Over the next few weeks, a lot of the content from this site will be migrating to the new site on Substack: The Black Campbell Review. There will be a lot of the same types of things we see here — a tighter focus on RPGs and other nerdiness, but there will also be a review site for things like firearms, motorcycles, ans other manliness once I’ve got my feet wet over there.

Eventually, this site will get decommissioned or turned into a storefront for Black Campbell Entertainment. I haven’t decided yet.

As for Black Campbell Entertainment — there’s a few new adventures being written right now that will hit DriveThruRPG in the next few months. We will also be branching out from our usual pulp action material that has been the core of our work toward other genres — sci-fi, horror, and maybe even a bit of 5e related stuff. We’ll be sticking to PDF for the new stuff, for now, as DriveThru has gotten finicky about the layout process for print and I have to retrain myself on some of the software to get around their nonsense.

A lot of this has been percolating since about 2021, when we pumped out two books in six months. We’re a small outfit and that combined with the COVID idiocy and a full time job burmed me out something fierce. It’s taken until a few weeks ago, when my school decided to go to what I derisively call “course in a can”. The school bought curriculum that is pre-packaged, often scripted, and where it’s been tried, demonstrably lackluster. No room for academic freedom, no room for reteaching or getting off schedule, no room for the students, who are to be “aggressively monitored” (as are the teachers). So I decided to walk away.

Now I have the big question: do I pivot to writing and creative work and leave teaching — something I’ve been doing at college and high school for almost 15 years; or do I go find another job in the classroom and hope things get better. The wife is of the opinion I should do the former. We’ll see.

For now, however, join me over at blackcampbell.substack.com