About
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Dragonlaird Gaming is the imprint or the work of Jim Davenport, award-winning game designer and freelance writer.
I’ve been gaming for over 40 years now and it has never lost its appeal. I’ve served as game master for my groups of friends and the Gamemaster’s chair is where I feel most at home. Even with other parts of life demanding their due attention, I often run a Play-by-Post game and a live table game every other week.
I’ve also been a writer for a long time, inside and outside of gaming. From 1992 to 2000 I was the publisher of U.S. Scots, an international magazine about Scottish-American culture. It was a quarterly publication which usually had one of my articles in it along with freelance writers.
In 2005, I established Dragonlaird Gaming for my gaming-related freelance and publishing work. I’ve been published more than one hundred times in Knights of the Dinner Table magazine and for over 10 other publishers.
I am publishing my own series of products while continuing to do freelance writing for others. I’m always ready to discuss your particular needs and determine the kind of content you are looking to have created. I produce quickly and with quality. I have also been an “Adventure Doctor” multiple times, where I’ve rewritten another writer’s draft that the publisher wants to be revised and improved.
Drop me an email if you’d like to discuss an opportunity.
AWARDS
2009: Origins Award for Best RPG Supplement: Big Damn Heroes Handbook
Jim Davenport co-wrote this expansion of the Serenity RPG. The original Serenity Role Playing Game has sold more than 25,000 copies in print and has continued to draw in more fans to gaming with the Cortex System rules for over three years. The Big Damn Heroes Handbook is an expansion to the Serenity Role Playing Game, and offers new information useful to both players and Game Masters, and includes everything from additional rules, to storytelling advice and alternate campaign models, to more information about characters from the ‘Verse-including those familiar to fans and new ones that can be used to surprise the players. It also includes new and creative ways to swear in Chinese! The rest of the writing team included Cam Banks, Jennifer Brozek, Nathan Rockwood, Clark Valentine, Tony Lee, and Jason Durall.
2008: A Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine Shout Out
One of the most coveted honors in all of gaming, Jim earned this shout out from Jolly Blackburn for the work he’s done for the magazine
2005: Origins Gamer’s Choice Award for Best RPG of the Year: Serenity RPG
Jim Davenport was one of the designers of the Serenity RPG, working with such luminaries as Jamie Chambers, Tracy Hickman, Tony Lee, Andrew Peregrine, Nathaniel C.J.S. Rockwood, Lester Smith, Christopher Thrash, James M. Ward, and Margaret Weis. In addition to contributing to the rules design that would eventually become the Cortex System, Jim wrote the Gamemastering chapter of the book.