Writing Samples
GAME WRITING: CINEMATIC SCENE SAMPLES
The Blade of Bleakwood - a fantasy cinematic in which a party of adventurers arrive at a rural pub and learn of a new quest that may link to their previous adventures. Written in the style of Fable 2.
The Eternal Temple - a fantasy cinematic in which our protagonist wakes up having made a devil’s bargain to live forever… kind of. Set in Sundered Veil, my own game world, where long lost gods are starting to return and their presence is changing the status quo.
COMEDY WRITING: SKETCH SAMPLES
Priests Sketch - a two hander sketch about atheism from the perspective of the clergy.
Codepuncher - a period sketch, set in MI5 in the 1940s, written for a live sketch show called Ladies & Gentlemen at the Fringe.
GRUNT! - a commercial parody, loosely in the style of SNL.
Dungeons & Democracy - a sketch written for the Quibi show (I know, right?) Hello America with Nish Kumar to illustrate the gulf between the ease of casting an electoral vote in the UK and the extreme obstacles faced by Americans in the same situation.
GAME WRITING: BARKS SAMPLES
Sci Fi Combat Barks: Raiders - A selection of combat barks for combat in a sci-fi adventure game.
Shopkeeper Chatter - A selection of chatter for fantasy shopkeepers triggered by player interactions
GAME WRITING: WORLDBUILDING
The Night Knights - Originally a D&D setting, the Night Knights is a game outline that sees the player explore a cursed, magical city that’s being plagued by walking Nightmares. COMING SOON.
The cover of MCDM’s Where Evil Lives - click here to open a sample PDF of “Eight City Advocacy Services”.
One of Frostholme’s Raccoons dashing through the snow to help a fallen comrade.
GAME WRITING: TTRPG SAMPLES
WHERE EVIL LIVES, MCDM PRODUCTIONS
Flee Mortals and Where Evil Lives are a pair of TTRPG sourcebooks published by MCDM as compatible supplements for Dungeons & Dragons 5e.
While Flee Mortals improves upon The Monster Manual with an array of new rules for existing antagonists and new creatures, it also includes more “Boss Monsters” - Where Evil Lives is a book dedicated to “boss battles”, with fifteen adventures set inside the lairs of powerful, evil villains and unique monsters that populate those lairs.
I was commisioned by MCDM’s lead designer, James Introcaso, to write an adventure for 13th-Level Characters to showcase MCDM’s infernal devil monsters and their lead devil character - Chancellor Lazivos.
I created Eight City Advocacy Services; an infernal law-firm, based in an extra-dimensional pocket reality and serving clients from all over the timescape - while also acting as a front for a nefarious intelligence gathering agency.
Presented here are the first few pages of the advenure - in case you don’t have access to MCDM’s excellent products.
More of this content can be shared on request.
FROSTHOLME, SELF PUBLISHED
Frostholme is a mini-RPG written and designed by me. Frostholme is set in a world of permanent winter, where cute little anthropomorphic animals traverse an endless forest that’s riddled with obstacles and horrors.
The system is intentionally simplistic, built on assembling handfuls of six-sided dice -the sort of thing that non-roleplayers can pick up pretty fast.
The setting is a mash up of very cute Christmas iconography and horror tropes - I enjoy exploring juxtaposed themes in much of my work. In particular, I enjoy finding humour in conventionally humourless senarios.
Here’s the most recent version of the Frostholme game system with excellent artwork by Ben Hollands.