Hello Peace-friends and welcome to another episode of Spellburn!

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

Bloat Games Website

Bloat Games products on Goodman Games site

Bloat Games PDF store

Bronx Beasts (Anthropomorphic for DCC RPG)

Primal Tales (Anthropomorphic for DCC)

Rats of Gim (Erica Barlow / MCC RPG!)

White Lies RPG

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

Judge Matt’s adventure:

A Conspiracy of Ravens

Crowdburning inks for this episode!

Angels, Daemons and Beings Between V3!

Astonishing Heroes of the Public Domain

Witch Lords of Skull Mountain V2 – the Malkova Wilds

Weird Frontiers Reference Guide

Dungeon Dwellng Creatures!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 1

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

Feast of the Preserver

Revelation of Mulmo

Trolls of Mistwood

Curse of Mistwood

The One That Got Away

Silam #1: Spike of Dosku

Silam #2: Trials of Riao

Silam #3: Now live on Kickstarter!

Zothique for DCC RPG!

Marzio’s new site – Marzpress.com

Old John Stuart’s Mill

Days of Future Fairhaven

Chain Censor #1 by Donn Stroud (Ruination Pilgrimage)

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

Castle Whiterock on Backerkit!

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

The Key to Castle Whiterock (DCC Day Adventure!)

Summer Knights Con 20205

Dandyline Games – Luau Lou’s products!

The Gammatastic Voyage – by Luau Lou

The Dare Luck Club

The One Who Watches from Below

Port Mirror

Chain Censor #1

Old John Stuart’s Mill

Days of Future Fairhaven

List of DCC Adventure Modules – Wikipedia

List of DCC adventures – Goodman Games site

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

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

Links from this episode:

TTRPG Pickup Con

Dawn of the Dog Wizard

Castle Whiterock

Vault of the Murderworm

Make it a Fairhaven Night!

The Great Pyramid of of Atum-Isfet

Wind Rose (band) – Diggy Diggy Hole

The Wizardarium of Calabraxis

Enter the Dagon

Riders of the Phlogiston

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

Next Round Games in Cincinnati

Earth Crawl Patreon page!

Tales of the Smoking Wyrm!

DaveCon 2025

ArneCon

Dawn of the Dog Wizard

Castle Whiterock

The Making of the Ghost Ring

Smoking Wyrm on Youtube!

Terror of the Stratosfiend

It’s March and it’s Madness. 

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

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

Carnival of the Damned!

Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland!

Weird Frontiers RPG

Sky ov Crimson Flame

Crawl zine #9 – Arwich Grinder

Purple Sorcerer’s FREE online DCC tools

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

Links in this episode:

(Paul Wolfe): Witch Lords of Skull Mountain

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

(John Watson):  The Wanting Wizard

Quest for Zines

Isle of the Ancients

Dungeon Dwelling Creatures

Yard Birds for WHPA Fairhaven

Hexanomicon

321 Action – Avon by the Sea

Julio’s RPG Cove

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

Links mentioned in this episode!

Terror of the Underdeep (5E Goodman Games!)

Against the Thieves Guild! (Grimtooth DCC RPG!)

Against the Thieves’ Guild (Fifth Edition Fantasy)

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

The Conquest of the Chaos

X-Crawl Olympics!

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

Disposable Future (Josh Burnett)

Yard Birds for WHPA Fairhaven

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

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

Sunday Matinee Crawls – 3 Casual Dungeons

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

RavenCrowKing’s Blog – conversion to DCC RPG

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

Links from this episode:

Christophor Rick stuff!

Youtube video for atomic clock device!

Christophor’s patreon

Christophor’s physical bookshop!

Christophor’s drivethrurpg page

Christophor’s Roll20 page

Ophoric Labs FB page!

Christophor’s Bluesky!

Other links!

WHPA Fairhaven resources on Goodman Games website!

Nick Baran’s Breaker Press

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

Late pledge while you still can – The Sorcerer’s Return

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

Isle of the Ancients