The Dungeon Bastard, like all high level adventurers, is retired.

In 2011, I created the self-assured, bloviating character of Bill Cavalier. Part Chuck Norris, part Richard Simmons, with a heavy dose of Colbert, the Dungeon Bastard was both tribute and takedown of the old school grognard AD&D culture I’d grown up in. Over the next 4 years, I wrote and starred in nearly 100 webisodes and ran a successful Kickstarter which lead to The World’s Worst Dungeon Crawl live event at Gen Con 2013.

In the fall of 2015, the production company behind Dungeon Bastard dissolved, and with it my momentum to make more videos. The property went fallow.

Satire is a tricky thing. If you’re not constantly reinforcing that the message is a joke – in this case that there’s a “right way” to play D&D and that’s the grognard way – then people who subscribe to that premise start to take it seriously. With no new videos in production, I began to lose my ability to undercut the badass Bastard image for the satire it was meant to be.

Also, the rise of 5E brought a whole new influx of people into the hobby. People who weren’t part of grognard culture and didn’t get that it was a joke. It just felt like edition warring and gatekeeping. And I firmly believe gaming is for everyone.

And so, rather than try to update the Dungeon Bastard and introduce him to a whole new audience who don’t relate to the references in the first place, I have decided to retire him.

But his spirit is with you.

He’s there. At your table. In your dice.

Every time you roll a natural 20.