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  • Episode 57: Appendix H is for HORROR

    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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    1 hr 30 min
  • GENCON L: What’s New with Goodman Games?

    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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    45 min
  • Episode 56: Invoke Jon Hershberger

    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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    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 55: DCC Fan Favorites

    Special thank you to James V. West for this episode’s banner!

    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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    1 hr 15 min
  • Episode 54: Invoke Edgar Johnson

    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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    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 53: Summon… The Dark Master!

    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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    52 min