Podcast – Spellburn
Jen Brinkman, Julian Bernick, Jeff Goad
Welcome to Spellburn, a podcast about the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game and old school adventuring.
- 1 hour 13 minutesEpisode 141: The Zine Scene
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
4 March 2025, 6:53 am - 1 hour 14 minutesEpisode 140: Taking the Fifth (edition)!
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!)
When the Sky Comes Looking for You (2nd level Weird Frontiers – Zinequest!)
Disposable Future (Josh Burnett)
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
31 January 2025, 2:33 am - 1 hour 18 minutesEpisode 139: Rick-N-Roll!
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 physical bookshop!
Christophor’s drivethrurpg page
Other links!
WHPA Fairhaven resources on Goodman Games website!
Late pledge while you still can- Unnatural selections Vol 3 by Luau Lou
Late pledge while you still can – The Sorcerer’s Return
31 December 2024, 4:53 pm - 1 hour 1 minuteEpisode 138: Publisher Panel
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!
Golden Idol of En-Tridar (GrapeApe)
Horrors of the Whispering Wood Collector’s Box
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 website – Horseshark games
Judge James on Bluesky: @lectrotext.bsky.social
Donn Stroud’s Bluesky: donnstroud.bsky.social
Donn’s Ruination Pilgrimage Discord
26 November 2024, 7:36 pm - 1 hour 6 minutesEpisode 137: Summon Nick Baran
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!
Crowdfunding links!
- Heroic Adventure! #1 – Evil Never Dies for DCC RPG – Bob Brinkman from Explore Dungeons (maps by Brett Hess! WOW!)
- Weird Heroes of Public Access by Joey Royale Get Haunted Industries
- The Secret of the Whispering God Jeffrey Jones pulp sword-and-sorcery adventure
- The Sorcerer’s Return Nerdronomicon Andy Edmonds Follow-up to The Sorcerer’s Fate
- Unnatural Selections, Vol. 3 Luau Lou returns with his 3rd installment of mutated creatures and strange monsters for MCC/DCC
- The Undergoblin Heist – RPG adventure for 5E and DCC Weird Works – Thom Denick (Tournament of Pig
- The Ashmore Herald Vol. 2: What Remains of House DuCrane Thomas Sweo ? Vol 2
- (and The Ashmore Herald, Vol 1 DTRPG)
- Terror From the Underdeep: A Giant Box of 5E Adventure Goodman Games 5e
- Meet Yer Maker – A Weird Frontiers RPG Adventure – Long Con Press – Eddie Bartlett
12 November 2024, 2:10 am - 1 hour 17 minutesEpisode 136: Hi-Tech Hijinks
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!
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/
1 October 2024, 5:52 pm - 1 hour 18 minutesEpisode 135: The Funnel Revisited!
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!
We Who Are About to Die (Raorgen Games)
Champions of the Goblin Market
27 September 2024, 1:44 am - 1 hour 13 minutesEpisode 134: Let’s Get Organized!
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]
Email us at: [email protected]
9 August 2024, 5:13 pm - 1 hour 18 minutesEpisode 133: Convert This!
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!
Jayquays receives SFWA Solstice Award!
Mighty Deeds Fillable Record form!
Judge Daniel Bishop’s DCC Conversion write-up!
2 July 2024, 1:39 am - 1 hour 17 minutesEpisode 132: Capes, Cowls and Crawling!
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!)
Steel and Fury (Deeds for DCC RPG)
Support Ed Stanek & Raorgen’s Cosmologia
[Mighty Deeds Record form- coming soon!]
4 June 2024, 2:56 am - 1 hour 10 minutesEpisode 131: The Gonzo Show
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
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
Crawling Under a Broken Moon omnibus
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