WRITER
GAME DEVELOPER
DESIGNER
ABOUT ME
With more than 14 years of experience in the video game industry, I’ve been grateful to have the opportunity to dip my hands into many different creative pursuits.
At my very core, I am someone who loves to tell a story – be they conveyed by video game, written word, or delivered from behind a DM screen with pen and paper RPGs – and as such the honing and execution of all my creative skill-sets have served to guide and enrich this purpose.
WRITING SAMPLES
Adventurer’s Kit
A Platform Agnostic, Open World Campaign Starter
The Adventurer’s Kit is a large block of homebrew pen and paper RPG content that I created as one of the rewards for the Kickstarter campaign that funded development of my “digital tools for in person play” RPG campaign app, InfinitasDM.
Designed to be explored freely by players with multiple intersecting quest paths it was paired with 21 custom map images. The written contents of the full document (linked in PDF below) were laid out in the campaign file via various POI, NPC, and Encounter text links accessed directly from the map in-app and is accompanied by a printable quest guide.
“What the Merchant gave you are the directions. What I hold is the key to understanding them. Finally together they can make sense. To follow them may be as foolish a deed as it is brave, but know this, a terrible evil lies ahead of you. Provision yourselves as best you can and set out with only the fullest length of daylight ahead of you.
What you seek in that dreadful forest is no mere whisper or illusion but a true darkness that has arisen. May the five fortunes smile upon you and fare thee well.”
Journey Through The Glowing Fields
A D&D 5E Mini-Campaign
This mini-campaign was created as one of multiple one-shots to run at GenCon50 for the table where I was promoting my RPG campaign app, InfinitasDM.
Designed for the table’s longest time slot and accompanied by four custom made maps, this 4 hour bock of content quickly grew into a larger work that I could then expand or contract to reflect the pacing and unique interests of each set of players who signed up to play it. It was a great experience to run the content for multiple groups with incredibly different play styles and it taught me a lot about how to stay flexible and be responsive to each different group’s needs while presenting this customized experience.
“Something stirs in the Glowing Fields. A creature…a monster. For an age or more we have farmed these lands in peace with no contact from the blinding light of the skyworld. Never once before have we sought the help of others, let alone those from the surface.
But life is not as it once was. Our people can no longer mind-meld and are starving, those who have ventured out into the fields have been slaughtered. When the first echoes of the common tongued visitors rang in our ears we thought it a curse, a second death thrust upon an already opened sore. But perhaps we were wrong. Perhaps they are our only hope.”
The Teeth of The Bloodwolf
A Platform Agnostic, Story Driven Mini-Campaign
This mini-campaign was another reward for the Kickstarter campaign that funded development of my RPG app, InfinitasDM. For this mini-campaign I wanted to focus on a more linear, story driven quest that players could move through fairly quickly with less focus on open-world exploration.
Still, the campaign featured a few branching path options that turned the quest into a bit of a “choose your own adventure-lite” to keep from too heavily railroading the available choices.
“A grisly murder has rocked the small village of Dirusholm, a secluded town in the wooded mountain country of Moldovar.
Whispers of a forgotten clan surface as mysterious attacks begin to take place. As the attacks grow bolder, fear and paranoia begin to mount, culminating in the tragic murder of young girl. Adventurers find the town in a state of panic, seeking aid in solving this brutal crime.
As players follow the clues that lead them to the final confrontation a terrible plot unravels and an epic battle ensues.”
