HELLCRAWL

The Haruspex

Based on the Roman practice of reading entrails, this was a classic addition to the Unholy City of Zeb. I'm pretty certain this was the first encounter I wrote for the city.

My Commute: Originality

Today I am discussing the virtues of originality and resonance.

My Commute Episode 1

I live 45 minutes away from my school and drive a lot. It gives me a lot of time alone with my thoughts. Now you can listen to these thoughts about writing and designing TTRPG and adventure design....

Smoothie Lord

Tim said to me: "Item: vacuum cleaner/smoothy maker - something used down in the sluice"

And I took the ball and ran with it. The Sluice is a necroplasmic tumor beneath the city of Zeb. It i...

Down by the Docks

Tim says to me: A cruise ship from the Upper Ethereal shows up full of weird shifting aurora borealis tourists. Like sentient light clouds. Is that too weird?
Me: I got you fam.

This tou...

I needed to track all the Wizard Gulp! flavors

In the Painted Wastelands I incorporated a lot of food, drink, and drugs instead of potions. I wanted to encourage that Alice in Wonderland style of play where characters eat or drink things and st...

The One True Emanation of Sollopos the Unblinking

Greetings Lost Dreamers!

The way Tim and I work is a little complicated. First, when I wake up in the morning he's usually going to sleep and vice versa. We each take turns guarding the plane...

More Gurus from Empire of Bones

Greetings Lost Dreamers!

First, in case you didn't know, The Painted Wastelands PDF is out on DriveThruRPG! If you didn't back us on Kickstarter you can buy the PDF here: 2024-10-21 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Empire of Bones: Gurus

When Mr. U visits the city of Zeb for the first time, he seeks wisdom from beyond the grave. Instead, he finds only pain and shame. Then he is greeted by a guru on the shores of the river Aboo-Nai ...

Empire of Bones Preview

I've been hard at work on the Empire of Bones, the sequel to Painted Wastelands. It's currently 21,000 words long. As I'm working on it I'll post some samples here to my loyal followers. This encou...

Launching Your Kickstarter: Part One

Launching Your Kickstarter: Part One

I am currently in the middle of delivering our successful Kickstarter project: The Painted Wastelands. As a teacher, I always ...

Exclusive Painted Wastelands Preview

Here's a preview of our map and Area 6.

Plans within Plans...

Thank you for hanging with me during the Kickstarter. I found that almost 100% of my writing time got eaten up by planning the Kickstarter. However, now that it's over and we are waiting to purchas...

The Gallant Goblin gets lost in The Painted Wastelands

I sent preview copies to this awesome gentleman and he did a deep dive into the Painted Wastelands

The Painted Wastelands is LIVE!

I've been working on this project since February! It has taken over my life. Now it is finally here! go check it out for yourself!

Avatar of the Whale God

This creature guards the Temple of the Whale God. He awaits his lords return to this world from swimming in the luminality so that the Whale God can bellyflop into reality at the speed of light. 2024-06-23 19:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Beautiful Hex Map by Tim Molloy

Each of these hexes is a full page encounter. There’s also 4 dungeons.

AEON Ancient Greece Vol 5

Several months ago I handed in this completed text to Sharktopus Games and now it is on BackerKit!

The Lords of Olympus continues my series about playing DCC in Ancient Greece. It focuses on...

Which of these three stickers do you like the most?

Tim is back from Japan and he's been drawing up a storm for us. Which of these stickers do you like the most? I'm trying to figure out which ones to print for the Kickstarter.

The Painted Wastelands Preview

At long last the Painted Wastelands has a free preview on DriveThruRPG! Look upon my works ye mighty and despair!

Limited Edition Gold Foil Cover preview

Because you're my patrons I wanted to share with you our limited edition gold foil cover. Exclusive just for the Kickstarter, it was designed to resemble a sorcerer's grimoire. Something The Diseas...

THE PAINTED WASTELANDS

Wake up sleepies. It's happening!

The great endeavor I have spent the past several months working on is finally coming to fruition. We have a kickstarter landing page, click this link...

Cover Sketch

Tim is hard at work on our cover, which really came together in the past few days. I can't wait to see it when it's done.

The Work

Now that I've finished writing I'm hard at work grinding on completing the Kickstarter work so that we can launch on Kickstarter. I am talking with several companies to produce prototypes.

Th...

It is done.

Mentally, I'm exhausted. After really pushing myself this week I successfully completed my first draft. It took me two months, but I wrote 68,914 words, and 134 pages. Just like everything I write,...

Deck of Many Esoteric Things

Part of our upcoming project is a set of 22 tarot cards based upon the Deck of Many Things but with weirder effects. Like for example: The Snail.

The Snail. A sna...