I’ve had another busy year of game design and playing and running RPGs. Here are my 2025 highlights: I spent the first couple of months of the year working on the Northlands campaign setting, writing a mixture of heroic and villainous factions for the Worldbook. Northlands launched on Kickstarter, and reached $239k with 2,251 backers.Continue reading “2025: My Year in TTRPG Gaming”
Tag Archives: Adventurers League
Game Design News – Northlands, Monster Vault 2, & More
I’ve got a few pieces of game design news to share this week. Firstly, the Northlands Kickstarter has launched. This is a setting of epic, rune-driven adventures across a northern realm of giants, gods, and reavers, designed for Dungeons & Dragons 2024 and Tales of the Valiant. I worked on this awesome project from DecemberContinue reading “Game Design News – Northlands, Monster Vault 2, & More”
D&D Adventurers League & More at UK Games Expo 2025
Last weekend was UK Games Expo at the NEC in Birmingham and, as always, we had a fantastic time playing games, hanging out with lovely friends, and buying stuff. Friday was all about D&D Adventurers League and the new adventures I’ve been working on with David Wright, Ian Hawthorne, and Colin Tweddle from Polyhedral Adventures,Continue reading “D&D Adventurers League & More at UK Games Expo 2025”
Game Design News – Farewell to D&D Adventurer & Countdown to Expo
This weekend I received my final package of Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer magazines, containing issues 75 – 80. These issues include the last two adventures I wrote for the magazine: Gateway to the Plaguestone (issue 76) and Scourge of the Plaguestone (issue 79). Gateway to the Plaguestone is the 7th instalment in the campaign’s finalContinue reading “Game Design News – Farewell to D&D Adventurer & Countdown to Expo”
Game Design News – Trouble at Kobold Crown & Our Lady of Thay
This week I’ve got a few bits of game design news to update you on. For the past few weeks I’ve been working on my D&D Adventurers League adventure for UK Games Expo, Trouble at Kobold Crown. I’m part of the Polyhedral Adventures design team and as a Premier Organiser we’ve been given the relativelyContinue reading “Game Design News – Trouble at Kobold Crown & Our Lady of Thay”
Game Design News – D&D Adventurers League at UK Games Expo
Now that I’ve just finished my latest project for Kobold Press, I’m turning my full attention to the adventure I’m writing for Polyhedral Adventures, Premier Organiser for the D&D Adventurers League at Tabletop Scotland and other UK conventions. My adventure, Trouble at Kobold Crown, is a fun dungeon (mine) crawl set in the Mountains of CopperContinue reading “Game Design News – D&D Adventurers League at UK Games Expo”