What a time it’s been. Yes, well over a year since a post, and actually well beyond that since a post with real content. So going back 16 months… I lost my father in October of 2024. Grief. We deal how we deal. I wrote the obituary. Then the absence. The first absence. There was no writing done. Nothing. In July of 2025 there was another death… the death of DEAD RECKONINGS Literary Magazine, that has been a forefront for much of my work.

I also entered a series of writing endeavors with other individuals, editors for the most part who promise much and deliver little and idea-mad creators that toss you about like Odysseus’ ship on a wine-dark sea. All this up until last month. I no longer will be stuck on someone else’s shipwreck. From now on everything is self-directed and driven. Final cut as a director would say. The way it was years ago. They way it will be again.

My work for the Esoteric Order of Dagon (copies to the John Hay library at Brown) still continues with Random Access Mythosophy #9 being published in February 2025 and #10 published February 2026 starting off celebrating the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Lovecraft’s great writing period upon returning to Providence 1926.

Yet there was work done during this long Odyssey. In February of 2025 I began to write the complete history of something that has been a part of my writing life before anything yet never perceived just how central this was and is. Since 1983 in the background of all I have done, I am the Dungeon Master of an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition campaign still going to this day. What began as a collection of history soon expanded in a genealogy of players and sociology study of the little town wherein this campaign is still played (and in many locations the same basement) to analysis of Cinema and Literary influences backed by a massive array of citations and footnotes. A magnum opus indeed of over 270 pages. And one that is just starting and will be documented yearly as the long-enduring campaign continues to flourish… This is now available through Mythopoeia Games Publications.

So here we are. 43 years later. And this blog will now become a place where I will be sharing the Appendices of this work containing many of the rules and practices of the campaign, that others who play may find helpful in their games, and to preserve a sold history of role-playing game mastery.

See you next week.

DM MDM