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Appendix N Archaeology: Algernon Blackwood

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Appendix N Archaeology: Algernon Blackwood

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. Appendix N Archaeology: Algernon Blackwood By Bradley K. McDevitt Contrary to what his name suggests he was, English author Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951) was neither an escapee from a Charles Dickens novel nor a member of the faculty of Hogwarts. What Blackwood was, in fact, was one of the most admired writers of the early twentieth century. H.P. Lovecraft, one of the cornerstone authors of Appendix N, had this to say about one of Blackwood’s stories: “The Willows is the finest weird story I have ever read.” art by Lawrence Sterne Stevens Strong praise from a writer who took great pride in the breadth of his literary scholarship. However, Lovecraft also made this comment about Blackwood in one of his thousands of pages of correspondence to friends: “It is safe to say that Blackwood is the greatest living weirdest despite unevenness and a poor prose style.” The source of those criticisms has a simple explanation. In addition to being so admired, Blackwood was possibly one of the most prolific authors working at the time, turning out no less than fourteen novels, ten anthologies, and numerous children’s books and plays. To whit, due to the tight deadlines, he was regularly given by his newspaper clients like the Westminster Gazette, Blackwell himself ended up unsure how many stories he did complete during his long career. All, however, were of exemplary quality, with some shared themes that arose from Blackwood’s love of the travel and the outdoors. Unlike some authors who set their stories in exotic locales (like many of Ashton-Smith’s tales, set everywhere from medieval France, to the Amazon, to Mars), Blackwood delighted in setting his most chilling stories in the most banal of locales, then turning everything ninety degrees to sheer terror. As a simple example, The Occupant of the Room takes place in a small hotel suite rented by a teacher on a walking tour of the Alps while on holiday. Compared to R.E. Howard’s The Black Stone, with its setting of a decayed hamlet deep in a floridly described version of Germany’s Black Forest, the town where The Occupant of the Room is set is reassuringly mundane until the narrator descends into paranoia and meets the other occupant of his little suite. Blackwood shows great skill in wringing terror in other situations, always building from locations so typical and relatable to most readers that he doesn’t feel the need, unlike Lovecraft, to go into exacting detail. A foggy London street is nothing so unusual as to need longitude or latitude, but that makes it no less terrifying to the shell-shocked protagonist of Confession. Such is Blackwood’s skill that the reader feels disoriented and lost in the fog just like the narrator. art by Matt Fox Even slightly more exotic locations like the endless swath of foliage that make up the setting of The Willows or the Canadian woods of The Wendigo are still normal enough lull the reader into a sense of security that Blackwood takes great pains not to violate until it...

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“FIE, I SAY!” New Indie RPG In Online Store!

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“FIE, I SAY!” New Indie RPG In Online Store!

EGADS! ZOUNDS! FIE, I SAY! New this week from The SavageAfterworld (Country Meat-Grinder Classics, The Phage From Below) is a new indie RPG with a humorous twist! FIE, I SAY! is an entirely d6 based system, giving you everything you need to step into a world of zany parody, including pregens, NPCs and monsters, and an intro adventure. Let’s check it out! The RPG that asks, “What if Mel Brooks had directed The Lord of the Rings?” FIE, I SAY! is the D6 comedy-fantasy-parody of Serious Fantasy Roleplaying Games. (You know, those “Ampersand RPGs”.) Based on the classic “roll a bunch of D6s and beat a difficulty number” RPG systems you know and love, a FIE, I SAY! adventure typically results in a comedy of errors where the characters are out of their league, the villains are out of patience, and the players are likely out of their minds. FIE, I SAY! contains rules for creating an adventurer (and eight pregens to jump right into the action), how to play (i.e., “Your Murder Hobo and You”), a cast of NPCs and monsters to befriend and/or thwart, and, of course, The Obligatory Introductory Adventure. FIE, I SAY! – PRINT + PDF FIE, I SAY! – PDF...

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A Grand Time at GameFace Con!

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A Grand Time at GameFace Con!

Baltimore came out for the 1st annual Gameface Con Last weekend, March 9th and 10th, the Peabody Heights Brewery hosted this great event put on by Justin Sirois of Severed Books. Baltimore answered the call for adventure and came out to roll some dice and great games were had by all!  Thank you for all the brisk high-fives and great chats at the table about all things Goodman Games!!!  Congrats to Peabody and Justin on such an awesome event. We look forward to next year...

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80 DCC+MCC Items for Incredible Price At Humble Bundle!

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80 DCC+MCC Items for Incredible Price At Humble Bundle!

Includes never-before-Bundled items! The DCC and MCC Megabundle 2 offers an absolutely massive value — including a ton of DCC and MCC items that have never been available in a Bundle before! Opting for the entire 80 item bundle will yield not only dozens of amazing DCC and MCC PDF modules, supplements, player aids — even core rulebooks — but also a physical copy of the MCC RPG Softcover Rulebook! That’s $40 for 80 items — a $728 value! — including the softcover MCC RPG Rulebook, as well as a 20% off coupon usable in the Goodman Games Online Store. Of course, if you want to keep things strictly digital, the $25 for 79 item bundle offers all of the same amazing publications, without the physical edition of MCC RPG. Some of these items haven’t been offered like this for many years — and even more of them have never appeared on Humble Bundle at all! These two massive collections contain essentials like the DCC and MCC Core Rulebooks, the DCC Reference Booklet and DCC Character Folio, The DCC Annual and several Yearbooks, both the DCC and MCC Judges screen, recent DCC adventures like the groundbreaking DCC#100 and Crypt of the Devil Lich as well as classic DCC and MCC adventures from across the entire line. Plus! Megabundle 2 also contains terrific third party DCC and MCC adventures from publishers like Bloat Games, Purple Sorcerer, Gaming Honors, The SavageAfterworld, Horseshark Games, Raorgen Games, Dandyline Games, Tuesday Night Fiend Club, Blind Visionary Productions, and more! And for those of you looking to simply dip your toe into DCC, there are 12 and 4 item options that narrow things down to the essentials you need to play — get started with DCC for as little as $1.00! AND EVERY BUNDLE INCLUDES A 20% OFF COUPON FOR THE GOODMAN GAMES ONLINE STORE! As always with Humble Bundle, you have the option to pay more — with the proceeds going to charity. The DCC and MCC Megabundle 2 offer supports No Kid Hungry, a organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in the United States by helping to launch and improve programs that give kids the healthy food they need to thrive. So whether you opt for the tremendous value of the 80 item bundle (with physical MCC RPG Softcover Rulebook), or decide to start your DCC journey for as little as $1.00, the DCC and MCC Megabundle 2 represents an amazing deal, no matter what you choose. GET NEVER-BEFORE-BUNDLED ITEMS WITH DCC and MCC MEGABUNDLE 2 on HUMBLE...

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A Great Time at GAMA Expo!

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A Great Time at GAMA Expo!

We had a great time at GAMA Expo! Thanks again to all the retailers who gamed with us, came by the booth to chat about our product line, and watched our presentation on upcoming releases! Louisville was a great city and we wished we could have seen more of it — though we’re definitely returning to the Troll Pub next year! Retailers: remember to place your orders now before the show special coupon code expires! And a hearty congratulations to The Brothers Uber game store for winning our raffle, and taking home our entire booth...

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This Week on Twitch – March 11-17

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This Week on Twitch – March 11-17

Your regular lineup of shows is back this week! We’ve got a super week of your favorite shows to look forward to, including In the Studio With Brad, Corporate Crash Course, The Brush Hour, A Wasteland Saga, and Danger Strangers! And don’t forget you can catch up on all our shows over on the Goodman Games YouTube channel as well! Now let’s check out the details! Schedule for the week of March 11 7:00 p.m. EST, Monday, March 11 In the Studio With Brad Host: Brad McDevitt Episode Four of In the Studio with Brad arrives in full gladiatorial armor, ready to slay this deadline for Xcrawl Classics! Unfortunately, this is level-zero quality armor, which is basically papier mache with delusions of grandeur. So let’s all watch Brad get mauled by… Kobolds as he tries finish his latest art assignment before he exits the funnel… As in previous sessions, Brad will be taking questions, answering them in his own way, and responding to points spent with weird facts and jokes bad enough to make you regret you spent those dineros on the Pay-Per-View for this Crawl… Tune in to the Goodman Games Official Twitch Channel tonight at 7:00 pm EST! 9:00 p.m. EST, Monday, March 11 Brush Hour with Traitorous Alf Host: Traitorous Alf Whether it’s an old lead orc from 1984 or a 4k resin miniature fresh off the 3D printer it always looks better in the dungeon when it’s painted! Join Traitorous Alf as he paints his own pile of shame and takes your miniature painting-related questions. Some episodes will be themed around specific techniques or styles that revolve around getting those minis out of the packaging and onto the table looking fresh and ready to put those pesky dungeon delvers in their place. Painters of all skill levels are welcome to come hang out and work on their own miniatures at the same time. Tune in tonight, only on the Goodman Games Official Twitch Channel. 9:00 p.m. EST, Wednesday, March 13 The Wasteland Saga Hosts: The Wasteland Warriors Our bumbling band of mutants have found a cavern of ooze! They have been sent to collect crystalized ooze for a tribe of chicken mutants. If that weren’t enough… mutants! The liveplay continues this Wednesday! Tune in on Wednesday at 9:00 pm EST only on the Goodman Games Official Twitch Channel. 7:00 p.m. EST, Thursday, March 14 Corporate Crash Course Host: The Corpocracy Leap into another liveplay with the Corpocracy! Join them in their ongoing adventure series, live on Twitch every other Thursday. Tune in Thursday only on the Goodman Games Official Twitch Channel. 10:00 p.m. EST, Saturday, March 16 Danger Strangers Hosts: Defenders of Kobold An open-world investigation set in the weird west of the Weird Frontiers roleplaying game. Dig Three Graves pits the characters against impossible odds and a secret society ripped from actual history. To triumph, the characters will have to rely on far more than just a fast draw or lucky incantation. For when the hoofbeats thunder and the skies darken, it’s long past time to sort the quick from the dead. Defenders of Kobold present Danger Stranger! A real play show airing live this Saturday at 10:00 pm EST, only on the Goodman Games Official Twitch Channel. Be sure to check out all of those great shows! And don’t forget to visit all of our recent streams on the Official Goodman Games Twitch Channel!...

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Support MCC-Compatible “Jair’s Home” From Electi Studio on BackerKit!

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Support MCC-Compatible “Jair’s Home” From Electi Studio on BackerKit!

New from Electi Studio and already fully-funded, Jair’s Home is a 0 level MCC (or DCC) compatible adventure and setting written by Jacob Franklin — with awesome miniatures from SkullForge Studios! Jair’s Home is a village built amongst the remains of a massive robot, inhabited by mutant possums with psychic powers and led by the charismatic Jair. Jair’s Home is a strange place in the Terra A.D. wilderness where mutant possums have psychic powers and hold court with Jair, pronounced like “chair” but with a “J.” The keen mutants have built a wall by scavenging parts from a massive robot. They fiercely protect the little world they’ve built and have made Jair’s Home a favorite place for your band to start exploring the frontiers of Terra A.D.  Features Written for Mutant Crawl Classics (MCC), but still highly useful for Gamma World, Old School Essentials: Post-Apocalyptic, or any other world you brew that crawls with mutants and ancient technologies. Learn the history, demographics, government, defenses, industry, factions, and resources in Jair’s Home  Explore twelve characterful locations within Jair’s Home, including Judge’s Notes and written descriptions to be read aloud to players. There are three regions around the village for players to explore in the land beyond Jair’s Home. Seven new monsters for your bestiary Includes the NPCs associated with the village and roles and an NPC generator to help guide DMs to populate the world with memorable characters, all built to give the party plenty to do in Jair’s Home. Four hooks tables and three events tables give players replayability and room for the story to grow. Additional character creation rules for creating your adventurers, with the 11 different Manimal Genotypes, including Jair’s Home iconic (Didelinoids.) Introduces the Stable Genome rule, which allows players to choose specific options for their characters instead of relying purely on chance, but at a cost. An additional archaic alignment “The Devotees of Mother Nikki.”  Support Jair’s Home and grab some awesome STL files or printed minis to enhance your games of MCC! JAIR’S HOME ON...

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All The Tournament Winners!

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All The Tournament Winners!

For several years now, Goodman Games has been running tournaments at conventions across the country. Gen Con has seen the lion’s share of these events, but we’ve expanded to other shows to allow more people a chance to prove their mettle in the ultimate arena of role-playing talent. We’ve had folks dealing with everything from Beer Golems to Black Hearts, and even a chance to prove themselves The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar and the Arch-Daihaks of Dying Earth. Each and every time one person or team has proven themselves to be the best. To rise to the occasion and emerge victorious. This then is the list of those individuals. The brave, the mighty . . . the winners. We present to you our list of champions! Gen Con 2023 Team Tournament – Arch-Daihaks of the Dying Earth Champions Our first DCC Dying Earth Team Tournament was wild, bloody, and a whole lot of fun! Hat’s off to the winning team of Los Hermanos Jabronis consisting of Colin and Lucian Murphree, Jordan Starks, Dan Bastin, and Morgan Gonzalez. Above you can see the proud champs modeling their trophies –custom made Magician Hats from Archaic Manifestation! Gen Con 2022 Team Tournament – Return to the Starless Sea Champions Our return to in-person gaming at Gen Con was our largest tournament on record, with 198 players across 47 teams! Over the course of three days and two hard-fought rounds, over a thousand gongfarmers fell to the deadly traps, chaotic combat, and multiple paths that made up this year’s adventure, and a number of teams were wiped out in TPKs before team I Haven’t Had Enough Coffee for This! emerged as the champions. Congratulations to Jan Pierskalla, Mike Kenyon, Roger Penny, Chris Dissette, and Tom Colley. The Peon Knights, 2020 DCC RPG Team Tournament Champions, during round 1 Online Tournament Champions 2020-2021 The world may have been shut down — but gamers got to game! Over a series of online conventions, Goodman Games took the fun of DCC Tournament gaming into the virtual space starting in 2020. The Peon Knights took the top spot in Bride of the Cyclops Con‘s Return to the Starless Sea team tournament: congratulations to Andy Chandler, Steven Danielson, Steve Dodge, Landon Kanillopoolos, and Travis Michael Rapp. Also, emerging victorious from The Slave Pits of Agharta during Bride Online was Joe Colistro, who took the top spot in this Battle Royale style tourney. Returning to the Pits just a few months later for 2021’s Spawn of the Cyclops Con, Joe would share the top spot with Jon Lehman, in a brutal nail-biting showdown resulting in a draw. All of this online gaming was kicked-off by our first virtual tourney at DCC Days Online 2020. The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar thwarted teams left and right with devilish puzzles and nasty traps, until only team Puttin’ on the Fritz remained: Gary D McBride, Kris Vezner, Steven Danielson, Geoff Knox, and Keith Haddad — congratulations winners! Gen Con 2019 Team Tournament—The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar Champions At Gen Con 2019 teams competed to prove themselves on the harsh streets of Lankhmar, and ultimately the four members of team Oh, God! came out victorious. Let’s congratulate Jim Batka, Mathew Batka, Joe Batka, and Jason Cefaratti. Origins 2019 Team Tournament—The Riders on the Phlogiston Champions Riders on the...

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Support Wayward Studios’ DCC-Compatible “From Out of Gnollwhere” on Kickstarter!

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Support Wayward Studios’ DCC-Compatible “From Out of Gnollwhere” on Kickstarter!

Just launched and fully-funed — Wayward Studios’ From Out of Gnollwhere is a Dungeon Crawl Classics-compatible adventure for four to six 2nd level characters. The first of a three-part arc, book one invites the characters to investigate horrifying and militaristic assaults from the normally chaotic and disjointed gnolls of the wilds beyond the placid town of Rurayne’s Crossing. Pausing in your travels at a comfortable-looking farm village-cum-trading post which is celebrating its annual harvest festival, your group kicks its heels up at the local inn, the Haystack. Just as you settle in to enjoy your fine roast beast and a second round of house ale, a young couple, covered in blood, staggers into the common room. All talk and sound of merriment ceases, as the couple weaves their ghastly tale: newlyweds, the couple were on their way to Rurayne’s Crossing where an uncle was going to set them up on his farm, from their hometown far in the north. They’d stopped off in the tiny trading village of Turley Hollow, a day or so’s brisk ride from the Crossing, to rest for the evening, only to find it under attack by gnolls! The two had had to steal the horse from a cart to escape–as the family who’d been loading it was savaged by the ravening beasts. In short order, the group is either convinced or hired to investigate these attacks. Gnolls are known to be brutishly violent and hating of men, but have never been known to attack in such numbers or precision. This investigation will lead them on a path from the tranquil village of Rurayne’s Crossing to the bloody, desecrated trading post of Turley Hollow and finally into the great, darkening wood known as the Auld and the cryptic, long-forgotten tomb of a Chaos Lord! And perhaps a few (un)pleasant surprises along the way! With gorgeous cover art from rising comic star Camron Johnson and interior art from fantasy champions Mike Hoffman and Christopher Torres (and some surprise guests), “From Out of Gnollwhere” is a thrilling adventure that will be an attractive add to your bookshelf as well! The Product – “From Out of Gnollwhere” Approximately a 30 page fully fleshed out adventure – including exploratory areas.  Printed 8.5″ x 11″, to sit beautifully on your bookshelf.  Color cover by renowned comic book cover and sketch artist Camron Johnson. Filled with beautiful black and white illustrations.  Soft cover. Two stretch goals — a bonus encounter and the Half-Gnoll character class, have already been unlocked — support today to unlock even more content! SUPPORT ‘FROM OUT OF GNOLLWHERE’ ON...

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DCC and MCC MEGABUNDLE 2 Now Live on Humble Bundle!

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DCC and MCC MEGABUNDLE 2 Now Live on Humble Bundle!

It’s the return of the MEGABUNDLE! A while back, Humble Bundle ran an absolutely amazing DCC Megabundle offer. Well, it’s back — and bigger than ever! The DCC and MCC Megabundle 2 presents an absolutely massive value, and this time with a difference! Opting for the entire 80 item bundle will yield not only dozens of amazing DCC and MCC PDF modules, supplements, player aids — even core rulebooks — but also a physical copy of the MCC RPG Softcover Rulebook! That’s $40 for 80 items — a $728 value! — including the softcover MCC RPG Rulebook, as well as a 20% off coupon usable in the Goodman Games Online Store. Of course, if you want to keep things strictly digital, the $25 for 79 item bundle offers all of the same amazing publications, without the physical edition of MCC RPG. These two massive collections contain essentials like the DCC and MCC Core Rulebooks, the DCC Reference Booklet and DCC Character Folio, The DCC Annual and several Yearbooks, both the DCC and MCC Judges screen, recent DCC adventures like the groundbreaking DCC#100 and Crypt of the Devil Lich as well as classic DCC and MCC adventures from across the entire line. Plus! Megabundle 2 also contains terrific third party DCC and MCC adventures from publishers like Bloat Games, Purple Sorcerer, Gaming Honors, The SavageAfterworld, Horseshark Games, Raorgen Games, Dandyline Games, Tuesday Night Fiend Club, Blind Visionary Productions, and more! And for those of you looking to simply dip your toe into DCC, there are 12 and 4 item options that narrow things down to the essentials you need to play — get started with DCC for as little as $1.00! AND EVERY BUNDLE INCLUDES A 20% OFF COUPON FOR THE GOODMAN GAMES ONLINE STORE! As always with Humble Bundle, you have the option to pay more — with the proceeds going to charity. The DCC and MCC Megabundle 2 offer supports No Kid Hungry, a organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in the United States by helping to launch and improve programs that give kids the healthy food they need to thrive. So whether you opt for the tremendous value of the 80 item bundle (with physical MCC RPG Softcover Rulebook), or decide to start your DCC journey for as little as $1.00, the DCC and MCC Megabundle 2 represents an amazing deal, no matter what you choose. DCC and MCC MEGABUNDLE 2 on HUMBLE...

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