Appendix N Archaeology: The Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series
Our Appendix N Archaeology and Adventures in Fiction series are meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page. Appendix N Archaeology: The Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series by Michael Curtis More than a decade before Gary Gygax assembled...
New to DCC? Here’s Where to Start With Appendix N!
Our Appendix N Archeology and Adventures in Fiction series are meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page. New To DCC? Here’s Where To Start With Appendix N! by Jeff Goad So you’re new to DCC RPG and you might have heard that...
Sifting Through a Sword-and-Sorcery Definition
Sifting Through a Sword-and-Sorcery Definition by Brian Murphy When Michael Moorcock asked readers in the May 1961 issue of Amra to “put a tag” on the style of fantasy he was writing with his Elric stories, he cast a wide net, letting it drag through a sea of stories that readers today would likely consider heroic fantasy, high fantasy, or sword-and-sorcery—or all of the above: We have two tags, really — SF and “Fantasy” —...
Archetypes of Adventure: Conan and Elric
Archetypes of Adventure: Conan and Elric by Bill Ward Few characters in fantasy are as iconic as Conan the Cimmerian: black-haired barbarian warrior with the deadly grace of a panther and the impressive physique of a prize fighter, a wanderer, a reaver, and a king by his own hand. Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone perhaps rivals Conan in terms of iconic status (if not exactly in market saturation), perhaps in part due to his...
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...
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...
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...
The Music of DCC: The Music of Michael Moorcock
The release of DCC #100: The Music of the Spheres (is Chaos) looms on the horizon, so Dieter Zimmerman takes a look at the relationship between DCC RPG and music in a series of blog posts appropriately titled “The Music of DCC (is Chaos).” (Go read the first post now!) Join him as he decides which Goodman Games person has the most embarrassing taste in music, as he interviews some bands associated with DCC RPG, and as he examines...
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...
Stranger Things in the Stories of Michael Moorcock
Of Artifacts, Relics, and Stranger Things in the Stories of Michael Moorcock by Brian Murphy My daughter was on my case, hard. She really wanted me to watch Stranger Things. “Dad, you grew up in the 80s. You played Dungeons and Dragons. It’s made for you!” At first I resisted. I’m not much of a TV guy, preferring books for my entertainment. But ultimately, I caved. When you’re a dad of a teenage daughter you don’t pass up a bonding...
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...
Some of My Favorite Sword-and-Sorcery Monsters
Some of My Favorite Sword-and-Sorcery Monsters by Bill Ward Where would hulking barbarians and fantastic swordsmen be without monsters to pit their steel against? Sword-and-sorcery, that delicious combination of adventure fiction and supernatural horror, is as famed for its weird foes as it is for its self-reliant protagonists. And while it isn’t locked into strict adherence to formula, every writer of sword-and-sorcery since...
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