Have you heard of the latest addition to the Goodman Games community? A Gongfarmers Local can be any group that plays Goodman Games systems and adventures, whether those games are held around the kitchen table with your kids or through a 1:00 a.m. Discord call with your friend from across the seas. The first Gongfarmers Local was #221, hosted at both The Sentry Box and Under The Mountain Games in Calgary, Canada. It was founded by Shane Madgett and friends, and continues to hold weekly games on Thursday and Friday nights.  But what do Gongfarmers Locals do, and how did they first come about? Put simply, Gongfamers Locals (GFLs) are just your friendly local gaming groups, given a name and identity to gather around under. GFLs can register their group with Goodman Games by choosing a name and crest with which to receive their official certificate. Once organized, a Local can help gamers in the area find games for Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC) or other adventures. “I would say that it is a dedicated core group of hardcore roleplayers who are really representing themselves and one another and who are flying the flag for the rest of the community to see and showing off where they are,” said Brendan LaSalle, head of the Goodman Games Road Crew. “And hopefully, you know, [they’re] being a beacon to other people who are looking for groups either in their locality or online.” Shane Madgett first coined the term for his group as a somewhat satirical take on local politics. Gongfarmers are, after all, medieval collectors of night soil. Shane describes Alberta as somewhat of “Canada’s Texas,” an oil province which was experiencing controversy over unions at the time his group was founded.  “I don’t want to put a shade or say something about a whole place, but the connotations, positive and negative, are very much similar [to Texas],” Shane said. “It’s all Cowboys here. It’s all rodeos here. It’s an oil province. Most of the money in Canada comes through here because of the oil industry, but then you get the other sort of negative aspects of it.” A conversation with a friend about the situation around unions brought the name into place. A conversation with a friend about the situation around unions brought the name into place.  “I literally said to...