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The Sanctum Secorum podcast plumbs the depths of Appendix N as it applies to DCC RPG. Each show reviews one piece of Appendix N media — be it literature or film — and then discusses how to bring aspects of it to the table for your DCC game. We explore how the selected piece might already easily fit into particular modules and DCC settings, and we highlight one specific DCC module that really ties into the Appendix N material.

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News: February Contest Information

The first round of winners have been declared, their monsters triumphant! Now we move on to round two of ….

Sanctum Secorum’s
Super Number 1 Contest!!

Here is your chance to win a copy of Matthew Goiffon’s ultra-rare adventure Super Number 1 Food Tower. The adventure was specifically written to be run at North Texas RPG Con in 2015 and was only ever available there. Now, we offer you the opportunity to get this wonderful bit of DCC ephemera for FREE!

February’s contest theme is “Character Classes”. Create a DCC compatible class and submit it as your entry into our drawing. To clarify a rules question from last month – putting something up on your own blog does not constitute prior publication, submit at will. Submit your class with an original piece of art and receive a second entry into the drawing. The more classes you enter, the greater your chance of winning. One lucky winner (chosen at random) will receive a copy of

Fifty Foot Pharaoh Zine Module No. 01
Super Number One Food Tower
2015 North Texas RPG Convention Edition

along with a card-stock sheet of 4 pre-gen characters for the adventure. In addition, one runner up will receive a surprise item from the Sanctum Secorum’s Prize Closet of Mystery!

Email your entries to:
thehub@Sanctum.media

or mail them to:
Sanctum Secorum Contest
4915 Rattlesnake Hammock Rd #139
Naples, FL 34113

Legalese after the jump

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News: January Contest Winners!

As rolled at random, our winners are

1st Place – Jon Hook’s OctoBear
* 1 copy of Super No. 1 Food Tower
* 1 sheet of pregen characters

2nd Pace – James Pozenel’s Korpuz, Messenger of Ahriman
* 1 copy of The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber
* 1 copy of The Wrong End of Time by John Brunner

Look for these, and other entries, in February’s companion!

 

News: January Contest Information

The new year has begun, and so too has

Sanctum Secorum’s
Super Number 1 Contest!!

Here is your chance to win a copy of Matthew Goiffon’s ultra-rare adventure Super Number 1 Food Tower. The adventure was specifically written to be run at North Texas RPG Con in 2015 and was only ever available there. Now, we offer you the opportunity to get this wonderful bit of DCC ephemera for FREE!

January’s contest theme is “Monsters”. Create a DCC compatible monster and submit it as your entry into our drawing. Submit your monster with an original piece of art and receive a second entry into the drawing. The more monsters you enter, the greater your chance of winning. One lucky winner (chosen at random) will receive a copy of

Fifty Foot Pharaoh Zine Module No. 01
Super Number One Food Tower
2015 North Texas RPG Convention Edition

along with a card-stock sheet of 4 pre-gen characters for the adventure. In addition, one runner up will receive a surprise item from the Sanctum Secorum’s Prize Closet of Mystery!

Email your entries to:
thehub@Sanctum.media

or mail them to:
Sanctum Secorum Contest
4915 Rattlesnake Hammock Rd #139
Naples, FL 34113

Legalese after the jump

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Sanctum Secorum #30 – Sign of the Labrys

Get the free Sanctum Secorum #30 Companion HERE!

Like others who withstood the pandemic, Sam Sewell lives in a subterranean shelter. The vast catacombs were built before the military’s biological weapon leaked out, killing nine out of ten people and leaving the survivors so traumatized that they can barely tolerate each other’s company. So it’s quite peculiar that some government agents seem to think that Sam lives with a woman, Despoina, who’s suspected of conducting germ warfare. Pressured by the agents to locate Despoina, Sam must literally go underground to discover the truth about a hidden world of witchcraft and secret rituals.

This Wiccan-themed science fiction novel was cited by Gary Gygax as an inspiration for Dungeons & Dragons. Sharp-eyed gamers will certainly see similarities between St. Clair’s world and Gygax’s Castle Greyhawk with its labyrinthine setting of multiple levels connected by secret passages.

Welcome to the Sanctum Secorum podcast. Tonight we return to the works of Margaret St. Clair with her novel Sign of the Labrys and talk about the forthcoming DCC compatible work from the Hydra Collective, Operation Unfathomable.

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Sanctum Secorum #28 – The Raven (1963)

Get the free Sanctum Secorum #28 Companion HERE!

The magician Dr. Erasmus Craven, who does not belong to the brotherhood of magicians, grieves the loss of his beloved wife Lenore and lives in a castle with his daughter Estelle. One day, a raven knocks on his window and Dr. Craven learns that the bird is actually the magician Dr. Adolphus Bedlo that was turned into a raven after challenging the powerful magician Dr. Scarabus that was an enemy of his father. Dr. Craven makes a potion to turn Dr. Bedlo back to his human form and Dr. Bedlo tells that he has seen Lenore in the castle of Dr. Scarabus. Dr. Craven decides to go in his coach with Dr. Bedlo to visit Dr. Scarabus and Estella and Dr. Bedlo’s son Rexford decide to go with them. They find an amicable Dr. Scarabus that invite them to stay for the night. Was Dr. Craven’s father wrong about Dr. Scarabus?

Welcome to the Sanctum Secorum podcast. Tonight is movie night and we discuss Roger Corman’s adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, The Raven as well as Harley Stroh’s newest adventure Enter the Dagon.

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Sanctum Secorum #27 – The King of Elfland’s Daughter

Get the free Sanctum Secorum #27 Companion HERE!

The lord of Erl is told by the parliament of his people that they want to be ruled by a magic lord. Obeying the immemorial custom, the lord sends his son Alveric to fetch the King of Elfland’s daughter, Lirazel, to be his bride. He makes his way to Elfland, where time passes at a rate far slower than the real world, and wins her. They return to Erl and have a son, but in the manner of fairy brides of folklore, she fits uneasily with his people. She returns to the waiting arms of her father in Elfland, and her lovesick husband goes searching for her, abandoning the kingdom of Erl and wandering in a now-hopeless quest. However, Lirazel becomes lonesome for her mortal husband and son. Seeing that she is unhappy, the King of Elfland uses a powerful magic to engulf the land of Erl. Erl is transformed into a part of Elfland, and Lirazel and her loved ones are reunited forever in an eternal, enchanted world.

Welcome to the Sanctum Secorum podcast. Tonight we discuss Lord Dunsany’s novel The King of Elfland’s Daughter as well as Daniel J. Bishop’s adventure Through the Dragonwall.

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Sanctum Secorum #26 – Changeling Earth

Get the free Sanctum Secorum #26 Companion HERE!

The planet was Earth. The time was fifty thousand years from now. Magic and witchcraft worked and the Old Science didn’t. Why this was so, nobody knew – it had always been that way during the long tyranny of the Empire of the East. During that same period there had always been little bands of rebels using fragments of white magic against the demonic armies. Rolf was the latest of these rebels – and he had on his side the mysterious power known as Ardneh.
When Rolf finally finds Ardneh, he learns of the Change through which Ardneh forced technology to be replaced by magic in this alternate Earth of a far distant future. The discovery of Ardneh’s origin, the climactic showdown of fifty millennia of cosmic contention, and Rolf’s part in it, combine to make a thrilling adventure that concludes the struggle between the Old Technology and the New Demonology.

Welcome to the Sanctum Secorum podcast. Tonight we discuss Fred Saberhagen’s novel Changeling Earth (aka Ardneh’s World) as well as Daniel J. Bishop’s adventure Silent Nightfall.

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Sanctum Secorum #25 – The Fallible Fiend

Get the free Sanctum Secorum #25 Companion HERE!

He looked like a cross between a dragon and a catfish, and he could bend iron bars into pretzels with a flick of his hand. But what Zdim the mild-mannered demon really was, was a scholar of logic and philosophy. That’s why when Zdim was drafted for a year’s servitude on the mortal plane, he felt that a monumental administrative error had been made. And even though Zdim resolved to be absolutely obedient and to do exactly what he was told, the wizard who employed him (Dr. Maldivius) soon agreed…

Welcome to the Sanctum Secorum podcast. Tonight we discuss L Sprague de Camp’s satirical fantasy novel The Fallible Fiend as well as Terry Olson’s adventure Elzemon and the Blood-Drinking Box.

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