Welcome to my journal. Unlike the game design blog which is the core purpose of this website, posts here are more akin to free-form thoughts.
Much of what is posted here may be related to game design in some way, or my experiences, or just random notes or thoughts about my works in progress, but some may simply be an expression of identity.
Here you will find articles that are probably more “personal” than “professional” in tone and subject matter. In essence, this journal’s purpose is to function much like my original Paths to Adventure blog.
Brainstorming & Sketching
- 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…
Prose & Longform Journal Entries
- 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… - 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…