Episode 146: Invoke David Fisher!

  GENCON – sometimes known as the great gathering of our people!  Gamers come from far and wide to the amazing and fascinating tourist destination of – INDIANAPOLIS…  there they find… about 80,000 other gamers, lots of beer, pizza, food trucks, meeples and lines… especially lines!  But along with that, we have the best selection […]

    DCC RPG codified supernatural patrons as something in between a game mechanic and narrative device. The notion was fresh, novel, and perfectly aligned to the game’s focus on Appendix N. Patrons are so good that the concept has worked its way into other RPGs.  The cast of patrons and gods facilitates a table’s […]

What's the ONE THING you would change... about DCC RPG?

Our next guest has been around DCC RPG for many years.  You may know him from the very well received Tales of the Smoking Wyrm, from his Youtube show the Scrivenry, or from his ongoing Earthcrawl project which he is currently developing and funding via his patreon page. Of course you may also have said […]

It’s March and it’s Madness.  This year, I had a fever dream of DCC RPG as a March Madness style tournament. Complete with brackets, groups, and 6 rounds of community voting. We have made it to this ultimate evening, the finale of insanity! Sometime later in this hour, the Judges J of Spellburn will crown […]

The Zine Scene!

Let’s talk about the 800 pound gorilla in the room… DCC RPG is more popular than ever, played worldwide, being played on a football field in Indianapolis at GENCON… and meanwhile the Fifth edition of the world’s most popular RPG is probably more popular now than D&D was at its heyday of the 1970s!  (Especially […]

Happy Holidays, It’s our last Spellburn of the year, Judge James is out there riding his reindeer so we have a special guest host with us tonight – Judge Joey Royale from Joey Royale’s Pizza Party!  And our special guest tonight, the atomic overlord himself, Christopher Rick of double ziggurat fame–  we’ll talk atomic clock […]

Well it’s Judge James’s birthday – today, November 25th, and he has some questions. Not “Where do babies come from?” or “Why, god, why?” but “How does one navigate publishing their own RPG?” So in the spirit of James becoming older, we had some friends over to celebrate and help guide us and others, on […]

Summon Nick Baran!