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We’ve covered lots of DCC and related third party zines, games and adventures on Spellburn before, but Judge Jen and I are finally sitting down with … maybe the guy who started all the third party madness?  Of course it’s Reverend Dak Ultimak, creator of the DCC ur-zine Crawl as well editor par excellence. And we’ll talk with Dak about ye olden days, plans for Crawl, GENCON, visit the email crypts and then– as if this wasn’t enough– we’re going to go deeper– and reminisce some more with some very special pizza-flavored guests– Joey Royale & Tim Deschene!  ALL THIS AND MORE ON THIS MONTH’S SPELLBURN!!!

Crawl Magazine – all of them!

Ninja City!

Darkest Dice

Vampire Blood

One of Us

WHPA Fairhaven: Weird Heroes of Public Access

New Email for Spellburn:  [email protected]

DCC Dying Earth!

X-Crawl Classics is official!  The Kickstarter’s live, it’s rolling and X-Crawl Mania’s running wild!  We will hang out with DJ Laboss, AKA Judge Brendan, and we’ll go deep into X-Crawl classics, the kickstarter, and the latest on stretch goals, X-Crawl Insider, 3rd party X-crawling and more!

All this and a reunion with Judge Jarrett and third party crawler Stella Condrey on this month’s Spellburn!

Links from this episode:

XCrawl Core Rulebook Kickstarter!

XCrawl- Dungeonbattle Brooklyn!

Goodman Games XCrawl page

Space Penguin Ink!

Beyond the Silver Scream

DCC’s been a gold standard of oldschool gaming for 10 years! There’s a ton of great content out there, from Goodman Games, from 3rd party publishers, free internet resources like Purple Sorcerer, and even (GUGHGHGBLLEAH) social media.  But what about people who make it happen behind the scenes?  Every adventure is full of good writing and art, but needs an editor and (really, really) needs a playtester or 20!  Tonight we talk to some of our favorites (and Judge Jen!)  Plus other gossip and malingering and a visit to the Email crypt!  All this and more on this month’s Spellburn!

Links from this episode:

Playtest for DCC & MCC!!

The Great Visp Hunt (DCC Dying Earth adventure)

DCC for Free RPG Day: Piercing the Demon’s Eye

DCC Day is July 23rd, 2023!

Tales of the Smoking Wyrm

Tales of the Smoking Wyrm 7 & 8 Kickstarter

DCC Dying Earth: it’s every bit as beautiful and faithful to the source material as we’d hoped, but…is it as daunting as the core book? Since DCC fans have come to Spellburn for the low-down on rules for the past decade, we’ll discuss some of the chewier Dying Earth rules with Judge Will Keller, one of the Demo Night judges who cut his teeth on them. We’ll also talk about some of the more entertaining pieces in the new setting with members of the Dying Earth writing team — and we may have a couple tidbits to share from the highly-anticipated Vance Manse trip!

Links from this episode:

The Dying Earth for DCC RPG!

Dying Earth team in the Vance Manse!

War of the Cyclops Con!

There have been a lot of new people showing up in the DCC community and that means someone’s got to judge some DCC adventures!  These games aren’t going to run themselves!  We heard you, frantic ones!  Want some tips on running DCC, provided by old hands and one-time newbies alike?  We have got you covered with an all-star cast of judges to share their DCC hacks, pro tips and general judgesplaining.

Links from this episode:

Dispatches from the Raven Crowking

Carnival of the Damned

Sailors on the Starless Sea

War of the Cyclops Con

Goodman-Games.com Event site (including demos!)

So we were on hiatus for about a year… or a little more and a lot has happened between our last non-Twitch episode and our triumphant return in the holiday special!  One thing I was most excited about was to talk about third party DCC & MCC stuff with some of the greatest creators in the field.  So tonight I’m trying to make up for lost time with longtime MCC/DCC guys + podcast alums Forrest Aguirre & Jarredd Crader…  plus some of the wackiest and most wonderful third party guys out there, Dan Steeby and David Coppolettti.  Plus… a real zombie will read some old un-dead emails from the prior era of Spellburn!

Links for this episode:

Beyond the Silver Scream

Bronx Beasts

Island of Lost Souls (for Bronx Beasts)

DCC Class Alphabet

Moon Mutants

Trespassers of the Full Moon Tower

Druna, Silver Goddess of the Moon (Patron)

Joey Royale’s Get Haunted Onine Shop!

Sanctum Secorum

New MCC Core book!

Cats of Rahtlu

James P’s Patreon

Levi Combs kickstarter!

Oh no! It’s Judge Jeff’s last episode of Spellburn! We’re gonna chat about the good old days, what things are like now, and what we see in the future for ourselves and DCC.

Stuff referenced in this episode!

Xanadu – coming soon for DCC!

2020 DCC Adventure Pack (including the Heist by Harley!)

Hive of the Overmind (MCC)

Judge Jim’s Scientific Barbarian

Castles & Crusades

Judge Julian’s fanboy DCC Beta Review – 2011

Sailors on the Starless Sea

Umerican Survival Guide

DCC Lankhmar