Joseph Goodman is a role-playing game designer and the owner of

Goodman Games Goodman Games is an American game publisher best known for the ''Dungeon Crawl Classics'' series of adventure modules and role-playing game, the ''Dragonmech'' role-playing game, and the ''Etherscope'' role-playing games. The company produced l ...

. He is best known for the '' d20'' adventure series, ''

Dungeon Crawl Classics ''Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game'' (DCC RPG or simply DCC) is a role-playing game published by Goodman Games using the Open Game License (OGL) and System Reference Document (SRD) version 3.5 to provide legal compatibility with the revis ...

'' and the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game.

Career

Joseph Goodman has been a gaming professional since 1994, when he self-published '' The Dark Library'', a fanzine for his interest in miniatures games such as ''

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''. Heartbreaker Hobbies & Games later hired him to be the editor-in-chief of their publication, ''Forge: The Magazine of Miniature Gaming''. Goodman then started his own game publishing company,

, with his first RPG being '' Broncosaurus Rex'' (2001). Despite success with ''Broncosaurus Rex'' and then moving to fantasy dungeon crawls, Goodman did not hire any in-house game designers and worked with creators freelance instead. Goodman started publishing the

line in 2003, with the intent to publish intelligent dungeon crawl adventures like those he enjoyed playing, and he wanted to serve the large part of the demographic market made up of older gamers. Goodman also developed the '' Dragonmech'' setting, which he released in 2004 under the

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imprint of

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Works

Writing credits include: *'' Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game'' (2012), Creator and Writer *''Steam Warriors'' ( Dragonmech) (2005), Author *''Aerial Adventure Guide: Sky Captain's Handbook'' (2004), Contributing Writer *''Complete Guide to Vampires'' (2004), Additional Writing *'' Dragonmech'' (2004), Creator and Writer *''The Shardsfall Quest'' ( Dragonmech) (2004), Author *''

#3: The Mysterious Tower'' ('' d20 System'')(2003), Author *''Monsters of the Endless Dark'' (Wanderers Guild) (2003), Additional Writing *''Cretasus Adventure Guide'' (Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex) (2002), Author *''Metabarons #1 Path of the Warrior'' (Metabarons, The) (2002),

West End Games West End Games (WEG) was a company that made Board game, board, Role-playing game, role-playing, and wargaming, war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York City, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Its product line ...

, Author *''Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex Core Rulebook'' (2001) - Creator and Writer

References

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