Goodman Games is an American

United States

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 publisher of game

Game

A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements...

s, primarily based on fantasy

Fantasy

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 and science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 themes. Goodman Games is best known as the publisher of the Dungeon Crawl Classics

Dungeon Crawl Classics

Dungeon Crawl Classics is a series of roleplaying adventure modules published by Goodman Games under the d20 open gaming license. It includes more than 40 adventures, and features celebrated game designers such as Michael Mearls, Dave Arneson, and Monte Cook, as well as classic TSR artists like...

 series of adventure modules, as well as the Dragonmech

DragonMech

Dragonmech is a steampunk/fantasy campaign setting for d20 fantasy developed by Goodman Games and Sword & Sorcery Studios. It centers on giant mechs, powerful war machines powered by steam, clockwork, magic, or slave labor...

 and the award-winning Etherscope

Etherscope

Etherscope is a steampunk role-playing game based on the d20 system, especially d20 Modern.-Setting:In 1876, Harold Wallace discovered something that changed the world: Etherspace. The might of Victorian industry drove forward, breaking down the frontiers of technology...

 role-playing games, and has produced licensed adventures in the following lines: Wicked Fantasy Factory, Judges Guild

Judges Guild

Judges Guild is a small game publisher in the business of creating and selling role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related material, most notable as one of the leading publishers in the late 1970s and early 1980s of Dungeons & Dragons-related materials...

, Xcrawl, Iron Heroes

Iron Heroes

Iron Heroes is a variant Player's Handbook for the d20 System of role-playing games, in the tradition of Arcana Unearthed...

, Castles and Crusades, and Frank Frazetta

Frank Frazetta

Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media...

's Death Dealer

Death Dealer (painting)

Death Dealer is an iconic 1973 fantasy painting by Frank Frazetta. It depicts a menacing armor-clad warrior with a horned helmet, whose facial features are obscured by shadow, atop a horse, holding a bloody axe and shield...

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History

Goodman Games was founded in 2001 by Joseph Goodman. Its first product line was Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex. Since then, Goodman Games has expanded substantially into a wide range of fantasy and science fiction RPG supplements. Their card games include Geek Wars, World Championship Dodge Ball, and Scavenger Hunt.

Items of Note

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

Yottaquest

Yottaquest is an American gaming store in Mt. Healthy, Ohio. The store was founded in 2004 by Matthew Fay, and since then has increased its business an average of 25% a year, even during the recession....

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