We've got new things in the store, new things coming to Kickstarter, and news about the upcoming Dungeon Con Online!
The support of Fantasy Grounds continues with license keys now available for a handful of our Fifth Edition Fantasy modules in our online store. And we've also now added DCC #82.5: Dragora's Dungeon to Fantasy Grounds, and you can purchase it in our online store as well! Plus, we point you towards our selection of MCC RPG third-party publisher books!
And there's huge news about Dungeon Con Online! We're proud to announce Kobold Press as a co-sponsor for the convention, joining Dungeon Masters Guild and Goodman Games. Plus, Event Registration is now open! The Adventure Design Competition has been announced! And we're accepting applications for the dealer's hall and artist's alley!
Plus we've got a new form-fillable character sheet for DCC RPG, the ability to RSVP for select games on our Events Page, show off the Twitch Emotes for subscribers, and have articles on Stanley Weinbaum and Robert Asprin's Thieves' World!
And we point you towards the upcoming Shelf File of Holding Kickstarter so you can track it before it launches!
Let's get to it!
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NEW IN THE ONLINE STORE: FANTASY GROUNDS FOR FIFTH EDITION FANTASY |
Once you’ve purchased the key, it will show up in the email receipt sent out by us, as well as in your purchase history. You WILL need to have a Goodman Games account to receive the key after purchase, and you will also need an active account on Fantasy Grounds to use it.
Fantasy Grounds is a virtual tabletop to help facilitate play of tabletop-style role-playing games online with a GM and one or more players. It replicates what you would traditionally do around a physical table, such as rolling dice, managing character sheets, keeping campaign notes, sharing handouts and images, and moving tokens or figures around on a map.
Let’s look at what’s now available in our online store!
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Fifth Edition Fantasy #2: The Fey Sisters’ Fate – Module for Fantasy Grounds |
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Fifth Edition Fantasy #4: War-Lock – Module for Fantasy Grounds |
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Fifth Edition Fantasy #5: Into the Dragon’s Maw – Module for Fantasy Grounds |
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Fifth Edition Fantasy #7: Fantastic Encounters – Module for Fantasy Grounds |
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Fifth Edition Fantasy #11: The Archmage’s Lost Hideaway – Module for Fantasy Grounds |
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Dungeon Crawl Classics #82.5: Dragora’s Dungeon – Module for Fantasy Grounds |
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LICENSED MUTANT CRAWL CLASSICS THIRD-PARTY ADVENTURES |
You probably already knew that Goodman Games offers a license for fans to support Dungeon Crawl Classics with their own creations, but did you know the same was true for Mutant Crawl Classics? With so much great quality content coming from our original and talented Third Party Publishers lately we just had to shout their praises!
Mutant Crawl Classics licensed material runs the gamut from themed-‘zines and additional supplementary material to entirely new settings and full-blown adventure modules — you might say it’s as diverse, imaginative, and just-plain gonzo as the world of Mutant Crawl Classics itself.
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ANNOUNCING KOBOLD PRESS AS CO-SPONSOR OF DUNGEON CON ONLINE |
We’re very excited to announce that Kobold Press joins Goodman Games and Dungeon Masters Guild as co-sponsors of Dungeon Con Online!
A creation of Wolfgang Baur, a former staff writer for FASA and WOTC, Kobold Press is one of the most active 5E publishers with a reputation for excellent writing and artwork. Kobold Press is the creator of many excellent 5E products, including their Midgard setting and much more. Wizards of the Coast commissioned them to create the two adventures for the initial Tyranny of Dragons storyline for Dungeons & Dragons 5E, Hoard of the Dragon Queen and The Rise of Tiamat. We are thrilled to have them joining the Dungeon Con Online family.
Prepare to embark on an adventure at Dungeon Con Online, an online gaming convention open to all D&D 5th Edition fans! We want DMs running games with players worldwide, fans signing up for events with celebrity DMs, creators playtesting not-yet-released adventures, and much more!
Recruit your home group or go it alone, and in between games you can watch seminars, live-streamed panels, and social hours. There will even be a dealers hall where you can find the newest supplements for your home game!
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EVENT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN FOR DUNGEON CON ONLINE |
Dungeon Con Online brings the excitement of the world’s first fantasy role-playing game to you over the course of four days!
For this convention, we have a freeform schedule. All times are available except for noon-1 pm EST and 6-7 pm EST each day, which we have reserved for visiting our Dealers Hall and Artists Alley in the citadel, so this should allow for more flexibility in scheduling. Find the Dungeon Con Online schedule for gaming here!
We will also have some rooms available in our Citadel for hosting your events, so if you would like to use our location for hosting, let us know when you submit the event.
And once again running events will count towards getting your badge! If you submit at least 2 events, you’ll be able to purchase a badge to the convention for $10 off, 3 events will get you $15 off, and 4 or more events will get your badge free. And if you run any events, you get to sign up for events early on April 25.
The convention is not centered around the Goodman Games 5E publications—all publishers are welcome! There will be a dealers hall and artist alley, as well. This convention is open to all game systems, but the focus will be D&D.
Join us on May 28-31 for a long weekend of games, seminars, streaming, and more! There will be D&D games for new players and experienced players.
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ANNOUNCING THE DUNGEON CON ONLINE ADVENTURE DESIGN COMPETITION |
We are excited to announce the first annual Dungeon Con Online Adventure Design Contest! We are looking for D&D 5E DMs who want to create a short dungeon crawl and run playtests at the con. We’ll select our favorite and the winner will receive a $100 award, admission to future cons, and consideration for future publication!
Dungeon Design Criteria:
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The adventure should be written using D&D 5E rules.
- The adventure should be an underground dungeon crawl of at least 10 rooms. The encounters should have a good mix of exploration, combat, traps, and social interaction. Please include at least one new monster or fully developed NPC (including stats). Other creatures can reference the SRD for stats.
- The adventure should be suitable for virtual play with 4-6 players. You should run at least two sessions of the adventure at Dungeon Con Online. The parties should be able to finish the dungeon crawl in a 4-hour virtual play session.
- Level range should be tier one (levels 1-4) or tier two (levels 5-10).
Adventure Submission Process:
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We would like to review your written manuscript, after you have incorporated any feedback from playtests at the con. Playtesting is a valuable part of the design process! The final manuscript should be no more than 5000 words in length. It should be emailed to dungeoncononline@goodman-games.com no later than June 15.
- Judging will be based on the final written manuscript as well as feedback from the convention players. We will identify a winner by August 31.
The Prize:
- The winner will receive $100 cash and a badge to the second Dungeon Con Online.
- The winner retains all rights to the adventure and is free to publish it in the future.
- If the adventure fits the publication needs of Goodman Games or other sponsors, we will consider it for future publication.
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DEALER AND ARTIST REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN |
If you visited Spawn of Cyclops Con, you saw the tech that we’re using to create an experience that all but simulates the in-person experience. And we’re thrilled to tell you that Dungeon Con Online is offering the same style dealer’s hall and artist’s alley! It’s a virtual map with avatars wandering through it and interacting with the people and booths that are near you. It has to be experienced to believe!
And if you are looking to be a part of it, applications are now open for the dealer’s hall and artist’s alley!
The convention is not centered around the Goodman Games 5E publications – all publishers are welcome! This convention is open to all game systems, but the focus will be D&D.
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COMING SOON: THE SHELF FILE OF HOLDING |
Is your bookshelf a mess? Do you own so many games they’ve become a hazard? Are your dungeon crawls a disorganized disaster? We were like that, too—so we came up with a solution!
We have designed a custom-printed shelf file designed for holding adventure modules, hardcover RPG books, and small boxed sets. All four exterior panels feature awesome new hand-painted art by Doug Kovacs!
A few weeks ago, you fans sent in names for this new creation. You sent so many terrific suggestions that we couldn’t make a decision! Once the Kickstarter launches, we will announce plans for backers to vote on their favorite name. For now, we’re calling it The Shelf File of Holding, a.k.a. The Dungeon Shelfie. But that alias may change with your input!
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SUPPORT THE HERO PINS KICKSTARTER |
The fine folks over at Gaming Honors have produced some top-notch third-party releases for Dungeon Crawl Classics. And while this product isn't specifically for DCC RPG, it is for all role-playing games.
It's called Hero Pins. And it's a matter of life and death.
We'll let them explain from their Kickstarter page:
What’s the problem?
Metagaming interrupts your game. Stepping out of character to communicate with the cleric about your dwindling hit points is distracting and frustrating for everyone at the table.
What’s the solution?
Hero Pins are beautifully designed health indicator pins that use a simple color-coded pattern (green - yellow - red - black/death) to communicate your character’s health status to everyone in your party. You simply turn the dial to show players how close to death you might be.
How does it work?
These patent-pending 3D metal pins spin to show your character’s health. Magnets “click” your status into place for stability during gameplay. You can wear Hero Pins on your shirt, your jacket, your hat, your bag, or even your convention badge holder. With a glance from across the table, players can know how badly you’ve been hit.
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By turning the pin, you, the player, get to share with everyone at the table how you, the character, are doing, health-wise. And you get to do so while staying in the moment. After all, in battle your companions would notice the gaping, bleeding wound on your body without you having to yell "I'm down to my last hit points!"
So head on over to this Kickstarter to give this innovative tool for conveying information some love.
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SUBSCRIBE TO EARN DCC TWITCH EMOTES |
It’s only been a little over a year since Goodman Games went from having nothing airing on Twitch to weekly shows, special events, and even online conventions broadcast using their service.
And your support has been tremendous! You tune in to watch our Judge’s torment entertain players, express our opinions and wisdom, and even debate which modules are the best ever published. Still, we know you want to have the ability to express yourself in ways that reflect your DCC-centric opinion as you watch.
Maybe you need to tell Judge Brendan that his performance as the monster tormenting players is top-notch? Or let our own Dark Master see your joy during his next seminar?
We’re here to help! We’ve got some great Twitch Emotes available for subscribers! All you have to do is subscribe to get the unique emotes added to your repertoire.
Right now our emotes army is small, but the more subscribers we get the more emotes we can unleash upon the world! So what are you waiting for! Subscribe to the Goodman Games Twitch Channel to not only gain your emotes, but all the other benefits of a subscription, like: BADGES, SPECIAL ALERTS, EXCLUSIVE CHAT ROOMS, EXCLUSIVE COMPETITIONS, and AD-FREE VIEWING!
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FORM FILLABLE LEVEL 0 DCC CHARACTER SHEET |
Don’t you just wish you could use the computer to put all of your character’s information onto a 0-level sheet and then print it out? Maybe like it was…a fillable form?
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PLAYERS CAN NOW RSVP FOR SELECT GAMES ON OUR EVENTS PAGE |
Over the last year or so we’ve made great strides in putting together virtual gaming opportunities for fans of Dungeon Crawl and Mutant Crawl Classics RPGs. Sometimes that’s about using new software, other times it’s about streamlining and perfecting the process that connects players and Judges and gets everyone gaming with less hassle. To that end, we are pleased to announce that players can now RSVP for select games on our Events Page!
So how does it work?
Well, for players it couldn’t be simpler. You may have already seen or used RSVP options before for one of our Demo Nights or other big events — now you’ll be seeing the option for many other virtual gaming sessions as well. Simply click the link to whatever event you are interested in (that isn’t already full!), and provide your name and email and wait until our Judge can get in contact with you...
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ADVENTURES IN FICTION: STANLEY WEINBAUM
by Ngo Vinh-Hoi
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Not many authors can be credited with changing the entire trajectory of a genre, yet Stanley Grauman Weinbaum managed to do so with his very first published science fiction story A Martian Odyssey. The story first appeared in the July 1934 issue of the science fiction pulp magazine Wonder Stories, which was a distant third in popularity to Astounding Stories and Amazing Stories. Forty years later, no less a figure than Isaac Asimov would declare that “hidden in this obscure magazine, A Martian Odyssey had the effect on the field of an exploding grenade. With this single-story, Weinbaum was instantly recognized as the world’s best living science-fiction writer, and at once almost every writer in the field tried to imitate him...” |
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STEPPING IN THE SHARED WORLD OF ROBERT ASPRIN'S THIEVES' WORLD
by Bill Ward
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Robert Asprin’s Thieves’ World is the granddaddy of the shared-world anthology; its success can be seen by its numerous sequels (the original series ran to twelve anthologies in ten years, plus a few spin-off novels, and was then revived for a brief run in the early 2000s) as well as related matter such as an extensive line of RPG supplements. This is all in addition to, of course, the many similarly themed anthologies that came out in homage or imitation to the original. In his afterward to the first book, “The Making of Thieves’ World,” Asprin (perhaps best known for his humorous fantasy Myth Adventures series) describes the shared world idea as a way for many authors to write fantasy without first having to each come up with their own worlds. Imagine, Asprin says, if Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser inhabited the same world as Conan, or if Elric and Kane opposed one another at the head of rival armies. It’s a great, fun idea, and it works well, and it certainly attracted a wide panoply of science fiction and fantasy writers over the decade in which it ran...
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FREE CONAN NOVEL WITH PRINT PURCHASE |
While supplies last and Crom wills it, we are giving away a free Conan novel with any print purchase from our online store of $25 or more!
Yes, you read that right! In years past we would have sold these novels as part of our amazing vintage book racks at Gen Con, but now you can get them a different way—for FREE!
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While you’re at it, make sure to check out the Robert E. Howard section of our Adventures in Fiction page. He’s an amazing author and his influence on modern fantasy fiction is hard to overstate, in fact here are a few specific articles you may enjoy:
This offer is only good while supplies last and subject to end at any time.
Shop the online store now! It’s the perfect time to pick up something you’ve had your eye on for a while—you’ll get a Cimmerian with it for free!
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NEW IN THE ONLINE STORE: DCC RPG FOR FOUNDRY VTT |
DCC RPG is now available for use on The Foundry!
Expanding our presence in the world of Virtual Tabletop gaming (VTT), we are happy to announce that the core rules for Dungeon Crawl Classics are now available for use with The Foundry.
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What is Foundry VTT? Foundry VTT is a virtual tabletop, like Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds. Unlike those, Foundry VTT runs on your own local computer or cloud server, and can be accessed by your players via their web browser with no installation. Foundry VTT is available for a one-time purchase price of $50, then it’s yours for life. You can have unlimited players connect for no additional charge, and never have to deal with slow servers, outages, or costly subscription fees.
Foundry VTT is built around modern development and UI standards and has a rich developer community. Hundreds of free add-on modules allow you to play as you want; add weather effects, calendars, animations, or even fast and responsive 3D dice. Amazing production-quality dynamic lighting with flicker effects is built right in and can handle massive maps. Direct integration with popular mapping tools like DungeonDraft makes setting up fully-lit maps quick and easy. Actual doors mean never having to switch layers to drag a chunk of wall out of the way. You can show and hide groups of monster tokens with a simple click.
You can write macros using simple modern scripting, as well as set up hot-bars of clickable icons so you don’t even need to open a character sheet to make rolls. You can even set up hot-bars for each player in advance—perfect for convention games!
New versions of Foundry are released monthly, and your purchase price includes dozens of free maps, sounds, music, and other assets. The product is evolving rapidly, and getting better with every release!
This is the early-access version of the DCC RPG Core Rulebook at a special reduced price. The Foundry DCC volunteer team has been working for months on this release and looks forward to your feedback on the road to the final release version over the next few months of early access. Early access buyers will continue to receive all upgrades to this product as they release.
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