My new adventure Lovely Jade Necropolis is now available! It is currently available in PDF on DriveThruRPG and Itch.io. (And it will be available in print very soon on many sites!) This is a long adventure for Levels 3-5, with GM Guides for Shadowdark, Old School Essentials, and Cairn. The product includes: What’s it about? […]
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Lovely Jade Necropolis – teaser!
I’ve written a new adventure… Lovely Jade Necropolis is a classic dungeon delve heavily inspired by the poetry and fiction of Clark Ashton Smith, featuring two warring necromancers and their undead servants striving against the hidden Twilight Empress of the fey for control of a fabulous jade palace… It’s for Shadowdark, Old School Essentials, and […]
Well, my grand plan from last fall is finally complete. I have remastered five of my classic adventures for the Cairn RPG system, and made them available in zine-sized PDFs and printed booklets. They all feature new content, including new artwork and maps, new locations and encounters, and new Backgrounds for character generation. Here is […]
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Desert Angel Fiasco: Remastered
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 […]
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New website, new stores
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 […]
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Dungeon Age sales numbers
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 […]
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Holiday Sale
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, […]
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Saving Saxham… Remastered!
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 […]