Greetings!

If ever the great demons of the lower planes were to cast a spell of pestilence across our world, I suspect it would feel much like what life today is like. The coronavirus is here and it is frightening. I hope you are all reading this at home, practicing social distancing and hand-washing!

We are working through the many ramifications of this change. In the last several days, our convention schedule has shifted dramatically, as Gary Con, Whosyeron, Round Table Con, Furry Weekend Atlanta, the ACD Open House, and the Long Island Con all are canceled, and UK Games Expo and Lexicon have shifted their dates. More are sure to follow.

But there is a silver lining here. We need to make the transition to more online gaming support, and we’ll now be making that transition FAST. Look for many announcements in the days to come regarding benefits for those who gamers who will be running DCC and its cousins online!

~ Joseph Goodman

Experts from the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health have said that mail order is safe, and often preferred to keep people from going out in public.

Even if the virus were to be in contact with a book or package, it cannot last outside a living host for more than a short time. You can still order from the Goodman Games online store with confidence! 

And besides, the Warehouse Yeti always washes his hands. (Click on the image of Keith LaBaw—our Warehouse Yeti—to read more about him!)

Are you an expert on Roll20? Have you mastered the intricacies of Fantasy Grounds? If so, then we want to hear from you!

Right now Goodman Games is looking for people to help us translate our products to the virtual tabletop world, and specifically Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds. So, if if you’re a developer interested in working on that project, please get in touch with us !

We're looking forward to bringing Goodman products to fans in ever-growing ways, and we hope you are able to help us achieve that goal!

The Goodman family has a new place to hang out!

Discord is a virtual meeting space that specializes in text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel. And now, Goodman Games has their own spot!

This is another great place to meet, share ideas, and even stream games if you are so inclined. So accept the invite below, and join other Goodman Games fans on Discord!

Are you at home and needing some new reading material? We can help with that!

This week FIVE new third-party products for  Dungeon Crawl Classics  have hit our online store. From new zines to limited-edition publications, we’ve got something that will appeal to everyone.

Let’s look at what’s available!

Doug Kovacs' fantastic work of fantasy enters another level with the release of Hobonomicon #2 !

This is more than just a zine. It’s a complete system for creating and populating settings, and it is full of an amazing number of resources! Available directly from Doug, the second issue (or third, depending on how you want to count things) contains a lot of great material.

In this issue you will find: 

Make your own decisions. Elastic thought is paramount. Dig your hands into the clay of the universe and shape existence as you will.

The Hobonomicon demands it!

With everything that is going on in the world, it might be easy to overlook some of the other things that have happened lately. Still, it’s always nice to share good things, such as our experience at the GAMA Expo 2020!

Representatives from Goodman Games—including our own Dark Master—descended upon Reno, NV to share all things Goodman with over 400 retailers in attendance at the show. In particular, we wanted to spread the word on  DCC Day , and we are happy to report that it was met with enthusiasm and open arms!

A huge number of stores signed up for the event, happy to bring the excitement to their customers. We’ll be putting up more information, including a list of participating retailers, soon, but for now, we wanted to share the news with everyone on a more visceral level.

So a huge thanks to all the retailers who stopped by the booth and signed up for  DCC Day  and/or discovered what Goodman Games has to offer.

Click the link below to look at some pics from the show!

I managed to get one final FLGS game in before retreating to my lair for a few weeks of self-quarantine. Comics Kingdom hosted an event that brought in a few locals, including Randy Andrews, the man who made it all happen. 

And did it ever happen! I ran my fun horror game with the terrible working title, The Beggar's Coin ! The game ex-adventurers managed to escape the clutches of terrible Iktomi, but at terrible cost! I saw some real heroism, great game play, and wonderful roleplaying from my intrepid bunch. I would be completely satisfied if (Crom and Mitra forbid!) my Comic Kingdom game winds up being my last in-person game of 2020.

Huge thanks to Randy Andrews, and the Comics Kingdom team! 

We've got some great new third-party DCC products in our online store this week, and the folks at Tuesday Night Fiend Club have stepped up to give us a preview of their latest release, Star Crawl: Three Station Zero !

For two years, Star Crawl has been one of the top 10 best selling DCC third-party supplements in our online store. It continues to be popular, month after month. And now you can finally expand on it! Star Crawl: Three Station Zero is the first official expansion on the setting, bringing not just adventure but also new material for your campaign.

So click on the PDF link below to get a preview, and on the images to see larger versions of the artwork!

What a great start. Thank you!

The Greatest Thieves In Lankhmar Boxed Set  is live on Kickstarter, and has already been funded. Now we're looking to hit some stretch goals!

To help you reach those goals, we've got a great selection of pledge levels that will get you what you need to make a Lankhmar game a reality in your home. Choose what is best for you, and let's see how many stretch goals we can hit.

Our friends over at Flying Buffalo are reviving one of the classic role-playing systems and pairing it with a brand new adventure to accompany the game. The Toughest Dungeon In The World is a solo-adventure originally published in 1980, and now specially updated for the new version of the Monsters! Monsters! RPG.

Let's allow Flying Buffalo to give you the details themselves:

You've got only one week left to hit the high seas!

There are 3 themes to play in The Salty Funnel: Prison Transport, Slave Trader, and High Society. And maybe just a hint of a nod towards a particularly popular space epic that happened a long time ago, in a...well, you get it.

Here is the story behind The Salty Funnel.

We're on a Boat!

Captain Guido: "Ain't never met a paying customer I didn't like. So what if their faces were hidden in the cowls of purple robes with weird gold lettering around the cuffs and hem. Sure, maybe a tentacle slithered out of one of those cowls…but their coin passed the bite test, so I took it, and their smelly, slimy crates."

Mr. Skubagai, First Mate: "If the Cap'n had asked, me, I'd have told him that taking on cargo of an illicit nature with a ship full of landlubbers was a bad idea, but when's he ever consult his first mate? And, why are all those crates leaking some sort of ichor?"

Quartermaser Warklaw: "You even sail, bro?"

Captain: "Yes. I mean, I did just win this ship in a card game from a guy in a cape…"

We've sailed! Well, not a project via Kickstarter…

A Barnacle-Laden Salty Funnel is a twist on nautical adventure themes. We'll forego all the Aye Mateys and Avast Ye Scurvy Dogs! This is the first in what we hope becomes a series of funnels we produce that have a multi-theme angle to them. We filled 3 Occupations tables (Christophor said that's a pain in the @ss but he's now a master of medieval jobs), took three standard nautical themes and then twisted them into a single product. This gives better replayability as well as some options in each playthrough. Choose from a cargo hold full of soon-to-be-slaves, a brig full of criminals, or a ballroom full of pompous a… elites.

So show some love for these souls set adrift! You can lend your aid over on their Kickstarter right now! Avast!

Let’s talk Road Crew. Or rather, let’s talk, Road Crew.

Did you know you can earn free swag by running  Dungeon Crawl Classics  games? That’s our  Road Crew  program! Furthermore, did you know that we have a new forum category set up just for the Road Crew?

That’s right, it’s a great place for you to start posting game reports, talking about your players’ exploits, and sharing where you’ll be appearing! In other words, we want you to talk, Road Crew! Share things. Provide help to those just starting in the program with advice and suggestions. Let everyone know where and what is going on in your corner of the world.

We realize right now that things are a little…different. We aren’t able to gather in groups and at cons like we normally do, so we want to encourage you to still communicate. Keep the conversation going!

And remember: ONLINE GAMES COUNT! Run a game on Twitch or Fantasy Grounds or Roll20. Anywhere that you can play a public game online still counts as a Road Crew game!

So head on over to  our forums , and more specifically check out the new  Road Crew section of the Goodman Games forums !

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.”

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...”

It’s the pinnacle of achievement amongst The Road Crew. A symbol of your accomplishment that you can display every time you run a game. And it should now be in your hands.

All of us here at Goodman Games are excited to say that everyone should have received their Game 13 Judge Badges. We know you have been working hard all year long to get this coveted golden badge and we want to make sure that you have received it.

If you have not gotten yours by now please  email Judge Brendan  to make sure that all the information we have is correct.

And if you want to know how you can get your own Official Game 13 Judge Badge,  check out the details on our Road Crew !

A level 3 DCC adventure set in Lankhmar!

A relic sacred to the Rat God lies protected beneath a temple in the trash-ridden city of Ilthmar. Those who venerate the Rat seek to turn the relic’s power against Ilthmar’s most hated rival: Lankhmar, the City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokes!

When Lankhmar’s Overlord learns of this plot, he dispatches a selected party of cut-throats, sorcerers, and alley-fighters to recover the relic before the scheme of the Rat God comes to fruition. But to succeed in their mission, the party will have to infiltrate the deepest depths of the Rat Sect and overcome a multitude of unexpected and dangerous guardians.

Do they have what it takes to succeed in the Overlord’s request—or will they end up another rat-gnawed corpse in the shark-infested waters of Ilthmar?

If you want to get in the queue to own your own copy of DCC Lankhmar #11: Rats of Ilthmar you can pre-order it today through our online store!

Look for DCC Lankhmar #11: Rats of Ilthmar this April!

It’s time to add a personal stamp to your  DCC RPG  game. And thanks to the folks at Weird Works, you can.

We’ve got a great selection of the Weird Works self-inking rubber stamps in stock on our online store, which are perfect for enhancing your  Dungeon Crawl Classics  game.

Whether you are wanting to mark the cause of death, denote a spellbook, or even indicate that rare instance where the character actually survived the funnel, we’ve got the stamp for you!

Check out the selection below, and grab yours today!