Hello everyone!

Someday, we all look back on our legacy. If there's one thing Goodman Games can say for sure, it's this:

We made gongfarmers cool again!

One question that has come up many times is, where exactly did we get that word? "Gongfarmer" isn't exactly common usage. And I'm pretty sure Goodman Games has used it more times in the past decade than the sum of all human usage in the preceding century.

To be honest, I can't quite recall how the word entered my vocabulary. It definitely occurred in the interregnum between 4E and DCC RPG. During that time, there was a lot of reading of Appendix N, blogs, and associated materials. So I assume the word appeared in one of those sources.

In the DCC RPG core book, there's an innocuous table of level 0 occupations. "Gongfarmer" is one of many entries. There's only a 1% chance of it coming up on a dice roll. Yet somehow it captured everyone's attention. Soon there was the Gongfarmer's Almanac, an awesome community-based zine. Many other gongfarmer-inspired jokes, swag, and themes would soon follow.

So let's raise a glass to the lowly gongfarmer. They may not have had the best job back in the 1500's. But now, in the 21st century, they're finally receiving their due.

Go gongfarmers!