Category: adventure
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#Dungeon23
#Dungeon23 is about making a megadungeon throughout 2023, one location per day. I’m joining in. Like photo-a-day, selfie-a-month, and landscape-painting-a-fortnight activities I’ve joined before, I expect this fad to last no more than a few days. But perhaps 2023 will be different? You see, last night I had an idea. An idea for an Electric…
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The Stone Bone Mound
Here is my entry to this year’s One Page Dungeon Contest. With a working title of “negative space dungeon”, it’s a solution to a thought experiment which came to me, as do all of the best ideas, while walking on the moors: what if I were to use all of the dungeon map, and not…
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Gespenwald, Cairn, and the NSR
Firstly, I have a new thing out. It’s called Gespenwald, comes in the form of a PDF (printable as a double-sided A4 trifold), and can be downloaded here. I will have printed copies available in a couple of months. It kicks off with a children’s rhyme: On Narren Night, my love and meWe met beside the…
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Look Mum, I’m on Kickstarter!
Who’s afraid of a toad? I have just launched my first ever Kickstarter project, Mostly Harnless Meetings. It’s a zine full of whimsical random encounters in the countryside, inspired by English flora, fauna and folklore. Here’s a an example: Oak: A circle of twisted, ancient oaks. The ground inside the circle, and the bottom…
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Ship of Theseus – part 1
Wolves of waterMight of blind force Living movement of sunlight Currents churning The reflecting edges of the shale Soft rains pierce hard marble Heat seeps through the silver There is only mixing and dissociation Nothing remains What is the life that I have chosen? The wave-shattered hull Theseus in the labyrinth Hunched in a cave of broken myths Ship of Theseus by Jute Gyte Dragged off…
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All 5s and 7s poetry dungeon
Here is my response to Patrick Stuart/False Machine’s challenge to write a poetry dungeon – in this case, more poetic than playable, and not very poetic at that – All 5s and 7s.