About
When he was eleven, Chris found a battered copy of the AD&D 2nd Edition Player’s Handbook. Since then he’s cultivated a body of freelance writing, with credits on highly successful tabletop roleplaying game products, along with making the foray into long-form speculative fiction.
By day, he’s a social worker, mental health educator, and neurodiversity advocate, serving immigrants, refugees, and neurodivergent adults at a Pittsburgh-based non-profit, probably as a result of reading too many books and graphic novels. He’s also trained muay Thai in Thailand and researched organized crime in Japan.
When he’s not writing, reading, or delving into forgotten dungeons, he’s usually spending time with his lovely wife and their adorable, slobbery dog, Belle.
Fiction
Grimly comedic adult fantasy with a sprinkle of horror, about lovable misfits.
Chris is at work on a new novel of necromancers, thieves, and reluctant revolutionaries, in which one stolen corpse leads to the heist of a lifetime.
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Anti-Hero Blues
2024Novel · Balance of Seven
Represented by Jennifer Chevais at The Rights Factory.
Games
Tabletop roleplaying games, the best known being Dungeons & Dragons, are published books: rulebooks, settings, and adventures that a game master runs for a group of players around a table. Most of a decade of them, across two houses — classes, monsters, single adventures, and two core rulebooks.
Open to commissions. Writing, development, and editing — a line, a book, or a single adventure.
Selected work
The pieces worth starting with.
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Adventurer’s Guide
Level Up: A5EDesigner
The core player’s book for Level Up, a standalone ‘advanced’ take on D&D 5th Edition that stays backwards compatible with it. Everything you need to build a character and start adventuring.
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Trials & Treasures
Level Up: A5EDesigner
Journeys, treasure, and mystery await. The full journey and exploration rules, over 500 magic items with rules for crafting them, and the tools for running the game.
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EN5ider
Writer
Commanding the substance of life itself, the bloodweaver draws on the primal power in a caster’s own veins to bolster allies or kill foes.
Collected in A Touch More Class
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Villain Spotlight: Syndrathrax
EN5ider #230Writer
Ancient beyond memory, Syndrathrax eschews mere gold to hoard a far more precious treasure — the souls of mortals.
Collected in Here There Be Dragons
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Revenge of the Pale Master
Mists of AkumaAuthor and designer
Four centuries sealed in the Crimson Keep, the Pale Master waits for the mists to reach him in this Mists of Akuma module.
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EN5ider #12
Writer
An otherworldly titan surfaces outside the metropolis of Stormrest, and four or five adventurers of 12th level have to become giants themselves to drive it back.
Full credits 25 more
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition — EN Publishing
A standalone ‘advanced’ version of D&D 5th Edition, backwards compatible with it.
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Adventurer’s Guide
Core rulebookDesigner
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Trials & Treasures
Core rulebookDesigner
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To Save a Kingdom
2023Writer
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Voidrunner’s Codex
SupplementAdditional design
Mists of Akuma — Storm Bunny Studios
An eastern fantasy noir steampunk setting for D&D 5th Edition, and the books published for it.
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Mists of Akuma: Anniversary Edition
Campaign settingContributing writer
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Adventure path
Additional writer
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Revenge of the Pale Master
AdventureAuthor and designer
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Mists of Akuma
Campaign settingContributing writer
EN5ider — EN Publishing
EN Publishing’s magazine of new D&D 5th Edition material — adventures, character classes, monsters, and magic items.
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Runes of Power
Issue #17Writer
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Issue #12
Writer
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Issue #11
Writer
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Raiment of the Devouring King
Issue #7Writer
A headline item in the EN5ider Annual
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The Society of Tasteful Friends
Issue #7Writer
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Dangerous Scenarios: Fool’s Gold
#369Writer
Collected in One-Page Adventures
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Bloodweaver: Advanced Class Information
#244Writer
Collected in A Touch More Class
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Writer
Collected in A Touch More Class
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#240
Writer
Collected in A Touch More Class
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Villain Spotlight: Syndrathrax
#230Writer
Collected in Here There Be Dragons
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Enchanted Trinkets #3: Apprentice Wizardry & Side Hustles
#216Writer
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#209
Writer
Collections
Anthologies and hardcovers that gathered up earlier work.
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EN5ider Annual
EN PublishingContributor
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Here There Be Dragons
EN PublishingContributor
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One-Page Adventures
EN PublishingContributor
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The Masterclass Codex
EN PublishingContributor
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A Touch More Class
EN PublishingContributor