Working on this gave me a boost of confidence in what I can achieve and led directly to me working on Veiled City. Thanks to everyone at @montecookgames.com for giving me the opportunity to be involved and extra special thanks to @jasonrobinson.net for his patience.
I hope the fans love it!
If there is anything you love about the app, it's probably Jason's work. Anything you hate about it is probably my fault 😆 But let us know if you try it out and find issues. We'll be happy to tackle fixing them.
I believe the initial release has begun fulfilling to backers today. It's been a wild ride and I would be lying to say at times it didn't stress me out. But this was easily the biggest project I've EVER worked on. The most collaborative in years too. I'm so used to working alone. It rocked.
This new app is truly offline capable. It has notes tools inside the app, something a lot of people asked for. It has a light mode in addition to the default dark mode for those who prefer light on dark text. I've tried my damnedest to build a product worthy of Monte's game design work.
Jason and I have worked together for months, him designing a fantastic user experience and me doing my best to implement his vision in a toolset that would be a exponential leap forward over the first app I helped MCG with, The Darkest House. Thanks to Jason's talent, I think we achieved that.
I started work learning the skills I needed to build the Darkest Woods app for @montecookgames.com in January of 2025. I spent many days and nights studying the tooling I wanted to use. Mid year, MCG brought on @jasonrobinson.net from Fablecloth Design to help as a UX/UI designer.
Alpha Dean is a pillar of Cypher Unlimited and his new project is so close to being fully funded.
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Built for "Megadungeon Month", VAULT OF THE SEVEN is a mythic dungeoncrawl for MCG's Cypher. Players seek seven children with divine sparks inside a shifting catacomb
Personally, I love projects like this even though I probably won't ever run the complete package. It's chock-full of IDEAS and pieces that can accelerate my own half-baked adventures! And mini-bestiaries just add to the value of megadungeon-as-toolkit.
A new megadungeon by Monte Cook, playable as a fantasy dungeoncrawl or a weird isolated scifi location to explore!
That my mental health even partially survives this administration is an absolute testament to the power of mental health medicine.
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The worst part about feeling like the world is gonna end is that you have to keep working through it on the off chance that it doesn't.
Cover art for The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu. Has a blurb from Max Gladstone "A work of crystalline vision and meticulous humanity"
Spend a little time with my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Available today!
Bugs in the physics! Status reports in the form of food! Finding a family!
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Hey cool let's see what's up on BSKY--
*reads thread that reignites the terror of nuclear war from my 80s childhood*
Well screw it, if these are my last days on Earth I ain't spending them on social media
getting older on the internet is mostly watching new strangers make the same mistakes you've seen time and time again. they called it the Eternal September in the early usenet days
Artemis II, this is your chance.
You can save us all.
You can end millenia of oppression.
You can, and you must,
Kill the Moon.
This needs an RPG
Spoken like a man who has never been to Reno
Someone misheard Funko Pops as Fungal Pops at tonight's craft night and I now I have a new theory as to the origins of these soulless, dead-eyed dolls.
What is the path to sustainability for a website like Bluesky that doesn't involve enshitification? Weirdly, it seems like the more friendly social media sites are to users, the harder it is them to function as a sustainable business. (Yes, I know, overthrow capitalism, but in the meanwhile?)
To the right, 4 retro-future figures stand on a ledge part way up a huge, ornate brown building. They gaze upon a vast, multi-level futuristic Paris mostly coloured in shades of blue, with the Eiffel Tower below them dwarfed by vast structures.
The awesome “Paris of the Future”, by the great Moebius, 2000.
The aliens are winning. You better sign up and join one of the other factions if you want Earth to stay human-owned!
Panhandle Texans are a special kind of asshole, I guess. But yeah, probably more Texan and Not-Texan than anything else.
They didn't even know my politics. I was just Not Southerner.
The north vs. south animosity never went away in my experience. I'm from fucking KANSAS and people in Texas called me Yankee.
I reward the players for writing log which gives me notes and also gives me insight into what landed.
Science News from research organizations Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing - Colonies surged 15-fold A lab-made diet supercharged bee colonies and could help save our food supply. Date: March 27, 2026 Source: University of Oxford Summary: Scientists have developed a breakthrough "superfood" for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled tri-als, colonies fed this specially designed diet produced up to 15 times more young, showing a dramatic boost in reproduction and overall health. As climate change and modern agriculture reduce the availability of natural pollen, this innovation could offer a practical way to support struggling bee populations.
Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎
I gotta go with the William Gibson episode
