Paths to Adventure is the game publishing imprint of game designer, Justin Andrew Mason. This website functions as a game publisher website as well as a combined professional portfolio and personal blog, and creative project archive. If you want to keep up with Justin’s creative adventures or his work in the tabletop role-playing game industry, this is the place to do it!
- Pathfinder Quest Launches
The BackerKit campaign I designed for Paizo‘s Pathfinder Quest is now live for backers and funded after just a few minutes! Be sure to check it out here, and don’t miss out on the amazing BackerKit exclusive Deluxe edition of the game! - New Random Dungeon Map Generator
I’ve just released a new Random Dungeon Map Generator. The web app creates a random dungeon with a click. Entirely unique and generated on the fly. It has options to create Small Maps (4-6 rooms) for one-shots, Large Maps (7-12 Rooms), and X-Large maps (13-19… - Tavern Sign Crafter Updated
Version 3.0 of the Tavern Sign Crafter was released on 08/19/2025. This updated version has a dynamic interface, live preview, and an export (to PNG) option. It currently it still uses the same asset library that I created back in 2016, but I may get… - Widdershins Clock — Collaborative Poetic Storytelling Game
Widdershins Clock is a rules-lite collaborative poetic storytelling game for four to six players. To play, you’ll need a single six-sided die, something to write on and with, and optionally five “muse” tokens per player. About the Game — The goal of the game is… - Science Fiction VTT Map Value Bundles
Joining the best selling Fantasy Adventure value bundles, the long awaited Science Fiction value bundles are now available! Themed sets with a 25% discount off individual map pricing. Sci-fi cartography by Justin Andrew Mason. These have been marked as featured titles in the Paths to… - The Dungeon Challenge Begins
The Paths to Adventure Dungeon Challenge kicked off on August 11th, 2025 with the goal of creating a 100-room mega-dungeon adventure by designing one room every weekday. Over the years, I’ve seen variations of the challenge circulating through the gaming community. With the relaunch of… - New Paths to Adventure Website Launches
As the sun sets on our intrepid knight, and the old logo is retired, I’d like to welcome you to the new (and much improved) PTA website! The previous blog site was created back in 2013 when the imprint was founded using Google’s Blogspot platform…. - Mini-Dungeon: A Decade of Adventure
I’ve written a short history of the Mini-Dungeon series (AAW Games), its roots delving back to the seminal era of tabletop roleplaying games, and how a simple idea spawned over decade of adventure, two hardcover books, multiple cross-promotion releases, an old-school zine, and over 300… - Into the Wintery Gale: A Retrospective
It has been a decade since I wrote the adventures series for AAW Games, and I felt it deserved a retrospective glance. Starting with the hardcover book, Wrath of the Jötunn, the Into the Wintery Gale series would be my first major project as a… - Two Major Projects Featured in Forbes
I’m excited to see that two of my major projects are both listed in the top five recommendations of the 2024 Forbes gift guide published by Forbes Media. Both Mini-Dungeon Tome I and Mini-Dungeon Tome II (AAW Games) are recommended must have holiday gifts for… - Libram of Lost Spells Funds
The Kickstarter campaign I designed for The Libram of Lost Spells (TPK Games) has funded! The project closed with $66,040 USD funded by 1,022 backers. Be sure to check out this vast hardcover tome filled with lost spells and more from earlier editions of D&D,… - Now in Your Local Library via Hoopla
D&D 5th Edition comes to the library system! Proud to announce the top AAW Games titles in ebook format are now available to most library systems via the Hoopla digital web and mobile apps in the United States, Australia/New Zealand, and other English-speaking countries. Be… - Featured in Game Trade Magazine
The Mini-Dungeon Tome II (AAW Games) is featured in the April Issue #290 of Game Trade Magazine detailing its over 110 adventures and special Limited Edition print. It’s always a neat feeling to unexpectedly find your projects in media publications.
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- Widdershins Clock — Collaborative Poetic Storytelling Game
Widdershins Clock is a rules-lite collaborative poetic storytelling game for four to six players. To play, you’ll need a single six-sided die, something to write on and with, and optionally five “muse” tokens per player. About the Game — The goal of the game is for the players to collaboratively compose a poem that tells… - Building A Custom Soundboard (Brainstorming)
So, one of the ideas I’ve been mulling around has been creating a custom sound board. This means creating a lot of sound effects from scratch and building a library that can be indexed logically for quick reference. Especially on the fly, during a game session. I’m creating this journal entry as sort of a… - Machine Mods & Customization
My love for retro 80s and 90s 8-bit video games is a big part of my nostalgic vibe. From collecting old games and consoles, to video game history preservation, to pixel art and chiptune music. I’ve only started to dabble into modding machines, but its a crafty venue I plan on spending more of my… - Green Knight’s Helm
The Green Knight’s helm is a mod project I undertook awhile back while paying homage to a childhood adventure. An unwitting quest that went awry, and then concluded nearly two decades later by the conversion of universal oddities. For this project to come about, some really strange temporal twists were traveled both by me, and… - Starfinder Space Goblin
In spacez, no wun can hear yoo singsong¿ When Starfinder (Paizo) released, I went all in. I think I have everything published in the first two years, as well as packaged miniatures that were never released, the auctioned rule book with all the design team signatures, special edition dice… and then could never find a… - Painting TTRPG Miniatures
I’ll be the first to admit that my talents do not currently reside in the arena of miniature painting. Despite my lack in skill and experience, I still quite enjoy the process. I find it an amazing stress reliever and distraction when I need to “touch grass” but don’t actually want to. The level of… - Music & Sound Effects for Your Campaign
I just developed and pushed into live production a massive library of audio effects and ambient music that streams directly through a convenient categorized soundboard for AAW Games subscribers. The audio catalog include the hundreds of audio assets published by the company including all the adventure soundtracks. Anyone with a subscription based service to their… - Gary Gygax Documentary Available Now
The Gary Gygax documentary for which I was a producer and content creator for, “The Dreams in Gary’s Basement” (Dorks of Yore; Directed by Pat Kilbane), is now available on Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and via digital streaming at rpghistory.net. The documentary was selected for Beloit International Film Festival 2025 and was the Gen Con Film… - Mini-Dungeon Tome II for Pathfinder 2E Funds
The Kickstarter campaign I designed for Mini-Dungeon Tome II for Pathfinder 2E (AAW Games) has funded! The project closed with $29,229 USD funded by 517 backers. I contributed dozens of maps and authored adventures for this tome consisting of more than 120 one-shot adventures. Check out this fantastic hardcover book filled with adventures designed to… - Mediterranean Monsters Funds
The Kickstarter campaign I designed for Mediterranean Monsters & Mythology (Legendary Games) has funded! The project closed with $69,276 USD funded by 1,195 backers. This amazing book brings to life more than 120 incredible creatures drawn from the myths and legends from around the Mediterranean Sea. - Rultmoork Box Set Released
This was my first opportunity to design a box cover for a tabletop roleplaying book set, and I was given creative freedom to “make it pop“. Since the printer had the capability of printing the interior as well, I went ahead and designed a full wrap to try and capture the essence of the Rulemoork… - Gaming Memory—The Hobby Shop
(This article, written in 2016, was migrated from the original Paths to Adventure Website) Sweltering summer radiated from the sun overhead. There was not a cloud in sight and the heat wavered and undulated against spongy asphalt through the obscenest humidity. It was high noon during mid-summer in southwestern Kentucky. The constant rhythmic gusts of… - Gaming Memory—A New Kind of Adventure
(This article, written in 2016, was migrated from the original Paths to Adventure Website) My Introduction to Tabletop RPG Gaming & My First Player Characters It was the frigid winter of 1991, I was eleven years old, and attending Christian County Middle School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Among the small niche of new friends I had…