Launch: The Oracle is live today!
Today I'm officially launching The Oracle (Open Beta) 🎉 The Oracle is a new feature on herebetaverns.com that lets you generate your own original artwork using simple text prompts.
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How I play D&D with my kids
Playing tabletop RPGs with kids is a wonderful experience. But it's hard to know where to start or how to introduce them to games like Dungeons & Dragons. In this post, I share my approach.
Make your own magic academy. Midjourney visual style chart.
A unique academy of magic I created using the book Academies of the Arcane by Brian Yaksha. Consider it a book review of sorts. Art by the Midjourney art bot.
Narrative Lego: A GDC talk by Ken Levine
I've been actively researching some longstanding issues around narrative systems in game design. While exploring, I stumbled across this wonderful talk from GDC 2014 by Ken Levine on how to build Narrative Lego.
Death is but another chapter. Norrøngard. CSS Spritesheet Animations.
Regardless of your personal preferences, I think we can all agree on this point: The death of a player character is always interesting. This is what I want to explore.
Anniversary Sale for Here Be Taverns Premium (3 days only)
It's been one year since I launched Here Be Taverns Premium. Let's celebrate with a sale!
The Bestiary that took me 14 months to launch
It seems like another lifetime ago that I started on this project, but today I'm thrilled to announce that my first Mörk Borg bestiary has launched on DriveThruRPG!
What IS a dungeon? Gaming skills at the office. WaveFunctionCollapse.
In order to create a dungeon, one must first understand the dungeon.
The Land is the Monster. Vortex Isles. Buy ads to hone your message.
In this newsletter, I explore monsters that look like landmasses, highlight a swashbuckling 5e zine, and talk about paid ads.
Magic Item Apophenia. Trilemma's One Page Dungeons. Just asking people.
In today's newsletter, I use magic items from Night Owl Odysseys to improvise an adventure, gush about Trilemma's one-page dungeons, and share a user research win.