“Aubrey Beardsley” published in Slips Slips #1: “Dispatches”

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Timothy McCown Reynolds

At the ***slips slips*** launch party
for issue #1 : “Dispatches”

My poem “Aubrey Beardsley” is now published in “Dispatches”, issue #1 of slips slips! “What IS slips slips,?”, you may ask yourself.

slips slips is a new print-only literary magazine published by Hope Cartelli, Kristen Leigh, and Jeff Lewonczyk.

From the website:

“slips slips is a new print-only art and literary publication that aspires to build a community of voices on paper. The first issue will be published in spring 2025 in a broadsheet format that takes inspiration from the stacked cacophony of 19th-century newspapers, with items laid out in columns across multiple pages that mimic the experience of browsing through an entire world at once.”

Jeff and Hope are dear friends and creative Godlings with whom I have had the pleasure of collaborating many times over the past 17 years or so, including but not limited to working with their legendary theatre company Piper McKenzie, participating in The Paper House on Governor’s Island, and lounging around in graveyards making Art via our own creative collaborative lark, Cemetery Sketch Club.

Anything they touch is GOLD.

Get a Copy of slips slips!

Selling your Soul to a Dragon for Fun & Profit

Posted on May 26, 2025 by Timothy McCown Reynolds

Just submitted ***Warlock: Dragon Patron***
for publication on DriveThru RPG

Tonight is my last night in New York State for almost a month. Tomorrow morning, I drive to the airport, put the car in the long term economy lot, and fly, fly, fly to Philly, Dallas. Flagstaff, Arizona, a place I have never been to before.

I finished up the artwork for my next publication, Warlock: Dragon Patron (see the cover, above), and uploaded my files to DriveThru RPG, where it will be published via my publishing hub, Midnight Moth Publications, and be available for download later this week. This is the third title in 27 days I have submitted (along with the currently available The Adventurous Vampire, and the soon-to-be-available The Greenling Player’s Guide), and with this submission, I think I can safely say that I am starting to find flow with this process, which is satisfying.

Gatekeeping with respect to creativity – that is, having to get someone else’s permission to make something, is one of the principal impediments to art-making in the adult world. Being able to make and put out my own work from top to bottom – to design, write, illustrate, copy edit, desktop publish, and promote- is immensely empowering and rewarding, especially as up until April 30th, I hadn’t done it before.

Here’s to new ambitions, new challenges, new experiences, and new horizons.

So I will it, So Mote It Be, So it is.

Om shanti.

Making Green

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Timothy McCown Reynolds

I finished up The Greenling Player’s Guide and submitted it to DriveThruRPG for approval to publish as a PDF on their platform via my publishing hub, Midnight Moth Publications.

My desktop publishing setup, featuring ***The Greenling Player’s Guide***, and a hot mug of green herbal infusion to aid me in my efforts.

The PDF should be available for purchase and download on Monday or Tuesday.

60th Solar Return

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Timothy McCown Reynolds

PUNKIN PIE!
Photo by Timothy McCown Reynolds (c) 2025

Today is my birthday, my solar return, and I am 60 years old. It is also my Chinese lunar return – 12 cycles of 5 elements from Wood Serpent to Wood Serpent.

Today is cold (but warmer than yesterday), windy, partly sunny, and generally overcast. Today I was awakened with love, gentle warmth, kind words, and gifts given by the cherished one who knows how to give to me. Today I am loved and I can feel it.

We ate the pumpkin pie we baked last night this morning with our hot coffee. After which we traveled to Bones, where I received a haircut from a dragon named Mike, while Tim the Enchanter wielded arcane fire as Monty Python and the Holy Grail played in the background.

Now: writing and reflection. Later: divination and delectation.

The Hanged Man in Retrograde Mercury

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Timothy McCown Reynolds

I am waiting on the Dungeons & Dragons 2024/2025 rules update to be released by Wizards of the Coast into Creative Commons, so that I am able to legally publish my 3rd party creations for 5th edition D&D. WOTC announced they would release the material in “early 2025”, “weeks after” the release of the updated MONSTER MANUAL, which came out in mid-February, following the 2024 releases of the updated PLAYER’S HANDBOOK and the updated DUNGEON MASTER’S GUIDE. To date, there has been no release of the 2024/2025 rules update into Creative Commons, and, as of this writing, no indication as to when specifically the material will be available there. It could happen tomorrow, or in a month, or in two months, or ..?

Consequently, the previously announced publication date of March 30th, 2025 for THE ADVENTUROUS VAMPIRE is no longer viable and its release is now TBD.

My response to the delay is to use the time by creating more: the more material of my own I have at the ready, the more I can publish when the updated material is made available in Creative Commons.

Thus:

• I am at work on the art and editing for THE ADVENTUROUS FOOL.

• I have updated the text and am working on the art for the GREENLING Species.

• I am at work on developing THE ADVENTUROUS RUDESBY, which includes an update to 5th edition of a class I developed (but never released) during the controversial and turbulent days of 4th edition D&D, originally called the Vulgarian.

Saturn, Neptune, Mercury, Venus in Pisces. Photo by Timothy McCown Reynolds (c) 2025

The Ides of March

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Timothy McCown Reynolds

March 15th, 2025 (Image: screenshot of Julius Caesar text)

“Beware the ides of March.” The day, 1,983 years ago, that Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times in the Roman Senate, dying of his wounds, assassinated for being a tyrant. I saw a production of Shakespeare’s play, JULIUS CAESAR, wherein Caesar was styled and portrayed to resemble and behave like Donald J. Trump.

May the soothsayers say sooth again.

From *THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR* by William Shakespeare

Midnight Moth Publications

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Timothy McCown Reynolds

I work as a 3rd Party creator making material for tabletop roleplaying games. Over the past 6 years, I’ve written adventures (The Fury of Naathrun Delda for the EAT THE RICH ANTHOLOGY; The Island of the People-Eaters for IN ARIXMETHES CLUTCHES VOLUME III) and created original artwork and cartography (for EAT THE RICH: HEALTH AND BEAUTY; EAT THE RICH: REVOLUTION!; BLOOD OF THE TITANS – THE PATH OF REVELRY; BLOOD OF THE TITANS – THE THUNDERFIST ; BLOOD OF THE TITANS – PATIENCE, PRIDE, POWER), all of which are published on DriveThru RPG and the DMs Guild in collections wherein I am but one of many creative collaborators involved. These ventures have been creatively rewarding but quite limited in remunerative value, as being one of many collaborators on such a project entails its net sales being divided into a percentage share that decreases with each contributing collaborator. Consequently, the dribs and drabs I receive scarcely warrant mention at tax time, and currently pose no threat of my earning a living from such.

This week I decided to form my own publishing venture via DriveThru RPG, called Midnight Moth Publications, so as to more directly facilitate the publication of my own creative work.

My first publication will be THE ADVENTUROUS VAMPIRE (presenting a complete player character class for 5E D&D, including 5 subclasses, multiclassing rules, and over 30 new magic items), currently scheduled for March 30th, 2025.

Subsequent planned publications include THE ADVENTUROUS FOOL (a complete player character class for 5E D&D); THE WORLD OF ARTHA CAMPAIGN SETTING for 5E D&D; and collections of 5E subclass player character options for Bard and Warlock.