Support the Third Party Kickstarter for 100 New Magic Items — Plus a Spooky Encounter!
2 PDFs for a dollar! Father Goose Creations are back with a special Kickstarter with only a $1.00 support level — and for that dollar you get two PDFs to add spice to your DCC Games. Firstly, 100 New Magic Items is exactly what it says — 100 new, oddball, and humorous items all ready to use for DCC. Then, in An Encounter Most Fowl, the PCs must brave a haunted farmhouse scenario in a short spooky encounter. Check out these...
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Adventures in Fiction: Abraham Merritt
Adventures in Fiction: Abraham Merritt By James Maliszewski Of all the literary influences on D&D and DCC RPG, Abraham Merritt is perhaps the “most-influential of the least-known.” His work is rarely read in this modern time, yet he is named by Gary Gygax as one of “the most immediate influences on AD&D. Today, on January 20, 2019, the 135th anniversary of his birth, we provide a little more insight into this...
Adventures in Film Fiction: Hammer Films and the Cleric Class
Hammer Horror’s Dracula – And the Creation of the Cleric Class By Bob Brinkman The year 2019 marks the 61st anniversary of the Hammer Horror film Dracula. Why is this so important? You can thank Dracula for the creation of the cleric class, and the Hammer Horror series in general for influencing several aspects of Dungeons and Dragons (and later the Dungeon Crawl Classics role-playing game). The history of Hammer films is as...
Adventures in Fiction: J.R.R. Tolkien
Adventures in Fiction: J.R.R. Tolkien By Chris Doyle John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in what is now South Africa. His parents, both English, had re-located so his father could accept a promotion with his current employer, a bank. He returned to England at the age of three, but his father succumbed to fever and never made the journey. Tolkien was a soldier (in the First World War, eventually reaching the rank of...
Adventures in Fiction: Leigh Brackett
Adventures in Fiction: Leigh Brackett By Michael Curtis The sad truth is that Appendix N is overwhelmingly a boys’ club. Much of the blame can be assigned to the fact that science-fiction and fantasy writers prior to 1960s were by and large white men. It was a tough club for a woman to break into, resulting in many female authors with an interest in writing science-fiction and fantasy to work under either pen names (such as Andre...
Happy Birthday, Gary Gygax!
Let’s talk about Gary. Today we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Gary Gygax. And I do mean celebrate. Everyone here at Goodman Games can talk about how much that one man changed their life. Each of us has stories about what he did to alter our future in ways we couldn’t imagine back when we were too young to think about how we would make a living years later. And it goes beyond that, because we are...
Happy birthday, Gary Gygax!
Let’s talk about Gary. Today we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Gary Gygax. And I do mean celebrate. Everyone here at Goodman Games can talk about how much that one man changed their life. Each of us has stories about what he did to alter our future in ways we couldn’t imagine back when we were too young to think about how we would make a living years later. And it goes beyond that, because we are...
Adventures in Fiction: Margaret St. Clair
Adventures in Fiction: Margaret St. Clair by Michael Curtis Margaret St. Clair was born 107 years ago on February 17, 1911. Her work appears in Gary Gygax’s Appendix N, and is important for lending a crucial concept to the D&D game: the idea of dungeon levels. Here is Michael Curtis with more information on this important writer… The titles and authors appearing on the Appendix N list are varied. Some are fantasy, others science...
Adventures in Fiction: Andre Norton
Adventures in Fiction: Andre Norton by Jim Wampler Famed fantasy and science fiction author Andre Norton was born 106 years ago today, on February 17, 1912. Join us, as we celebrate her birthday by taking a look at her works and their influences on both adventure gaming and genre fiction. Born as Alice Mary Norton in 1912, Norton started writing while she was still in high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In fact, she completed her first...
Adventures in Fiction: Philip Jose Farmer
Adventures in Fiction: Philip José Farmer By Jeff Goad Today we are celebrating the 100th birthday of Philip José Farmer! While he isn’t around to celebrate this day with us, his books are still here inspiring writers and game designers as they have for decades past. Farmer found early acclaim in the pulps, winning the Hugo in 1953 for Best New SF Author only a year after the publication of his first tale in Startling Stories. He...
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