It’s hard to believe but here we are in Spellburn’s 150th episode.  It’s been 13 years of Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and 12 plus years of Judges J!  We wanted to mark the occasion by breaking things up a little bit with a very special guest tonight– the Dark Master who started at all, sending his thralls far and wide over the land, bringing chaos and cultists to every friendly local gaming store in search of Kovacs covers and funky dice.  And what a ride it has been– Emerald Enchanters, Savage Kings, Lankhmar, Dying Earth, Purple Planet, Shudder Mountains and even MCC RPG, not to mention the million or so multiversal variants out there like Umerica, Weird Frontiers and many many more!

We’re going to talk about how we got here in 2025, where we are today and most importantly we’re going to scry the future of DCC RPG (and Goodman Games) with the help of the Dark Master!

Pinball Crawl Classics & Old School Adventures! Launching in January 2026!

Follow Castle Whiterock for 2026!

Game Hole Con 2026

X-Crawl Rodeo!

Unnatural Selections Vol. 4

Tales from the Smoking Wyrm #11

Tower of the Black Pearl

Marzio Muscadere barely needs any introduction any more!  He’s done a host of DCC RPG adventures, including Star Wound of Abaddon, Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen, Across the Veil of Time, House of Jade & Shadow and the beloved holiday adventure the Doom that Came to Christmas Town.  He’s also an authority on Mighty Deeds with his book Steel & Fury, as well as his own products like Death Slaves of Eternity and most recently Murder House.  He’s also just a super fun guest so we welcome him back to talk about his latest project (very near to my heart!), Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique!  Welcome Judge Marz!

Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique for DCC RPG!

Marz Press – Buy Marzio’s 3rd party stuff!

The Marz page at Goodman-Games.com!

Horror Cinema Classics RPG – Preorders page!

Roxie’s Rollers – WHPA Fairhaven 3PP from Shane Kablooey!

X-Crawl Classics – Road Trip – by Raorgen Games

Stratosfiend 4: Bye Bye All of Stratosfiend (Orbital Intelligence!)

Hirelings to Heroes! (Michael Spreademan funnel adventure!)

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

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

Bloat Games Website

Bloat Games products on Goodman Games site

Bloat Games PDF store

Bronx Beasts (Anthropomorphic for DCC RPG)

Primal Tales (Anthropomorphic for DCC)

Rats of Gim (Erica Barlow / MCC RPG!)

White Lies RPG

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

Judge Matt’s adventure:

A Conspiracy of Ravens

Crowdburning inks for this episode!

Angels, Daemons and Beings Between V3!

Astonishing Heroes of the Public Domain

Witch Lords of Skull Mountain V2 – the Malkova Wilds

Weird Frontiers Reference Guide

Dungeon Dwellng Creatures!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angels, Daemons and Beings Between, Vol 1

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

Feast of the Preserver

Revelation of Mulmo

Trolls of Mistwood

Curse of Mistwood

The One That Got Away

Silam #1: Spike of Dosku

Silam #2: Trials of Riao

Silam #3: Now live on Kickstarter!

Zothique for DCC RPG!

Marzio’s new site – Marzpress.com

Old John Stuart’s Mill

Days of Future Fairhaven

Chain Censor #1 by Donn Stroud (Ruination Pilgrimage)

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

Castle Whiterock on Backerkit!

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

The Key to Castle Whiterock (DCC Day Adventure!)

Summer Knights Con 20205

Dandyline Games – Luau Lou’s products!

The Gammatastic Voyage – by Luau Lou

The Dare Luck Club

The One Who Watches from Below

Port Mirror

Chain Censor #1

Old John Stuart’s Mill

Days of Future Fairhaven

List of DCC Adventure Modules – Wikipedia

List of DCC adventures – Goodman Games site

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

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

Links from this episode:

TTRPG Pickup Con

Dawn of the Dog Wizard

Castle Whiterock

Vault of the Murderworm

Make it a Fairhaven Night!

The Great Pyramid of of Atum-Isfet

Wind Rose (band) – Diggy Diggy Hole

The Wizardarium of Calabraxis

Enter the Dagon

Riders of the Phlogiston

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

Next Round Games in Cincinnati

Earth Crawl Patreon page!

Tales of the Smoking Wyrm!

DaveCon 2025

ArneCon

Dawn of the Dog Wizard

Castle Whiterock

The Making of the Ghost Ring

Smoking Wyrm on Youtube!

Terror of the Stratosfiend

It’s March and it’s Madness. 

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

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

Carnival of the Damned!

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