I'm Lyme Brackish. I write TTRPGs, run TTRPGs, play TTRPGs, and listen to too many podcasts about TTRPGs. My favorite game is the one I haven't tried yet. I was a founding member of Designed in the DMV, but have since moved out of the area.
This is my blog for thoughts on TTRPGs and related subjects. I'll post excerpts from upcoming works, updates on my works in progress, and bits of thought that don't fit anywhere else.
Where To Find My Games
PDFs of my games are available on Itch.io and RPG Trader.
Physical copies of Dawn of the Orcs and Fear & Panic are available at Indie Press Revolution. This is the best option for people in North America. For the rest of the world, you'll probably find the shipping is cheaper if you order Dawn of the Orcs from Peregrine Coast Press and Fear and Panic from Patchwork Fez, both located in the UK. Also check out the official German and Italian translations of Dawn of the Orcs!
Where To Find Me
Bluesky
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Discord
Email List (This is for general updates a couple times a year, not blog posts.)
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Selected Posts:
22 Aug, 2026 Time of Monsters: A Setting for Fear and Panic
17 Jul, 2026 Five Things RPG Players Can Learn From A Sea Shanty Festival
23 Mar, 2026 Everything I Know About Making RPGs
17 Jan, 2026 A Quick and Dirty Guide to Building a Local RPG Design Scene
28 Dec, 2025 Answering the Perpetual Questions of RPGs
08 Sep, 2025 The D100 Manifesto
10 Aug, 2025 Using Conserved Sequences and Desire Paths to Design RPGs
30 Jul, 2025 The Katabasis to Coal Mining Scale of Dungeoneering (ft. thoughts on His Majesty the Worm)
27 Jul, 2025 Sustainable Game Production with Ben Hammer (We All Take from the River)