THE ADVENTUROUS RUDESBY | Maker | 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

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.