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Recently, my friend Questie let me know about someone arguing that my game I, The Land, could be played with a D20 system (it's played using a standard deck of playing cards). This made me laugh, and I found it very odd. Firstly, what a strange debate some die-hard fans feel they need to have– tha...

Starship Salvage is a new game where you can play solo or with a friend to collect the most salvage from wrecked spaceships and become the Super Salvager! Available now on Itch! Gain advantages in solo mode depending on how well you perform. This is a game of both chance and skill. Explore fou...

Artificial intelligence has been used to help explore new disease treatments, to help product teams analyze and pull obscure insights out of the data they've compiled, and more. It can be an incredibly useful tool. I've written in the past about how when I was sick with COVID I explored creating a ...

The following is short fiction that I originally posted to Vocal for a 250 word (exact) story challenge. Outside of Bug & Claw, I have been working up several fictional worlds for years. One of them that you've started to see emerge is the world of The Wilds, which this story also takes place...

My players/friends recently complimented me on the last few sessions I've run of our 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons game. Something that's happened before in the same way after key sessions. The thing in common with all of these sessions that they didn't know? They like the ones best that I'm detour...

Well, we're more than a week into 2024 and I'm finally posting a recap of last year. That tells you how productive it was and the break I needed! Looking back Let's take a quick look at what I accomplished since this time last year: The Essence System Reference Document, a tool for making t...

It's finally here! Grim Accoutrements is available on Itch, now! This book is about adding dark flavour to your role-playing games While this supplement has been geared towards Old School Essentials (OSE) and Pathfinder, the tables can be adapted to most fantasy games. For example, monsters hav...

In I, The Land, you are a patch of land, like an island, valley, or mountain. You have unique characteristics, flora, and fauna, and unique powers. Decide to react to, and influence events as they happen on or around you, or simply pay witness to your changing landscape. Get it on Itch now! This...

I don't know where I'm going with this just yet, but I found some old character silhouettes and I think they fit the vibe of the Wilds so far very well. I think I'd probably toss out the more sci-fi like ones and skew more towards the fantasy. People with grass and plants growing out of them symbi...

I've just released three solo journaling games in a row on Itch, all following a Wellness theme and utilizing Takuma Okada's Alone system as a base. Each game includes PDFs in self-assembled zine and letter-sized format in both colour and greyscale. If you manage to catch this in early July, a...

The Wilds is a fun project I write when I need a break and let my mind wander to more casual things, often tag-teaming ideas with my wife. A few folks have asked for some basics about the Wilds, so I thought I'd recap some of those here. Story You start all alone, thrust against your will into a...

My grandparents’ great white house stood in front of me. None of my family were here, though, and I could hear the faint water dripping from where I stood but fifty yards outside. The gravel crunched under my feet, and I almost stumbled as I ran in the basement door. My task was to save what I cou...