I created this menu (and the correlating food!) as a holiday gift to my Dungeons & Dragons group.

I have long known that I work with plenty of people who love games - that's not news to me, and if you've been reading these blogs at all, it isn't to you either! What did surprise me, however, was just how many of my colleagues actually love Dungeons & Dragons and other table-top RPGs.

If you’re the type of FFXIV player who caps all your tomes for the week and levels all of your jobs, then you probably spend a lot of time in dungeons. And if you’re like me, it doesn’t matter what level you’re at: when you go into a roulette you will inevitably get slapped in one of the dungeons under level 30, which admittedly can be a schlog.

This piece is a writing exercise I did based on characters my friends and I have created for fun. Although some context is required for someone outside of the Final Fantasy XIV game to understand the story, the character relation, dialogue, and writing flow is a good representation of my style when it comes to fictional short story writing.

I teamed up with a graphic designer friend and wrote my own list of Steam achievements back in 2014 when I first applied to work in the gaming industry.

This speech in honor of my late friend Brian was delivered during a 2017 competition circuit for Toastmasters International. It won 3rd place at the district level in front of hundreds of people, but more importantly, it won a place in my heart. It gave me comfort in a time when I was grieving and missing my best friend by allowing me to share a hopeful message with my audiences.

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