Podcast | Spellburn

We are so behind in our emails that our mailbag is overflowing! We have nearly thirty emails dating back more than seven months so we are gonna dive right into in.  I’m Judge Jeff and with me tonight are Judge Jen (greetings!) and Judge Julian (salutations!)  Normally, we would go to Tavern talk and talk about our recent gaming but every minute of this episode is precious, so we are going to skip it and go right to the meat of the episode… SUMMON EMAIL… Adventures mentioned in this episode: Greenwood of the Fey Sovereign The Apocalypse Ark Into the Borderlands Elzamon and the Blood Drinking Box Neon Knights Treasure Vaults of Zadabad Swordfish Islands DCC Lankhmar Intrigue at the Court of Chaos Beyond the Black Gate Queen of Elfland’s Son Man-Bait for the Soul-Stealers Sailors on the Starless Sea Tower of the Black Pearl Links mentioned in this episode: DCC Tournament Ray Harryhausen HOBONOMICON The Brooklyn Strategist Swordfish Islands Conversion for DCC Shadow Lass Chris Hooker’s Alternate Spellburn Table Torchbearer the RPG The Spellburners always need more reviews on iTunes. Can you help us out by giving us some stars? Click here to support Spellburn! And send us some email!  Send your questions to:  Theband@spellburn.com !

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The Dark Master updates us on: Print & PDF, Isle of Dread, Mutant Crawl Classics, Mutant Mayhem Minis, Lankhmar, Cthulhu Alphabet, Tales from the Magician’s Skull, Road Crew, Judges’ Guild! and of course DCC RPG (Star Wound!  DCC #100!  New Printing!  Chained Coffin!  Dying Earth! X-Crawl Classics!  The DCC Tournament!) View the video here: The Spellburners always need more reviews on iTunes. Can you help us out by giving us some stars? Click here to support Spellburn!

Summon Jon Hook!

Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG was forged in the fires of Appendix N literature and nothing can be or will be more Appendix N than the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.  Today our guest is Jon Hook who has written for Age of Cthulhu as well as DCC RPG. We’ll explore Lovecraft, oldschool Chaosium, DCC RPG and more on this episode of Spellburn! Adventures mentioned in this episode: Chaos Rising (Featuring Elzamon and the Blood Drinking Box) Sailors on the Starless Sea Doom of the Savage Kings Shadow Under Devil’s Reef Links mentioned in this episode: For Matthew who emailed us on this episode, the link to the character sheet in question is here, thanks (Naturally) to Purple Sorcerer. On the Style/Format drop-down, pick “Tourney: DCC General” Funnel Tourney Character Sheets with Stamp Space Goodman Games announces Cthulhu Alphabet! Goodman Games 2017 GENCON Program Guide Age of Cthulhu Hobbs & Friends of the OSR Miskatonic University Podcast Mutant Crawl Classics RPG Terminal City Tabletop Convention Cleveland Dungeons & Drag Queens Weird Realms Into the Borderlands (Reprint of Module B1) Runequest The Spellburners always need more reviews on iTunes. Can you help us out by giving us some stars? Click here to support Spellburn! And send us some email!  Send your questions to:  Theband@spellburn.com !

At last.. the Order of Shanna!

Following the annual holiday of our people — Free RPG Day — it seems fitting to invoke another Road Crew judge onto the show! Tonight’s guest brings DCC RPG to game shops at least twice a week, in addition to convention appearances. And, in the spirit of inclusivity, we’re ecstatic to welcome the very FIRST guest to the show who … shall we say, differs a bit from every other guest we have invoked here on Spellburn. Adventures mentioned in this episode: Carnival of the Damned Sailors on the Starless Sea Tower of the Black Pearl Tower Out of Time Doom of the Savage Kings The Croaking Fane Temple of the Hamster Links mentioned in this episode: Mutant Crawl Classics RPG Cleveland Dungeons & Drag Queens Weird Realms Better World Books Sharp Swords and Sinister Spells The Spellburners always need more reviews on iTunes. Can you help us out by giving us some stars? Click here to support Spellburn! And send us some email!  Send your questions to:  Theband@spellburn.com !

On this episode of Spellburn we are going to talk about playing in the sandbox. What is a sandbox campaign and how might it help you up your DCC game? Well luckily for all you out there in podcast-land, we have the author “Dispatches from the Raven Crowking Vol. III: Building the Sandbox” with us tonight to help us explore this topic, the incomparable Raven Crowking himself! Adventures mentioned in this episode: Nebin Pendlebrook’s Perilous Pantry The Frost Fang Expedition Hole in the Sky The Isle of Dread Angels, Daemons and Beings In Between Shadow Under Devil’s Reef Jewels of the Carnifex The Sea Queen Escapes Haunting of Larvik Island Attack of the Frawgs Caverns of Thracia The Thing in the Chimney Links mentioned in this episode: Raven Crowking (Daniel J Bishop) Conversion notes for DCC The Campaign Elements series (vol 1) Vornheim Wilderlands of HIgh Fantasy Dick Sprang Adventurer’s Almanac GM Gems The Spellburners always need more reviews on iTunes. Can you help us out by giving us some stars? Click here to support Spellburn! And send us some email!  Send your questions to:  Theband@spellburn.com !

Into the Sandbox!

Burning Down the House(Rules)!

We love DCC RPG, but you know what makes it even better?  Putting your own customized home table stamp right on the game you play.   We asked the Spellburnt legions to send us some houserules and you did! We’ll review the lot, yak about the pros and cons and I’m going to try my damndest to make each one of us adopt one of these houserules tonight for our next session!   All this and more on the next episode of the Kids-tested, Hobbs-approved Spellburn! Adventures mentioned in this episode: Free RPG day handout 2017 (Incl. Gnole House) (Upcoming from Stephen Newton/Thick Skull Adventures) The Last Will and Testament of Obediah Felkner Links mentioned in this episode: Chris Hooker’s Alternate Spellburn Table Crawl! No. 2 (Broken Shields rules) Hubris (setting for DCC RPG!) Marc Elsenheimer’s Disapproval Rules! Updated blog post for Marc Elsenheimer’s House Rules! Julio Manganaro Silva’s Advancement Chart! PC Level Number of games to next level Total number of games survived so far 0 1 1 1 2 3 2 3 6 3 4 10 4 5 15 5 6 21 6 7 28 7 8 36 8 9 45 9 10 55 10 – – Consistency: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (1841). The Spellburners always need more reviews on iTunes. Can you help us out by giving us some stars? Click here to support Spellburn! And send us some email!  Send your questions to:  Theband@spellburn.com !

Gary Con X Wrap-up!

Another Gary Con has come and gone and what a grand con it was!  One of the few things missing was the “What’s New with Goodman Games?” seminar.  Yes, for the first time in over 5 years, we got no seminar.  This means that this is also the first time in 5 years that Spellburn has been unable to share that recording with those who were unable to join us in Lake Geneva!   So in its stead, we have gathered to share some of our standout moments of the week as well as some of the things coming along down the pipeline from both the official and the third party publishing quarters! Adventures mentioned in this episode: Shadow Under Devil’s Reef Neon Knights Tower of Faces (Sanjulian cover!) Hive of the Overmind Warlords of ATOZ Links mentioned in this episode: Crawl-Thulhu #1 Red Dragon Inn Delta Green Top Secret the RPG DCC Lankhmar Dark Heresey Umerican Survival Guide (Crawling Under a Broken Moon, 2nd edition!) Hobbs & Nemesis “The Bathroom Interviews” – Not Safe For Work Darlene (classic RPG artist!) Tomb of Horrors The Spellburners always need more reviews on iTunes. Can you help us out by giving us some stars? Click here to support Spellburn! And send us some email!  Send your questions to:  Theband@spellburn.com !

Like many listening, I first encountered the mysterious world of Aéreth in the pages of the DCC RPG Core Book. Many others listening will remember the world of Aéreth from back in the days when Dungeon Crawl Classics wasn’t the name of a roleplaying game but was instead the name of a line of adventure modules written for the world’s first fantasy roleplaying game. Today we are lucky enough to have the man who quite literally wrote the book on the topic of Aéreth back in those days of yore. He’s here to talk to us about the system’s default setting and how it has changed since DCC RPG was launched. Adventures mentioned in this episode: One Who Watches from Below Doom of the Savage Kings Hive of the Overmind Incursion of the Ultradimension The Portsmouth Mermaid Dragora’s Dungeon Sailors on the Starless Sea The Emerald Enchanter Links mentioned in this episode: Book of Treasure Maps Gazetteer of the Known Realms Curator of Earth (MCC Character Genreation on Twitter!) Interactive Aereth Map on Goodman Games site James Mishler maps James Mishler blog   The Spellburners always need more reviews on iTunes. Can you help us out by giving us some stars? Click here to support Spellburn! And send us some email!  Send your questions to:  Theband@spellburn.com !

Welcome back Harley Stroh!