Jobe Bittman

Goodman Games has established a reputation for publishing some of the best adventure modules in the industry. Now we present our advice on how you can write great adventures! This compilation of articles is authored by two dozen of the industry’s best-known adventure writers. Each article gives a different perspective on how to write adventure modules that don’t suck, written by authors with decades of experience and prominent published credits. By the time you’re done reading this book, you’ll be on the path to designing great adventure modules on your own. Bonus: This PDF includes a digital copy of the original How To Write Adventures Modules That Don’t Suck (2007). Whether you’re an experienced writer or an aspiring novice, you’ll find something of value in this book!

From intrigue in the Court of Chaos to contesting against the Atomic Overlord, Dungeon Crawl Classics are never ordinary. And now seven more classic DCC RPG adventures are compiled in one beautiful tome to challenge and entertain your players. In these pages you’ll find extraplanar realms, treasure-filled towers, demon-cursed caverns, crumbling gothic manses, and radiation-scarred alien worlds to explore. Battle demons, gods, and monsters, alike, as you quest for gold, magical items, and glory…or for sheer survival! Tome of Adventure #7: Magic, Gods, and Demons contains eight exciting adventures including: Tower of the Black Pearl (Level 1 adventure): The players must race a ticking tidal clock to recover a treasure from a formerly-sunken tower. Intrigue at the Court of Chaos (Level 1 adventure): Whisked away to the Court of Chaos, the PCs find themselves pawns in a multiversal war. Who will the side with? The One Who Watches from Below (Level 1 adventure): An ocular demon haunts an accursed cave. Will the party survive the Curse of the Emerald Eye? Bride of the Black Manse (Level 3 adventure): Death is no barrier to the machinations of a family stricken with madness and desperate to buy out their contract with the forces of darkness. Dragora’s Dungeon (Level 1 adventure): The call goes out for adventurers to save an ensorcelled kingdom from the eldritch power of ancient sorcerer-kings. The Making of the Ghost Ring (Level 4 adventure): The restless ghost of a wizard needs the party to finish crafting a magic ring to find peace. Are they up to the challenge? Hole in the Sky (Level 0 funnel): The enigmatic Lady in Blue requires the party to free a powerful supernatural entity from a magical prison. How will they fare when the Wheel of Destiny spins? Against the Atomic Overlord (Level 5 adventure): A trip to a post-apocalyptic world pits the party against the mutated minions of the Atomic Overlord!

The First Seven DCC RPG Adventures In One Volume! Tome of Adventure Vol. 1 collects the first 7 adventure modules published for the DCC RPG rules set, mostly written by DCC legend Harley Stroh and the DCC Dark Master, himself, Joseph Goodman. Featuring brand-new cover art by Doug Kovacs, this compilation includes: • Doom of the Savage Kings, first published as DCC #66.5 • Sailors on the Starless Sea, including the bonus level The Summoning Pits, first published as DCC #67 • The People of the Pit, including the bonus content The Assassins of the Pit, first published as DCC #68 • The Emerald Enchanter, including the mini-sequel The Emerald Enchanter Strikes Back, first published as DCC #69 • The Jewels of the Carnifex, first published as DCC #70 • The 13th Skull, including the stand-alone adventure The Balance Blade, first published as DCC #71 • Beyond the Black Gate, first published as DCC #72 Within the covers of this book lurk demonic hounds, terrible beastmen, avatars of chaos, moon devils, slumbering gods, and even more fantastic dangers, each demonstrating why Dungeon Crawl Classics is the perfect game to capture that classic “sword and sorcery” style of adventure. Whether this is your first taste of DCC RPG or you’re well acquainted with its flavor, you’ll find a feast unlike any other inside the Tome of Adventure Vol. 1!

A Level 6 Adventure for DCC RPG Hail, wizard of Aereth! Forget everything you think you know about the magic. Mastery of the occult lies beyond the comprehension of your world’s primitive societies and warring kingdoms. Your cantrips and legerdemain are mere parlor tricks in the face of true power. The Star Cabal, peerless practitioners of the arcane arts, extends a rare invitation to join their ranks. Hurtling through the cosmos in a marvelous flying city, the magicians are revered as lords of creation by the spacefaring races of a thousand suns. Ascend to the stars and seize your rightful seat in the vaunted halls of power… if you dare. Your adventurers must pick a path through twisted ruins, ancient missile silos, strange monorail systems, and a conflict with four deadly factions to save a world—or destroy it!

A Level 1 Adventure Not a dream! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary tale! It’s the crossover you’ve always wanted: the legendary Grimtooth the Troll meets Dungeon Crawl Classics! This adventure module is written under DCC RPG rules and is officially licensed by Flying Buffalo, Inc. to include the Grimtooth character. After three decades of preparation, the evil troll Grimtooth has finally thrown wide the gates of his abode to all comers. The troll has sent ravens far and wide inviting delvers to share in the vast wealth of his treasure room. Of course, there is a catch. The adventurers must wend their way through a maze of traps in Grimtooth’s Museum of Death, a curated collection of the deadliest and most devious traps ever assembled in one place. Along the way, they might even cross paths with a few of Grimtooth’s allies: Grimtina, Spike the Grimdog, and Sludgeworth. Tread lightly, delver. There are no refunds for this tour.

This is the gold foil edition of the Metamorphosis Alpha Deluxe Collector’s Edition. The content is the same as the color cover, but the cover features a reflective gold-foil image on a leatherette surface. The tiny speck of the first colonization starship moved sluggishly through the cold depths of space. There was much mankind didn’t know about the stars, and one of those mysterious effects slashed into the starship Warden 300 years ago. Now the ship drifted through the darkness, lost and in trouble. While many intelligences move about its decks, none of them work to help the starship find its way. Generations later, you are a native on the starship Warden. As a true human, mutant, or robot, you fight to survive, unaware that the radiation-saturated world around you is in fact a starship, one of mankind’s greatest achievements. Can you uncover the secrets of the starship Warden and steer it back on course, or will you simply try to live another day? The very first sci-fi RPG returns in a deluxe oversized hardcover featuring the original 1976 rules plus loads of extras and new material! This is a 136-page compilation of the original 1976 edition of Metamorphosis Alpha, plus the supporting articles from Dragon magazine, introductions by Tim Kask and Jon Peterson, all-new monsters and NPCs by James M. Ward, and new adventure modules by James M. Ward, Michael Curtis, and Jobe Bittman. It features the very first publication ever of Mr. Ward’s original playtest notes for the 1976 edition of the world’s most first science fiction RPG!

Designing monsters is as easy as A, B, C What foul beasts slosh and gibber in the furthest reaches of your skull? Unleash your demons with the Monster Alphabet, a compilation of monster design elements keyed to letters of the alphabet. A is for Android, B is for Breath Weapon, C is for Crossbreed Game masters of any rule system will find inspiration for creating strange, new abominations: random tables of traits, powers, and lore; awe-inspiring illustrations by your favorite fantasy artists old and new; and rolling handfuls of dice directly on monster generation diagrams. The entries are accompanied by fantastic art from classic fantasy illustrators and are compatible with all fantasy role playing games. Featuring a foreword by noted designer Frank Mentzer

This compilation collects seven DCC adventures previously published in hard-to-find other editions. Each short adventure is suitable for a single session. Collectively they provide adventures for characters up to 5th level! The compilation includes these adventures: Elzemon and the Blood-Drinking Box The Imperishable Sorceress Glipkerio’s Gambit The Tower Out of Time The Jeweler That Dealt in Stardust The Undulating Corruption The Infernal Crucible of Sezrekan the Mad