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 licensed adventures for ''Wicked Fantasy Factory'', ''Judges Guild'', ''Xcrawl'', ''Iron Heroes'', ''Castles and Crusades'', and ''Death Dealer''.

History

Joseph Goodman started Goodman Games in 2001 and took advantage of the new d20 System license by publishing his first RPG, '' Broncosaurus Rex''. Goodman Games released a series of ''Complete Guides'' beginning with ''Complete Guide to Drow'' (2002), and another 10 books after that, several of which focused on unusual races that were not being covered by other publishers, such as ''Complete Guide to Doppelgangers'' (2002), ''Complete Guide to Rakshasas'' (2003), ''Complete Guide to Treants'' (2003), and ''Complete Guide to Wererats'' (2003). Despite success with ''Broncosaurus Rex'' and then moving to fantasy dungeon crawls, Goodman did not hire any in-house game designers and continued to work with freelance creators. With the Dungeon Crawl Classics label, Goodman intended to publish intelligent dungeon crawl adventures and to serve the growing demographic of older gamers. Goodman Games expanded into a wide range of

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and

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role playing game (RPG) supplements, mostly for the d20 license; which meant adventures compatible with the 3rd edition of

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ruleset. Their card games include ''Geek Wars'', ''World Championship Dodge Ball'', and ''Scavenger Hunt''. In 2018, Goodman Games released ''Mutant Crawl Classics'', a post-apocalyptic role playing game compatible with the ''Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game'' ruleset.

Dungeon Crawl Classics role playing game

In May 2012, Goodman Games released an original OGL-based role-playing game named after their earlier series of D&D-compatible adventures called Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game (DCC RPG). The design intention was "to create a modern RPG that reflects D&D’s origin-point concepts with decades-later rules editions."

Community activity

In July 2009, Goodman Games held a contest to award a Game Store with the award of "America's Favorite Game Store". The award went to Yottaquest.

Reception

Goodman Games won the 2006 Gold

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for "The Grognard Award". Goodman Games won the 2013 Silver

for "Fans’ Choice for Favorite Publisher".

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