Elric and the Cosmology of Dungeons & Dragons
Oct11

Elric and the Cosmology of Dungeons & Dragons

Elric and the Cosmology of Dungeons & Dragons by Bill Ward While Gary Gygax’s influences for Dungeons & Dragons were many, something of course reflected in the most influential fantasy fiction recommended reading list of all time, Appendix N, certain authors and works stand out. Jack Vance’s magic-infused Dying Earth stories, Fritz Leiber’s roguish romps with Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, the Weird Tales and...

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Missed the Michael Moorcock Interview? Catch the replays on YouTube!
Oct10

Missed the Michael Moorcock Interview? Catch the replays on YouTube!

Did you miss the live interview with Michael Moorcock from this past Saturday? Fret not! The interview is now posted on the Goodman Games YouTube channel! We here at Goodman Games might like to game like it’s 1974, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the digital age has passed us by! Which is why, for anyone missing one of our live Twitch broadcasts—like our live interview with Mr. Moorcock—our complete catalog of streaming...

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Where to Start With Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion
Oct04

Where to Start With Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion

Be sure to join Goodman Games and Sanctum Secorum for a live Twitch interview with the legendary Michael Moorcock this Saturday, October 8th! Where to Start with Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion by Bill Ward One of the barriers to entry to the works of varied and prolific British author Michael Moorock is the interconnectedness of much of his work. It isn’t simply that Moorcock’s six decade (and counting!) career...

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Michael Moorcock’s Influence on Gaming
Sep30

Michael Moorcock’s Influence on Gaming

Be sure to join Goodman Games and Sanctum Secorum for a live Twitch interview with the legendary Michael Moorcock on Saturday, October 8th! Michael Moorcock’s Influence on Gaming, An Introduction by Bob Brinkman It is hard to speak of Michael Moorcock’s career without first acknowledging a great debt owed by the Sword & Sorcery community. It was Michael Moorcock and Fritz Leiber who originally coined the term now used to...

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Creatures Chaotic: Uncanny Inhabitants of the Elric Saga
Sep25

Creatures Chaotic: Uncanny Inhabitants of the Elric Saga

Be sure to join Goodman Games and Sanctum Secorum for a live Twitch interview with the legendary Michael Moorcock on Saturday, October 8th! Creatures Chaotic: Uncanny Inhabitants of the Elric Saga by Bill Ward The wild and restless adventures of Elric of Melniboné feature strange landscapes, powerful sorceries, weighty dooms, and an endless array of bizarre creatures. With a myriad of stories divided over a dozen books, with monsters...

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Classic Covers: Michael Moorcock
Sep20

Classic Covers: Michael Moorcock

With more than a half-century of prolific, diverse, and wonderfully inventive writing in everything from classic sword-and-sorcery to surreal alternate history to sword-and-planet pastiche to counter culture lit fic, Michael Moorcock has seen more editions of his work than you can shake a demon-possessed sword at. And while Moorcock freely hops from genre to sub-genre to whatever-he-feels-like, he seems to have inspired a similar...

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