This is it, Burners! It took us to 1 and 1/2 years to make our spellcheck, but we’ve finally summoned Goodman Games head honcho and the creator of the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Joseph Goodman to the podcast! Join us for a candid conversation with the canny creative force behind the fantasy role playing game that parties like it’s 1974, as he shares the secret origin and history of DCC RPG, how the creative cabal behind the game was formed, and even speculates about his own nick name, “The Dark Master.”

Links mentioned in this episode:

Goodman Games

Dinosaur Planet: Brontosaurus Rex RPG

WoTC Market research

Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG beta rules

Adventures! Adventures! Come and get your adventures! This week on Spellburn we’re going to review three recent Third Party Publisher adventures for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game: Claytonian JP’s “The Wizardarium of Calabraxis,” Carl Bussler and Eric Hoffman’s “Prayers of the Forgotten,” and Stephen Newton’s “Stronghold of the Wood Giant Shaman.”

Links mentioned in this episode:

The Wizardarium of Calibraxis

Prayers of the Forgotten

The Stronghold of the Wood Giant Shaman

This week on Spellburn we do something that wizards in the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game absolutely, never, ever do. We’re going to share some of our knowledge of advanced magic. Beyond simple spellchecks or spellburn, we’re going to delve deep into and talk about the lesser-known areas of the DCC magic system, including ritualized magic, group casting, unfamiliar familiars, and more.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Diogo Nogueira’s DCC RPG Character Sheet

This week on Spellburn, we finally succeed in summoning forth the Reverend Dak J. Ultimak, one of the driving forces behind the DCC RPG fanzine scene, including the ‘zine that started it all, Crawl! Join us tonight as we ask Dak about his work on his own various zines and publications, plus his mighty editorial pen that seems to turn up in published DCC adventures when you least expect it. We may even uncover Dak’s secret connection to the origins of the Spellburn podcast.

And don’t forget to check out this episode’s Dungeon Denizens winner by Roy Snyder – The Stalker of the Doomed!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Crawl fanzine

This week we review Gen Con 2014 and all the golden DCC RPG goodness unleashed therein. Join us as the two Judges who attended the con struggle to maintain post-con coherency and voice quality, while the other two express their feelings of excitement and envy. We talk about all the DCC RPG new releases, forth-coming releases, and other big announcements, as well as the first-ever DCC RPG tournament and the ever-growing phenomenon that is Doug Con!

Links mentioned in this episode:

PAX Prime Game Convention

DCC RPG google+ community

Goodman Games website

The Nicest Guy in Gaming

Joseph Goodman and crew – plus special guests – preview and discuss the exciting new releases coming from Goodman Games in 2014 and 2015, including official DCC RPG dice, new adventures, the DCC Annual, and lots of other old school gaming goodness!

Don’t have time to watch the video? Here’s an audio-only version (please note: this event was recorded live in the portion of the Indianapolis Convention Center built in an old train station, so the sound quality is not ideal, plus, you know… trains).

This episode we welcome DCC RPG writer and game designer Harley Stroh back to the show, and ask him all about his latest adventure, “Peril on the Purple Planet.” Harley tells us what’s new under a weirdling sun with Goodman Games’ latest all-star box set kickstarter, as well as sharing the goods with us on lots of forthcoming Gen Con DCC RPG events, including the notorious Doug Con, “Castaways of Catastrophe Island,” and “The Seven Pits of Sezrekan!”

Links mentioned in this show:

Goodman Games Peril on The Purple Planet kickstarter

The Iron Tavern Actual Play Podcast

Stormlord Publishing’s The Well of Souls DCC RPG adventure

DCC RPG g+ Community

This week on the show we discuss, dissect, and maybe even disagree about the best practices for the superior judging and running of DCC RPG games. What are the most important Judging “do’s and don’t’s”? That’s what we’ll try and answer on this episode of Spellburn…

And don’t forget to check out this episode’s winning Dungeon Denizen entryby Mighty Mike Loew!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Bittman-Inspired Generalized Two-Handed Weapon Math by Terry Olson

Goodman Games Peril on the Purple Planet kickstarter

Iron Tavern Press at Lulu.com