Phantasm Adventures Returns!

Over the weekend I made the decision to release my greatest role-playing game I have ever designed. It is the quintessential game of high fantasy with more than fifty-five player races, thirty factions, two hundred skills, a magical spell system unmatched in any game ever published. It also comes with the world of Monokon: a [...]

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Looking for Artists

After years of being out of the business, I have decided to pull from the archives all of my old role-playing games, adventures, and accessories and print them via pdf and lulu (www.lulu.com). Although I consider myself adept at writing instruction manuals, I have one flaw that has kept me from becoming the next printing [...]

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The Love of My Life

Often we forget about the most basic comforts in life. I was reminded of that yesterday, when I inadvertantly posted a few thoughtless comments about the only person in my life that truly matters. My best friend, my wife.
I am not a real gushy, smoochy person, but I do know when I have made a [...]

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New Old Friends

This year I spent some time looking up old friends.  People that I have not said hello to in more than twenty years, and for the most part I have been so insanely successful I cannot believe it.  Its so good to talk to the people of your youth and to see how their lives [...]

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New Year’s Goals

Ya know its not that far off and soon we’ll be scratching off 2008 on our checks and shaking our heads as we scribble 2009.  Just the other day I wrote 2005 on a check, then stopped and looked at it funny and thought to myself, ‘is it 2005?’
Doh!
Since we are nearing the end of [...]

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I have Returned to Everquest II

Gah!  I have been dragged back down into the infernal cesspool of MMO gaming — OK, it’s not that bad, but there for three months I had a life — I could read books — I could write stories — I knew what the sky looked liked and actually saw the stars, moon, and sun [...]

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Phantasm Adventures: Rules and Screen

First published in 1985 under my own publication house, later in 1987 and 1988 it was picked up by a Japanese publication company specializing in models, dioramas, and gaming.  The union of myself and the company last ten years with dozens of books and articles published on Phantasm Adventures, Multiverse, and other related subjects.

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Phantasm Adventures: Guide to Monokan

Phantasm Adventures: Guide to Monokan
In this huge companion book to Phantasm Adventures and Advanced Phantasm Adventures, we discover the lost world of Monokan. Detailed through the book is the major continent from which adventures untold, begin. More than ten thousand years of history are detailed, as well as the Almanac like descriptions [...]

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Phantasm Adventures: The Beginning

Phantasm Adventures: Lets roll back time to a more simple period where all role-playing games were played amongst friends and used paper, dice, and grid paper. The year was 1985, during the era of Reagan and “We Are The World“. It was a time when I could spend 12 hours a day, sitting in [...]

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Misty Island Adventure

Misty Island Adventure: Published in 1990 by Dai Nippon Kaiga for my Japanese fantasy role-playing games called Advanced Phantasm Adventures. The quest takes the group of adventurers to a series of islands to the south of Maldake. The islands are wrapped in a mystical force of power and mystery. Buried deep within the [...]

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