I’ve released a new adventure for Shadowdark! House of the Wasp is a Level 5 Shadowdark dungeon delve into a samurai castle where you can seek out a masterwork weapon, be trained by the Wasp Clan masters in various skills, help the Rat Clan ninjas to steal the secrets of the Wasp, or help the […]
Category: announcements
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
The Undying Sea
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 […]
Birthday Sale!
June 12 is my birthday, so let’s celebrate. I’m turning 45 (apparently), so on June 12 all Dungeon Age games and adventures will be $0.45. Yes, forty-five cents. Yes, all of them. But only on June 12. You know why.
Merry Mushmen Kickstarter
Once again I am privileged to be working alongside the talented team of the Merry Mushmen to bring you not one but TWO remastered adventures. The first is The Horrendous Hounds of Hendenburgh by my new friend Liam Pádraig Ó Cuilleanáin, and the second is Raiding the Obsidian Keep by me! Want to hear more […]