One Foot in Fairyland

The day has finally arrived: Remonstered!

December 2023.

Over the weekend, I received a copy of the new Cypher Character Rulebook as a backer reward.

The last couple of months have been simultaneously crazy busy yet also strangely devoid of news or thoughts worth sharing.

As you read this, pretend you’re watching a video of me walking and talking in a scenic outdoor location somewhere.

We’re at T minus 6 months (yes, I’m watching the NASA Artemis feed right now), and it’s my pleasure to share with you the cover of my upcoming book, which—after some last-minute wrangling with the Gallery Books publishing office—will be titled Remonstered!

The Dungeon Masters’ Guild turned 10 years old this past month, and Teos Abadía and Shawn Merwin presented a retrospective in a couple of videos they released in December (1, 2).

Hello again, readers.

Sending out a quick note to let you know about an upcoming charity stream: This coming Saturday, Nov. 15, I’m hosting a Dungeons & Dragons game featuring Brian Gray (Rivals of Waterdeep), Jen Kretchmer (Players and Book, Children of Éarte, Heroes of the P…

You may find it hard to believe, but there’s no convention dedicated to tabletop roleplaying gaming, or even tabletop gaming in general, in Chicago.

My latest title, Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games, is just 29 days away from publication!

In another century, I studied photography.

One of the most enlightening things I’ve read on the topic of tabletop roleplaying games is an essay by Wolfgang Baur in The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, “How Real Is Your World?

Now that I’m done with my (cough) “speedrun” revising The Monsters Know What They’re Doing for 2025, I’m undertaking the long-overdue task of straightening up my desk, which includes dealing with an outrageous number of unfiled papers.

I ended up going radio silent for longer than I intended to, but I think my reason is a pretty good one: I’ve just finished my first draft of a revision of The Monsters Know What They’re Doing for the 2025 Monster Manual.

Last week, organizers announced on social media that Big Bad Con (an annual game convention held in Burlingame, Calif., in the fall) and Big Bad Online (a TTRPG-related panel discussion series streamed on Twitch in the spring) would not be held in 2025.