what is this?

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

I mostly use this other blog now because it's got RSS and markdown integration. Would highly recommend everyone gets a bearblog.

writing blog

• [2025-11-18] ~ Talking through nokatelo marsh
• [2025-10-15] ~ The East Lake Survey Vol. 2
• [2025-09-30] ~ An Alternative Appendix N Jam
• [2025-04-19] ~ Archeological Adventure Sites & a Dungeon-fill Procedure
• [2025-04-15] ~ The Malesch Valley 3: cursed boulder-field
• [2025-04-10] ~ The Malesch Valley 2: ancient scrub
• [2025-04-08] ~ The Malesch Valley 1: war-torn marsh

personal blog

• [2025-12-26] ~ What did I enjoy in 2025?
• [2025-10-12] ~ Mapping Silksong
• [2024-12-21] ~ What did I enjoy in 2024?
• [2023-12-23] ~ What did I enjoy in 2023?
• [2022-12-30] ~ What did I enjoy in 2022?
• [2022-07-16] ~ What did I enjoy in the first half of 2022
• [2022-05-09] ~ The Production of Paradise/Place
• [2022-01-09] ~ What did I enjoy in 2021?
• [2021-10-04] ~ We live in the Wired now

tabletop role-playing games

• [2025-09-15] ~ MARGRAVE - what may be the first ever Vyrmhack scenario.
• [2025-07-27] ~ IDOL THIEVES OF OLD URUK - for the Appx. N Jam.
• [2025-06-27] ~ The Malesch Lowlands - a shortened version for 'Under 500'.

Over 2024 I wrote at least one scenario or setting a month. It was the best thing I've ever done for my writing and layout. Please have a look.

• [2024-12-31] ~ stones, hills and churches - twenty hexes: a summation of how far I've come.
• [2024-11-23] ~ Underwrekin - dwarvish mines under the Wrekin.
• [2024-10-30] ~ Between the Boughs - twenty four folkloric woodland hexes.
• [2024-10-01] ~ The Mists of the Mynd - my take on the The Lost City genre.
• [2024-09-18] ~ The East Lake Survey - writing jam ran by the Thinking Adventures Discord.
• [2024-07-31] ~ The West Midlands 2: The Lay of the Land - expansion to the West Midlands!
• [2024-06-27] ~ The Pyramid of Peril - cult pyramid full of giant ants.
• [2024-05-30] ~ The West Midlands - anti-west-marches based on Birmingham.
• [2024-05-08] ~ Named Weapons in your Fantasy Games - optional rule inspired by Boasts.
• [2024-04-30] ~ Three Dens of Devilry - a sea witch, a barrow, and a tomb.
• [2024-04-21] ~ Lands of the Lost Lake - hexcrawl inspired by Turner.
• [2024-03-27] ~ The Depths of Delirium I - a Cambrian dig-site and failed prison.
• [2024-02-29] ~ The Hole of Heresy - heretical saints in a sewer.
• [2024-02-15] ~ The Facility of Fatality - Lethal Company in OSR.
• [2024-01-26] ~ The Tracks of Torment - part of the Jennell Jaquays Memorial Game Jam.
• [2024-01-09] ~ The Canyons of Kerad - follow-up to Keyhaven Keep.

And here's some older systems and scenarios. I still use some of these ideas!

• [2023-11-14] ~ Caverns Below Keyhaven Keep - submission for DURF JAM 2023.
• [2022-12-31] ~ METROPOLE: DÉRIVE - a solo game about attuning to urban affect.
• [2022-09-29] ~ Crush Depth - pulp adventure in a noir 2000-Leagues-Under-The-Sea world.

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