Writing
Speculative Fiction
I recently began writing speculative fiction, and my flash fiction/short story, “High Water,” is published in New Edge Sword & Sorcery (no. 3, Summer 2024).
Game Design
As a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) designer and writer, I specialize in religion, esotericism, and mythography in world-building and storytelling. I have written over twenty-five years’ experience writing professionally for game publishers. My most recent work has been for Ulisses Spiele and Helmgast AB, but I have also written for TSR, White Wolf Game Studio, Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), and West End Games.
Religion & World Building
Representation of the numinous — the sacred, the holy, however you name it — and its role in culture can play an important role in fantasy and speculative fiction, and I draw on historical belief systems and practices in my writing and design. I have been featured on a podcast and I was a panelist in one livestream discussing these issues:
- Panel, “Religion in science-fiction,”Fading Suns Heretical Musings (April 12, 2020)
- Interview, “Religion in Mage,”Mage: the Podcast (November 9, 2019)
Publication Highlights
- “High Water,” New Edge Sword & Sorcery (Summer 2024), no. 3.
- “Et in Arcadia Ego,” revised edition for KULT: Divinity Lost (Helmgast AB, 2021).
- Performed as an Actual Play (podcast playthrough) by Red Moon Roleplaying (2021–2022).
- Performed in Italian as an Actual Play (podcast playthrough) by Reveries Collective Roleplaying (2024)
- Fading Suns (Ulisses Spiele, 4th ed.), various contributions:
- approximately half of the “patron saints” in the Character Book (2021)
- Ur-Obun species material in the Character Book (2021)
- other material is forthcoming
- “In a Sacred Manner: Ur-Obun,” for Fading Suns, Children of the Gods: Obun and Ukar (Holistic Design, 1998)
- “Pentateuch,” in Weird Places, for Fading Suns (Holistic Design, 1997)
- World of Darkness: Sorcerer (White Wolf, 1997)
- “Subtle and Quick to Anger: Eskatonic Order,” for Fading Suns, Priests of the Celestial Sun (Holistic Design, 1997)
- “Den of Vipers: House Decados,” for Fading Suns, Lords of the Known Worlds (Holistic Design, 1997)
- Celestial Chorus Tradition Book, for Mage: the Ascension (White Wolf, 1996)
- Halls of the Arcanum, for Mage: the Ascension (White Wolf, 1995)
- “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull,” for Indiana Jones and the Golden Vampires (West End Games, 1995) [no relation to the 2008 film]
- “On Wings of Eagles,” Dragon #233 (TSR, 1995)
- The Inquisition, for Vampire: the Masquerade (White Wolf, 1994)
- “Et in Arcadia Ego,” for Kult (Pyramid, May 1994, no. 7)
References and a complete list of publications are available upon request.