First, let me again offer my gratitude to all of you who continue to support this campaign!
Mutant Spawn of the Toadmother is coming along great! I can't express how fun, rewarding, and valuable it is to me to put these adventures in front of folks and get some feedback. So, I want to remind y'all that I am holding three more playtest sessions this month for the DCC RPG version. If you've never played DCC RPG, you are more than welcome to come and try it out. It is easy to learn and a LOT OF FUN! 5E playtesting will occur in August. More on that in a future update. Playtesters get their names in the book!
Please see the calendar below and get in one of these sessions!
Playtesting
Wednesday, July 22nd, 7 - 11 PM CDT In-person DMen Tap 2849 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618 Great Three Floyds beer! Great Turkish-German street food! Find Gongfarmers Local 187: Obladra in the back room!
Friday, July 24th, 6 - 10 PM CDT Online Nerdronomicon Discord Join the Discord if you haven't already, and @ me in one of the channels or send me a DM. We have 3 spots left as of this update.
Friday, July 31st, 6 - 10 PM CDT Online Nerdronomicon Discord Join the Discord if you haven't already, and @ me in one of the channels or send me a DM. We have 4 spots left as of this update.
DCC Day @ DMen Tap 2026
We had a great time at DCC Day! We handed out free swag, played some great games, and sold some cool zines by local Chicago creators!
MSotTM Playtest!
George kills PCs as a wild Mitsch observes
The Chicago Zine Coalition!
Them darn goblins!
Other Cool Campaigns!
There are a lot of cool crowdfunding campaigns coming soon and happening right now! The first two are Nerdronomicon offerings, and the last two are from some other awesome creators!
The Sorcerer's Conundrum
Delve into an ancient elven labyrinth at the behest of the mad sorcerer Verrükter in this puzzling level-2 adventure zine compatible with Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG! Part three in the Saga of Sorcerer Verrükter and the Rükstau Rejects from Nerdronomicon.
BASILISK is an existential horror adventure for MOTHERSHIP RPG \\ It is NOT SUITABLE for individuals with too firm or too loose a grip on REALITY \\ There is NO RETURN once experienced \\ YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
The Lost Mines of Steller – a 4th level adventure for DCC RPG
Only 4 days left!
For use in the Shudder Mountains campaign setting, this fourth-level adventure module pits PCs against a demonic force threatening to take over the oblivious villagers of Steller.
Gary's Appendix Issue 11 is the Goblin Issue. The monster sitting in Room One of every introductory adventure? The creature every player has sleep-spelled to death a hundred times? We've been overlooking them.
Including: Goblins Beyond the Veilby Shannon Appelcline The Bonejinx Tribe by Zac Goins Making the Most of Your Goblins by Jeff C. Stevens Going Greater With Goblins by John Kaniecki Garblegrihm, God of the Goblins by Onslaught Six
I am playtesting the DCC RPG version of Mutant Spawn of the Toadmother throughout the rest of July, both in person and online.
In Person
I'm running Mutant Spawn of the Toadmother for DCC RPG at DMen Tap in Chicago (2849 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618) on Wednesday, 7/15, and 7/22 at 7 PM CDT, and on DCC Day, Saturday, 7/18 at 2 PM CDT.
Online
Friday, 7/24, and 7/31 at 6 PM CDT, I'm hosting playtests for DCC RPG on the Nerdronomicon Discord. To play, join the Discord and DM or @ me in one of the channels. Comment on this post if you need help with any of that.
In both in-person and online formats, I have room for 6 players each game. Playing gets your name in the book (if you want) and gives you a sneak peek at the material, though it may be wildly different by the time it comes out. First come, first served.
I will announce 5E playtest sessions in August.
Play the World's Deadliest RPG!
DCC Day 2026!
We've partnered with DMen Tap, Bucket O' Blood Books and Records, Obladra, andThe Chicago Zine Coalition to host our second annual DCC Day @ DMen Tap! We have the FREE adventures. We have the collectors' items. We have zines from independent Chicago creators, including 7 Devils Press, Obladra, Revivify Games, Wizards with Laser Rifles, and Nerdronomicon. Lastly, we have sessions! We're running 4 sessions of DCC RPG (and its variants) throughout the day.
Doors open at 1 PM and the first two sessions start at 2 PM. At 7 PM, we have 2 more. Come get some FREE swag, have a drink, enjoy some of the best German-Turkish street food in Chicago, and sit at a table and roll dice with us!
No badges necessary!
Grab some swag and sit in on sessions at 2 PM & 7 PM.
Gamehole Con 13 is October 15-18 in Madison, WI. I am looking for two GMs to run Nerdonomicon-brand DCC RPG games! If you are interested, email me at [email protected].
What you get
A free badge*
A free room at the Madison Marriott South (FKA Sheraton Madison Hotel)â€
Print copies of everything you run‡
You'll be entered into random prize drawings for each game you run*
You'll be granted access to the GM, Special Guest & Exhibitor Lounge*
What you need to do
Run 4 sessions (16 hours) of Nerdronomicon games
* Any GM who runs 12 hours gets these from Gamehole Con †We all share the room ‡ Some aren't out yet, but when they're done, cha-ching!
Please don't hate me, but...
I still have a new campaign launching in August. It is part three in the Saga of Sorcerer Verrükter and the Rükstau Rejects: The Sorcerer's Conundrum. It's a level-2 adventure compatible with Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG that puts the players into a labyrinth filled with everyone's favorite TTRPG pillar: puzzles!
If you follow the campaign, you get a FREE set of 36 VTT Tokens featuring characters and monsters from previous adventures in the saga of Sorcerer Verrükter and the Rükstau rejects: The Sorcerer's Fate, The Sorcerer's Return, and Aufgebläht or Bust, available only by following The Sorcerer's Conundrum!
If you've already followed, thank you! Go back to the teaser page and get your FREE VTT tokens!
Quick note here. I've gotten some feedback recently that came across as abusive, so I want to set some standards. This is going to be part of all Nerdronomicon campaigns moving forward because, apparently, some folks old enough to have a credit card are not mature enough to be respectful in public forums.
Community Standards
We strive to promote free expression, creativity, and rich collective experiences. This community's engagement inspires and sustains our work, and we are committed to producing thoughtful, unique, and entertaining creations to support it and the larger TTRPG community.
Members who are uninterested in fostering mutual respect, openness, and camaraderie, or whose behavior transgresses the BackerKit Community Guidelines, will have their money refunded and will be reported to BackerKit.
Bullying, harassment, and intentionally hurtful behaviors are not welcome.
Trolls will be slain and their carcasses burned.
I am incredibly grateful to all of you for supporting this project. It is on schedule to be fulfilled in October of 2026. Please feel free to reach out with any questions, insights, critiques, etc.
I just learned that we have an indigenous berry in Chicago called the "serviceberry." They look like blueberries and are also called "juneberries" because they fruit in June, making them June fruiters (which is really fun to say). The blooming of Serviceberries is one of the earliest signs of spring, foretelling the arrival of the itinerant preachers who would soon arrive to perform services for all of the people who died during the winter, hence the name. Fun! All of this is to say that I've had way too much coffee today and have lost control of the same part of my brain as Estelle Getty's Golden Girl.
June update
So the campaign ended a little over a month ago, and I have done nearly zip. Well, not really, I have ordered and received the bumper stickers, sticker sheets, and "Child of Bobugbubilz" patches! It was really surreal placing an order for nearly $2,000 worth of stickers.
Playtesting
I need to do a ton more playtesting of Mutant Spawn. I'll send out an email/Backerkit update shortly about in-person and online opportunities to participate.
Campaign numerology
Here are a few (out of order) screenshots of weird numerological moments captured throughout the campaign. They demonstrate how obsessively I monitored the campaign.
I missed 1-4, 8, and 9.
And, finally, the real reason for this update
Ok, now that you're all softened up. I have a new campaign launching in August. It is part three in the Saga of Sorcerer Verrükter and the Rükstau Rejects: The Sorcerer's Conundrum. It's a level-2 adventure compatible with Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG that puts the players into a labyrinth filled with everyone's favorite TTRPG pillar: puzzles!
If you follow the campaign, you get a FREE set of 36 VTT Tokens featuring characters and monsters from previous adventures in the saga of Sorcerer Verrükter and the Rükstau rejects: The Sorcerer's Fate, The Sorcerer's Return, and Aufgebläht or Bust, available only by following The Sorcerer's Conundrum!
If you've already followed, thank you! Go back to the teaser page and get your FREE VTT tokens!
If you learned The Sorcerer's Fate and witnessed The Sorcerer's Return, get ready to tackle The Sorcerer's Conundrum.
Delve into an ancient elven labyrinth at the behest of the mad sorcerer Verrükter in this puzzling adventure zine compatible with Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG! Part three in the Saga of Sorcerer Verrükter and the Rükstau Rejects.
It's puzzles all the way down!
ALERT: Do not play The Sorcerer's Conundrum if you don't like puzzles.
Ok. That was a lot, I know. Please continue reading to find out...
What's also next
If your credit card hasn't been charged yet, it will be in the next few days.
I'm going to continue playtesting, writing, editing, and illustrating the modules until they stop wriggling.
Playtesting will continue until morale improves!
I'm going to do as much in-person testing as I can here in the Chicagoland area and at every con I can get to. I also plan to set up some virtual sessions—look for an update with sign-up instructions for virtual playtests soon. Once the player-level playtesting is done, I'll get it in a near-final state and send it out to everyone as a PDF.
Then, my pretty DMs and Judges, you will scatter like flying monkeys and playtest it with your own groups.
Let me know how it goes: What doesn't work? How can I make it better for the GMs?
All playtesters will be credited in the books.
Rough dates
June – Rough draft PDF goes out to backers - playtest and hunt typos at will!
July – Surveys go out to backers
August – Content has been finalized, and we go to print
September – Addresses will be locked, and shipping will be charged
October – We send out the goodies
* All dates are subject to the whims of the universe, but this is my intent
How we did
We smashed seven stretch goals!
Six new monster encounters are going to be added to the adventures
Everyone, PDF-level backers included, is getting two sticker sheets (three if you backed in the first 48 hours)
VTT tokens of monsters and NPCs for the digital folks
"Bobugbubilz is my Copilot" bumper stickers for physical backers (and in a surprise development, PDF-level backers are going to get a physical bumper sticker too)!
Alas, we were not able to cross the $17k threshold to get everyone a "Child of Bobugbubilz" patch. They will be available in the preorder store and as add-ons in the pledge manager ($5 each or $20 for 5).
This isn't the last you'll hear from me. I've got your info. You can't stop me!
Look for monthly progress updates and some gentle marketing around upcoming Nerdronomicon offerings.
I can't handle how grateful I am to all of you for supporting Mutant Spawn of the Toadmother.
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