• Hearts of Battle

    Hearts of Battle

    Mass combat resolution using playing cards. https://gelatinouscubism.itch.io/hearts-of-battle This supplemental game is meant as a fun and tactical way to play out mass combat encounters in fantasy tabletop adventure games. Many games can produce large wandering monster encounters during wilderness travel, such as OD&D(1974), Expert Dungeons & Dragons (Cook), and their various modern retroclones. A wandering […]

  • “Overland Encounter” – The Scourge of Northland Cover update

    “Overland Encounter” – The Scourge of Northland Cover update

  • Art Process – Inking an illustration

    Art Process – Inking an illustration

    Last week while I was working on an illustration for Scourge of Northland I decided to turn the camera on and get some footage of my inking process. I may do more of these videos when the mood strikes me and they will be posted on either my instagram or on my Youtube channel. Enjoy!

  • The Scourge of Northland – Announcement Post

    The Scourge of Northland – Announcement Post

    The Scourge of Northland is a low-level adventure campaign designed for use with Old-School Essentials or your favorite OSR ruleset. The Story The frontier town of Obanhold is situated at the upper edge of settled lands, in a veritable utopia of natural resources and rich soil, simply known as Northland. The people of Obanhold look […]

  • Using Chainmail with OD&D

    Using Chainmail with OD&D

    In this post I want to do my best to thoroughly cover using the Chainmail rules to handle combat in Original Dungeons and Dragons. At least, to cover the necessary rules to get a handle on the basics. Resources that I referenced while making this post: Dungeons and Dragons by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson Chainmail […]

  • Miniature Sculpting — Giant

    Miniature Sculpting — Giant

    I’ve been brainstorming on a new campaign setting recently and part of that is my plan to include the use of miniatures for combat situations with the Chainmail rules. As an experiment, I wanted to give sculpting my own miniature a shot. The sculpt I wanted to try first was my own take on the […]

  • The Gygax 75 Challenge – Progress Report

    The Gygax 75 Challenge – Progress Report

    This is a follow-up to a reddit post of my week 2 progress on the Gygax 75 challenge. I was inspired to go through the workbook created by Ray Otus which is free to download on itch.io. Ben from Questing Beast posted a video detailing what the challenge entailed, which is when I began. Please […]

  • Through the Valley of the Manticore – Announcement

    Through the Valley of the Manticore – Announcement

    I’m very excited to announce my follow-up adventure module zine for Old-School Essentials. This time around I will be launching the Kickstarter campaign as part of the first ever Side Quest event, specifically designed for indie zine creators to get there work out there and seen by a larger audience. I made a post earlier […]

  • SideQuest, a creator-led funding drive, launches November 2021!

    SideQuest, a creator-led funding drive, launches November 2021!

    On the 8th of September 2021, the Zine Creators Workshop announce SideQuest 2021. This event is modelled after the popular ZineQuest promotion on Kickstarter. Designers will crowdfund games over the course of November. By pooling resources, they will shine a light on all their projects. The thinking behind SideQuest is simple. ZineQuest is so successful […]

  • Shop Updates and First Convention Back

    Shop Updates and First Convention Back

    It’s been a while since my last post and a lot has happened in that time. Things with my Zinequest 3 project, In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe, were starting to wind down after the Kickstarter backer shipments had been sent out—there were still the sporadic order for the zine here and there but nothing […]