New! South Korean SF author Djuna's Not Yet Gods in a new English translation by Jihyun Park and me, published by Kaya Press. Click here to visit the Kaya webpage for the book and order it from the publisher, or get it on Amazon (in the US) or at Aladin (in Korea)!
New! Further Strangeness: Twelve New Knights, Seers, and Myths for Mythic Bastionland is an unofficial and unlicensed supplement for Chris McDowall's wonderful new game, and my entry for the Mythic Bastionland Game Jam. Available for free over on my itch.io webpage.
New! Circe's Grin is a system-agnostic old-school RPG adventure, and my entry for the Appx. N 2025 game jam. Available for free (for now) on my itch.io webpage.
New from Knight Owl Publishing: Isle of Joy is a harrowing old-school adventure on a mysterious island full of secrets and stories. Order a copy on Knight Owl's website.
Something Tookish! is a Brindlewood Bay RPG hack for those who want to solve mundane, cozy mysteries in a halfling village. With art by Justin Howe! Get your copy on itch.io!
Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.
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My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available over at DriveThru RPG.
My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.
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Are you finished grading yet?
I’m still wading through a stack of essays that leave me shaking my head.
I hope we can all finish up quickly and move on to other things.
This school food punishment music is perfect soundtrack for the “essay” I’m grading right now. This kind of thing:
“Cell phone has affected 21C global society. And impacts of cell phone will exist longtime. Cell phone has many advantages. Also it has disadvantages.”
I’m half done now.
(EDIT: Wait, that’s an overstatement. I’ve given feedback to two of four classes, not including the work that’s late for the second of those two classes. (Two essays.) I have grading to do for the two remaining classes, which is about 20 essays and about 15 creative writing pieces. So actually, I’m far from halfway done. But the Pop Culture essays at least won’t require fine comments, it’s all about ideas, and the Creative Writing work… well, I think I can get about 5 a day done and keep my mind clear. Some will require much less work — students who didn’t request an SASE don’t want any written feedback, which is a time savings for me.)
That advantages/disadvantages thing… I must remember to add a note about how this is the dumbest, dumbest thing ever taught in high school composition. I’m working on a “how to make an argument/articulate an idea/constructure a presentation/write an essay” booklet for students. Might help stem the tide.
Though maybe I should just try find a publisher for it? Hmmmm.
By the way, “longtime” is what could push that sample into the realm of comic genius. I wish I had the time and patience to write a blog in that style, but luckily other people have gone to the trouble for us… in K-government-ese, no less!
http://www.koreaisbest.com/
Oh, by the way, “The Load is Over” is my quirky attempt at a broken English rendering of “I’m Overloaded.”