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 45 minutesEpisode 153: Invoke Mihailo Tešić!
Tonight’s spellburn is going to be a great show. Tonight we Invoke Patron Bond!
Since the dawn of Spellburn the Judges J have called to the void, our aim is to commune with the great powers of imagination and the worthy wordsmiths of Goodman Games and the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Community. We now unreservedly spellburn our life essences in service to the DCC RPG community to invoke Mihailo Tešić
Sickle & Torch on KS by Mihailo!
The Three Wizard Conundru – Fifth Edition Fantasy
Crawl Megazine! by Rev. Dak Ultimak!
Castle Whiterock – Launching in April – Follow now!
The Carnivorous Cauldron (Castle Whiterock tie-in)
Can U Dig It? Neon Lords by Judge Kablooey!
Tomes of Adventures – Collections of Goodman Games adventures!
Judge Mathieu’s gloirious colorings of DCC!
17 March 2026, 1:33 pm - 1 hour 25 minutesEpisode 152: We’re Going to Take You Higher!
Some say DCC RPG is just for one-shots. Some say it’s a great campaign game. Some say it’s a great con game. Some say it’s perfect for the home table. Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. One thing you don’t hear a lot about is high level adventures in DCC RPG! Why not? And let’s make some and let’s talk about some! I’m Judge Julian and with me tonight is a partner in crime in the 10th Doomstar, a 10th level adventure for DCC RPG. We’ll talk about that and the other adventures that push DCC to its limits, as well as how you might enjoy running and playing your own high level DCC adventures!
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Congrats to James on winning the Golden Fez!
Dungeon Grand Prix: Smuggler’s Pass
Sinister Sutures of the Sempstress
Prison of the Forsaken Bear God
11 March 2026, 2:28 am - 1 hour 13 minutesEpisode 151: Adventures in Pinball
Just when you think everything has been done and there are no more frontiers, Goodman Games answers the question no one had in their brains. “What if we make adventures based on classic pinball games?” Of course the answer to that question is Pinball Crawl Classics (live on Backerkit right now). On this episode of Spellburn, we’ll talk pinball adventure design shop with 3/5ths of the Pinball Crawl Classics designers on hand.
Links for this episode:
Old School Adventures & Pinball Crawl Classics
The 10th Doomstar – 10th level adventure for DCC RPG!
Submissions open NOW for Gongfarmers’ Alamanac 2026
Whistlepig Breakdown – new adventure for Shudder Mountains!
Return to Crater Valley (VHS era DCC from LOZ!)
Fiction magazines:
SWORDS AGAINST! from Mystic Bull/Paul Wolfe
New Edge Sword & Sworcery (NESS) from Oliver Brackenbury!
31 January 2026, 4:55 am - 1 hour 11 minutesEpisode 150: Invoke the Dark Master!
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!
25 December 2025, 8:00 pm - 1 hour 24 minutesEpisode 149: On to Zothique!
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!)
30 October 2025, 5:42 pm - 1 hour 12 minutesEpisode 148: Invoke Eric Bloat
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 products on Goodman Games site
Bronx Beasts (Anthropomorphic for DCC RPG)
Primal Tales (Anthropomorphic for DCC)
17 September 2025, 8:21 pm - 1 hour 18 minutesEpisode 147: GENCON 2025 Wrap-up!
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:
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
21 August 2025, 11:50 pm - 1 hour 18 minutesEpisode 146: Invoke David Fisher!
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
Silam #3: Now live on Kickstarter!
24 July 2025, 1:56 pm - 1 hour 24 minutesEpisode 145: Instatiate Luau Lou
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!)
Dandyline Games – Luau Lou’s products!
The Gammatastic Voyage – by Luau Lou
The One Who Watches from Below
List of DCC Adventure Modules – Wikipedia
List of DCC adventures – Goodman Games site
Gongfarmer’s Almanac on DrivethruRPG.com (FREE Pdfs)
2 July 2025, 5:33 pm - 1 hour 26 minutesEpisode 144: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
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:
The Great Pyramid of of Atum-Isfet
24 May 2025, 2:56 am - 1 hour 30 minutesEpisode 143: Summon Trevor Stamper!
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
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