Jen Brinkman is the Operations Manager of Goodman Games, but she is also so much more than that. Host of the award-winning Spellburn podcast, co-creator of the Sanctum-Securum podcast and the legendary Brinkmanicon, the spiritual mother of the DCC RPG community, Jen is an inspiration to us all. I met Jen in 2014 when I went to Gen Con for the first time and I was immediately welcomed by the DCC RPG community. The kindness and warmth from the community and especially from her was remarkable. And ...
Dec 12, 2023•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 24
Nick LS Whelan has somehow gone unpunished for his litany of book crimes. His works include such unwholesome publications as Sanctimonious Slimes Versus Expired Epicures, Miscreated Creatures, and Deadly Dungeons. This rampage of mangled word wrangling will never stop until someone has the courage to take away his keyboard. When not doing words badly, he can usually be found washing dishes, advocating for weeds, building unnavigable websites, or failing to understand jokes. Most of his work can ...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 23
Tony runs Plus One Exp , a weird brand that multiclasses in tabletop game design, beard & skincare alchemy & the bardic college of content creation. Our passion at Plus One Exp is help create more sustainable pathways to publication and play. I cannot say enough good things about Tony. He and his channel has been a force for good in the Indie TTRPG community, helping bring awareness to the work of a lot of creators from all over the world, and not only that. Now Plus One Exp is creating ...
Dec 05, 2023•2 hr 43 min•Ep. 22
Will Munn is the award-nominated and bestselling creator of Arium, the worldbuilding RPG. He runs the Adept Icarus game design studio and has collaborated on RPGs such as Cold Shadows, Tiny Frontiers, and Zorro, the Roleplaying Game. Willalso serves as a publisher for multiple award-winning and bestselling game designers. All four continental US timezones have been his home, and he'd like to add to the list. I met Will Munn through our mutual friend and kind of mutual mentor, Alan Bahr, from Gal...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 23
Cezar Capacle is a Brazilian Game Designer, author of the PUSH SRD, Midnight Melodies, Oneironaut, and so so many more. Cezar is a Game Artist, always exploring new ideas, new frontiers and showing us what RPGs can do. He has released more than 20 games, ranging from games you play while you're asleep to tender games about saying goodbye , to tower defense games in which you're a cow defending your farm from a zombie attack . I am always impressed by how prolific, creative and well made Cezar's ...
Nov 27, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 20
Yeah, that is right! Hodag, the multidimensional illustrator and game designer returns to the show to flood us with his wisdom and ideas! You can listen to the first time Hodag came to the show here: https://anchor.fm/wgnwp/episodes/17-Hodag-e2bt2v3 This episode is then, basically, a bonus episode, but not like other bonus episodes you can basically skip, this one is chock full of wisdom and insight from an accomplished and wise artist (and we just had a great time talking and exploring the them...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 20
momatoes is a Manila-based 2022 Diana Jones Emerging Designer awardee best known for her game ARC, one of Polygon's top indie RPGs of 2021. momatoes creates games that tackle a wide gamut of stories, from the apocalypse to hubris to capybara Capers. Her latest game, The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, was just released this November. ARC - Doom Tabletop RPG impresses you from the time you glimpse its cover and its marvelous design and art. It feels unique, authentic and personal. The way the te...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 19
Marcia B is a prolific TTRPG Blogger, a scholar of old-school style play, and an attentive Game Designer. Her blog has been a reference of RPG theory and analysis, and her game design work is full of insight and useful tools. Fantastic Medieval Campaigns might be one of Marcia's most known creations. This games intends on taking the classic rules of the original fantasy game (OD&D) and present it in a way so that we can REALLY read what is written there and take our on conclusions from it. F...
Nov 17, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 17
Hodag is a game designer, artists and zine maker of the Indie RPG space! His work is primarily line based and black and white, full of details, references and hidden eggs! I've been following Hodag's work for a while now and we've talked a bit. But not like we did in this episode. Hodag does amazing linework art (and he even talks about his main styles of art, influences and preferences in the episode), and he is quite fond of putting the resemblance of friends and peers in character's illustrat...
Nov 14, 2023•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 17
Kelsey Dionne is a new and old-school TTRPG designer who founded The Arcane Library in 2017. Her modernized take on OSR gaming, Shadowdark RPG, funded for $1.3 million on Kickstarter in March 2023. I couldn't believe when I saw Kelsey at Gen Con, just walking through the Exhibitor's Hall like the rest of us mortals! And when I talked to her she knew who I was and about my work. She is incredible, really. One of the kindest people I've meet, and even though she is now a Dark Lady of the hobby, sh...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 14
Richie Buzzkill is the producer behind the Full Metal RPG Podcast, which has been around for several years and touched almost every topic about TTRPG you could imagine and a little more. He is also, as he said himself, a Master Procrastinator, and someone who wanted to be an artist but was born with the soul of an engineer. We have been following each other's work for a long while as we almost begin this journey in the Indie RPG space simultaneously. I met Richie through a mutual friend (Brandon...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 15
Jarrett has helped create some of the most popular indie rpg systems, modules, and toolkits of the last decade. Primarily a behind-the-scenes person, he has recently started his own company, Space Penguin Ink, with his partner debbie and his cats. He looks forward to making more weird stuff every day! I've been working with Jarrett and getting to know him a little bit better since my first years of making RPG things "professionally" around 2016 or 2017, and his attention to detail, his talent fo...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 14
13th Episode and this is airing on Halloween, the spookiest of days! A day to celebrate horror! And we have a very special guest specially for today, Gavriel Quiroga! Gabriel Quiroga is a Game Designer, artists, barbecue magician, and many other things! He is from Argentina, a fellow #RPGLATAM creator, and he is the author of the astonishing games Neurocity, Warplane and Hell Night! His work also dialogues in a unique way with art, music, counter culture, and his personal experiences. Gavriel's ...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 13
12th Episodes! And today we have a very special guest, a game designer that has been influential to my work and to so many other game designers I admire as well, Chris McDowell! Chris is a TTRPG designer in Manchester UK, known for Into the Odd, Electric Bastionland, and the upcoming Mythic Bastionland. He makes rules-light flavour-heavy games and writes at bastionland.com . I had the pleasure and honor to meet Chris at Gen Con 2023. We talked a little bit, I gave him some of my games, and it ...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 12
Wow! 11 Episodes! And to celebrate the double digits, we have double guests! From the Epic Levels music, Mad Dungeon podcast, and the many artistic exploration of them, come Andrew Bellury and Steve Albertson! I had the pleasure to meet both during Gen Con 2023 and I had the best time with them. What I can really say about those two? Known as Tiger Wizard and Dragon Warrior, these artists make music, art, games, podcasts and pretty much anything you can imagine, and they somehow tie it all back ...
Oct 26, 2023•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 11
We reached 10 episodes! And for such a special occasion we have a very special guest! Ava Islam, creator of Errant RPG gets weird with us! Ava Islam is a very resourceful creator, from a mixed background and a lot of drive. She created the fabulous Errant RPG, a rules lite procedure heavy fantasy RPG that drinks both from the original well of fantasy gaming, and from the myriad of contemporary thought on the same topic! It feels at the same time very familiar and classic, but also very unique, n...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 10
9th Episode (one more till we get to 10!!!)! This time I had the honor to sit down and talk to Giuliano Roverato, the Game of the Year award-winning game designer from Brazil! Giuliano Roverato is a Brazilian game designer that lives for good food, exploring the weird dungeons on the forgotten corners of our reality and doom scrolling on twitter. Made Bakto's Terrifying Cuisine and Brave Zenith, and is currently delving into obscure PS2 games in his spare time. I love how Giuliano Roverato work ...
Oct 17, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 9
8th Episode! Today with the creative and resourceful creator Marco Serrano, from Spicy Tuna. Marco Serrano may be best known by his various and excellent contributions to the Mothership Space Horror RPG with his 3rd Party publications, but he also worked on many other things (and is working on even more), including A Butterfly Dies for Primal Quest (a great 3rd Party Module inspired by Latin American culture)! He is currently working on his first full game system called Greenhorns: Creators of W...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 7
Seventh Episode! This time we welcome the incredible artist and game designer Alan Bahr , of Gallant Knight Games and many other things! Disclaimer here. Alan and I are good friends, we worked together as partners while I published my games under his company. I learned a lot from Alan, not only in terms of making games, but on how to be a good person this world. I owe a lot to him. Alan Bahr is probably best known for his work on the amazing line of games using the TinyD6 system. His award-winni...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 7
Sixth Episode! Today we welcome the amazing designer Emanoel Melo ! Emanoel Melo is an art director and game designer from Brazil and he publishes his work under the Cabinet of Curiosities label. He recently published the boxed set version of his minimalist CBR+PNK game in partnership with Mythworks (you should ABSOLUTELY check it out), and is the author of of many other RPG books and games such as Escape from Station 52, Dodecahedrax, and many others. I love Emanoel's work and his attention to ...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 6
Our fifth episode! This time we welcome the insightful and inspiring Evlyn Moreau! Evlyn is an illustrator from Montreal, she loves to draw strange creatures and to craft zines. Her work mixes illustrations and roleplaying game content in a personal and whimsical way. She is the co-author of the adventure "Where the Wheat Grows Tall." She recently illustrated The Cleaning of Prison Station Echo and Crime Fighting Luchadores. I am fascinated by how her work mixes cutesy, whimsical, weird and horr...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 5
Forth episode! Now with a fellow designer from Brazil, and a good friend, Lucas Rolim! Lucas is a passionate and hard working creator that explores new mechanics and rules in his games, always interested in new ways for players to interact with the fiction without bringing old assumptions to the table. He is also a great artists and you can see him exploring illustration, graphic design and other fields while he develops his work, learning with him in the process! It's GREAT! He is an RPG game d...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 4
Third episode! This time we welcome the amazing Joey Royale! Joey is a passionate creator and, above all else, entertainer! He publishes his work through Get Haunter Industries and has a super fun show on Goodman Games twitch channel called "Joey Royale's Pizza Party"! You gotta watch that! We talked about the weird in the mundane, the relationship between the two. We talked about the difficult relationship between spirituality and religion, how the act of playing and making RPGs is completely b...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 4
In our second episode, we welcome Donn Stroud! Donn is a creative who is inspired by nature and published his creations through his Psychoda Press, and has worked on Tuesday Knight Games on many Mothership projects, including Dead Planet, a Pound of Flesh and even the new core set that is about to come out! But there's a lot more you don't know about Donn! Come find out! Find him at @donnstroud.bsky.social at Blusky or at @DonnStroud at Twitter/X. Psychoda Press: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/bro...
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 2
First Episode! I sit down with Ahimsa Kerp from Knight Owl Publishing and talk about the weirdness in ourselves, in the world, and in the things we love. Knight Owl Publishing: https://knightowlpublishing.com Fiction Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ahimsa-Kerp/author/B005346W82 Itch: https://knightowlpub.itch.io/ If you would like to support the show, head to or ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the bills paid! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp
Sep 09, 2023•39 min•Ep. 1
