Crawljammer #4 is COMING SOON!

Crawljammer #4 will be out by the end of the month. The riftrunner is coming.

Demon Drums: 100 Print Copies for Gen Con

This is NOT an issue of Crawljammer. It's a new 12-page complete adventure compatible with DCC (and Crawljammer, of course).

100 signed and numbered copies of this will be printed for me to give to Crawljammer fans at Gen Con. If you see me, ask for a copy, and if I have any left, I will give you one FOR FREE (until I run out).

For those folks who can't make it to Gen Con, I will be offering it for sale as a PDF after Gen Con via RPGNow! But, seriously, just come to Gen Con and hang out. You know you want to!

EDIT: And I could not have pulled this together in time without the heroic efforts of Matt Hildebrand and Fred Dailey! They made my words look good! And Chris Burnham let me use his drawing for the cover, like a champ!

Inspirational Image: Gene Day's "Master of Kung-Fu"

This beauty is from 1982's "Master of Kung-Fu" #111, written by Doug Moench and drawn by Gene Day.

I drew a minicomic a couple of years ago called "I Will Spit Upon Your Blood" that is a sideways remake of one of the Razor Fist issues of this Shang-Chi comic. I really like everything about this series, whether it's drawn by Paul Gulacy, Gene Day, or Mike Zeck. If you ever see me, and hand me any random issue of this comic, I will be your friend for life because I will know you care about the important things.

Peril on the Purple Planet! An Official (Unofficial) Crawljammer Crossover!

Hey folks! You may have seen this already, but if you haven't prepare to open up your mind so it can be totally blown away by this: Harley Stroh's "Peril on the Purple Planet" is on Kickstarter, and it's already funded, and you should contribute to get yourself a copy for more reasons than I can count, but I will give you a few:

1. It's a weird outer space hexcrawl with alien landscapes and monstrosities and crazy tech.
2. It's written by Harley Stroh.
3. It's a boxed set (if you get the $50 version)
4. It comes with a campaign guide written by Daniel Bishop, Edgar Johnson, Terry Olson, and...me.
5. That's right, it's an unofficial tie-in to Crawljammer, what with me doing some of the writing and the swords-and-planets thing and all that stuff.
6. Yeah!
7. How could you NOT buy it?
8. I mean, it's the Purple Planet! And, you will be in complete Peril! Irresistible!
9. Plus, the more money it makes, the more stretch goals we get, and that means more stuff for your dollar.
10. Who doesn't like stuff? Particularly stuff in space! With aliens and monsters and swords!

Check it out! PERIL ON THE PURPLE PLANET!

New Crawljammer! New Old School Role-Playing! Updates!

I didn't officially post about this yet, but as the sidebar indicates, CRAWLJAMMER #3 IS NOW AVAILABLE! It's the best issue yet, and here are three reasons why:

1. New artist Christian Mojallali rocked the cover with his depiction of a psychic knight in heated battle with a moon octopus.
2. Sean Ellis comes in with some advanced psionic rules for your DCC game, and Sarah Richardson draws the best illustration of a psychic battle since those New Mutants issues Bill Sienkiewicz drew when you were a kid.
3. The epic Promethean Lance makes its debut, thanks to the mind of Mark Malone, and it's the kind of magic item/weapon/device that will make judges squirm and players cry with joy and frustration.

Plus I write a bunch of stuff in this issue, as usual, like specs on the psychic knight character class, the secret history of the Perilous League, the final adventure beneath the surface of Mars in which the players chase down the weird duo of Queldoz and the Shapeshifter, and more!

Yeah, I'm proud of this one! (This PDF is also available at RPGNow!)

AND IN OTHER NEWS...CRAWLJAMMER WILL BE APPEARING AT OSWARP, AKA DEXCON 17!

I will be running three Crawljammer games over 4th of July weekend in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Oswarp Old School RPG convention, which is part of the big ol' production known as Dexcon 17. Details on the convention -- including the entire list of programming -- can be found HERE!

I'm running one Friday afternoon, one Saturday morning, and one Saturday afternoon. Check them out. Join in and play. Michael Curtis will be there, and he has threatened to join in on the Saturday morning action, no doubt to foil my wicked plans and do whatever it takes to ensure his PC survives the perils of Pluto and the Space Pirates from Beyond the Grave.

See you then! And, oh yeah, order your Crawljammer copies so I can actually afford to go to this thing!

Free RPG Day Event at Fantasy Realms: The One Who Watches from Below!

Hey! I'll be running a Crawljammer hack of Jobe Bittman's "The One Who Watches from Below" for Free RPG Day at Fantasy Realms in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. That's June 21st. Be there!

Here's the game info I submitted for the event, ripped straight from the DCC adventure description:

You've landed on Saturn with one mission: Retrieve the Cosmic Staff of Themossphere from beneath the shifting caverns! The only thing in your way is a pesky, slumbering elder god with a penchant for consuming entire worlds. Oh, and an endless army of vat-grown hybrid monstrosities. And a veritable tidal wave of disembodied eyes with awesome powers. A few giant acid worms. And a curse with the power to rip the still-living eyes from your skull. Do you have the mettle to stare down a god or will your eyes forever adorn the vault of The One Who Watches From Below?

A Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure by Jobe Bittman modified for use with Crawljammer. No previous experience needed! Pre-generated Level 1 characters will be provided. For 6-8 players.

6:00 PM - 10:00 PM on June 21st. 
Game Master: Tim Callahan.

Hope to see you there!

Inspirational Image: Allen Gustav Anderson

This cover from "Planet Stories," March 1952, almost perfectly captures what I imagine when I think about a high level Psychic Knight floating in on an enchanted flame to lead an assault on the robot overlords of Saturn. You could pretty much take any issue of "Planet Stories" and get a dozen ideas for Crawljammer adventures and character classes and magic items and other awesome stuff.

Spoiler warning: I plan to steal a BUNCH of ideas from "Planet Stories." It's fertile ground. It's the perfect kind of space fantasy. And those covers -- this one's by Allen Gustav Anderson -- are gorgeous.