By 2007, we were doing great things.  We published The Beast Within by Mike DeSanto and Jerry Blakemore wrote Skinwalker. The Beast Within starts with a strange auto accident that leads to a murder investigation.  This adventure featured our Fear Effects rules.  When we were playtesting this one, Preston was acting as our Game Master…

Ed: We were hitting our stride, or so we thought.  As very little horror was being done for d20 Modern, we thought we might fill that niche and I am, as Preston loves to remind me, the King of the Tables.  I came up with a mechanic that referred to Minor Spooks, Major Shocks, Great…

Innana’s Kiss One of our next adventures to write was Inanna’s Kiss– a modern military horror game that I set in Iraq in 2004-05. We wanted to continue our military horror games and I had fallen in love with the ancient history of Persia and the Middle East (see the article on the Journal of…

Early on, Jackson Green became one of my favorite characters (he was my character in our original games). He was a mix of Agent Mulder, hippy, and modern ghost hunter who believed everything he heard. We wanted to truly explore ghosts, spirits, and demonic entities and decided to do it as if the game were made…