying game but was instead the name of a line of adventure modules written for the world’s first fantasy roleplaying game.

Today we are lucky enough to have the man who quite literally wrote the book on the topic of Aéreth back in those days of yore. He’s here to talk to us about the system’s default setting and how it has changed since DCC RPG was launched.

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

One Who Watches from Below

Doom of the Savage Kings

Hive of the Overmind

Incursion of the Ultradimension

The Portsmouth Mermaid

Dragora’s Dungeon

Sailors on the Starless Sea

The Emerald Enchanter

Links mentioned in this episode:

Book of Treasure Maps

Gazetteer of the Known Realms

Curator of Earth (MCC Character Genreation on Twitter!)

Interactive Aereth Map on Goodman Games site

James Mishler maps

James Mishler blog

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There’s no need for a long-winded intro for Episode 65 because our guest is familiar to everyone who plays DCC RPG.  We are welcoming back … oh..  Wait, nope he cancelled  .  It’s the EMAIL episode!   We talk mercurial magic, patrons, diversity, Gary Con, MCC, house rules and lots and lots of DCC RPG.

You know what?  I didn’t get any freakin’ guest stars for this episode but I have two of the best folks in DCC with me right now!  You know them as Judge Jen… and Judge Jeff!

(And after a not-that-long hiatus, we welcome back.. Judge Mailbag!)

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Hive of the Overmind

The Black Goat

Children of the Fallen Sun

2017 Goodman Games Program Guide

Doom of the Savage Kings (Tomb of Ulfaenor)

Shandows Under Devil’s Reef

Neon Knights

Links mentioned in this episode:

Angels, Daemons and Beings In Between

Hobbs & Friends of the OSR

Sanctum Sanctorum Podcast

Appendix N Bookclub

Kitty Pryde of the X-Men

Anydice.com

Umerican Survival Guide (Delve Cover)

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In this episode, we are spellburning everything as we reach through the Ethos to another continent and traverse multiple lines of latitude and longitude to summon one of the very first fans of DCC RPG South of the equator. You’ve heard tonight’s special guest’s name so often, it should be no surprise that we’re talking about our very own multilingual writer and artist from Brazil: Judge Diogo Nogueira!

In case any of our listeners plan on traveling to lovely Rio this year, we’ll tell you what to expect on the gaming scene, and preview some local specialty cuisine, like Rat Salad…

(This episode’s banner art by Judge Diogo!)

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Hive of the Overmind

Sailors on the Starless Sea

Salada de Ratos (“Rat Salad”)

Links mentioned in this episode:

DCC Lankhmar!

Dungeon Synth

Umerican Survival Guide (Delve Cover)

Diogo’s blog

Barbarian Class

Character Sheets

Portuguese edition of DCC RPG!

Crawling Under a Broken Moon (with Digo illos and content!)

Sharp Swords and Sinister Spells

Caveira Velha (Brazilian Zine!)

Diogo’s children’s book!

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Page 10 of the DCC Core Book asks us to pledge, with our right hand upon our little brown books, that we shall uphold the honor of the hobby of role playing to all comers, whether young or old. In this episode we discuss what it means to uphold the honor of the hobby to all comers and whether or not that only applies to those of different ages. Should we make an effort to make our gaming table and the game itself more open and inclusive to those of all walks of life: regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexuality, etc.

Some of you listening may be saying “Well duh, of course,” and some of you may be saying “Oh great, now Spellburn is gonna get all preachy with their SJW nonsense”. Wherever you fall on that spectrum, we hope you’ll listen and join in on the conversation on social media afterwards!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Grimtooth’s Museum of Death

Dragora’s Dungeon

Links mentioned in this episode:

Bushido

Bunnies And Burrows

Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards

Gloom

Red Dragon Inn

X-Card

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What IS Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG?  Is it just a beautifully made OSR game with superior standards of art and more prodigious production of random tables?  Or is it MORE than a retroclone, and if so, how does it differ from the games that hue closer to the traditional elements of the world’s most popular roleplaying game (older edition)?  When we talk about OSR Games or retroclones, WHAT’S fundamentally new and different about DCC?  How is it that DCC is perhaps one of the most different RPGs of the OSR, and yet is constantly said to rekindle the original spirit and nostalgia of so many oldschoolers?

We’re going to go deep into RPG theory and DCC with Steve Bean– all this and more on this week’s episode of Spellburn!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

World-Quest of the Winter Calendar
Null Singularity
Intrigue at the Court of Chaos (2nd printing)
Blades Against Death
Shadow Under Devil’s Reef
The One Who Watches from Below

Links mentioned in this episode:

Steve Bean profile on Goodman Games site
Steve Bean Games
DCC Lankhmar!
Hollow Point RPG
Gongfarmer’s Almanac 2016

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Time to give the Clerics their due! Judge Jen leads us through a 1st level Clerics primer. Plus, funnels!  Plus, Gongfarmers Almanac!  Plus the winner of the Dungeon Denizens contest!  All this and more on this episode of Spellburn!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

BostonCrawl (X-Crawl adventure, as mentioned…)
Outlive, Outsmart, Outkill!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Nowhere City Nights (setting for Outlive! Outsmart! Outkill!)
Hubris
Death is the New Pink

Announcing our Dungeon Denizen winner, Tim White! 

Link to the Dungeon Denizens!

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Sezrekan commands it!  Emails, emails and even more emails! We shut up and let the listeners have their say! (Well, we don’t really shut up.)  All this and more on this episode of Spellburn!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Shadows Under Devil’s Reef (2017 Halloween Adventure)
Sinister Sutures of the Seamstress (2016 Halloween Adventure)
Creeping Beauties of the Wood
Sword in the Jungle Deep
The Purple Planet

Links mentioned in this episode:

Umerican Survival Guide
Cake Boss!
Spirit of ’77
Pathfinder RPG
Black Crusade RPG
Microscope RPG

Dungeon Denizen winner announced in the next episode! 

Follow this link, enjoy the image!

New Dungeon Denizen contest!

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This week on Spellburn we take a look at how to create a supernatural Patron!  Patrons are one of the coolest and most unique aspects of Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.  Every Judge will have a reason to make one as a foil, as a PC ally, and of course just for the fun of it!  We’ll talk about how to generate them, how to fine-tune them and what distinguishes them from other fickle entities like the GAWDS.  All this and more on this week’s episode of SPELLBURN!

Patron write-up: W.I.G.H.T.

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Shadows Under Devil’s Reef (2017 Halloween Adventure)
Sinister Sutures of the Seamstress (2016 Halloween Adventure)
They Served Brandolyn Red
Tower of the Black Pearl

Links mentioned in this episode:

Clark Ashton Smith
Robin Hobb
Michael Chabon
Ready Player One
Swords Against Death
Angels Daemons and Beings In Between

Don’t miss the latest Dungeon Denizen contest with art by Stefan Poag! Follow this link, enjoy the image, and send your entry to [email protected] by Mid-November!

New Dungeon Denizen contest!

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One of the first things people notice about Dungeon Crawl Classics is the amazing art, inside and out.  In this episode, we’ll get to know one of the minds behind those evocative illustrations, and we’ll find out where else we can find his art — including pieces for RPGs in various languages, entire graphic novels of Lovecraftian influence, and even some breathtaking mosaic tile work!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Shadows Under Devil’s Reef (2017 Halloween Adventure)
Tegel Manor
Sinister Sutures of the Seamstress (2016 Halloween Adventure)
People of the Pit
Barrowmaze
The Sunken Ziggurat

Links mentioned in this episode:

Angels, Daemons and Beings In Between Vol.2
Tales from the Magician’s Skull
The Weird Fantasy Art of Stefan Poag (Stefan’s website)
Operation Unfathomable
Dagon
Xcrawl: the Movie on Indiegogo
Stefan Poag tile works

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New Dungeon Denizen contest!

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This week our episode is on the Appendix H… H for horror films! Horror films have been inspiring fantasy roleplaying from its inception. It is widely believed that the Cleric class’s main inspiration was Peter Cushing as Dr. Van Helsing in the 1950s and 60s Hammer Horror films, and that the Magic Missile spell came from the 1963 movie “The Raven” with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff. Today we will focus on content creation and share ideas we have from some of our favorite horror films for how you can spice up your game!  Judge Michael Bolam joins us for another Horror classic!

Films mentioned in this episode:
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
An American Werewolf in London
Bone Tomahawk
Cabin in the Woods
Death Bed: The Bed that Eats!
Demons
Event Horizon
From Beyond
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
The Masque of the Red Death
Night of the Living Dead
Phantasm
The Reconstruction of William Zero
Street Trash
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Twin Peaks (2017)
THE MOST HEAVY METAL SCENE EVER IN A MOVIE EVER

Playlists mentioned in this episode:
Judge Jeff’s DCC Playlist
James MacGeorge’s Witch Metal Playlist
Judge Julian’s Nostaliga “Playlist”

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
DCC Tournament 2017!
Tower of the Black Pearl
Sky of the Crimson Flame
The Vile Worm

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The Dark Master updates us on: Into the Borderlands, MCC, Lankhmar, DCC Annual(!), New Halloween Adventure, Metamorphosis Alpha, Tales from the Magician’s Skull (New Appendix N Fiction), Judges Guild V2, 5E Subscription, and Grimtooth Campaign Setting!

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This week on Spellburn, we’re waiting for GENCON!   DCC RPG is going to have its biggest presence ever at the world’s biggest gaming convention.  How did we get here?   Jon Hershberger has been involved in oldschool gaming for decades, and running the same campaign for much of that time!   But you may know him as a friendly face behind the dealer’s room booth, the writer-editor of the DCC RPG Index, or one of the people who is making the Gongfarmer’s Almanac happen for the third year in a row!  We’ll talk to Jon about GENCON, the Almanac and much more!

Links mentioned in this episode:
2015 Gongfarmer’s Almanac
2016 Gongfarmers Almanac
DCC RPG Adventure Index #1
DCC RPG Master Zine Index
Metamorphosis Alpha Adventure and Resource Supplement Index
Crypts and Things Remastered
Rogue Trader
WhiteBox Gothic
Black Pudding Zine

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Well of the Worm
Journey to the Center of Aereth
Caverns of Thracia
Expedition to Barrier Peaks
Barrowmaze
Secrets of the Smuggler’s Cove
Blackguard’s Revenge
Iron Crypt of the Heretics
Mines of Custalcon

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Welcome to Spellburn! There’s been a lot of phlogiston in the air recently, as the 2017 ENnie Award nominees were announced…and to our humble surprise, Spellburn was on that esteemed list! To get into the spirit, we asked the community to do a little pre-ENnie voting. We’re going to go over some of those results this week — there are some really entertaining ones in the list! — and we’ll share some of our personal favorites, from the perspective of both player and judge.

Links mentioned in this episode:
Ennead Games Random Generators and GM Aids (fr. DM Cojo)
Tome of Adventure
Purple Sorcerer’s DCC (and MCC) Tools
Sanctum Sanctorum podcast
Crawl #2
Crawling Under a Broken Moon
Gongfarmers Almanac
Vote Spellburn for the 2017 Ennies!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:

Against the Atomic Overlord
The Apocalypse Ark
Attack of the Frawgs
Barrowmaze
Beneath the Comet
Black Sun Death Crawl
Blades Against Death
BostonCrawl
Bride of the Black Manse
Beyond the Black Gate
Carnival of the Damned
Chaos Rising (including Elzamon and the Blood Drinking Box, the Imperishable Sorceress, the Tower Out of Time.. and more!)
The Croaking Fane
Death by Nexus
Doom of the Savage Kings
Dragora’s Dungeon
DungeonBattle Brooklyn
Escape from the Shrouded Fen
Free RPG Day 2016 (Including Museum at the End of Time)
The Frost Fang Expedition
Frozen in Time
GENCON 2016 Program Guide (including Not in Kansas Anymore)
Grimtooth’s Museum of Death
Jewels of the Carnifex
Journey to the Center of the Aerth
Making of the Ghost Ring
The Meat Grinder
One Who Watches from Below
Revenge of the Over-Kobold
Sailors on the Starless Sea
The Shambling Un-Dead
Silent Nightfall
Theater of the Hammed
Tower of the Black Pearl
The Vile Worm
The Witch of Wydfield
Wizardarium of Calabraxis

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This week on Spellburn we’re chatting with the Metal God and Atomic Overlord himself… Edgar Johnson! We’re going to talk to him about his hex-crawl adventure “Moon-Slaves of the Cannibal Kingdom”, his science-fantasy “Against the Atomic Overlord”, and whatever else we feel like chatting about. This and more on our 54th episode of Spellburn!

Links mentioned in this episode:
Microscope RPG
Cast-a-Quadrons RPG
Mutant Crawl Classics (MCC RPG)
Spirit of 77 RPG
DCC in Portuguese!
Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s
Lamentations of the Flame Princess: Free RPG Day (incl. Vaginas are Magic!)

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Moon-Slaves of the Cannibal Kingdom
Gnole House (In 2017 Free RPG Day DCC Quickstart from Goodman Games)
Against the Atomic Overlord
Blood for the Serpent King (included in Bride of the Black Manse)
Intrigue at the Court of Chaos
Chained Coffin Boxed Set (including Sour Spring Hollow)
Peril on the Purple Planet (including Lost Tombs of the Ancients)

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We’re pleased to announce that Spellburn has been nominated for an Ennie in the podcast category.   How cool is that?

What can you do to support Spellburn?

Voting opens on July 11, 2017 for the Ennies.  Vote for Spellburn in the podcast category and then party with us at GENCON 2017!

Learn more here at the Ennies site!

This week on Spellburn we’re celebrating a very special occasion!  Saturday, June 17 marks the 5th FREE RPG DAY since the release of the Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game!  The heavens shook and the abyss trembled and the masters of reality feared for their grip on the aether!  Since then, thousands of adventurers since have fought, lived and died (mostly died) for glory and gold, as we learned to imagine the the wizard, the fighting man, the cleric, even the halfling in a whole new way!  How do you celebrate such an auspicious occasion?  By summoning the great immortal Dark Master himself, of course!

Links mentioned in this episode:
Tales from the Magician’s Skull!
Dungeon Alphabet
Free RPG Day
North Texas RPG Con
Bunnies & Burrows
Boss Monster
RISK 2210 AD
Grognardia
The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
Gettysburg (Board Wargame)

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Fate’s Fell Hand

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Spellburn is back this week with a veritable potpourri of topics! That’s right, we’re doing some spring cleaning around here, and besides dusting off the artifacts, realigning the tomes on the shelves, and giving the ol’ summoning circle a fresh coat of *ahem* paint, it’s also time to air out the mailbag!

Links mentioned in this episode:
Classic D&D reprints from Goodman Games
North Texas RPG Con events!
Spirit of 77 RPG
Death is the New Pink RPG (in development)
Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea
Cthulhu Wars (Boardgame)
Conan the Boardgame
Mutant Crawl Classics RPG!

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
BostonCrawl for DCC RPG
In Search of the Unknown
Tomb of Horrors
Hive of the Overmind
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This week on Spellburn we discuss some of the many third-party classes available for DCC RPG. When you deviate from the core book, you can find all manner of strange, exciting, and bizarre classes. Some of them emulate classes from the various editions of the world’s most popular fantasy roleplaying game, others are templates for futuristic or modern day settings, and some are just plain gonzo. We’ll be discussing this and more in our 51st episode of Spellburn!

Links mentioned in this episode:
Judge Jeff’s DCC Spotify Playlist
Paladin Class (Crawl #6)
Clownight (Crawling Under A Broken Moon #12)
Calavera (Dark Trails G+ community)
Marauder (Tales from the Fallen Empire)
Faerie Animal (Creeping Beauties of the Wood)
Ratfolk (Dungeon Lord – The Wayne Con Issue)
Blood Witch (Hubris: A World of Visceral Adventure)
Yolovar (Crawljammer #6)
Chakas (Goblin Mini Mart blog)
Purple Sorcerer Online Game Aids
DCC Reference Booklet
Assassin Class (Gongfarmers’ Almanac 2015)
Nowhere City Nights
DCC Lankhmar Kickstarter
Noah Stevens’s Great DCC 3P Class List

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Tower of the Black Pearl
Frozen in Time
Boston Crawl

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This week we dive into the topic of urban adventuring…particularly in the City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokes. That’s right, we’re welcoming back for his fourth appearance – fifth if you count the infamous “lost pilot” – manly DCC RPG scribe Mighty Michael Curtis, who’s going to talk with us about his magnum opus, “Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar,” which also happens to be the latest Kickstarter from Goodman Games.  All this and much more on the 50th (!) episode of Spellburn!

Links mentioned in this episode:
DCC RPG Lankhmar Kickstarter
Mutant Crawl Classics RPG Kickstarter (closed)
Rat Snake
Secret Antiquities
Stormbringer RPG

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Dread On Demon Crown Hill
Purple Duck Games: Purple Mountain
Queen of the Demonweb Pits
Gongfarmer’s Almanac 2016 (Vol 4 contains “An Orm Lies Down in Punjar”)

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The Goodman Games crew discusses new products for 2017:  DCC Lankhmar, Mutant Crawl Classics, TSR reprints and more!

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This week on Spellburn we’re very pleased to have with us… Judge Reid San Filippo, creator of the Crawling Under A Broken Moon magazine and now the successful launcher of “The Umerican Survival Guide” Kickstarter!  We’re going to talk to Reid about the History of Broken Moon and about his new project as well as round up Gary Con events!  All this and more on this episode of Spellburn!

Links mentioned in this episode:
Umerican Survival Guide Kickstarter
Crawling Under A Broken Moon Products
DCC RPG Lankhmar Kickstarter
SUPERS! Revised Edition
Art of Doug Kovacs
GENCON 2017
Mutant Crawl Classics RPG Kickstarter (closed)

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
The Madhouse Meet (in the Free RPG Day 2016 release)
Caverns of Thracia (Judges Guild reprint)
Tegel Manor (Judges Guild Reprint)
Book of Treasure Maps (including Tomb of Aethering the Damned)

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This week on Spellburn, we’re celebrating the resurrection of D.A.M.N., the DCC RPG Adventure Magazine and News ‘zine.  We’ve brought special guest Paul Wolfe on to talk about spearheading this revival as well as his prolific third-party projects.  We’re also really excited for Gary Con, which is just around the corner, so stay tuned for details on where you can find each of us.  And — if that’s not hard-core enough for you — we’re also welcoming a new permanent co-host to the show, Brooklyn’s own Appendix N and DCC acolyte, Judge Jeff Goad!

Links mentioned in this episode:
D.A.M.N. Magazine
Hobbs & Friends of the OSR Podcast
DCC Free Resources Sheet
Listing of All DCC RPG Modules
Angels, Daemons and Beings In Between
Gary Con
Con of the North

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
The Wizardarium of Calabraxis
Sepulcher of the Mountain God
The God-Seed Awakens
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (including Mermaids of Yuggoth)
The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
Steading of the Nergalites (Link in blogpost)
The Bog God’s Champion

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This week on Spellburn, we’ll dive into a hot topic:  How to win over the uninitiated to the game of Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG!  We’ve all been there before– trying to sell DCC to oldschool grognards, or devotees of newschool games.   We’ll discuss how to prepare a game for newbies, whether at a convention or a FLGS.  And we’ll talk about resources to find new players, as well as the differences between DCC and other systems and how to handle some common questions or perceptions.  And if that’s not enough, we welcome a new judge to the fold!  All this on Spellburn!

Links mentioned in this episode:
Mutant Crawl Classics
The Dying Earth
Walking Dead: All Out War
Nowhere City Nights
Classic Traveller
Petal Hack
Hobbs & Friends of the OSR Podcast

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
The Chained Coffin Box Set (containing both Sour Spring Hollow & Rat King’s River of Death)
Glipkerio’s Gambit
The One Who Watches from Below

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This week on Spellburn, we’re going somewhere totally different.  Over the last 45 episodes, we’ve talked about many different aspects of the games:  The classes, the magic system, the mighty deeds, the monsters, and more.  In this episode, we’re going to talk about how people actually use the rules and specifically how people abuse the rules:  What players do to twist and break the game and what Judges might do to respond to those tactics!  And we’ll do it with an eye on con games as well as long term campaigns.

Links mentioned in this episode:
Angels, Daemons and Beings Between
Nowhere City Nights
Sharp Swords and Sinister Spells
Fanfic

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
The One Who Watches from Below
The Making of the Ghost Ring
Escape from the Shrouded Fen
Transylvanian Adventures
The Croaking Fane

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This week on Spellburn, we’re taking a deep, dark look at the world of DEMONS.  Sure they’ve been around since the days of AD&D, although they apparently got a little too hot for some game companies in the late 80s.  But they’ve always been a part of Appendix N and nothing could be more old-school than featuring them in your Dungeon Crawl Classics game.  We’ll talk about how to use them as bad guys, Patrons and NPCs, the spells that bind them and even thoughts about running campaigns on their home turf– in the Abyss.

Links mentioned in this episode:
Angels, Daemons and Beings Between
Gazetteer of the Known Realms
Demonland

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Elzamon and the Blood Drinking Box
The Infernal Crucible of Sezrekan the Mad
Bride of the Black Manse
Glipkerio’s Gambit
The Making of the Ghost Ring

Dungeon Denizen (art by Benjamin Marra): Mantrikrex

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This episode on Spellburn, we’re introducing an additional permanent co-host to the show, a long-time DCC RPG organizer and game designer. Listen to find out! In addition to this overload of awesome, we’re welcoming the notorious Brendan LaSalle for his first visit to Spellburn. Listeners may know Brendan as “the guy you send emails to for Road Crew swag”, or as the most insane judge at conventions. He’s also the author of the funnel, “Hole in the Sky,” and he is the mastermind behind X-Crawl, one of the most entertaining settings for DCC.

Links mentioned in this episode:
X-Crawl
Fat Dragon Games
Villains & Vigillantes

Adventures mentioned in this episode:
Dungeon Battle Brooklyn
Belly of the Great Beast
Hole in the Sky
Nowhere City
The Adventure Begins
Las Vegas Crawl

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The Goodman Games crew discusses their views on how to write good adventures at Gencon 2016.

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Joseph Goodman and his minions discuss the exciting new releases coming from Goodman Games in 2016, including the long-awaited DCC Annual, Grimtooth’s Trapsylvania, Erol Otus-inspired adventures, this year’s Halloween module, Music of the Spheres, Xcrawl Classics, more Mutant Crawl Classics, Lankhmar, and the official announcement of the Dying Earth RPG!

This is an audio dump of the video by Diogo Nogueira and David Baity. The full video will be posted online soon.

UPDATE: Here is video

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This week on Spellburn, the Judges J get the band back together for a very special show! We’re celebrating the Free RPG Day debut and subsequent Kickstarter of the very long-awaited Mutant Crawl Classics RPG. We all burned down to 3’s on the Invoke Patron roll for this one, and our special guest for this show is none other than our very own Judge Jim! Now that MCC is officially out there, Judge Jim can tell us everything he’s had to keep quiet about for the past few years.

Links mentioned in this episode:
MCC RPG Kickstarter
MCC RPG Google+ Community
Jeffery’s Answer to Everything:
Jason Sholtis
Purple Sorceror
Crawling Under a Broken Moon

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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.

Links mentioned in this episode:
The Rock Awakens: http://www.goodman-games.com/50841preview.html
Tomb of the Immortal Kahl: http://www.goodman-games.com/5085preview.html
Elzemon and the Blood Drinking Box: http://www.goodman-games.com/FRPGD14preview.html
50 Fantastic Functions for the D50: http://www.goodman-games.com/4379preview.html
2015 Gen Con Program Guide, “Cranking Up the Funk in DCC Dice Rolling”: http://www.goodman-games.com/GC15preview.html

The Monster Alphabet, “S is for Sonic”: http://www.goodman-games.com/4386preview.html

Purple Planet Relics, Beasts, and Lore: http://www.goodman-games.com/5085preview.html

Dual-Wielding Probabilities from Spellburn Episode 26 (July 19, 2014): https://spellburn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bittman-Inspired-Generalized-Two-handed-Weapon-Math-by-Olson.pdf
From Elzemon and the Blood-Drinking Box: Yarafad’s Box = Faraday Cage, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

From Monster Alphabet, S is for Sonic, The Elgad Lazif’rel Effect: Elgad Lazif’rel = Ella Fitzgerald, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG8K0yl4_hc

Steve Bean’s Rat King’s River of Death (Bonus with Curtis’ The Chained Coffin): http://www.goodman-games.com/5084preview.html

Edgar Johnson’s Blood for the Serpent King (Bonus with Stroh’s Bride of the Black Manse): http://www.goodman-games.com/5083preview.html

Jobe Bittman’s The Emerald Enchanter Strikes Back! (Goodman Games Gen Con 2014 Program Guide): http://www.goodman-games.com/gencon14programbook.html

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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.

Links mentioned in this episode:
Iron Tavern DCC RPG Actual Play Podcast
http://irontavern.com/podcast/

Steel & Fury
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/147952/Steel-and-Fury-DCC

Nebin Pendlebrook’s Perilous Pantry
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/130050/Nebin-Pendlebrooks-Perilous-Pantry-DCC

Crawl Fanzine and D.A.M.N.
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4955/STRAYCOUCHES-PRESS?SRC=FeaturedProduct&motds_id=9363&from_home=0

Judge Hook’s Alternate Spellburn Effects Table
http://www.goodman-games.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=44802

Jim Skatch’s Body Recovery House Rule
http://myotherswordisvorpal.blogspot.com/2013/07/body-recovery-in-dcc.html

Star Frontiers
http://www.starfrontiers.com/

Sanctum Secorum Podcast
http://sanctum.media/blog/

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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. Whether you’re new to the game or a long-time judge, some spells just aren’t taken seriously enough because they’re taken at face value. We’re here to offer some clarifications, and to de-mystify some magicks.

Links mentioned in this episode:
DCC RPG 4th Printing Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/dcc-rpg-4th-printing
Iron Tavern DCC RPG Actual Play Podcast
http://irontavern.com/podcast/

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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!

Links mentioned in this episode:
Gencon
http://gencon.com/

Sailors on the Starless Sea Artist’s Choice covers
http://www.goodman-games.com/5066Apreview.html

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!

Links mentioned in this episode:
Appendix M
http://appendixm.blogspot.ca/

The Crawler’s Companion (free DCC RPG dice roller app)
http://purplesorcerer.com/crawler.php

DCC Monster Helper
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2qlP_VOf718LTFEc05ZVlpIU0U

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…

Links mentioned in this episode:

The Crawler’s Companion (free DCC RPG dice roller app)
http://purplesorcerer.com/crawler.php

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

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!

Want the audio only version of the seminar? Here you go…

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 from Goodman Games, starting with “The Hypercube of Myt.” Joining us to explore this new adventure phenomenon is David Baity, who’s own tournament funnel “Carnival of the Damned” met with wide acclaim at Gary Con VII.

Links mentioned in this show:

DCC RPG World Tour 2015
http://www.goodman-games.com/worldtour.html

DCC #RC1: The Hypercube of Myt
http://www.goodman-games.com/DCCRC1preview.html

How to Run a DCC Tournament Funnel article
https://spellburn.com/?p=1607

Purple Sorcerer Games
http://purplesorcerer.com

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 Cain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Cain

Crawler’s Companion (Web Version)
http://purplesorcerer.com/crawler/crawler.htm

Gary Con Gaming Convention
http://www.garycon.com/index.php

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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:

Thick Skull Adventures
http://www.thickskulladventures.com

Attack of the Frawgs – 1st level DCC RPG adventure
http://www.thickskulladventures.com/products/attack-of-the-frawgs/

The Haunting of Larvik – 1st level DCC RPG adventure
http://www.thickskulladventures.com/products/haunting-of-larvik-island-dccrpg/

Stronghold of the Wood Giant Shaman – 5th level DCC RPG adventure
http://www.thickskulladventures.com/products/haunting-of-larvik-island-dccrpg/

Gary Con Gaming Convention
http://www.garycon.com/index.php

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 that parties like it’s 1974, as he shares the secret origin and history of DCC RPG, how the creative cabal behind the game was formed, and even speculates about his own nick name, “The Dark Master.”

Links mentioned in this episode:

Goodman Games
http://www.goodman-games.com

Dinosaur Planet: Brontosaurus Rex RPG
http://tinyurl.com/kd4bd7m

WoTC Market research
http://trustrum.com/wotc-market-research/

Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG beta rules
http://www.goodman-games.com/downloads/DCCRPGBeta060811.pdf

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 mentioned in this episode:

The Wizardarium of Calibraxis
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/131489/The-Wizardarium-of-Calabraxis?term=the+wizardarium+of+cala

Prayers of the Forgotten
http://stormlordpublishing.com/shop/

The Stronghold of the Wood Giant Shaman
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/137455/Stronghold-of-the-Wood-Giant-Shaman

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 ritualized magic, group casting, unfamiliar familiars, and more.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Diogo Nogueira’s DCC RPG Character Sheet
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55247082/DCC%20RPG%20Char%20Sheet.pdf

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 pen that seems to turn up in published DCC adventures when you least expect it. We may even uncover Dak’s secret connection to the origins of the Spellburn podcast.

And don’t forget to check out this episode’s Dungeon Denizens winner by Roy Snyder – The Stalker of the Doomed!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Crawl fanzine
http://crawlfanzine.blogspot.com

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 releases, and other big announcements, as well as the first-ever DCC RPG tournament and the ever-growing phenomenon that is Doug Con!

Links mentioned in this episode:

PAX Prime Game Convention
http://prime.paxsite.com

DCC RPG google+ community
https://plus.google.com/communities/105339967712243499289?hl=en

Goodman Games website
http://www.goodman-games.com

The Nicest Guy in Gaming
https://plus.google.com/+HarleyStroh/posts?hl=en

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 note: this event was recorded live in the portion of the Indianapolis Convention Center built in an old train station, so the sound quality is not ideal, plus, you know… trains).

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 of forthcoming Gen Con DCC RPG events, including the notorious Doug Con, “Castaways of Catastrophe Island,” and “The Seven Pits of Sezrekan!”

Links mentioned in this show:

Goodman Games Peril on The Purple Planet kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/dungeon-crawl-classics-peril-on-the-purple-planet

The Iron Tavern Actual Play Podcast
http://irontavern.com/podcast/

Stormlord Publishing’s The Well of Souls DCC RPG adventure
http://stormlordpublishing.com/product/the-well-of-souls-print-and-pdf-combo/

DCC RPG g+ Community
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105339967712243499289

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 Dungeon Denizen entryby Mighty Mike Loew!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Bittman-Inspired Generalized Two-Handed Weapon Math by Terry Olson
https://spellburn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bittman-Inspired-Generalized-Two-handed-Weapon-Math-by-Olson.pdf

Goodman Games Peril on the Purple Planet kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/dungeon-crawl-classics-peril-on-the-purple-planet

Iron Tavern Press at Lulu.com
http://www.rpgnow.com/browse.php?manufacturers_id=6192&term=iron

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 Day Special Report with Adam Muskiewicz!Who says this isn’t The Spellburn Age of Spine-Tingling Interviews?

Links mentioned in this show:

Purple Sorcerer Games – http://purplesorcerer.com

Purple Sorcerer 2014 Tools Pledge Drive – http://purplesorcerer.com/pledge.php

Dispatches From Kickassastan – http://www.kickassistan.net

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 to book guests for the show Kobiashi Maru style!
And don’t forget to check out our latest Dungeon Denizens winner by Daniel J. Bishop: The Wampler

Links mentioned in the show:

Go Play NW convention: http://www.goplaynw.org

Marooned Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MaroonedLV

The Iron Tavern actual play DCC podcast: http://irontavern.com/podcast/

Gen Con Indy: http://www.gencon.com

U-Con gaming convention: https://www.ucon-gaming.org

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 – http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/109995/Angels-Daemons-and-Beings-Between

The Order of the Stick – http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0953.html

Judge Jobe’s Two-Handed Weapon Spreadsheet – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqqBybuVA0e4dEVkWEhQX3JEeGlUY21GdERGeUNmbXc&usp=drive_web#gid=0

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 Michael Curtis, who’s going to talk with us about his forthcoming adventure “The Chained Coffin,” which is the latest kickstarter from Goodman Games.

Links mention in this episode:

Dungeon Crawl Classics: The Chained Coffin kickstarter – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/dungeon-crawl-classics-the-chained-coffin

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 Johnson’s Blog: http://revdoctoredj.blogspot.com/2014/03/my-research-on-gaming.html

Crawl! Fanzine: http://crawlfanzine.blogspot.com

CrawlJammer Fanzine: http://crawljammer.blogspot.com

Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad: http://www.kickassistan.net

Crawling Under a Broken Moon: http://crawlingunderabrokenmoon.blogspot.com

Glitter Wizard: http://glitterwizard.bandcamp.com

And don’t forget to check out this episode’s winning Dungeon Denizens contest entry by DM Chasester!

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!

Links mentioned in this episode:

What’s New with Goodman Games Seminar – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYgK8K8eNro

Metamorphosis Alpha 1st Edition Deluxe Hardback kickstarter – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/metamorphosis-alpha-deluxe-hardcover-collectors-ed

Gary Con – http://www.garycon.com

The Iron Tavern DCC RPG Live Play podcast – http://irontavern.com/podcast/

And don’t forget to check out the winning entry in the Doug Kovacs illustrated Dungeon Denizens 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 miss this one. We’ll return in April with our regular programming.

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 DCC RPG adventures, game moments, and authors of 2013 – and we preview what’s coming up on Spellburn in 2014!

“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, the creator and publisher of the latest Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG supplement, Transylvania Adventures!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Land of Phantoms blog – http://landofphantoms.blogspot.com

Transylvanian Adventures – RPGNow

The Iron Tavern DCC RPG Live Play podcast – http://irontavern.com/podcast/

And don’t forget to check out this week’s winning entry in our Dungeon Denizens contest!

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 off the shackles of “rules heavy” games. What does this mean for players and judges of the game?

Links mentioned in this episode:

Crawljammer – http://crawljammer.blogspot.com/
Transylvanian Adventures – RPGNow
Monarch of Monsters 4 Contest – http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page17095.php#.Uon-peJGars

And don’t forget to check out this week’s winning entry in our Dungeon Denizens contest!

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 in this episode:

Realms of Crawling Chaos (Labyrinth-Lord): RPGNow

DCC actual play
Virtual Play: DCC RPG Funnel –  http://virtualplay.podbus.com/?p=203

Gamer’s Haven – http://gamershavenpodcast.com/dungeon-crawl-classics-rpg/

Iron Tavern Blog: “Dungeon Crawl Classic Campaigns” –  http://irontavern.com/2013/11/05/dungeon-crawl-classic-campaigns/

Age of Cthulhu ( Jon Hook) – http://www.goodman-games.com/ageofcthulhu.html

Petty Gods – http://gorgonmilk.blogspot.com/2013/04/original-petty-gods-free-pdf.html

Tenkar’s Tavern –http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2013/07/updated-and-finalized-winners-list-from.html

Chronicles of Amherth – RPGNow

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 mentioned in this episode:

DCC Free RPG Day Adventures (The Jeweler That Dealt in Stardust)  – RPGNow

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 make incredibly ill-considered decisions.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Castles & Crusades Box Set: http://www.trolllord.com/cnc/8000.html

Purple Duck Games – http://purpleduckgames.blogspot.com

Mystic Bull Games – http://mysticbull.blogspot.com

Dragon’s Hoard Publishing – RPGNow

Free RPG Day 2013 The Imperishable Sorceress – http://www.goodman-games.com/FRPGD13preview.html

DCC RPG #76.5 Well of the Worm – http://www.goodman-games.com/50765preview.html

DCC RPG #79.5 Tower of the Black Pearl – http://www.goodman-games.com/50795preview.html

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 back out. Somebody’s going down. That’s right, with the help of very special guests Goodman Games writers Harley Stroh and Michael Curtis, we’re talking about the Spell Duel.

Links mentioned in this episode:
• Stonehell Dungeon: http://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-curtis/stonehell-dungeon-down-night-haunted-halls/paperback/product-5974479.html
• The Sea Queen Escapes: http://www.goodman-games.com/5076preview.html

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 penalty, turns creatures of opposing alignment, and just generally kicks unholy ass.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Angels, Daemons, and Beings Between – RPGNow

Brian Bleakley’s “Weird Dice” Matrix: Die_Matrix_2

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 few written by one of our own – Judge Jobe!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Tales From the Fallen Empire Judges Screen
RPGNow

Transylvanian Adventures
http://landofphantoms.blogspot.com

Doug Kovacs
http://dougkovacs.com

The World’s Greatest Screen
http://www.hammerdog.com/twgs/index.html

The Haunting of Larvick Island
http://www.thickskulladventures.com/products/haunting-of-larvik-island-dccrpg/

Dispatches From Kickassistan
http://fromkickassistan.blogspot.com

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 Die! and THAC0’s Hammer? By special arrangement with Wild Games Productions and Mrs. Hallstrom, join our judges in welcoming our special guest for this episode, Glamorous Glen Hallstrom! Glen will share his new-to-the-sytem reviews, rants, and raves, as well as take a short trip through the character funnel live on-the-air.

Also – we announce the winner of the “Name That Stroh” contest!

Links mentioned in this episode:
Save or Die! podcast – http://saveordie.info
THAC0’s Hammer – http://thacoshammer.info
Alternate Occupations for DCC RPG – http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/104218/Alternate-Occupations?

If you listened to this week’s episode of Spellburn then you already learned that Joseph Goodman’s nickname is “The Dark Master”. Alas, poor Harley Stroh, Goodman Games’ most prolific writer, lamented on air that he has no pet name. He has thrown himself upon the mercy of our listeners to give him one. So we’re running a contest to “Name That Stroh!”

Here’s how to enter:

1.) Post a comment on this page with a spiffy new moniker for Harley between 7/31/2013 and 8/6/2013. Make sure to post with your own name or handle. If you need some inspiration, we posted the friendliest picture we could find of Harley above.

2.) The triumvirate of Spellburn judges will whittle the entries down to the top 5 finalists.

3.) The winner will be determined DCC-style – with a Zocchi die roll – live on episode 8 of Spellburn.

Winning Entry

The winner gets bragging rights and more. Harley will wear a shirt at Gencon 2013 emblazoned with the new sobriquet, and will quite possibly never live down the appellation.

Good Luck!

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 tips and tricks for aspiring game designers and Judges.

Links mentioned in this episode:
• Recover the Body Table: http://myotherswordisvorpal.blogspot.com/2013/07/body-recovery-in-dcc.html
• Angels, Daemons, And Beings Between: RPGNow
• “How To Write Adventures That Don’t Suck”: http://www.goodman-games.com/downloads/HowToWriteAdventuresThatDontSuck.pdf

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 these two character classes entertaining to play level after level.

Links mentioned in this episode:
• Mighty Deeds of Arms Record Sheet: Mighty-Deed-of-Arms-Record.pdf

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 dare dabble in the dangerous and wildly unpredictable arcane arts in the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Pros and Cons Podcast – http://prosandconspodcast.blogspot.com
Marvin the Mage – http://www.mudpuppycomics.com
Glitter Wizard – http://glitterwizard.bandcamp.com

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 download and use! From dungeons to patrons to alternate occupations and more, we cut a wide swath through it all in this episode.

Links mentioned in this episode:
• Goodman Games DCC RPG character sheets http://www.goodman-games.com/dccsheet.html
• Character Generators and Crawlers Companion app http://purplesorcerer.com/tools.htm
• DCC Reference Sheets from People Them With Monsters https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2qlP_VOf718UDVRSExzVzJMTzg/edit?usp=sharing
• Alternate Occupations http://www.rpgnow.com/product/104218/Alternate-Occupations
• Angels, Patrons, and Beings Between: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/109995/Angels%2C-Daemons%2C-and-Beings-Between
• Brave Halfling Publishing http://bravehalfling.com/
• Purple Duck Games http://purpleduckgames.blogspot.com/
• Judge’s Mat: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxbGgqzkrLFQOUhlZ0Z2ajllNms/edit

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 a contributing writer for the DCC RPG core rulebook. He also penned the award-winning “Dungeon Alphabet” and “Stonehell Dungeon,” a classic-style megadungeon.

Links mentioned in this episode:
• The Society of Torch, Pole, and Rope: http://poleandrope.blogspot.com/
• Dungeon Crawl Classics #77.5 “The Tower Out of Time”: http://goodmangames.com/50775preview.html
• The Dungeon Alphabet: http://www.goodman-games.com/4385preview.html
• Stonehell Dungeon: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/poleandrope

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. But with some luck, pluck, and and a few blows well-struck, a select few will gain the first glorious level of experience and become true dungeon-crawling adventurers.

Links mentioned in this episode:
• Into the Demon Idol: http://www.metagamemastery.com/2013/05/01/one-page-dungeon-2013/
• Sailors on the Starless Sea: http://www.goodman-games.com/5066preview.html
• High Quality Role Playing: http://www.tao-games.com/?p=29
• Attack of the Frawgs: http://www.thickskulladventures.com/products/attack-of-the-frawgs/
• Perils of the Sunken City: http://www.purplesorcerer.com/sc1.htm
• The Ooze Pits of Jonas Gralk: http://www.purplesorcerer.com/sc2.htm
• A Gathering of the Marked: http://www.purplesorcerer.com/sc3.htm

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 Crawl Classics RPG.

Links mentioned in this episode:
• DCC RPG Forum: http://www.goodman-games.com/forums/
• Purple Sorcerer Game’s Free DCC apps: http://purplesorcerer.com/tools.htm
• Purple Duck Games: http://purpleduckgames.blogspot.com
• Character Sheets and Ref Sheets: http://peoplethemwithmonsters.blogspot.com/p/dcc-rpg-resources.html
• Crawl! fanzine: http://crawlfanzine.blogspot.com