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 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
24 April 2025, 8:16 pm - 54 minutes 35 secondsEpisode 142: Spellburn’s March Madness!
It’s March and it’s Madness.
This year, I had a fever dream of DCC RPG as a March Madness style tournament. Complete with brackets, groups, and 6 rounds of community voting. We have made it to this ultimate evening, the finale of insanity! Sometime later in this hour, the Judges J of Spellburn will crown the Champion of Madness. The supreme publication of the DCC 3PP community. 64 titles started in the tournament.
The people have spoken and tonight we will choose the Champion of Madness. Who will it be:
- Carnival of the Damned written by David Baity published by Purple Sorcerer.
- Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland written by Brian Shutter and published by Super Savage Systems
Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland!
Crawl zine #9 – Arwich Grinder
Purple Sorcerer’s FREE online DCC tools
2 April 2025, 7:45 pm - 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 - More Episodes? Get the App