Ramblings

  • Show Your Work!

    Show Your Work!

    It’s not enough to show parts of the whole, you need to show the thoughts behind the bits!

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  • Kickstarter Postmortem

    Kickstarter Postmortem

    How did the campaign go? What went well and what could have gone better? And what was the looming shadow over the entire month?

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  • My Game Design Talk

    My Game Design Talk

    Con Nooga was naive enough to let me give a talk on game design this year. Those fools! Those rubes. Like I’ve actually learned anything over the past 6 years!

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  • Two Weeks!

    Two Weeks!

    Really, less than two weeks but I didn’t want to post an update on a weekend, ha! Currently we’re over the $3k hump which means just $1,200 more to go. Then we’ll be gold and ready to start the big work! Chaotic has been in the trenches editing and Andrew has been ready to start…

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  • Derry Lobster

    Derry Lobster

    One of my favorite things to do is come up with new and weird cryptids for my one-shots. Using the 10 question prompts it often times feels like cheating. For instance, a group set their game in Atlanta and decided that there were sentient peaches that ceaselessly rolled around 285.  With that kind of detail…

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  • Making A Cryptid

    Making A Cryptid

    One of our goals with The Crypt Has Opened is not simply rehash every well known cryptid. We’re all very familiar with Big Foot, the chupacabra, and more. While those will be included, we still wanted to add a little twist to them, to add a little Crypt stamp on each. 

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  • The Crypt Has Opened! On Kickstarter

    The Crypt Has Opened is now on Kickstarter. With your pledge you will help us bring this wonderfully crafted and horror filled book to print.

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  • It Started With Dice

    It Started With Dice

    In the winter months of 2020, as the world was on the verge of changing in ways we could never have imagined, I sat at my coffee table and rolled 3d6 over and over. I just wanted to know how it felt. Not the rolling itself, but how the resolution mechanic rattling around in my…

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  • Campy Horror

    Campy Horror

    It has been my experience over the years of play testing The Crypt Has Opened that those players that approached a scene with sincerity brought out the most in their characters but in the game for everyone.

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  • Night of the Open Grave

    Night of the Open Grave

    My ghouls and fiends, we are fast approaching the opening of the Crypt doors. That’s right, the Night of the Open Grave will be upon us this February 3rd, 2026.  Thank you so much for those that have followed the campaign. Your support sends shivers down our spines. This game has been in development for…

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  • Town Building

    Town Building

    Town building was late in the game, one of the last parts to be play tested, and it was the perfect way to cap off the game.

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