TTRPG GAMES BIOGRAPHY

Hello New Friends..  

    I am Bryan J McLean, a creative for well over twenty years, and a former business analyst of fifteen years. I returned to university to earn my Bachelor’s of Fine Art in Painting with Honorable Distinction ('23) from the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, Alberta. As well as a creator, I am also a manager for an arts & events performance company. 

     As a contemporary artist, my visual research is in narratives, dehumanization, and object-hauntology; digital, multimedia, and fine art are my methods. 

   I am the former Marketing Director of Lostlorn Games for Mark Rein-Hagen (the creator of World of Darkness and Vampire the Masquerade). I was also a world-building / setting writer and copyeditor. (BloodStone Isle, Badlander, FangKnight, etc). I have also worked on projects like BlackVoid RPG and Esoterica: Secretum Mundi. 

    Right now I am working on Call of Cthulhu 7e projects for James Droucker of Away From Center Games, as Art Director, doing tracking, resources, layouts, and some writing. 

    I work marketing and writing for Andrew Frinkle of MediaStream Press (Shadows Over Cairn Breagh 5e, Mansion in the Multiverse 5e, Song of the Nehmet 5e, and The Demon Age).   

    I've also written for Black Void RPG and Esoterica's Secretum Mundi. 

    My own company is Dark Urban Games, I am working on my own independent books (mostly in the OSR / Mörk Borg genre) doing writing, art, layouts, marketing, and workshops. Bonus: I operate Dark TTRPG Creators on Facebook. 

  Historically I have been a storyteller/player, as my core game was White Wolf’s Mage: The Ascension 2ndEd / Laws of Ascension (1995-2005) as I also ran Live Action over about 7 years for the international Camarila organization. 

    My top games right now are Mörk Borg and Call of Cthulhu 7e. 

   Nice to meet you.  

 - Bryan J McLean