Welcome to Spellburn, a podcast about the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game and old school adventuring.
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
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!
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/
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
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]
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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!
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!]
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
Installation 665 Kickstarter by Purple Pirate Games and Judge Julian
Netcrawl preview on DrivethruRPG!
Secrets of the World Harvesters – Purple Pirate!
Discordance at Dzyvatz by Purple Pirate
Judge Phil’s Zine of Goodies (Vol 3)
Critical Hit Parader, Vol 1 (with Blue Oyster Cult adventure!)
Critical Hit Parader – ongoing podcast and weekly content!
The Doom that Came to Christmastown
The Thing in the Chimney by Judge Daniel J Bishop!
In the DCC world, we love our music! Even dating back to the hallowed “G+ era”, we had Doug’s DCC Music group that turned people on to tons of great tunes. For a long time we’ve wanted to do a Spellburn episode with some DCC related bands and today that dream is coming true! We’re going to talk to some inspirational musicians about DCC, music and RPGs, sources of inspiration and much more!
WE NEED YOUR LOVE AND EMAILS AT: [email protected]
Whispers from the Sky Spire (review blog)
Purple Planet Horde on Backerkit
Skate Wizards! (By Levi / Loot the Body!)
SAINT KARLOFF LINKS!
Spinning the Good Stuff (Record show)
Saint Karloff on Goodman Games site
SK featured on Sanctum Secorum with Judge Bob & Judge Jen!
LOOT THE BODY LINKS!
In just a week we will all get a chance to travel back to the Purple Planet! The DCC Sword and Planet setting of Harley Stroh and Doug Kovacs waxes into our collective consciousness once again. The weirdling sun beats down upon us. What dusty din approaches from the broken wastes? A gaggle of 3rd party publishers! Hark! It’s the Purple Planet Horde!
WE STILL DESPERATELY NEED YOUR LOVE AND EMAILS AT: [email protected]
Links from this episode:
Adventures of the Purple Planet on Backerkit
101 Hex Encounters and Die, Robot (Backerkit)
Random Acts of Violet (Backerkit)
Roll Funky Dice Heads to the Purple Planet,
Other stuff:
DCC Zines in Zinequest!
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