I was blown away to find out Runecairn Bestiary, the monster supplement for my Norse fantasy Soulslike TTRPG Runecairn, was nominated for Best Monster / Adversary in the 2024 ENNIE Awards!
On Friday, 31 May, I attended the UK Games Expo in Birmingham for the first time. I’d heard this was the biggest UK-based tabletop event of the year and that definitely turned out to be true!
Introductory essay to the Omega City ashcan, released for the 2023 convention season.
On Saturday, 02 December, I visited DragonMeet in London for the first time as an exhibitor. This was my first time attending DragonMeet at all, so I was excited to see a convention dedicated to tabletop roleplaying games and to meet fellow designers and artists.
This past weekend, I returned to exhibit at the Thought Bubble convention, following on from a successful experience in 2022. Thought Bubble is a comic art festival held annually in Harrogate, UK and I’ve been a regular attendee since 2015.
Thought Bubble, a comic art festival in Harrogate, UK, kicks off again this year on the 11th and 12th of November! You can find me in Redshirt Hall, on table C19. Look for the yellow and black By Odin’s Beard RPG logo.
I was lucky enough to be invited to speak with an MA Worldbuilding with Creature Design class at Leeds Arts University earlier this month. Here’s a rough outline of what I spoke about. Thanks to Ben and all the students for making me feel welcome and for asking some thoughtful, interesting questions!
I’ve been sitting on this news since last year, but I’m happy to announce I’m one of the writers on Tome of Strange Beings, the new bestiary for Dark Souls: The Roleplaying game. More information will come soon from Steamforged Games, but for now I want to say how surreal it still feels.
I’ve been asked a few times about my process for sending out digital downloads (PDFs) when people buy physical books from my shop.
18 months ago (or 100 years, time is all weird thanks to COVID), I released a book on Kickstarter for Zine Quest 3, Mysteries of the Mists. Zine Quest is a loose collection of TTRPG projects on Kickstarter, typically in a lightweight zine format (under 20 pages, staple-bound). Last year, with all the talk from Kickstarter about crypto and blockchain, some in the TTRPG industry started their own, KS-less initiative called Zine Month (or ZiMo).
Tabletop roleplaying games and adventures