Important Dates in the History of Purple Sorcerer Games
It occurred to me it would be fun to put together a timeline of the major DCC milestones we've passed along the way... at the very least it will help me keep everything straight in my head!
- 1978: Mom drove me to the next town over to purchase the blue box Basic D&D, kicking off a life-long love of adventure
- 1982: Purchased 'Arms Law' from an ad in Dragon Magazine, starting a 10 year obsession with Rolemaster
- 1985: Created MERC, my first character generator (for Rolemaster) on my Commodore 64.
- 1993: Friends in my gaming group ask me to run some 1st Edition adventures, and my love for more old-school play is rekindled. We eventually move through 2nd, 3rd, and (briefly) 4th edition D&D
- March 2007: Purchased Castles and Crusades (First OSR product)
- July 2009: Purchased Mists of Madness (4E) (First contact with Goodman Games)
- January 2010: Created a character generator and combat manager for 4th Edition D&D, but never release it due to an unfriendly legal environment for such things in that neck of the woods. The dice and batch roller in the combat manager form the basis for all future dice rollers
- July 2010: Heard First Rumors of DCC RPG
- June 8, 2011: Dungeon Crawl Classics Beta Released
- June 11, 2011: 1st version of 0-Level Generator is completed (3 days later!)
- June 13, 2011: 0-Level Generator is Announced to the World
- June 18, 2011: My Wife and Son pick up the Free RPG Day/DCC Quick Start Rules for Me from the FLGS(!)
- June 28, 2011: Funky Dice Roller Released (pre-curser to the Crawler’s Companion)
- Nov 24, 2011: PurpleSorcerer.com goes live
- May 23, 2012: Perils of the Sunken City Published (The first 3rd party DCC adventure released, just beating out Stephen Newton's awesome Attack of the Frawgs)
- May 31, 2012: Beta Version of Crawler’s Companion Released
- June 5, 2012: Upper Level Character Generator Released
- June 6, 2012: Crawler’s Companion Kickstarter
- July 16, 2012: The Ooze Pits of Jonas Gralk Published
- February 3, 2013: Crawler’s Companion Goes Live
- April 5, 2013: Lair of the Mist Men Published
- June 15, 2013: Gathering of the Marked Published
- August 17, 2013: Ennie Award for Crawler’s Companion
- February 26, 2014: Sunken City Omnibus Published
- June 1, 2014: First Free Tools Pledge Drive raises $375
- June 15, 2014: Nebin Pendlebrook’s Perilous Pantry Published
- February 24, 2015: Sorcerer's Grimoire Goes Live
- February 11, 2016: The Carnival of the Damned Published
- June 11, 2016: 2nd Free Tools Pledge Drive raises $1300
- July 16, 2016: Quick Tools Generators Go Live
- September 6, 2016: Crawler 1.5
- October 4, 2016: The Frost Fang Expedition Published
- December 3, 2016: Escape from the Shrouded Fen Published
- December 24, 2016: Purple Sorcerer Site adds https
- April 15, 2017: Tutorial Videos/Youtube Page Consolidated
- June 24, 2017: 3rd Free Tools Pledge Drive raises $3900
- June 25, 2017: Mutant Crawl Classics Generator Goes Live
- July 10, 2017: Added Purple Sorcerer Patron Page
- February 28, 2018: Zero and Upper Level Character Generators Integrates Goodman Games Sheets
- March 8, 2018: Crawler 1.8
- April 1, 2018: HTML Crawler Work Begins
- June 23, 2018: Fourth Free Tools Pledge Drive raises $5000
- June 6, 2019: The Crypt in Cadaver Canyon Kickstarter raised nearly $10,000
- June 14, 2019: Download codes for early release version of Crypt go out
- June 29, 2019: Fifth Free Tools Pledge Drive raises $4500
- December 12, 2019: Download codes for the Sullenlands Omnibus go out
- July 5, 2020: Pod Codes for the Sullenlands Omnibus go out
- July 12, 2020: Sixth Free Tools Pledge Drive raises $5100
- August 24, 2020: Sullenlands Omnibus and Crypt in Cadaver Canyon available to general public
- October 23, 2020: Awarded a Gold Goodie Award from Goodman Games for Community Service
- May 12, 2021: Announced that Purple Sorcerer Games is now Jon's full-time gig
- July 3, 2021: Lankhmar Character Generator released
- July 18, 2021: Seventh Free Tools Pledge Drive raises $7000!
- November 21, 2021: HTML Crawler Beta goes live
- January 15, 2022: Dread Specters of the Shrieking Vale by Benjamin Marr announced
Thanks to everyone who has stuck with us on this amazing journey!
