OUR STORY

I’m Mike, the Creative Director at Calamity Punk Publishing. I’m also the guy who has made sharing my homebrew world of Cealla my life’s work. Looking back, I think it started the day I finished my first novel (which was of course terrible) and realized I was having more fun worldbuilding than telling the story I’d started out with. It was that same week that I remember my brothers approaching me to play D&D together, in the hopes that I would try my hand at GMing for them, even though I’d never really done it before. The problem was, I didn't know anything about the standard D&D lore, and barely understood the rules this early on in my budding GM journey. I didn’t know where to start with learning about the world, especially with several players who I felt already knew EVERYTHING there was to know about the setting. With my vanity and hubris at an all time high, I turned to homebrewing my own world, based on the one I’d developed in my first novel. This idea consumed me, in part because I’d now become obsessed with the process of worldbuilding & learning about other’s homemade worlds. This also helped limit my anxiety about running my first D&D game, because if I made the lore, then I would of course have all the answers! (How naive I was, I know.)

Over the last decade I’ve run several long-term campaigns, continuing to build out the big things like a pantheon and cross regional political conflicts, to the dueling sausage shops in a bustling marketplace. I’d gotten to the point where I felt like there wasn’t a city I hadn’t explored, or a monster I couldn’t design, or an encounter I couldn’t touch-up or improve on. I’d even inspired a few new players to try their hand at homebrewing, “lending out” some of my stories and characters to them as well as my fellow DM’s, helping adapt my content for their worlds. Throughout all of this, I couldn't help but think back to how I’d first started, and the flexible, modular content I would have loved that felt both personal & approachable. That thought quickly planted a seed, and after years of GMing and worldbuilding, I’m ready to share my passion and stories with others who share that same spark for adventure. This brand exists for folks like me—eager to bring their worlds to life with tools that make storytelling unforgettable.

Our Team

​For all of my naivety starting out, it was this choice to begin publishing my work that would finally connect my love of worlds on the brink of calamity with a desire to tell more tailored and interactive stories. Over the last year since we started, this project has morphed from me scribbling random lore into notebooks while at work into a small team of friends who probably love Cealla a bit too much. We’re a happy mix of writers, artists, designers and marketing folks who love being a part of the indie game development scene. In addition, we're also very lucky to have a close group of friends, players, and play testers who are always willing to help by venturing into the wilds of untested dungeons and newly built monsters that we’ve been working on day in and day out. I wouldn’t be able to be as obsessed, or make anything look good (graphic design is not my strong suit I apologize) without all of the help I get every single day. 

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