Yes, I’m a nerd and I play Dungeons & Dragons. I’ve played for around sixteen years, and DMed one RPG or another for the past decade. Now, in addition to writing stories, poetry, novels, and the like, I also write a great deal of D&D content.
What is Dungeons & Dragons?
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a fantasy table-top role-playing game (TTRPG), which is something between a board game, a video game, and a structured improv or choose-your-own-adventure scenario. One player, called the Dungeon Master (DM), serves as the narrator and referee. The DM creates a story in which the protagonists are created by the other players. These player-characters (PCs) have a great deal of autonomy and can choose how they go about interacting with various people, locations, and monsters in the world that the DM creates.
D&D can be whatever you want it to be. A DM can create their own world from scratch or use a preexisting world in which they set an adventure, or even run adventures written and published by the Wizards of the Coast (WotC), the official D&D publishers, or published by a 3rd party writer. Players can work with their DM to create a game that perfectly suits their desires. Want to run a highly combat-focused game where your heroes hack and slash through hordes of enemies? What about a highly political game full of intrigue, shady dealings, and skullduggery? Want to run a band of criminals running a heist to steal a mage’s powerful artifacts, or adventurers seeking glory and the head of an ancient dragon? You can trek across icy tundras or scorching deserts, through lush jungles or deep caverns, into long-lost dungeons or metropolitan cities. You can explore classic medieval-European-themed kingdoms, climb towering Steampunk skyscrapers, or even play games in ancient low-tech city-states. D&D is a game that is truly limited only by the scope of your imagination.
D&D can be whatever you want it to be. A DM can create their own world from scratch or use a preexisting world in which they set an adventure, or even run adventures written and published by the Wizards of the Coast (WotC), the official D&D publishers, or published by a 3rd party writer. Players can work with their DM to create a game that perfectly suits their desires. Want to run a highly combat-focused game where your heroes hack and slash through hordes of enemies? What about a highly political game full of intrigue, shady dealings, and skullduggery? Want to run a band of criminals running a heist to steal a mage’s powerful artifacts, or adventurers seeking glory and the head of an ancient dragon? You can trek across icy tundras or scorching deserts, through lush jungles or deep caverns, into long-lost dungeons or metropolitan cities. You can explore classic medieval-European-themed kingdoms, climb towering Steampunk skyscrapers, or even play games in ancient low-tech city-states. D&D is a game that is truly limited only by the scope of your imagination.
The Kaleidosphere
I’ve developed a multiverse in which my D&D campaigns take place. The Kaleidosphere encapsulates all D&D games that I run; although my games will take place in different universes, they exist in the same multiverse, and thus there are a few Easter eggs that crop up in my various campaigns. Some of my Kaleidosphere campaigns will take place in official D&D settings such as the Forgotten Realms or Eberron, but others will be set in homebrew campaign worlds.
My current D&D campaign, Dracula’s Banquet (recordings forthcoming!), is a Halloween-themed mini-campaign set in a demiplane ruled by Dracula, the First Vampire.
My current D&D campaign, Dracula’s Banquet (recordings forthcoming!), is a Halloween-themed mini-campaign set in a demiplane ruled by Dracula, the First Vampire.
Publications
Thus far, I have published two supplementary documents on the DMs Guild, an online marketplace where 3rd-party creators like me can publish their own ideas to be used by other D&D players! You can check out my publications here:
- The Ghost: An All-New Class, a free PDF featuring a new class, the Ghost. Multiclass into the Ghost after your PC dies to keep adventuring as the same character!
- Strahd’s Manual of Shadow, a 200+ page supplement that offers all the horror and Halloween content you could ask for! 5 new races, 6 new CLASSES, and a myriad of new feats, items, spells, and monsters… including the dread Vampyrilich.
Here are my titles that are currently in progress or coming soon.
