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March 17 · 1 hr 45 min
Episode 153: Invoke Mihailo Tešić!
Tonight’s spellburn is going to be a great show. Tonight we Invoke Patron Bond! Since the dawn of Spellburn the Judges J have called to the void, our aim is to commune with the great powers of imagination and the worthy wordsmiths of Goodman Games and the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Community. We now unreservedly spellburn our life essences in service to the DCC RPG community to invoke Mihailo Tešić Sickle & Torch on KS by Mihailo! The Three Wizard Conundru – Fifth Edition Fantasy The Siege of Bonemoore Keep DCC Dying Earth Seekers ov the Other Worlds Crawl Megazine! by Rev. Dak Ultimak! Castle Whiterock – Launching in April – Follow now! The Carnivorous Cauldron (Castle Whiterock tie-in) Can U Dig It? Neon Lords by Judge Kablooey! Plushie Crawl Classics 20sided Store in Brooklyn Tomes of Adventures – Collections of Goodman Games adventures! The 998th Conclave of Wizards Netcrawl Judge Mathieu’s gloirious colorings of DCC!
March 11 · 1 hr 25 min
Episode 152: We’re Going to Take You Higher!
Some say DCC RPG is just for one-shots. Some say it’s a great campaign game. Some say it’s a great con game. Some say it’s perfect for the home table. Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. One thing you don’t hear a lot about is high level adventures in DCC RPG! Why not? And let’s make some and let’s talk about some! I’m Judge Julian and with me tonight is a partner in crime in the 10th Doomstar, a 10th level adventure for DCC RPG. We’ll talk about that and the other adventures that push DCC to its limits, as well as how you might enjoy running and playing your own high level DCC adventures! The 10th Doomstar Sign up for the newsletter from Dragon Peak Publishing New Year’s Evil (for Xcrawl) Colossus, Arise Congrats to James on winning the Golden Fez! Tower of Faces Dungeon Grand Prix: Smuggler’s Pass Sinister Sutures of the Sempstress Imprisoned in the God-Skull Prison of the Forsaken Bear God Burger Wars! Mouth of Mentius Curse of Mistwood
January 31 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 151: Adventures in Pinball
Just when you think everything has been done and there are no more frontiers, Goodman Games answers the question no one had in their brains. “What if we make adventures based on classic pinball games?” Of course the answer to that question is Pinball Crawl Classics (live on Backerkit right now). On this episode of Spellburn, we’ll talk pinball adventure design shop with 3/5ths of the Pinball Crawl Classics designers on hand. Links for this episode: Old School Adventures & Pinball Crawl Classics The 10th Doomstar – 10th level adventure for DCC RPG! Submissions open NOW for Gongfarmers’ Alamanac 2026 Whistlepig Breakdown – new adventure for Shudder Mountains! Return to Crater Valley (VHS era DCC from LOZ!) Fiction magazines: SWORDS AGAINST! from Mystic Bull/Paul Wolfe New Edge Sword & Sworcery (NESS) from Oliver Brackenbury!
Dec 25, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 150: Invoke the Dark Master!
It’s hard to believe but here we are in Spellburn’s 150th episode. It’s been 13 years of Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and 12 plus years of Judges J! We wanted to mark the occasion by breaking things up a little bit with a very special guest tonight– the Dark Master who started at all, sending his thralls far and wide over the land, bringing chaos and cultists to every friendly local gaming store in search of Kovacs covers and funky dice. And what a ride it has been– Emerald Enchanters, Savage Kings, Lankhmar, Dying Earth, Purple Planet, Shudder Mountains and even MCC RPG, not to mention the million or so multiversal variants out there like Umerica, Weird Frontiers and many many more! We’re going to talk about how we got here in 2025, where we are today and most importantly we’re going to scry the future of DCC RPG (and Goodman Games) with the help of the Dark Master! Pinball Crawl Classics & Old School Adventures! Launching in January 2026! Follow Castle Whiterock for 2026! Game Hole Con 2026 X-Crawl Rodeo! Unnatural Selections Vol. 4 Tales from the Smoking Wyrm #11 Tower of the Black Pearl
Oct 30, 2025 · 1 hr 24 min
Episode 149: On to Zothique!
Marzio Muscadere barely needs any introduction any more! He’s done a host of DCC RPG adventures, including Star Wound of Abaddon, Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen, Across the Veil of Time, House of Jade & Shadow and the beloved holiday adventure the Doom that Came to Christmas Town. He’s also an authority on Mighty Deeds with his book Steel & Fury, as well as his own products like Death Slaves of Eternity and most recently Murder House. He’s also just a super fun guest so we welcome him back to talk about his latest project (very near to my heart!), Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique! Welcome Judge Marz! Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique for DCC RPG! Marz Press – Buy Marzio’s 3rd party stuff! The Marz page at Goodman-Games.com! Horror Cinema Classics RPG – Preorders page! Roxie’s Rollers – WHPA Fairhaven 3PP from Shane Kablooey! X-Crawl Classics – Road Trip – by Raorgen Games Stratosfiend 4: Bye Bye All of Stratosfiend (Orbital Intelligence!) Hirelings to Heroes! (Michael Spreademan funnel adventure!)
Sep 17, 2025 · 1 hr 12 min
Episode 148: Invoke Eric Bloat
Hello Peace-friends and welcome to another episode of Spellburn! Eric Bloat, the big cheese over at Bloat Games, has been in the game publishing business since 2017, when he launched his first kickstarter Dark Places & Demogorgons. Since then he has been on a tear. Many other successful crowdfunding campaigns have come and gone. So many I cannot possibly do it justice. Vigilante City, Zombies, Evolved, The Blackest Deaths and, one of my favorites, a space marine zine called Operation: Bughunt. He publishes mainly for his own system, Survive This!, but has also released versions of his games for DCC RPG and 5th ed D&D. Tonight Spellburn invokes Eric Bloat! Bloat Games Website Bloat Games products on Goodman Games site Bloat Games PDF store Bronx Beasts (Anthropomorphic for DCC RPG) Primal Tales (Anthropomorphic for DCC) Rats of Gim (Erica Barlow / MCC RPG!) White Lies RPG
Aug 21, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min
Episode 147: GENCON 2025 Wrap-up!
GENCON – sometimes known as the great gathering of our people! Gamers come from far and wide to the amazing and fascinating tourist destination of – INDIANAPOLIS… there they find… about 80,000 other gamers, lots of beer, pizza, food trucks, meeples and lines… especially lines! But along with that, we have the best selection of RPGs and vendors in the world, and games aplenty on hand all day and all night long! In 2012 after DCC RPG was released, there was no official presence at the con… NOW, we have a whole section in LucasOil stadium with a van, a gong of doom, organized play, tournaments and much much more! We’ll review this year’s mighty deeds and fabulous fumbles– with people who were actually there– on tonight’s Spellburn! Judge Matt’s adventure: A Conspiracy of Ravens Crowdburning inks for this episode! Angels, Daemons and Beings Between V3! Astonishing Heroes of the Public Domain Witch Lords of Skull Mountain V2 – the Malkova Wilds Weird Frontiers Reference Guide Dungeon Dwellng Creatures!
Jul 24, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min
Episode 146: Invoke David Fisher!
DCC RPG codified supernatural patrons as something in between a game mechanic and narrative device. The notion was fresh, novel, and perfectly aligned to the game’s focus on Appendix N. Patrons are so good that the concept has worked its way into other RPGs. The cast of patrons and gods facilitates a table’s worldbuilding. This unique quality as pieces on the chessboard of the Moorcockian eternal struggle means that the more pieces you have to play with the better. way back in 2013, Daniel Bishop, Paul Wolfe, David Fisher, and Sean Connors collaborated to publish DCC RPG’s first patron supplement, Angels, Daemons & Beings Between. Of course everyone recognizes Daniel and Paul, but David Fisher was the primary artist on the project and eventually took over as its main publisher. Under the name of Shinobi 27 games he has published a ton of other stuff and has an upcoming project which we will talk about on this month’s Spellburn! Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 3 – KS promo! Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 3 – KS launch page Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 1 Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 2 – Fae Harder Feast of the Preserver Revelation of Mulmo Trolls of Mistwood Curse of Mistwood The One That Got Away Silam #1: Spike of Dosku Silam #2: Trials of Riao Silam #3: Now live on Kickstarter! Zothique for DCC RPG! Marzio’s new site – Marzpress.com Old John Stuart’s Mill Days of Future Fairhaven Chain Censor #1 by Donn Stroud (Ruination Pilgrimage)
Jul 2, 2025 · 1 hr 24 min
Episode 145: Instatiate Luau Lou
Is 2025 the year of the monster? We have Dungeon Denizens 1 hitting the streets, we have a second Denizens collection on the way, and we have a huge collection of MCC mutates in Unnatural Selections from our pal (and yours) Luau Lou Hoefer. Now he’s got a whole new ball of wax, the Gammatastic Voyage. He’s teaching kids, he’s rockin’ Hawaiian shirts and he’s putting hawkodiles, lazer-snakes, kaiju and eye-bominations in your hot little hands. Tonight we’re joined by Luau Lou and we’ll talk monsters, mutants, North Texas, teaching— all this and more on tonight’s Spellburn! Castle Whiterock on Backerkit! The Dying Light of Castle Whiterock (Free RPG Day adventure!) The Key to Castle Whiterock (DCC Day Adventure!) Summer Knights Con 20205 Dandyline Games – Luau Lou’s products! The Gammatastic Voyage – by Luau Lou The Dare Luck Club The One Who Watches from Below Port Mirror Chain Censor #1 Old John Stuart’s Mill Days of Future Fairhaven List of DCC Adventure Modules – Wikipedia List of DCC adventures – Goodman Games site Gongfarmer’s Almanac on DrivethruRPG.com (FREE Pdfs)
May 24, 2025 · 1 hr 26 min
Episode 144: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
It’s been 13 years since DCC RPG was published. The heavens thundered, the earth shifted, the stars quaked in the heavens! Much phlogiston has been disturbed, billions of radish farmers and chicken butchers have died, much gold and glory has been won and an untold number of patrons have been assuaged (and betrayed). There’s no second edition of DCC RPG coming, BUT that doesn’t stop me from wondering from time to time.. If there WAS… what would I do to change the game?? I threw the question out to EVERYONE and we’re gonna go through all the answers I could grab in 3 weeks to find out! Links from this episode: TTRPG Pickup Con Dawn of the Dog Wizard Castle Whiterock Vault of the Murderworm Make it a Fairhaven Night! The Great Pyramid of of Atum-Isfet Wind Rose (band) – Diggy Diggy Hole The Wizardarium of Calabraxis Enter the Dagon Riders of the Phlogiston
Apr 24, 2025 · 1 hr 30 min
Episode 143: Summon Trevor Stamper!
Our next guest has been around DCC RPG for many years. You may know him from the very well received Tales of the Smoking Wyrm, from his Youtube show the Scrivenry, or from his ongoing Earthcrawl project which he is currently developing and funding via his patreon page. Of course you may also have said a friendly hello to him at the Goodman Games booth at Gary Con! We welcome of course Trevor Stamper to Spellburn! Next Round Games in Cincinnati Earth Crawl Patreon page! Tales of the Smoking Wyrm! DaveCon 2025 ArneCon Dawn of the Dog Wizard Castle Whiterock The Making of the Ghost Ring Smoking Wyrm on Youtube! Terror of the Stratosfiend
Apr 2, 2025 · 54 min
Episode 142: Spellburn’s March Madness!
It’s March and it’s Madness. This year, I had a fever dream of DCC RPG as a March Madness style tournament. Complete with brackets, groups, and 6 rounds of community voting. We have made it to this ultimate evening, the finale of insanity! Sometime later in this hour, the Judges J of Spellburn will crown the Champion of Madness. The supreme publication of the DCC 3PP community. 64 titles started in the tournament. The people have spoken and tonight we will choose the Champion of Madness. Who will it be: Carnival of the Damned written by David Baity published by Purple Sorcerer. Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland written by Brian Shutter and published by Super Savage Systems Carnival of the Damned! Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland! Weird Frontiers RPG Sky ov Crimson Flame Crawl zine #9 – Arwich Grinder Purple Sorcerer’s FREE online DCC tools
Mar 4, 2025 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 141: The Zine Scene
It’s February and that means Zinequest! Across the RPG scene, there are lots and lots and LOTS of zines including those for DCC RPG! This episode we are hanging out with three third party zine creators, we’ll talk about their projects, read some exciting emails, do some tavern talk– all this and more on this month’s Spellburn! Links in this episode: (Paul Wolfe): Witch Lords of Skull Mountain (Yamil Camacho): When the Sky Comes Looking for You (John Watson): The Wanting Wizard Quest for Zines Isle of the Ancients Dungeon Dwelling Creatures Yard Birds for WHPA Fairhaven Hexanomicon 321 Action – Avon by the Sea Julio’s RPG Cove
Jan 31, 2025 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 140: Taking the Fifth (edition)!
Let’s talk about the 800 pound gorilla in the room… DCC RPG is more popular than ever, played worldwide, being played on a football field in Indianapolis at GENCON… and meanwhile the Fifth edition of the world’s most popular RPG is probably more popular now than D&D was at its heyday of the 1970s! (Especially with the kids, at least that’s what the parents tell me.) What does this mean for DCC RPG and for Goodman Games acolytes? How do we leverage 5E’s popularity for DCC? What’s the Fifth Edition Fantasy line all about? We are lucky to have a dweller in both worlds, Alex Kurowski with us tonight and we’ll talk all this and more on the first Spellburn of 2025! Links mentioned in this episode! Terror of the Underdeep (5E Goodman Games!) Against the Thieves Guild! (Grimtooth DCC RPG!) Against the Thieves’ Guild (Fifth Edition Fantasy) Seven Days of the Serpent God (Fifth Edition Fantasy – Dark Tower!) The Conquest of the Chaos X-Crawl Olympics! When the Sky Comes Looking for You (2nd level Weird Frontiers – Zinequest!) Disposable Future (Josh Burnett) Yard Birds for WHPA Fairhaven Dark Dwelling on the Praire (more Weird Frontiers – coming in March!) (Half) Gnoll Retreat, Gnoll Surrender! Wayward studios funnel for March! Sunday Matinee Crawls – 3 Casual Dungeons 2-page Dungeon Delves (Dungeon Denizens pre-order!) RavenCrowKing’s Blog – conversion to DCC RPG
Dec 31, 2024 · 1 hr 18 min
Episode 139: Rick-N-Roll!
Happy Holidays, It’s our last Spellburn of the year, Judge James is out there riding his reindeer so we have a special guest host with us tonight – Judge Joey Royale from Joey Royale’s Pizza Party! And our special guest tonight, the atomic overlord himself, Christopher Rick of double ziggurat fame– we’ll talk atomic clock devices, megamaidens, rad-bombs and we’ll ASCEND THE ZIGGURAT– all this and more on the last Spellburn of 2025! Links from this episode: Christophor Rick stuff! Youtube video for atomic clock device! Christophor’s patreon Christophor’s physical bookshop! Christophor’s drivethrurpg page Christophor’s Roll20 page Ophoric Labs FB page! Christophor’s Bluesky! Other links! WHPA Fairhaven resources on Goodman Games website! Nick Baran’s Breaker Press Late pledge while you still can- Unnatural selections Vol 3 by Luau Lou Late pledge while you still can – The Sorcerer’s Return The Conquest of Chaos – sign up to follow on Backerkit! Isle of the Ancients
Nov 26, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
Episode 138: Publisher Panel
Well it’s Judge James’s birthday – today, November 25th, and he has some questions. Not “Where do babies come from?” or “Why, god, why?” but “How does one navigate publishing their own RPG?” So in the spirit of James becoming older, we had some friends over to celebrate and help guide us and others, on the foolish journey of creating an RPG! Links from this episode: Crowdburn! Evil Never Dies by Judge Bob! Goblin Holiday Bundle! Golden Idol of En-Tridar (GrapeApe) Metal Gods of the Apocalypse Horrors of the Whispering Wood Collector’s Box The Conquest of Chaos From Jim Skach: Dynamaps! From our hosts and guests tonight! Get Haunted with Joey Royale (directory link to many sites and resources) Judge James’s social media and contact info: Judge James’s Discord Judge James’s Patreon Judge James’s website – Horseshark games Judge James on Bluesky: @lectrotext.bsky.social Donn Stroud’s Bluesky: donnstroud.bsky.social Donn’s Ruination Pilgrimage Discord
Nov 12, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
Episode 137: Summon Nick Baran
The smell of woodfire… the crackle of leaves….. The flash of ghostly presences out of the corner of your eye… the sound of Peter Frampton coming alive (wait… wrong podcast.) It’s almost Halloween! We’ve survived another year, another Game Hole Con, and tonight we bring you a bloodcurdling guest from the world of DCC Dark Fantasy…. An esteemed publisher, writer and youtuber, Mr. Nick Baran (even more terrifying, he also runs a merch booth at many conventions!) Welcome Judge Nick! Links from this episode: Nick’s website – Breaker press! Nick’s Youtube Channel Planet of the Cyclops Con Crowdfunding links! Heroic Adventure! #1 – Evil Never Dies for DCC RPG – Bob Brinkman from Explore Dungeons (maps by Brett Hess! WOW!) Weird Heroes of Public Access by Joey Royale Get Haunted Industries The Secret of the Whispering God Jeffrey Jones pulp sword-and-sorcery adventure The Sorcerer’s Return Nerdronomicon Andy Edmonds Follow-up to The Sorcerer’s Fate Unnatural Selections, Vol. 3 Luau Lou returns with his 3rd installment of mutated creatures and strange monsters for MCC/DCC The Undergoblin Heist – RPG adventure for 5E and DCC Weird Works – Thom Denick (Tournament of Pig The Ashmore Herald Vol. 2: What Remains of House DuCrane Thomas Sweo ? Vol 2 (and The Ashmore Herald, Vol 1 DTRPG) Terror From the Underdeep: A Giant Box of 5E Adventure Goodman Games 5e Meet Yer Maker – A Weird Frontiers RPG Adventure – Long Con Press – Eddie Bartlett
Oct 1, 2024 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 136: Hi-Tech Hijinks
Hi-tech RPG campaigns take the fantastically magical and turn it into applied science. Tonight’s show is all space, computers, laser guns. The only swords we’ll be talking about are of the vibro variety. We’re going to dive into high tech games like MCC RPG and the various DCC 3rd party publications that bring sci-fi settings to the table in this month’s episode of Spellburn! Important! Jess M – Gofundmepage https://www.gofundme.com/f/e2ssx-medical-expenses-for-jessica-mcdevitt Links from this episode: All of TuesdayNightFiendClub offerings (Vehicle Mayhem, Star Crawl, et al) https://goodman-games.com/store/product-category/tuesday-night-fiend-club/ Netcrawl Backerkit https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/8f7b4453-210b-4378-b1dd-7eefdba60d10/landing Netcrawl / Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/robwieland/2024/09/16/netcrawl-turns-the-internet-into-a-dungeon/ Deities & Demoibros https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/9874103d-65a9-4d0a-bd3e-f76dfe20e601/landing Tales from the Smoking Wyrm #10 – Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smokingwyrm/tales-from-the-smoking-wyrm-issue-10?ref=discovery&total_hits=1771&category_id=34 Planet of the Cyclops Con https://tabletop.events/conventions/planet-of-cyclops-con X-Crawl pre-order: https://goodman-games.com/store/product/xcrawl-classics-core-rulebook/ X-Crawl reference book: https://goodman-games.com/store/product/xcrawl-classics-reference-booklet/
Sep 27, 2024 · 1 hr 18 min
Episode 135: The Funnel Revisited!
We’re back from Gen Con and have some special guests to get a thorough GENCON wrap from! But that’s not it! We’re revisiting the and to talk about all this we have our pals, esteemed epistolary patron DM Cojo and Starless Sea Sailor impressario, Judge Harley! All this and more on this month’s Spellburn. Links for this episode: Netcrawl Backerkit – NOW LIVE! Deities and Demibros! (for Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland) – NOW LIVE! Circus Maximus We Who Are About to Die (Raorgen Games) Champions of the Goblin Market Bloody Barbershops and Sanguine Scissors Tales from the Smoking Wyrm! (NOW LIVE!)
Aug 9, 2024 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 134: Let’s Get Organized!
We’ve been talking about it for years, we’ve been doing it for months, and now it’s time for a deep dive on Organized Play in DCC RPG! But not with just anyone. No more, “But how does it work?” or “What is that, anyway?” We went to the man himself, the Slime-Lord, the judge who’s run 1000 Insane Worlds, the expert on deep space turtles, the provider of Blades against Bandwidth– yes, of course it’s X-Crawl Classics’s DJ LaBoss himself, Judge Brendan. ALL THIS, and we’re going to talk in the tavern, prep for GENCON (and Summer Knights Con), and much much more on this month’s Spellburn. Judge Greggory’s email (for Georgia contacts):mcleroy@gmail.com Banjo Destructo’s Linktree Email us at: SPELLBURNBAND@GMAIL.COM

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