Goodman Games

Greetings,

I have decided to throw my hat into the 3PP ring, after working on two projects for DCC. I'm bringing along my co-author on the Patrons book -- Daniel Bishop, and Ken Jelinek, a newcomer to RPG writing, but a man with a Master's in HP Lovecraft (no joke) and a Doctorate in RPGs. Two other contributors are planned from these very forums... I'll reveal that once everything's finalized.

Here's the description:

In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer is an RPG encounters book intended for use with your favorite Old School RPG, including the Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game. (I apologize for hedging here -- since the project has to be approved before it's officially a DCC product, I don't want to make Joseph mad .

The base offering is a 32-page softbound book containing 12-14 encounters at 1-2 pages each. The encounters, in addition to being very "Appendix N," each will include a unique monster, magical item, god and/or patron for the DCC roleplaying game. That's 12-14 scenarios with an original concept and original, re-usable content for your DCC RPG game. That's 12-14 adventure hooks for further expansion.

The entire book is richly illustrated by some of the newest and best "old school" artists, and each encounter includes an illustrated map.

And if you like this idea, it only gets better from there. If we can reach our modest targets, the main book doubles to 64 pages, and then we start adding separate, full- length adventures -- four in total if we meet all of our stretch goals.

http://www.indiegogo.com/squidsorcerer?a=699890



Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing previews of art and content here.

As always, we would appreciate your support.

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
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That title. That title is so f*cking cool that I would buy the book even for that. I'm looking forward to it.

That picture. Did winter come early to Mordor this year?

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Vorpal Mace: a humble rpg blog with some DCC-related stuff.

Thanks! I'm looking forward to delivering it!

The picture is from this guy: http://jongibbons.daportfolio.com/gallery/432549#7

He's got some amazing stuff, but I had to have that one when I saw it.

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
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That artworks rocks so hard it hurts my eyes.

I cant wait for this!

I didn't notice a link in the initial post, so here it is: http://www.indiegogo.com/squidsorcerer?a=699890

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SoBH pbp:

Cathbad the Meek (herbalist Wizard 1): AC 9; 4 hp; S 7, A 7, St 10, P 17, I 13, L 8; Neutral; Club, herbs, 50' rope, 50 cp; -1 to melee attack rolls. Hideous scar.

Well. I guess that's what happens when you're posting "emotional" while your home team is getting killed on the field...

Thank you! I fixed the original post.

acseric: More great art to come.

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
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International shipping?

Colin

In for 30$. Only thing I don't like is how the stretch goals are only available to the higher contribution levels... is that an Indiegogo v. Kickstarter difference? I would think you'd get more contributors if everybody got all stretch goals. I'm pretty new to the crowdfunding thing though.

beermoter: Thanks! You're our second contributor (after my wife...! The stretch goal thing is all over the board. Frankly, I'm new to it, as well. We don't have a lot of extra goodies (planning those for incentives as we get close to goal and stretch goals) to spice up the higher contribution levels. This is my first time doing one of these, so we're firing and adjusting.

Colin: I'm going to deal individually with contributors outside of the US for shipping. I don't want throw a number up there and have it be too high for some and too low for others. Hopefully, that makes sense. Shipping will be "actual to you" rather than a swag number. I don't really believe in handling -- that's built into overall costs... So, feel free to jump in and we'll figure out the shipping when things actually ship.

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
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If it helps, I am working on a 0-level funnel where the PCs are cave dwellers who investigate a crashed spaceship in The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss. Not sure where that will end up in the stretch goals, but it is an intentional nod to Manley Wade Wellman's Hok the Mighty stories, as well as Edgar Rice Burrough's Pellucidar and Caspak novels and The Eternal Lover, with just a dash of Andre Norton.

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SoBH pbp:

Cathbad the Meek (herbalist Wizard 1): AC 9; 4 hp; S 7, A 7, St 10, P 17, I 13, L 8; Neutral; Club, herbs, 50' rope, 50 cp; -1 to melee attack rolls. Hideous scar.

Cool deal. I hope it works out, I like the idea of a bunch of little things to pilfer.

That's definitely the intention. Worst case, an idea generator, best case a campaign of connecting adventures.

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
My Gamer Profile

All: I made a change to the contribution levels to make it more sane. Anyone that's contributed so far should have made out on the change -- at any level higher than $20 you get the print and PDF copy of the appropriate Stretch Goals. And if you've only contributed up to the main book, you can add $10 per bonus module if we reach that stretch goal level.

Sorry for the confusion - and thanks to those that contributed despite the confusion. If we do this again, we'll probably use Kickstarter -- Indiegogo had some advantages, but seems to have some disadvantages on the user/consumer side that we didn't realize.

All this based on feedback from Tenkar's Tavern -- http://www.tenkarstavern.com/2012/10/go ... +Tavern%29

Also, to be clear — we’re producing ALL of the products described in this funding call, even if we don’t reach the various Stretch Goals. If we reach the stretch goals, we’ll be able to produce them faster — If you’ve bid at a level that includes a Stretch Goal, you will receive commiserate credit to apply to that product or products when they are produced. Please let me know if you have questions or comments.

Next up: We'll be posting new sample art and content early next week. Stay tuned!

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
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Yay!

Sorry... new at this.

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
My Gamer Profile

In like Flynn! Good luck ragboy, RC, et al.!

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Terry Olson

Thanks a bunch, Pesky! We should have some example art and content this week.... getting it all together.

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
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Keep it comin!

This project looks awesome. I haven't kicked in yet, but I will ASAP when I can scrape together some cash. As Ravenheart87 noted, fantastic title.

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DCC Minister of Propaganda; Deputized 6/8/11
DCC RPG playtester 2011, DCC Lankhmar trivia contest winner 2015; OD&D player since 1975

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own."
-- Gary Gygax
"Don't ask me what you need to hit. Just roll the die and I will let you know!"
-- Dave Arneson

Shouldn't the sample art & content have been available from the beginning? Do you think that you started this crowd funding too early? It seems like several things haven't been thought through properly.

I have it -- just going through the editing process. Art took a bit longer than I expected it to take.

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
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First preview, from the Tomb of the Squonk -- an encounter by Daniel Bishop. The illustration is a rough by Nik Wolfe. Stay tuned for more this week.



This creature is Arvind Shar in his current body.

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
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Ha! Love it! I first learned about a squonk from Genesis' Trick of the Tail album. Will we see a pool of tears?

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Terry Olson

This squonk might surprise you!

But I am really glad someone knows what a squonk is. Manly Wade Wellman uses American folklore creatures to good effect in Who Fears the Devil?, and that inspired me to try the same with this encounter.

What do you think of the title, "The Mermaids from Yuggoth"?

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SoBH pbp:

Cathbad the Meek (herbalist Wizard 1): AC 9; 4 hp; S 7, A 7, St 10, P 17, I 13, L 8; Neutral; Club, herbs, 50' rope, 50 cp; -1 to melee attack rolls. Hideous scar.

**Shiver**

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AKA Paul Wolfe
The Mystic Bull: Check out our two FREE prehistoric adventures: The Steading of the Nergalites AND The Tribe of Ogg and the Gift of Suss
In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (PDF) and softcover: 12 Short Adventures for DCC!
The God-Seed Awakens: 3rd Level Adventure for DCC. New patron, new spells, lots of new monsters and the living weapons of the Empire of Thal!
My Gamer Profile