Tag Archives: Creativity

Warlocks, and Greenlings, and Vampires, OH MY!

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A Dragon Patron Warlock uses their Breath Weapon class feature against an unfortunate serpent folk aggressor.
Illustration (c) 2025 Timothy McCown Reynolds

New works for 5th Edition compatible Tabletop Roleplaying Games (such as Dungeons & Dragons) from Midnight Moth Publications are now in the wild and available for purchase as downloadable PDFs on DriveThru RPG!

The Greenling Player’s Guide, presenting a new Plant Folk Species option for Player Characters, was released Tuesday, May 27th 2025, and the Warlock: Dragon Patron, presenting a new Subclass option for Warlock Player Characters was released yesterday, May 28th 2025.

Greenling Warrior (detail) from The Greenling Player’s Guide. Illustration (c) Timothy McCown Reynolds

These new offerings join The Adventurous Vampire , a new Player Character class option (levels 1-20) which was released for purchase on May 2nd 2025, and which will soon offer additional options in both hardcover and softcover print-on-demand formats.

Arcanist Vampire (detail) from The Adventurous Vampire. Illustration (c) Timothy McCown Reynolds

Manifesting the creative works has been immensely rewarding for me, and I am ecstatic to share them with the Tabletop Gaming community!

Om Shanti.

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

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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

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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

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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.

Venus in Aries

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Today, as Venus returned to Aries (my natal placement), I submitted THE ADVENTUROUS VAMPIRE, my first digital publication for Midnight Moth Publications to DriveThruRPG. I now am waiting on file and content approval from the Publisher Relations Representative, a process that will take between 1 and 7 business days. 

I feel great and look forward to getting it out to the public. 

CHARMER VAMPIRE from THE ADVENTUROUS VAMPIRE Illustration (c) 2025 Timothy McCown Reynolds

60th Solar Return

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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

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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