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Podcast | Spellburn

Welcome to Spellburn, a podcast about the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game and old school adventuring.

Jen Brinkman, Julian Bernick, Jeff Goad

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Welcome to Spellburn, a podcast about the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game and old school adventuring.

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Episode 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 […]

Mar 17, 20261h 45m

Episode 152: We’re Going to Take You Higher!

We're Gonna Take You Higher!

Mar 11, 20261h 25m

Episode 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 […]

Jan 31, 20261h 13m

Episode 150: Invoke the Dark Master!

Hail to the Dark Master!

Dec 25, 20251h 11m

Episode 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 […]

Oct 30, 20251h 24m

Episode 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 […]

Sep 17, 20251h 12m

Episode 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 […]

Aug 21, 20251h 18m

Episode 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 […]

Jul 24, 20251h 18m

Episode 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 […]

Jul 2, 20251h 24m

Episode 144: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

What's the ONE THING you would change... about DCC RPG?

May 24, 20251h 26m

Episode 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 […]

Apr 24, 20251h 30m

Episode 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 […]

Apr 2, 202554 min

Episode 141: The Zine Scene

The Zine Scene!

Mar 4, 20251h 13m

Episode 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 […]

Jan 31, 20251h 14m

Episode 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 […]

Dec 31, 20241h 18m

Episode 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 […]

Nov 26, 20241h 1m

Episode 137: Summon Nick Baran

Summon Nick Baran!

Nov 12, 20241h 6m

Episode 136: Hi-Tech Hijinks

Bring the Tech!

Oct 1, 20241h 17m

Episode 135: The Funnel Revisited!

The funnel's back for more!

Sep 27, 20241h 18m

Episode 134: Let’s Get Organized!

Let's Get Organized!

Aug 9, 20241h 13m
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