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  • Serious Fun: Disaster Prep and RPGs

    Today, I got the opportunity to apply my role-playing skills at work. By day, I’m a newly-minted member of my employer’s Emergency Operations Committee (EOC). As part of my orientation to the committee, other committee members and I “played” a tabletop disaster simulation, practicing the skills that we’ll need in case a real emergency occurs.…

  • Game on!

    Yep, since I last wrote on this blog, I playtested a bunch of puzzles, did a bunch of improv, asked a bunch of gamers about their frustrations, and ultimately… designed my own prototype RPG at Dundracon 2024! I’m very excited about it, since I think it combines the narrative freedom of D&D with the mechanical…

  • Cipher Puzzles, Part 2

    Cipher Puzzles, Part 2

    “These hieroglyphics have evidently a meaning. If it is a purely arbitrary one it may be impossible for us to solve it. If, on the other hand, it is systematic, I have no doubt that we shall get to the bottom of it.” Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Dancing Men, written by Sir…

  • Welcome to Riddle & Rook!

    Welcome to Riddle & Rook!

    Welcome to Riddle & Rook! I’ve created this website to share my love of adventure and mystery storytelling through puzzles and tabletop role-playing games (RPGs). I want to use it to share puzzles that I’ve created that can be easily incorporated by other RPG game masters (GMs) into their games. I also plan to use…