The small hamlet of Arenthorp has fallen under a curse. Elementals are causing havoc, storms and fires are destroying buildings, and a mysterious hedge maze seems to be the center of the problem. Can you find the source of the curse and break it?

I’ve just released a new adventure, The Curse of Arenthorp, on DM’s Guild. This is a first level adventure for fifth edition D&D, which might bring characters up to third level in two or three sessions. It’s full of details about a small village. There’s an unexpected invasion of minor elementals. It has a maze, with traps and puzzles. There’s also a fun monster or two that I brought over from the ancient days of the game.

The Curse of Arenthorp is available for $4.95 on Dungeon Masters Guild.

I’ve also refreshed my other adventure on DMS Guild, The Smugglers of Grogmock Mound. The exact same content, but a flashier cover, and improved layout and design, with illustrations this time. Read more...

This is my final article in this series, where I am writing down notes for a hypothetical RPG that I would write to replace D&D. In this article, I will address some issues with game play. This isn’t a very cohesive article, but it is necessary to conclude the series. Read more...

I’m continuing on with this series as quickly as I can due to current events in the RPG industry. In this article I will discuss changes to the magic system. Read more...

In this article, I’m continuing my ideas for my own fantasy role playing game. This post talks about the remaining elements of character creation.

With the massive changes in D&D’s Open Game License coming out, many publishers are talking about creating their own system. I feel like my ideas for a new fantasy role-playing game are becoming more relevant. I’ve decided it’s time to finish this article series, so I might someday be able to work on it. Read more...

I’m abolishing classes.

(Sorry, this is a long post, because it’s probably the biggest change I would make to this game, so it needs to be.) Read more...

As long as I’ve been playing with D&D, there have always been rules that I felt were wrong, that I would change if I’d been in charge of the game. I was reminded of this when I saw a recent tweet asking what people would change for D&D 5.5. I can’t answer that, because the sorts of things I want to see in D&D would be a 6th edition, 7th, or more likely another game. Read more...

It’s been a while, so I thought I’d publish a map I put together for an adventure I’m working on. Read more...

I must have been in sixth grade when my brother got a copy of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set as a Christmas present¹. That would have been 1983. He, his friends Mark and Mike, and I spent almost every day of the next summer crawling through the Caves of Chaos in B2 Keep on the Borderlands². I have yet to see Stranger Things, but from what I understand this was a scene straight out of that, minus the government conspiracies and otherworld monsters. It was somewhere during that time that D&D emerged as a defining part of my life. Read more...