Graham Ward (he/him) ✍️ #HundredDungeons

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AEA Actor. Award-winning GM at Baldman Games. TTRPG designer/editor (half of Greywild Games): Free League, D&D Adventurers League, Gary’s Appendix, Darkplane.com, TheLastCaravan.com, Hundred Dungeons, Blood Magic. Content Manager at Ghostlight RPGs.

The White Mountains by John Christopher, cover featuring an alpine setting with a massive robotic tripod scooping up a human with a metal tentacle, two other humans hiding in the foreground.
Get to know my game taste For every like, I will post one game I love
Hundred Dungeons: a character-forward sword and sorcery refresh of 5E fantasy Get it free Explore, develop, change Behind the title, there's a sleek character sheet and a looming figure of a crowned skeletal warrior with a sword, covered in blood. A vulture is perched on its head pecking toward its only eye: an emerald gemstone.
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Promo image for Old-School Roundup: D3 Vault of the Drow Five headshots are paper clipped to a blue gridded dungeon map (cartography by Dyson Logos): Emma Carter Graham Ward Kelsea Botwinik Justin Barron Carson Wright Wed April 10th, 6pm CDT twitch.com/ghostlightrpgs A pink Dungeons & Dragons module cover depicts the demon queen Lolth in her spider form webbing up a bugbear (who looks suspiciously like Thanos). A cruel priestess performs magic on an altar surrounded by skulls.
Promo image for Old-School Roundup: D3 Vault of the Drow Five headshots are paper clipped to a blue gridded dungeon map (cartography by Dyson Logos): Emma Carter Graham Ward Kelsea Botwinik Justin Barron Carson Wright Wed March 27th, 6pm CDT twitch.com/ghostlightrpgs A pink Dungeons & Dragons module cover depicts the demon queen Lolth in her spider form webbing up a bugbear (who looks suspiciously like Thanos). A cruel priestess performs magic on an altar surrounded by skulls.
A massive dragon model primed in matte black.
A 28mm model of an aggressive owlbear painted in brown and gold with green eyes
Cover of The Halls of Arden Vul by Expeditious Retreat Press Four adventurers face down a dragon perched on a giant ring.
A test print of The Last Caravan by Ted Bushman resting on a wooden table. The cover depicts a rural highway blanketed with snow, a lone car driving toward us--away from an ominous alien spaceship on the horizon. Three travelers stand side by side in the sky: a woman with a baby and a sniper rifle, a man with a woodcutting axe, and a resolute dobermann pinscher. The Last Caravan: A cars and aliens roleplaying game
A printed packet titled Hundred Dungeons: a game by Graham Ward, laid on a laptop keyboard
Screen cap of a tweet by Graham Ward (@darkplanedm): Have an equation to share #dnd5E under CC + streamlined character building + martial classes + freeform proficiencies + deadliness at high levels + exploration and crafting – gridded combat – combat slog – 150 less pages = Hundred Dungeons, a #ttrpg by me coming this year #dnd
A laptop with a printed packet laid over it titled in bold “Hundred Dungeons.” Beside it is a full-color test print of The Last Caravan: a cars and aliens roleplaying game.
Layout spread for Snake River Ruin
The Innocent traveler imprint from The Last Caravan
Pages from The Last Caravan: Are We There Yet, The Gameplay Loop, and Detour Phase
Map of North America after the Two Months War, by Riley Daniels
The Valley of Storms, designed by DeAngelo Murillo A detailed breakdown of what game elements to include in this post-apocalyptic Arizona
The Last Caravan character sheet by Carson Wright
Table of contents and credits from The Last Caravan
The cover and spine of The Last Caravan by Ted Bushman. In a rural highway blanketed with snow, a lone car drives toward us--away from an ominous alien spaceship on the horizon. Three travelers stand side by side in the sky: a woman with a baby and a sniper rifle, a man with a woodcutting axe, and a resolute dobermann pinscher. The Last Caravan: A cars and aliens roleplaying game
Photo of me smiling!
A gameplay diagram: D6 Blood roll D10 Edge roll Peril, start of session > Scene, action and tension (a ten-step track) > confrontations, twists, the tone (ye or no) > Apotheosis, end of your story As needed: Artifacts and Malefacts, Catastrophic Consequences, Characters, Encounters, Motives, Names, Ritual Components and Requirements, Threads
Me overlooking a setup of dungeon terrain with devils and undead filling the map. A Descent into Avernus DM screen with images of the blood war serves as the backdrop.
Let’s play Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Ted Bushman and Graham Ward pictured in front of the iconic image of Aribeth de Tylmarande and the sigil of the eye with three tears Ghostlight RPGs
Illustration of a lot trap with a swinging scythe blade, beyond which lies a crypt with an emerging mummy
Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Aliens
An adventurer wrapped in tentacles, being dragged toward an amber monolith
31 days’ worth of RPGaDay prompts
31 days’ worth of RPGaDay prompts
31 days’ worth of RPGaDay prompts
Gorgeous screenshot of Lugh McCian, bard of a thousand love songs
Nine characters created in Baldur's Gate 3: Telicarna, high elf cleric Lugh McCian, ffolk human bard Ya'aur, half-orc rogue Morgur, tiefling paladin Woalvor, half-elf ranger Gunnie, duergar paladin Grokka, dragonborn barbarian N'ur Qelin, githzerai monk Sharet-ka, thayan human wizard
Me playing Wadsworth the butler in Clue, running panicked across the stage while Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, and Mr. Green look on in anticipation
31 days’ worth of RPGaDay prompts
A list of 31 days’ worth of RPGaDay prompts
A list of 31 days’ worth of RPGaDay prompts
A 5-foot model of Underdark cliffs and ledges with stalactite towers connected by rope bridges
A photo of my game shelves: about 17 cubes of board/card games and 3 cubes of ttrpgs