Under the Sea: A Look at Poul Anderson’s The Merman’s Children
Under the Sea: The Merman’s Children by Poul Anderson by Fletcher Vredenburgh If Poul Anderson avoids the fate of so many other Silver Age science fiction writers, it won’t be for his science fiction writing. They, especially the swashbuckling tales of space trader Nicholas van Rijn and super spy Dominic Flandry are smart and exciting. Anderson was an incredibly gifted storyteller, one of the very best, in fact. Nonetheless, his...
Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Goodie Awards
The Goodie Awards: our annual Thank You to the community! Last night’s Goodie Awards were a star-studded affair featuring the best and brightest of the Goodman Games community! Each year we like to say ‘thank you’ to those individuals that go above and beyond to show their love for Goodman Games with the Goodie Awards — and you can still catch last night’s show over at the Official Goodman Games Twitch...
Spend $20 To Get $20 And Support The Cub Scouts
Were you aware that our Dark Master has Dark Younglings? It’s true! And young Haven Goodman has a special request for you. One that comes with a special bonus! Anyone who buys $20 or more of Cub Scout popcorn from Haven Goodman’s storefront will receive a $20 gift card usable in the Goodman Games online store for any products we carry. The Cub Scout popcorn is delicious – and 73% of proceeds go directly to support Cub...
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...
Under the Spell of Keith Taylor’s Bard Songs
Under the Spell of Keith Taylor’s Bard Songs by Brian Murphy Tomorrow all will be known, and you’re not aloneSo don’t be afraid of the dark and coldBecause the Bard’s songs will remain ~ “The Bard’s Song,” Blind Guardian A characteristic of good sword-and-sorcery is earthiness; even if not set in some ancient age of our own earth, sword-and-sorcery nevertheless is typically gritty, even grimy, in its realism. Joseph McCullough once...
Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Pulps: The Expansion of Genre Fiction
Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Pulps: The Expansion of Genre Fiction by Ryan Harvey The first pulp magazine was Argosy, which changed to an all-fiction format in 1896. Each issue delivered a thick stack of stories printed on low-cost paper. More pulp magazines followed, and by the 1920s, they had changed the way people across the country consumed fiction. They made reading stories of wild adventures, Western action, granite-jawed...
In The Land of Dreams: Lord Dunsany’s At the Edge of the World
In The Land of Dreams: Lord Dunsany’s At the Edge of the World by Fletcher Vredenburgh I didn’t read any of Dunsany’s stories until long after I had encountered several of his direct literary descendants. I discovered H.P. Lovecraft on the Stapleton Library shelves, Clark Ashton Smith on the foxed pages of old anthologies, and Jack Vance in dad’s boxes of books in the attic. I didn’t know their style had...
Fantasy in the Time of Lord Dunsany
Fantasy in the Time of Lord Dunsany by Brian Murphy “I never hunt for an idea. It must come to me and I must be struck by the wonder of it. I go beyond reality in so much of my writing because I’ve always preferred the big thing. Why shoot at a rabbit when you have a chance to shoot at a tiger?” –Lord Dunsany, from Lord Dunsany, King of Dreams. When Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (July 1878-October...
Thanks For a Great DCC Day!
DCC Day was a hit! Thanks to all of those retailers and Friendly Local Game Stores that ordered kits and hosted games of DCC and MCC yesterday — you make our one day celebration of all things DCC possible! And to all of those gamers who made the trip to their local, or perhaps who ran games of their own if they couldn’t make it to a participating store, we salute you! Goodman Games firmly believes we have the very best...
Beyond the Gate of Shadows: Harold Lamb’s The Grand Cham
Beyond the Gate of Shadows: Harold Lamb’s The Grand Cham by Bill Ward “As evening closed in they were threading through gorges that hastened the coming of darkness. Often they looked back in the failing light. No one desired to be last. And then Rudolfo, in the lead, halted abruptly. ‘Before them in the twilight stood a great mound of human skulls.” When we are first introduced to Michael Bearn, young Breton ship-master in...
Where to Start With Harold Lamb
Where to Start With Harold Lamb by Howard Andrew Jones It wasn’t so long ago that the fiction of Harold Lamb was best known only as a footnote in the old Lancer Conan books, mentioned in passing as being important and influential but almost completely unavailable. All that could be found of his prose were some late novels and his biographies, and, fine as those biographies are, neither were foundational works of sword-and-sorcery....
Community Publisher Profile: Gaming Honors
Goodman Games recently sat down with the group from Gaming Honors to discuss all things gaming. From their quirky third party titles like Dwellings & Driveways: Keep on the Cul-de-Sac, to their hit new podcast Honor Among Thieves, to their fond memories of victories secured at Gen Con Team Tournament 2018 and how moving adventures online has changed their gaming, Gaming Honors reveals what keeps their game-fires burning. Who are...
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