The Count Dante Tournament Rating System – Updated Through 2023!
Newly updated after this year’s Gen Con! Every year we run a huge DCC team tournament, and because tournament modules are played over a large sample of tables and judges, we are able to quantify their danger level. Based on this quantification we have a rating system to use as a guide when selecting your next adventure to run: The Count Dante Tournament Rating System! The Count Dante Tournament Rating System uses a ratio of...
The Skull Materializes at Gen Con!
With a whiff of ozone and a clap of thunder, the Magician’s Skull emerged from within the glowing stones of the Goodman Games Ziggurat, the latest copies of Tales From the Magician’s Skull in hand! Our annual Gen Con summoning went off without a hitch this year, despite reports of the foaling of two-headed calves in the vicinity, and the accidental transmutation of a certain quantity of lemon seltzer water into boysenberry...
Missed Gen Con? Live It With Our YouTube Playlist!
There was a lot going on at this year’s Gen Con — and we’ve got the videos to prove it! We now have all of our Gen Con 2023 videos uploaded to our YouTube playlist. That’s everything from our Booth Preview and Pinball Showcase, to multiple interviews, an Ask Me Anything Panel with Joseph Goodman, Michael Curtis, and Chris Doyle, and this year’s Freelancing With Goodman Games Seminar! So, whether you...
That Time Farrah Stopped By The Booth
You never know who might stop by the booth at Gen Con — an old acquaintance, an online friend, or even an iconic barbarian hero (or two)! At Gen Con 2023, we did a double-take when a dedicated fan stopped by in complete Farrah Heftblade cosplay — if the outfit wasn’t dead-on enough, the classic pose instantly evokes the original Doug Kovacs’ art! They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes, but between the...
Wizard Wayne’s Monstrous Dice Tower
Each year at Gen Con Wizard Wayne Snyder unveils yet another artifact of power. From the mighty Goodman Games Ziggurat and matching obelisks, to that dolorous herald of finality the Doom Gong, Wizard Wayne has applied his arcane knowledge to many a legendary creation. Attendees to this year’s Gen Con will have noticed Wayne’s latest invention. On the floor of Lucas Oil Stadium, among the Gong, Art Show, and Wayne’s...
The Final Moments of the Dying Earth Team Tournament
Ālea iacta est: The Final Moments of The DCC Dying Earth Tournament at Gen Con 2023 by Harley Stroh with Terry Olson The 2023 Gen Con Open was as grand in scope and ambition as the source material from which it was born. Terry Olson, Marc Bruner, and their cadre of designers invited us to take part in the very last moments of Dying Earth, when cabals of rival magicians vied for supremacy across a seemingly endless series of...
Hundreds of Players Enjoyed The Gen Con Funnel Experience!
During the four days of gaming at Gen Con 2023, there was a lot to see and do! We’ve already covered the excitement of the Team Tournament, but we also ran a massive DCC funnel at Gen Con as well — the new 0 level adventure from Brendan LaSalle The Forsaken Vaults of the Crimson Oracle! Below, Lisa Doyle, manager of the Goodman Games gaming HQ at Lucas Oil Stadium, and Joey Royale and Dave Rosser, who both ran the funnel...
Gen Con 2023 Tournament Statistics
DCC Open 2023 Arch-Daihaks of Dying Earth Tournament Results At Gen Con 2023, Goodman Games ran the 6th annual DCC RPG team tournament, Arch-Daihaks of Dying Earth. This year’s tournament was set in the DCC Dying Earth setting and saw 165 players across 36 teams compete in the team tournament format – where five-player teams consisted of 5th-level PCs, our highest level tournament yet! Over the course of three days and two hard-fought...
The Glory of the Gong!
Goooong! That was the sound booming over the proceedings at Lucas Oil Stadium during Gen Con — each dolorous clang of the Doom Gong marking the demise of yet another player, another team, another dream of victory! But, for those that came out on top, the gong heralds not their demise, but their immortal fame! Each year at Gen Con we unveil the latest honor roll of the victors from our tournaments throughout the last year, most...
Judge Brendan’s Reflections on Gen Con 2023
Gen Con 2023: Van Life, Pinball, and Rolling Dice With The Tribe by Brendan LaSalle Gen Con flew by like a freight train. There was so much to do, so much to see, that for once I felt genuinely overwhelmed. Seventy thousand unique attendees made the Quest, and Goodman Games responded with our wildest, biggest, gaming-est year ever. The biggest booth we ever had. The pinball machines. The Ziggurat. The Gong of Doom. The Wizard Van at...
Hail the Champions of Our Gen Con 2023 Tournament!
Hat’s off to the winners! It was a hard-fought struggle, with many powerful magicians vying for the top spot but, in the end, only one team emerged as the Arch-Daihaks of Dying Earth! While we announced the winners last week, we didn’t yet have a photo of Los Hermanos Jabronis to share with you — or their fantastic prizes: Magician Hats! Los Hermanos Jabronis are: Colin Murphree Lucian Murphree Jordan Starks...
The Gen Con Experience Video!
This is Gen Con! Over the course of Gen Con weekend, our ace videonaut Alana Thompson recorded the sites and sounds of all the Goodman Games gaming and gallivanting going on in our booth and in our gaming space at Lucas Oil Stadium, as well as (of course) during the live twitch streams and interviews we hosted directly from the Con. So, whether you weren’t able to attend the convention, or you’re looking to relive the Gen...
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