I’ve started an Etsy shop, and I’m selling maps I’ve made myself. My first major product is an 18th-century Inspired Map of Wisconsin. Check it out, and read below to hear the story. Read more...

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...

When I find a monotonous task, I want to spend more time looking for shortcuts than completing the task itself¹. When it’s a computer task, the added challenge of building a new program makes the distraction worse. This can be a problem, and I’ve learned tricks to avoid it, such as looking for previous work. But sometimes that previous work isn’t quite what I need. And sometimes the idea sticks in my head and I can’t get it out until I do something about it. This post is about one such project. 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’ve decided to move to a new blog site. Read more...

I’d like to present to you a world map for my Inannak project. I call this a preview, I may get to a full poster map at some point. With this image, I’m also playing with decorations, text art, and other gewgaws, which may be important in fantasy maps. I appreciate any comments, suggestions, or questions. Read more...

A big part of my Inannak worldbuilding project will be the book. This is where you’ll find all the information about the world and its inhabitants. It’s going to take as much or more work to put that together as any of the mapping. But the good news is that you can read it now. There’s a link at the end of this post. Read more...

Back in February, I posted about an experimental fantasy world called Inannak. I set it aside because I have so many other projects I want to work on. But In a few weeks or months, I plan to bring Inannak back to this blog, and I have ambitious plans. Read more...

I often daydream about time travel. I imagine a lot of people do as they get older. Like me, they think about what they would do if they had a redo. What would they change if they could relive their life? What would they say if they had a chance to talk to their younger selves? 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...

One of my creative paths is fantasy cartography. Here’s a work in progress. Read more...

I’ve just put another little thing up on DM’s Guild: a set of minimalist character sheets. 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...