Over the last few months I have been creating new Cairn editions of some of my older adventures, which are now available in print. And the latest one is one of my favorite convention one-shots: Desert Angel Fiasco. Hop on a flying sailing ship for its maiden voyage across the Great Sand Sea! (Spoilers: It […]
Just a quick update to note that I have changed how this dusty old website looks for the first time in maybe 7 years. Not sure if I’ll keep making changes, or if it will be this way for another 7 years… More importantly, Dungeon Age adventures are now available in many more online stores, […]
I’m still making videos, so you should go watch them! #8 Saving Saxham: I review my very first adventure and discuss what I did right and what I definitely did not do right. #9 Factions: Let’s talk about how to design and use factions in your adventures. #11 Layout: A super useful (if not super […]
Hi, my name is Joe and my friends in the RPG community have tricked me into making a series of videos about how to write an adventure. Yep, I’m back on YouTube. Part 1: How to define your vision or goal, including: Example of style, Example of design, Player action, Setting, Types of creatures, and […]
Happy New Year to all! I thought I would mark the changing of the calendars by giving you a peek behind the curtain here at Dungeon Age enterprises. I’m going to present some of my sales data, both to thank you all for your support over the years, and also in the hopes that it […]
Well, it’s the “holiday season”. That weird time of year when we smash together Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Talk Like a Pirate Day, Indigenous People’s Day, Halloween, Diwali, Election Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Boxing Day, and New Year’s Eve into a relentless blur of decorations, music, […]
As you may have noticed, my current OSR system darling is Cairn and the general Odd-like family of games. I really appreciate the general ethos of encouraging players to be creative problem-solvers instead of min-maxing character-sheet masters. I prefer exploration over combat. But I also love rules-light games that are easy to learn, fast to […]
My newest adventure / setting / game is now available on DriveThruRPG. Here’s the blurb: In The Undying Sea, players take on the roles of sea-faring adventurers sailing the misty currents on their siltcutter. As they discover new islands, they will encounter the conquering Tortuvan Empire, the mutant crab Brakken Hegemony, the undead Kadav Pirates, the […]
Hey, I wrote another tiny tomb, and it’s Pay What You Want (PWYW)! Here is the third of my Tiny Tomb series: Tomb of the Primate Priest. It’s just a few bizarre wooden rooms full of living tunnels, root trolls, monkey monks, and a dryad. Because every campaign should have a bunch of random little […]
A puzzle dragon is a powerful monster, but it does not have a traditional stat block. It can only be killed in one specific way. The challenge for the players is to learn how to kill the puzzle dragon, and then to perform the actions needed to do so. If they can perform the correct […]