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The Only Monster Book You’ll Ever Need!550+ Monsters for Your DCC RPG Game!From out of the darkness, they come. Stalking and slithering, flopping, and flapping, these denizens of dungeons dark and deep creep out to consume and destroy. And this time, they’re after you! Dungeon Denizens is a monster of a manual containing 550+ fully developed monsters for your DCC RPG game. These monsters lurk everywhere: dungeons, forests, swamps, oceans, mountains, cities, and even other dimensions. They provide plenty of opportunities for the judge to create challenging encounters for even the most skilled and demanding players. Each entry includes brand-new, full-color art, fully developed DCC RPG statistics, ecology, evocative lore, and tactics. You’ll also find three new spells, new patron information, new weapons and equipment, 15 new magic items, plus curses, monster templates, new critical hit tables, and more! The next time the characters open a dungeon door, surprise them with a Dungeon Denizen!

Legends speak of the Mother of Monsters, the progenitor of all the world’s abominations that dwell in the dark and feast on goodly folk. The old myths say this malevolent matriarch was banished from the world, imprisoned in the dark void beyond. Now, a cult called the Children of Fang and Claw seek to free the Mother of Monsters and plunge the world back into chaos. The adventurers must follow a trail of clues to stop the cult’s rituals before the Mother of Monsters is freed once more. Mother of Monsters is a Level 2 adventure for use with the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.

Glory & Gold Won by Sorcery & Sword You’re no hero. You’re an adventurer: a reaver, a cutpurse, a heathen-slayer, a tight-lipped warlock guarding long-dead secrets. You seek gold and glory, winning it with sword and spell, caked in the blood and filth of the weak, the dark, the demons, and the vanquished. There are treasures to be won deep underneath, and you shall have them.  Return to the glory days of fantasy with the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role-Playing Game. Adventure as 1974 intended, with modern rules grounded in the origins of sword & sorcery. Fast play, cryptic secrets, and a mysterious past await you: turn the page… RULES SET DCC RPG is a fast-paced, open-feeling rules set allowing for epic game experiences without unnecessary tethers. It uses modern game-play while paying homage to the origins of role-playing and the fun that it inspired.

Reprinting the classic adventure from Judges GuildDark Tower features an extensive dungeon and tower-based adventure that pits the forces of good – an aging cleric of the god Mitra – against the forces of evil – an active sect of the serpent god Set and his evil high priest. The PCs are thrust into the middle of this hotbed of tension, where everyone in the tavern has a story and a bone to pick, where caravans come to rest for the night but never seem to be heard from again, and where brave adventurers might become heroes…or just more sacrifices for Set!

Goodman Games is pleased to present the biggest RPG sourcebook you have seen!The Judges Guild Deluxe Oversized Collector’s Edition Volume One compiles three of the most famous Judges Guild adventures: Citadel of Fire, Tegel Manor, and Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor. All three are scanned from original printings, and a gallery of the classic covers is included. This deluxe oversized hardcover also includes five issues of the legendary Judges Guild Journal, the oversized 11”x17” newsprint journal originally shipped to Judges Guild subscribers.Includes introductory articles about the founding of the Judges Guild and their impact on the role-playing industry.Includes supplemental material to expand out all three adventure modules.Reprints the hard-to-find Judges Guild Fantasy Catalog. A massive volume that reprints the newsprint journals at actual size.Reprints the original hand-drawn map for Tegel Manor, including the author’s own notes.

Triumph & Technology Won by Mutants & Magic You’re no zero. You’re a wasteland wanderer: a mutant, a seeker, a robot-killer, a stoic shaman guarding forgotten ancient sciences. You seek triumph and technology, winning it with mutations and magic, soaked in the radiation and quantum fields of the mutated, the savage, the semi-sentient, and the artificially intelligent. There are treasures to be won in the taboo lands and ruins, and you shall have them. Return to the glory days of science fiction gaming with the Mutant Crawl Classics Role Playing Game. Adventure like it’s 1978 again, with modern rules grounded in the origins of post-apocalyptic role-playing. Fast play, a mysterious future, and 100% compatibility with the DCC RPG system await you — just activate your artifact…

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!

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!

Explore the singular world of Jack Vance’s Dying Earth, set in the distant last days of the world, where magic and science blend together and querulous sorcerers feud endlessly! With Dungeon Crawl Classics Dying Earth you will discover the tools to play in Cugel’s and Rhialto’s world, seek the mighty Pandelume, or fall to an indifferent grue while searching for scintillant baubles among the ensorceled remains of the ancient earth. This boxed set contains comprehensive rules options and new material for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG explicitly designed to capture the setting of the Dying Earth. Within you will find new classes, creatures, patrons, spells, and more inspired by the Dying Earth stories for use in your DCC RPG game including four new classes for DCC RPG: magician, vat-thing, wayfarer, and witch, as well as new rules for “grudge tokens” to track the resentments that characters accumulate with every minor imprecation they encounter. This set also includes a beautiful map of the world of Dying Earth illustrated by Doug Kovacs. A copy of the Dungeon Crawl Classics rulebook is required to use this boxed set. Inside this box you will find: Player’s Libram (64 pages). Primer of Practical Magic (104 pages). Intimate Anatomy of Several Creatures and Personages of the Twenty-First Aeon (96 pages). A 22” x 17” map of the environs of the Dying Earth.

Goodman Games is happy to announce DCC #15 By Mitra’s Bones, Meet Thy Doom! The ancient conflict between Set and Mitra rears its head anew when the characters discover that relics of the slain Mitra remain in the scaly hands of Set’s servants. The party must overcome the machinations and horrors of an un-dead menace to steal back the god’s bones. The party will discover that the war between Set and Mitra is far from over and that a lingering evil remains under the shifting desert sands. By Mitra’s Bones, Meet Thy Doom! is a 2nd level Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure that can be played as a stand-alone adventure or used as a means to introduce Jennell Jaquays’ famed Dark Tower adventure into any DCC RPG campaign.

Goodman Games is proud to present MCC #15 The Mutant Menace of Lab 47. A surprise attack leads to the discovery of the birthplace of the first mutants of Terra A.D.—a secret Ancient facility predating the Great Disaster. The PCs must match wits and weapons with a sinister cult that looks to the night sky for answers.The Mutant Menace of Lab 47 is a 3rd-level adventure that mixes post-apocalyptic adventure with UFO conspiracy theory. The characters will meet mutants of terrestrial and extraterrestrial origin as they try to thwart the cult that would unleash both upon the world. This adventure includes a detailed secret government base as well as new information to take your MCC campaign out of this world!

XCC Insider #2 is the latest issue in an ongoing series of XCC RPG supplemental material by the fans, for the fans. Inside you’ll find new DJs, new spells, five new monsters, plus rules for buying magic items on the black market, travel complications, and Deathstravaganza!, the 2025 GenCon Xcrawl tournament, including a photo recap. It’s everything your Xcrawl RPG campaign needs and more!

Hype up your XCC RPG game with this new set of dice. A set of 14 “weird” RPG dice in gold and black, for use with all of your top-rated encounters--fame and fortune are sure to follow! The Xcrawl Dice Set is a standard set of seven RPG dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d%, d12, and d20), plus the “weird” (d3, d5, d7, d14, d16, d24, and d30) dice used in the game, packaged in a clear plastic tube.

Goodman Games is happy to announce XCC #3 Please Xcrawl! Don’t Hurt ‘Em for Xcrawl Classics RPG. DJ Rosie the Riveting invites only the bravest, most cunning, most tenacious adventurers to her legendary Detroit event. You KNOW you have to make the scene! But come prepared – she’s got war turtles, purge zombies, killy putty, and more at her disposal. No scrubs need apply! XCC #3 Please Xcrawl! Don’t Hurt ‘Em is a 3rd level adventure for Goodman Games unbelievably exciting and unusual Xcrawl Classics RPG, the game of Xtreme Dungeon Crawling. Motown comes alive as DJ Rosie the Riveting tries her best to weed out those unworthy of Xcrawl stardom and lucrative corporate sponsorship deals.

Goodman Games is happy to announce XCC #4 Death in the Dungeon of Tomorrow for Xcrawl Classics RPG. The PCs’ professional adventuring careers are doomed unless they find some way to earn enough money to become members of the Adventurer’s Guild again. Luckily, some researchers from UCLA’s Technomagic Department make them an offer: spend one weekend allowing them to map their moves onto a virtual dungeon for fast cash. What could go wrong? XCC #4 Death in the Dungeon of Tomorrow is an unpredictable Xcrawl adventure for 4th level Xcrawlers, and the first adventure to take place outside of the normal arena setting. Get ready for digital dragons, fish from space, nightmare wolves, and Xcrawl’s first ever recurring villain!

Goodman Games presents Fifth Edition Fantasy #25, Seven Days of the Serpent God, an adventure for 6th-level characters. Set in the bustling city of Shadhalia during the largest open-air market in the realm, the Seven Days of Gold, this adventure pits the heroes against an ally of the Serpent God bent on recovering a powerful relic to unleash a diabolical curse. Seven Days of the Serpent God is an all-new 32-page softcover adventure, fully compatible with the fifth edition of the world’s first fantasy role playing game. This adventure is a perfect lead-in to a Dark Tower campaign, or can be easily dropped into your own campaign setting.

Goodman Games presents the Compendium of Dungeon Crawls Volume 1, a collection of 5E adventures. Explore the cursed ruins of a dwarven stronghold, escape a dusty trap-laden tomb and the clutches of desert raiders, or confront a dragon in its cavern lair deep in the jungles of the south. These are but a taste of the adventures contained herein, each playable in one to three sessions. The Compendium of Dungeon Crawls Volume 1 is a 200-page hardcover collection of seven previously published adventures, most of them out of print. These stand-alone, world-neutral adventures are suitable for a variety of character levels, and are easy to import into an existing campaign. These are fully compatible with the fifth edition of the world’s first role playing game.

Goodman Games presents the Compendium of Dungeon Crawls Volume 2, a collection of 5E adventures. Uncover the mysteries in the catacombs below a monastery, explore the cellars and natural caverns beneath a wilderness keep to solve a crime, or discover a forlorn temple in the frozen wastes. These are but a taste of the adventures contained herein, each playable in one to three sessions. The Compendium of Dungeon Crawls Volume 2 is a 200-page hardcover collection of eight previously published adventures, most of them out of print. These stand-alone, world-neutral adventures are suitable for a variety of character levels, and are easy to import into an existing campaign. These are fully compatible with the fifth edition of the world’s first role playing game.

Goodman Games presents DCC #106 Trials of the Trapmaster’s Tomb. The tomb of an infamous trap-maker and necromancer opens once each year, giving desperate souls seeking fortune and glory the chance to challenge their wits against the Trapmaster’s deadliest creations and deathless guardians. Few come out alive, but those who do, go on to become heroes.DCC #106 Trials of the Trapmaster’s Tomb is a 0-level funnel adventure for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. This trap-centric adventure will challenge both the players and their characters with a plethora of death traps and supernatural foes. The toll will be high, but the fortunes to be claimed by the survivors is vast.

Goodman Games presents Dungeon Delves, an adventure companion to Dungeon Denizens, for your 5E or DCC RPG game. Can you solve you solve the mystery in Tears of the Goddess? Or perhaps your characters attempt to plunder the Vault of Doors. Dungeon Delves is a 40+ page softcover of 2-page adventures set in a wide variety of environs for various character levels. Each Delve features one or more monsters from Dungeon Denizens, a map, an illustration, and 3 to 5 encounter areas. These Delves are perfect for one session of play. This book is system-neutral and can be used for your 5E or DCC RPG game, along with a copy of Dungeon Denizens.

Goodman Games presents Dungeon Denizens Cardstock Pawns, and an accessory to Dungeon Denizens, for your 5E or DCC RPG game. Bring the monsters of Dungeon Denizens to life on your game table with cardboard standee pawns, featuring full-color art from the book. An assortment of aberrations, a crowd of constructs, a horde of humanoids, a barrage of beasts, and a frenzy of fiends, plus others, are included.Dungeon Denizens Cardstock Pawns includes 500 cardstock pawns. Printed on thick, durable cardboard stock, these die-cut pawns are ready to punch out and clash with your favorite characters on the table. These pawns are system-neutral, and are ready to be used for your 5E or DCC RPG game.

Goodman Games presents Original Adventures Reincarnated #8, Grimtooth’s Old School Traps. This tome contains 150+ classic traps, fully developed for 5E rules. It could not be any easier to get these death traps to your game table. Inside, you will find delver dicers, character crushers, adventurer anxieties, minion munchers, hero haranguers, and much more to protect your dungeon treasures. All crafted by Grimtooth, the Trap Master troll, himself. Grimtooth’s Old School Traps is an homage to the classic books Grimtooth’s Traps and Traps Too. This 150+ page hardcover book includes 150+ curated traps, presented with 5E rules for the first time. In addition, you find essays from industry luminaries, recounting the impacts of these traps (on both characters and the game industry) over the decades.

Goodman Games presents Fifth Edition Fantasy #26, Against the Thieves Guild, an adventure for 4th-level characters. The heroes must retrieve a magical lockbox secured in a vault secluded in a trap-laden dungeon. Sounds like a simple heist? But soon, the characters are embroiled in a centuries-old rivalry between master thieves. Assuming they survive the deathtraps, they still must deduce the secret of the enchanted lockbox!Against the Thieves Guild is an all-new 32-page softcover adventure, fully compatible with the fifth edition of the world’s first fantasy role-playing game. This adventure features numerous traps pulled from OAR #8 Grimtooth’s Old School Traps, plus several new traps. That book is not required to use this adventure, which can be easily dropped into your own campaign setting.

Goodman Games is proud to present the Goodman Games 2023 Yearbook, our annual release that collects both brand-new gaming material for Dungeon Crawl Classics and 5E, and provides a look back at the year that was. Inside you will find new monsters, traps, adventures, game design advice, and more, plus plenty of great full-color pictures documenting everything Goodman Games got up to in 2023.The Goodman Games 2023 Yearbook is an 80-page softcover book containing a wide array of great (and sometimes off-beat) RPG content, plus essays and articles about Goodman Games’ Road Crew, convention appearances, interviews, and wonderful, full-color pictures. It’s the perfect keepsake for everyone who was part of the 2023 Goodman Games’ gaming experience or just wished they were part of the action!

Seven DCC RPG Adventures In One Volume!Tome of Adventure Vol. 2 collects 7 adventure modules published for the DCC RPG rules set, mostly written by DCC legend Harley Stroh and the DCC Director of Product Development, Michael Curtis.Within the covers of this book lurk sea queens, framed wizards, terrifying giants, time-frozen robots, 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. 2!

Adventure in the City of The Black Toga!DCC RPG Tome of Adventure Vol. 3 collects 7 adventure modules published for the Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar campaign setting, officially licensed from the estate of Fritz Lieber!Explore the back alleys of Lankhmar and pit yourself against thieves' guilds, undead denizens, corrupt officials, and even death itself! Each module demonstrates why Dungeon Crawl Classics is the perfect game to capture that classic “sword and sorcery” style of adventure exhibited by Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Whether this is your first taste of DCC Lankhmar or you’re well acquainted with its flavor, you’ll find a feast unlike any other inside the Tome of Adventure Vol. 3!

Prepare for Harley Stroh’s sword-and-planet fantasy epic! Your characters are cast across the cosmos to a foreign world. Left to die beneath a weirdling sun and its sickening rays, their survival depends as much upon a quick wit as a quick blade. Even the finest chain hauberk must fail beneath the crush of an alien horde. DCC RPG Tome of Adventure Volume 4 is a level 4 exploration-style adventure spanning scores of leagues. On the Purple Planet, your characters cross hundreds of miles of alien wasteland, where they face predatory creatures, deadly mushroom jungles, and thousands of factious savage man-beasts locked in an endless war. In the course of the sprawling hex-crawl, characters have the opportunity to assume mastery of their own warbands, pit faction against faction, plumb ancient burial mounds, respect the age-old taboos, and experiment with deadly artifacts – the remnants of the Last War. How characters meet each challenge determines whether they discover the secrets to returning home, or slip beneath the sands of the wastes, succumbing to the perils of the Purple Planet. For those few with the courage to remain, we offer a world for the conquering.

A Megadungeon For Character Levels 1-10A Thousand-Year-Old Dungeon Mystery Waiting To Be Solved! The end of one empire sees the birth of a new one deep within the earth. Born in the forgotten chambers and caverns of age-lost Thracia rises a formidable foe: the Minotaur King, along with his host of dogfolk, gnolls, lizardfolk and others.Some say even Death itself lingers in the Caverns of Thracia, ready to claim any who stumble upon its unholy chapel. The secrets of Thracia are manifold, its treasures thrice that.Do you have the mettle to survive… the Caverns of Thracia? The Caverns of Thracia is a complete mega-dungeon setting that supports a full-year campaign!

The Caverns of Thracia is an homage to the classic adventure and is a full DCC RPG conversion, plus additional all-new material. A two-volume set presented in a slipcase, these books contain a reprint of the original adventure plus essays from industry luminaries (Volume 1), plus a full DCC RPG conversion of the classic adventure (Volume 2), and expanded dungeon levels and wilderness locales.