Sam McGurran
@sammcgurran.bsky.social
Reader in pursuit of escape, writer in pursuit of the epic.
Writer and TTRPG Designer:
Draw Steel: Encounters(MCDM), Silverplate(DRS), Dragonlance Companion(Splinterverse Media) and others.
📧 Samwritesrpgs@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/sammcgurran
Writer and TTRPG Designer:
Draw Steel: Encounters(MCDM), Silverplate(DRS), Dragonlance Companion(Splinterverse Media) and others.
📧 Samwritesrpgs@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/sammcgurran
Crowdfunding is fun and scary and still not the funniest, scariest thing to enter my life this month.
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Crowdfunding is fun and scary and still not the funniest, scariest thing to enter my life this month.
It’s been a good few weeks!
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It’s been a good few weeks!
So we got a dog. Best. Day. Ever.
Meet Blair!
Meet Blair!
October 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
So we got a dog. Best. Day. Ever.
Meet Blair!
Meet Blair!
Got my copy of Ratcatchers Issue 1, there’s always something special seeing your name in print!
It’s excellent work by @tidalwavegames.com and full of great writers and artists, though I am particularly partial to @dojikaan.bsky.social’s incredible mimic!
#drawsteel #ttrpg #ttrpgrising #mcdm #dnd
It’s excellent work by @tidalwavegames.com and full of great writers and artists, though I am particularly partial to @dojikaan.bsky.social’s incredible mimic!
#drawsteel #ttrpg #ttrpgrising #mcdm #dnd
September 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Got my copy of Ratcatchers Issue 1, there’s always something special seeing your name in print!
It’s excellent work by @tidalwavegames.com and full of great writers and artists, though I am particularly partial to @dojikaan.bsky.social’s incredible mimic!
#drawsteel #ttrpg #ttrpgrising #mcdm #dnd
It’s excellent work by @tidalwavegames.com and full of great writers and artists, though I am particularly partial to @dojikaan.bsky.social’s incredible mimic!
#drawsteel #ttrpg #ttrpgrising #mcdm #dnd
Nomas Lore:
Among the midnight caves and darkling seas of the World Below, there is a cavern filled with light. There stands Nomas, the City Aflame, the City of Refuge.
#ttrpg #dnd #ttrpgrising #ttrpgcommunity
#dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #runningthegame#drawsteel #mcdm #mcdmrpg #drawsteelrpg
Among the midnight caves and darkling seas of the World Below, there is a cavern filled with light. There stands Nomas, the City Aflame, the City of Refuge.
#ttrpg #dnd #ttrpgrising #ttrpgcommunity
#dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #runningthegame#drawsteel #mcdm #mcdmrpg #drawsteelrpg
August 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Nomas Lore:
Among the midnight caves and darkling seas of the World Below, there is a cavern filled with light. There stands Nomas, the City Aflame, the City of Refuge.
#ttrpg #dnd #ttrpgrising #ttrpgcommunity
#dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #runningthegame#drawsteel #mcdm #mcdmrpg #drawsteelrpg
Among the midnight caves and darkling seas of the World Below, there is a cavern filled with light. There stands Nomas, the City Aflame, the City of Refuge.
#ttrpg #dnd #ttrpgrising #ttrpgcommunity
#dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #runningthegame#drawsteel #mcdm #mcdmrpg #drawsteelrpg
Very pleased with my birthday haul. (The bottle says “Scottish Tap Water”, iykyk) #scottishtapwater #ttrpg
August 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Very pleased with my birthday haul. (The bottle says “Scottish Tap Water”, iykyk) #scottishtapwater #ttrpg
Apart from the lore and worldbuilding in Strongholds and Followers, Kingdoms and Warfare, Flee Mortals, the Ratcatchers Series and multiple live plays and tidbits about Orden from a series called Running the Game, this book has plenty of lore, fiction and setting information. Strange you never saw.
August 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Apart from the lore and worldbuilding in Strongholds and Followers, Kingdoms and Warfare, Flee Mortals, the Ratcatchers Series and multiple live plays and tidbits about Orden from a series called Running the Game, this book has plenty of lore, fiction and setting information. Strange you never saw.
Solid week for TTRPG purchases ⛵️ 🦸♂️
July 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Solid week for TTRPG purchases ⛵️ 🦸♂️
Cool things that happened in 2024!
- Saw Ralph Fiennes and Ian McKellen in Macbeth and Player Kings 🎭
- Visited Milan, Venice and Verona 🍝
- Danced by the Seine 🇫🇷
- Turned 30 with a sunrise paddleboard in Barcelona ☀️
- Saw Hadestown in the West End 🌹 celebrating our 4th anniversary.
#newyear
- Saw Ralph Fiennes and Ian McKellen in Macbeth and Player Kings 🎭
- Visited Milan, Venice and Verona 🍝
- Danced by the Seine 🇫🇷
- Turned 30 with a sunrise paddleboard in Barcelona ☀️
- Saw Hadestown in the West End 🌹 celebrating our 4th anniversary.
#newyear
January 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Cool things that happened in 2024!
- Saw Ralph Fiennes and Ian McKellen in Macbeth and Player Kings 🎭
- Visited Milan, Venice and Verona 🍝
- Danced by the Seine 🇫🇷
- Turned 30 with a sunrise paddleboard in Barcelona ☀️
- Saw Hadestown in the West End 🌹 celebrating our 4th anniversary.
#newyear
- Saw Ralph Fiennes and Ian McKellen in Macbeth and Player Kings 🎭
- Visited Milan, Venice and Verona 🍝
- Danced by the Seine 🇫🇷
- Turned 30 with a sunrise paddleboard in Barcelona ☀️
- Saw Hadestown in the West End 🌹 celebrating our 4th anniversary.
#newyear
Caught Hadestown in the West End last weekend for the second time in six weeks. The musical itself has rapidly become my favourite but this cast are something real special. It was a magical experience both times, even with minor variations. If you can, get yourself down before the 9th of February. 🌹
December 18, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Caught Hadestown in the West End last weekend for the second time in six weeks. The musical itself has rapidly become my favourite but this cast are something real special. It was a magical experience both times, even with minor variations. If you can, get yourself down before the 9th of February. 🌹
BIGGER! With Izzy and Brennan was a blast. Hope the Glasgow crowd wasn’t too noisy!
April 16, 2024 at 10:23 PM
BIGGER! With Izzy and Brennan was a blast. Hope the Glasgow crowd wasn’t too noisy!
My creative goals for 2024 are to finally finish editing my novel and to write my own ttrpg adventure for publication, rather than someone else’s. What are yours?
January 4, 2024 at 12:13 PM
My creative goals for 2024 are to finally finish editing my novel and to write my own ttrpg adventure for publication, rather than someone else’s. What are yours?
Got my hardcopy of Flee, Mortals! Through today, easily the most useful 5e book I’ve ever had and it takes its place beside its siblings on the shelf. Until it’s time to prep at least.
November 8, 2023 at 11:50 AM
Got my hardcopy of Flee, Mortals! Through today, easily the most useful 5e book I’ve ever had and it takes its place beside its siblings on the shelf. Until it’s time to prep at least.
Regretting my lack of cosplay at MCM Comic Con London, but there’s worse gear!
October 27, 2023 at 11:24 AM
Regretting my lack of cosplay at MCM Comic Con London, but there’s worse gear!
@criticalrole.bsky.social live has been incredible so far! Daniel Sloss has also made Buckfast canon, what a time to be alive!
October 25, 2023 at 8:13 PM
@criticalrole.bsky.social live has been incredible so far! Daniel Sloss has also made Buckfast canon, what a time to be alive!
If you’re not following Splinterverse you’re sleeping on one of the biggest supporters of third party ttrpg designer, and missing out in their own great products.
October 23, 2023 at 3:18 PM
If you’re not following Splinterverse you’re sleeping on one of the biggest supporters of third party ttrpg designer, and missing out in their own great products.
The familiar likes the math rocks!
October 13, 2023 at 8:48 PM
The familiar likes the math rocks!
Occasionally I set off on an adventure and it’s not until I injure myself doing something I would have once found trivially easy that I remember I’m not 14 any more. But I will still go play in the woods and climb fences. Once my leg works again.
October 9, 2023 at 10:43 PM
Occasionally I set off on an adventure and it’s not until I injure myself doing something I would have once found trivially easy that I remember I’m not 14 any more. But I will still go play in the woods and climb fences. Once my leg works again.
The plan is to visit six countries in the next year and only one is new. I need to complete the map! Or at least have more countries than my beloved!
October 9, 2023 at 10:39 PM
The plan is to visit six countries in the next year and only one is new. I need to complete the map! Or at least have more countries than my beloved!