what is this?

This is my personal website: a small part of the fight for a human-focused web. I upload most of my work here.

blog

• [21-12-2024] ~ What did I enjoy in 2024?
• [23-12-2023] ~ What did I enjoy in 2023?
• [14-01-2023] ~ The City and The City and Urban Inequality
• [30-12-2022] ~ What did I enjoy in 2022?
• [16-07-2022] ~ What did I enjoy in the first half of 2022
• [09-05-2022] ~ Planetary Urbanisation and Affect: The Production of Paradise/Place
• [09-01-2022] ~ What did I enjoy in 2021?
• [04-10-2021] ~ We live in the Wired now: Infrastructure, Internet and Serial Experiments Lain
• [23-08-2021] ~ Early discussions of the Weird (Dissertation)
• [13-06-2021] ~ Excerpts from a module on Citizenship and Civil Society
• [10-03-2021] ~ A critical analysis of Ethiopian media perspectives on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

tabletop role-playing games

I've always found that designing your own systems and modules, tailored to the themes and play-styles that you wish to explore, is the most important part of running a game for other people. Below are some that I've produced.

• [23-11-2024] ~ Underwrekin - dwarvish mines under the Wrekin; the second part of The Depths of Delirium.
• [30-10-2024] ~ Between the Boughs - twenty four folkloric woodland hexes.
• [01-10-2024] ~ The Mists of the Mynd - my take on the The Lost City genre.
• [18-09-2024] ~ The East Lake Survey - a hexcrawl and bestiary jam ran by the Thinking Adventures Discord.
• [31-07-2024] ~ The West Midlands 2: The Lay of the Land - expansion to the West Midlands!
• [27-06-2024] ~ The Pyramid of Peil - cult pyramid full of giant ants. Applying the lessons I've learned.
• [30-05-2024] ~ The West Midlands - my biggest work so far! Anti-west-marches based on Birmingham.
• [08-05-2024] ~ Named Weapons in your Fantasy Games - a fun optional rule to commemorate cool feats.
• [30-04-2024] ~ Three Dens of Devilry - a sea witch, a necromancer barrow, and a noble skeleton tomb.
• [21-04-2024] ~ Lands of the Lost Lake - a hexcrawl inspired by the art of Joseph Mallord William Turner.
• [27-03-2024] ~ The Depths of Delirium I - part of a dungeon set in a Cambrian dig-site and failed prison.
• [29-02-2024] ~ The Hole of Heresy - a dungeon focused on heretical saints, pulling together some fun imagery.
• [15-02-2024] ~ The Facility of Fatality - adapting Lethal Company to OSR.
• [26-01-2024] ~ The Tracks of Torment - my submission to the Jennell Jaquays Memorial Game Jam.
• [09-01-2024] ~ The Canyons of Kerad - the follow-up to Keyhaven Keep featuring some fun archeology.
• [14-11-2023] ~ Caverns Below Keyhaven Keep - adventure for DURF JAM 2023 and my upcoming OSR-clone.
• [31-12-2022] ~ METROPOLE: DÉRIVE - a solo game about attuning to urban affect.
• [29-09-2022] ~ Crush Depth - a pulp adventure system set in a noir 2000-Leagues-Under-The-Sea world.

we're in the zone now

This is the initial final draft of my undergraduate dissertation that I submitted in April 2022 on the concept of 'The Weird' and how it relates to geography and climate change. There’s quite a lot of compromises I had to make in terms of content and detail here (due to the word limit and the way these dissertations are examined and marked), and I hope to at some point re-write it (at the least in more plain language.

• [08-05-2022] ~ We're in the Zone Now: Weird Geographies for the Anthropocene