How to Create a Dungeon Adventure
How to Make Dungeons Dangerous, Mysterious, and Exciting Again The adventurers descend a narrow staircase beneath an abandoned fortress. The...
John Alan Martinson
John Alan Martinson has been playing tabletop role-playing games since the early 1990s, primarily as a Shadowrun Game Master. An independent author, game designer, and lifelong enthusiast of fantasy fiction, he spent years developing 👑Kingsmark and its original dice system, ⭐Jack's Cinematic d12 (JCd12) . His ambition was to create a heroic fantasy TTRPG featuring exciting tactical combat, meaningful character development, and realistic consequences without unnecessary mechanical complexity.
Why “I Attack” Isn’t Enough
Reinventing Cinematic Combat in Fantasy TTRPGs Imagine four adventurers defending the gatehouse of a medieval castle against twenty armed enemies....
Kingsmark is FREE?!
Yes, you can read the Kingsmark Player's Handbook for Free Kingsmark First Edition has arrived, and I am making an...
👑Kingsmark First Edition Has Arrived!
A New Heroic Fantasy TTRPG for Mature Players After years of development, 👑Kingsmark: Players Handbook First Edition has officially been...
From Dice to Directors: TTRPGs and A.I. Movie-Making
How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Tabletop Roleplaying into Interactive Movies For more than fifty years, tabletop roleplaying games have asked...
