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

Links mentioned in this episode!

Terror of the Underdeep (5E Goodman Games!)

Against the Thieves Guild! (Grimtooth DCC RPG!)

Against the Thieves’ Guild (Fifth Edition Fantasy)

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

The Conquest of the Chaos

X-Crawl Olympics!

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

Disposable Future (Josh Burnett)

Yard Birds for WHPA Fairhaven

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

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

Sunday Matinee Crawls – 3 Casual Dungeons

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

RavenCrowKing’s Blog – conversion to DCC RPG

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

Links from this episode:

Christophor Rick stuff!

Youtube video for atomic clock device!

Christophor’s patreon

Christophor’s physical bookshop!

Christophor’s drivethrurpg page

Christophor’s Roll20 page

Ophoric Labs FB page!

Christophor’s Bluesky!

Other links!

WHPA Fairhaven resources on Goodman Games website!

Nick Baran’s Breaker Press

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

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

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

Isle of the Ancients

Well it’s Judge James’s birthday – today, November 25th, and he has some questions. Not “Where do babies come from?” or “Why, god, why?” but “How does one navigate publishing their own RPG?” So in the spirit of James becoming older, we had some friends over to celebrate and help guide us and others, on the foolish journey of creating an RPG!

Links from this episode:

Crowdburn!

Evil Never Dies by Judge Bob!

Goblin Holiday Bundle!

Golden Idol of En-Tridar (GrapeApe)

Metal Gods of the Apocalypse

Horrors of the Whispering Wood Collector’s Box

The Conquest of Chaos

From Jim Skach:  Dynamaps!

From our hosts and guests tonight!

Get Haunted with Joey Royale (directory link to many sites and resources)

Judge James’s social media and contact info:

Judge James’s Discord

Judge James’s Patreon

Judge James’s website – Horseshark games

Judge James on Bluesky: @lectrotext.bsky.social

Donn Stroud’s Bluesky:  donnstroud.bsky.social

Donn’s Ruination Pilgrimage Discord

The smell of woodfire… the crackle of leaves….. The flash of ghostly presences out of the corner of your eye… the sound of Peter Frampton coming alive (wait… wrong podcast.)   It’s almost Halloween!  We’ve survived another year, another Game Hole Con, and tonight we bring you a bloodcurdling guest from the world of DCC Dark Fantasy…. An esteemed publisher, writer and youtuber, Mr. Nick Baran (even more terrifying, he also runs a merch booth at many conventions!)  Welcome Judge Nick!

Links from this episode:

Nick’s website – Breaker press!

Nick’s Youtube Channel

Planet of the Cyclops Con

Crowdfunding links!

Hi-tech RPG campaigns take the fantastically magical and turn it into applied science. Tonight’s show is all space, computers, laser guns. The only swords we’ll be talking about are of the vibro variety. We’re going to dive into high tech games like MCC RPG and the various DCC 3rd party publications that bring sci-fi settings to the table in this month’s episode of Spellburn!

Important!

Jess M – Gofundmepage

https://www.gofundme.com/f/e2ssx-medical-expenses-for-jessica-mcdevitt

Links from this episode:

All of TuesdayNightFiendClub offerings (Vehicle Mayhem, Star Crawl, et al)

https://goodman-games.com/store/product-category/tuesday-night-fiend-club/

Netcrawl Backerkit

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/8f7b4453-210b-4378-b1dd-7eefdba60d10/landing

Netcrawl / Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robwieland/2024/09/16/netcrawl-turns-the-internet-into-a-dungeon/

Deities & Demoibros

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/9874103d-65a9-4d0a-bd3e-f76dfe20e601/landing

Tales from the Smoking Wyrm #10 – Kickstarter!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smokingwyrm/tales-from-the-smoking-wyrm-issue-10?ref=discovery&total_hits=1771&category_id=34

Planet of the Cyclops Con

https://tabletop.events/conventions/planet-of-cyclops-con

X-Crawl pre-order:

https://goodman-games.com/store/product/xcrawl-classics-core-rulebook/

X-Crawl reference book:

https://goodman-games.com/store/product/xcrawl-classics-reference-booklet/

We’re back from Gen Con and have some special guests to get a thorough GENCON wrap from!  But that’s not it!  We’re revisiting the and to talk about all this we have our pals, esteemed epistolary patron DM Cojo and Starless Sea Sailor impressario, Judge Harley!  All this and more on this  month’s Spellburn.

Links for this episode:

Netcrawl Backerkit – NOW LIVE!

Deities and Demibros! (for Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland) – NOW LIVE!

Circus Maximus

We Who Are About to Die (Raorgen Games)

Champions of the Goblin Market

Bloody Barbershops and Sanguine Scissors

Tales from the Smoking Wyrm! (NOW LIVE!)

We’ve been talking about it for years, we’ve been doing it for months, and now it’s time for a deep dive on Organized Play in DCC RPG!  But not with just anyone. No more, “But how does it work?” or “What is that, anyway?”  We went to the man himself, the Slime-Lord, the judge who’s run 1000 Insane Worlds, the expert on deep space turtles, the provider of Blades against Bandwidth– yes, of course it’s X-Crawl Classics’s DJ LaBoss himself, Judge Brendan.  ALL THIS, and we’re going to talk in the tavern, prep for GENCON (and Summer Knights Con), and much much more on this month’s Spellburn.

Judge Greggory’s email (for Georgia contacts):[email protected]

Banjo Destructo’s Linktree

Email us at:  [email protected]

More and more great products from the days of yore are being converted into DCC. We’re only hours from the newest backerkit project Caverns of Thracia going live– a classic mega-dungeon adventure from Jennell Jaquays! We’re going to talk about Caverns of Thracia, as well as some other recent projects like Crypt of the Devil Lich, Dark Tower and more!  And our guest is conversion king Judge Bob Brinkman!

Shadow of the Brutacorn (NEON LORDS KICKSTARTER!)

Return of the RIpper Kickstarter!

Priesthood of Pelagia

Judge Bob’s Patreon page!

Ashraf’s Latest Musoke!

Jayquays receives SFWA Solstice Award!

Mighty Deeds Fillable Record form!

Judge Daniel Bishop’s DCC Conversion write-up!

Daniel Bishop Patreon page!

Raven Crow King’s Nest blog

DCC quick monster stats for DCC RPG!

Xanadu (for DCC)

It’s a superhuman and heroic spectacular tonight on Spellburn! They said it couldn’t be done, but in true DCC tradition, they did it anyway! I’m talking of course about superheroes, masked men, vigilante crusaders, dark night detectives and of course, mutants cursed to protect a world that despises them. Earth’s Mightiest Judges are joined by some new third party designers working on superhero games for DCC … all this and more on this month’s Spellburn!

Links mentioned in this episode!

Fillable Mighty Deeds-of-Arms Record

Evolved RPG! (DCC RPG Compatible!)

Comics Crawl Classics!

Netcrawl RPG

DCC Day 2024!

Steel and Fury (Deeds for DCC RPG)

DCC RPG Organized Play

Support Ed Stanek & Raorgen’s Cosmologia

[Mighty Deeds Record form- coming soon!]

Neither Chuck Barris nor the Unknown Comic will be in attendance this evening. Gonzo – what is it? How do you know your game is gonzo? It is one of those things that you’ll only know when you see it? Is DCC RPG the gonzo game some purport it to be? 

Making his Spellburn debut, from Super Savage Systems, the Neon Lord himself, Brian Shutter creator of The Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland! Also making his first appearance on Spellburn is Martin Ouelet, headman at Headcheese Productions and author of Crime-Fighting Lucadores RPG!

Links from this episode:

Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland

Crime-fighting Luchadores

Netcrawl RPG – will launch September 3rd on Backerkit

Peculiar NPCs: A Deck of NPC Portraits

MURDER HOUSE! – A Level 0 DCC Horror Adventure

The One That Got Away – A zero level tournament funnel adventure

Earthcrawl

Human Occupied Landfill

Crawling Under a Broken Moon omnibus

Death is the New Pink RPG

Burger Punk