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I was the guest on the recently released 34th episode of the 'Watcha Doing?' Podcast, hosted by Matt Caulder. We talk about the vicissitudes of self-promotion, David Foster Wallace, Miffy the Rabbit, trying to find out where my ENNIE award actually is (it did show up at my house eventually), what I would bring to… Continue reading Guest Spot on ‘Watcha Doing?’ Podcast
Hello all, as you read these words the Vaults of Vaarn 2E Backerkit campaign will have already launched and been funding for 24 hours. You know how the campaign is going while I, writing this in the past, do not. I envy your privileged position. Hopefully it's all going well and I'm currently bathing in… Continue reading Interview with OSR Rocks
Lots of exciting news this month at Vaults of Vaarn towers. Firstly, The Shrike, my enormous Hell-bound OSE adventure module, has been shortlisted for an ENNIE Award! This is a total surprise to me, but a nice one. I spent a lot of writing time feeling that the project was totally out of control creatively… Continue reading Ennie Nomination and Other News
Hey folks, I know things have been quiet recently here. I've been extremely busy and hopefully will have stuff to post about soon. In the meantime here's a podcast interview with yours truly. I appeared live on the This Is Your Lifepath podcast hosted by Kayla Dice. We had a good wide-ranging talk about my… Continue reading This Is Your Lifepath (Live from Norwich)
I was recently invited on Brad Kerr and Yochai Gal's RPG module review podcast Between Two Cairns. As a long time fan of the show, I eagerly accepted, and we spent a lovely afternoon discussing Vaults of Vaarn, the work of David Graber and M. John Harrison, assassinating John Lennon for a second time, the… Continue reading Guest Spot on Between Two Cairns
The Deluxe Edition hardback is a compilation of the first three issues of Vaults of Vaarn. I have generally restricted the changes to correcting obvious errors and expanding on some parts of the core rules that were ambiguous. An example would be that the first issue includes several monsters that dealt damage directly to a… Continue reading WHAT’S CHANGED IN THE DELUXE EDITION?
I thought we'd do something a little different today, and talk about my process and making indie RPG stuff, specifically zines (which I'm defining here as self-published work that's shorter than book-length). Although I see myself as a newcomer to self-publishing, I've been doing it for over two years now, and I've learned some things… Continue reading How I Make Zines
Hello everyone, hope you're having a good day. Brief update to let you know what's cooking in the Vaarn kitchens at the moment. First up, I just finished work on 54 (!) new pieces of illustration for an as-yet unannounced project. I can say at this point that the project is Vaarn related, it will… Continue reading April News
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