and I didn't even get to see the Cabinet Last weekend I went to GaryCon for the first time and I had a wonderful time. I had been feeling a bit cooked creatively. Playing games with old friends, some I had never had the opportunity to meet
I feel funny writing a wrap up/looking forward post but I'm doing it. First: thank you everyone for your support this year and for playing/reading my adventures. Here's how the year went and how it's looking moving forward in 2026. I'm cont…
Spruce and pine line trails ne'er traveled Beneath the boughs, wolves stalk o'er gravel The Beorling growls and guards the brains Of humble travelers where Bumble reigns Used without permission, copyright of Rankin Bass. North: Poison Swamp…
This past weekend I attended PAX Unplugged for the third time, a con that I highly recommend as it is a very fun mix of board games and roleplaying games. My goal this year was to spend time playing with my fellow designers who have been lo…
I am finishing up my next adventure and preparing to run a minimum viable version of it at PAX Unplugged. I am tempted to make my own Fishtown for my upcoming Break!! campaign, and I owe you all a debrief on my recently concluded Mythic Bas…
Today is the release date for Orestruck, my next adventure in the Tannic Forest. Orestruck is an adventure for Cairn and other fantasy tabletop roleplaying systems that drops your adventuring party into the middle of Pact, a town on the bri…
Conceiving a dungeon involves injecting spaces with barely contained energy that yearns to explode, impacting the surrounding area. One way to develop natural tension is through creating dungeons that hold opposed themes1. First: choose a c…
The unlucky sell sword tripping into ill fortune might cross paths with one petty god birthed in a desolate heath or hollow. Across the remote places where people sprinkle salt and whisper ward words there are ninety. Tower Academics name t…
Mastering an internal code while navigating The Weird and medieval violence can be a socially acceptable act of self destruction, dancing on the edge of a knife, whispering in the dark while a monster hunts you. Mythic Bastionland is a medi…
The garlic press is a much maligned tool, often found cluttering the back of some drawer in a well-stocked kitchen. As the main cook in my household, I don’t use mine much. It has a specific purpose. When I want garlic rendered into a crush…
This post was made for Vampire Weekend 2024 The majority of vampires engage in fraught, passionate, and grasping lives, thralls to their desires. Only those who sire and reign with vicious, restrained authority ascend, difficult as they are…
I am running Mythic Bastionland with my home table. Here is what they knew when the campaign began. The Vale’s sorrow knows no succor. Wanderers in the wilderness glimpse remnants of the Sun Guard’s emblem carved on ancient stones, the Quee…