We thrive where creative meets game mechanics. We can:

• Flesh out your initial idea for a setting or story.

• Build a world to suit the mechanics in your game.

• Review and critique your existing IP and story documents.

• Create alignment documents to help keep your team and partners on the same page.

• Facelift your legacy IP with modern sensibilities with an eye toward stewardship.

We’ve led and been a part of collaborative teams for dozens of projects. It’s not easy, but it shouldn’t be painful. We can:

• Embed with your creative team to offer new perspectives on creative problems.

• Work with your team to foster a collaborative environment where individuals feel heard and are empowered to make choices.

• Mentor individual writers on the practice of creating with constraints.

If your headcount is limited but you still need a hand with your creative heavy lifting, we can:

• Operate as an external creative partner for your studio.

• Organize and direct concept art pushes for your game or story.

• Put together a world guide to contain the lore and visual concepts of your setting.

• Review art assets and writing assignments from other partners.

My life has been a Mysterious Alchemy, a blend of people and energies that sometimes yielded lead and sometimes gold. As I have gone through my career, I have been like a bloodhound seeking to create those moments of creative gold where everything and everyone is working in harmony. The further along I go, the more I understand the Alchemy of the creative process.

This company is the latest realization of this quest. We’re finding combinations of the right project, the right people, and the right vision, and bringing them together to create something unique and powerful.

Each iteration of this alchemical process I learn something more as I’m led into new areas of creation and expression. I am always excited to see what the Mysterious Alchemy will produce next.

Highlights of my work include:

• Disney Lorcana – Creative Consultant

• Larian Studios – Creative Consultant

• Ten Speed Press – Author of D&D Book of Worlds

• D&D Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus – Creative and Story Lead

• PIXAR – D&D Team Consultant for Onward!

• MtG Conspiracy – Creative and Story Lead

• MtG Shadows over Innistrad – Story Lead

I’m a fantasy world builder and narrative designer with 10+ years’ experience working on Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. Where there are swords and spells, you will find me.

I love to create. Even more, I love to collaborate with awesome people to see projects come to life. I couldn’t imagine doing anything else for a living. After teaching history for five years, it was time to try my hand at being a full-time creative, and I got to indulge my love of games at Wizards of the Coast.

Now, in joining forces with Adam Lee to form Mysterious Alchemy, I get to use what I learned contributing to D&D and Magic and work with creative folks from around the world.

Highlights of my work include:

• Disney Lorcana – Narrative Director

• Larian Studios – Creative Consultant

• The Wild Beyond the Witchlight (co-author)

• Candlekeep Mysteries (author of Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme)

• Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica (co-author, art director)

• Magic Origins – Creative Lead