I’m excited to share that my tabletop gaming books are now available on Amazon!

About My Work

I specialize in creating old-school gaming materials that celebrate and preserve the history of tabletop roleplaying and miniature wargaming. My work focuses on authentic recreations and clones of early gaming systems from the 1970s.

My published titles include:

• Dragons Beyond - A faithful clone of the 1973 draft rules for Original D&D
• Men in Metal - A clone of the original Wargames Research Group (WRG) v1 & v2 medieval miniatures rules
• Midwest Fantasy Wargame: The Primeval RPG - A recreation of the Twin Cities gaming style from 1972
• The Mage’s Companion and other supplements for old-school gaming

Find My Books on Amazon

You can browse all my published works on my Amazon Author Page.

Similar to 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, I would like to take a few moments to reflect on the books that I have read. However, this year was devoted to personal losses, and rediscovering an old hobby in a new form. Here are the titles I read / took notes on during 2022. My final count was 24, down from 2021 when I completed 29.

AudioBooks / Lectures on YouTube
Frank Harris — The Magic Glasses
Robert E. Howard — Kull: The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
Robert E. Howard — Kull of Atlantis, The Conqueror: The Shadow Kingdom
J.M. Barrie — Peter Pan

Similar to 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, I would like to take a few moments to reflect on my effort to continue my education. Here are the titles I read / took notes on during 2021. My final count was 29, down from 2020 when I completed 31.

AudioBooks / Lectures on YouTube
Charles Bukowski — Post Office
Charles Bukowski — Hollywood
Charles Bukowski — Ham on Rye
Dan Peña — Your First 100 Million

Similar to 2017, 2018, and 2019, I would like to take a few moments to reflect on my effort to continue my education. Here are the titles I read / took notes on during 2020. This does not count the many of the presentations, webinars, and documentaries consumed as part of my daily work. My final count was 31, down from 2019 when I completed 42; however, I did also read 59 Kindle samples and I’ve skimmed or read in detail another 64 items off DriveThruRPG. By way of comparison, in 2018 I completed 28 titles and in 2017 I completed 29. There is a thing as too much reading and I think I reached my saturation point this year.

Similar to 2017 and 2018, I would like to take a few moments to reflect on my effort to continue my education. Here are the titles I read / took notes on during 2019. This does not count the many of the presentations, webinars, and documentaries consumed as part of my daily work, though I am counting the many lectures of Dr. Alan Watts and Terrence McKenna as at least two audiobooks. My final count was 42, which is more than 2018 when I completed 28 titles and 2017 when I completed 29. The audio books really helped boost my total.

Last year I posted an article summarizing the number of books I consumed across various media. I set a goal to read one book a week in 2018. This did not happen for a variety of reasons including having the most profitable year of my career. I did manage to knock out 28 books (counting Han Solo at Stars’ End / Han Solo’s Revenge / Han Solo and the Lost Legacy as three books instead of one volume). I also have 4 books in progress which I mention here as I have made a substantial dent in all of them. Overall, that puts my page count at around 30 books. The average number of books consumed by Americans is 12 according to Pew Research. I’d love to know if anyone has read any of these books and how many books you read this year. Leave your comments below.

Just reflecting on my effort to continue my education, here are the 29 titles I read / took notes on during 2017. This does not count the numerous presentations, webinars, and documentaries consumed. My reading plan for 2018 is ambitious — 1 book / week. Let’s see how that goes. Sometimes slower is better.

AudioBooks on YouTube
Michael Moorcock — Elric, Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Jon Ronson — The Men Who Stare at Goats
Neal Stephenson — Snow Crash
Seneca — On the Shortness of Life