About
One world. Built by one weirdo.
G'day. I'm Andy. This is what forty years of making things has been building toward.
What's here
Where do you want to start?
Codex
Tabletop rulebooks where music is the magic system and dungeons have motives. Built for d20. Designed for Veryn. Playable tonight.
Chronicles
Four novels in development (read the prequel, Wolfonne, now!). Dark fantasy, mystery, horror. The first one is very close to done. You will not be bored.
Crescendo
Forty-five albums on Spotify from bands that live inside the world. Over eight thousand songs, hundreds of artists, and counting. Yes, really. Go listen.
Crowdfunding
One Kickstarter in 2026. Get on the list now. First in gets the best deal, and the first copies out the door.
The maker
So who actually builds all this?
Me: Andrew Parsons. Australian, fifty-five, ADHD. I've been a software engineer, a tech journalist, a game reviewer, a magazine editor published in twenty-three countries, a developer evangelist at Microsoft, and a product marketer at Unity. Somewhere in all of that I reviewed over a thousand video games, wrote a dozen books, talked to everyone from solo student developers to the heads of the largest game companies on the planet, and ran worldwide events for the next generation of developers. The through-line in all of it was the same: find something cool, help people do more with it.
The creative side never stopped either. NaNoWriMo every year. Game prototypes in more forms than I can count. A self-published novel called Wolfonne, set in a world of shapeshifters called Erl. If that sounds familiar, it's because Erl is now the Veilwilds, one of the eight regions of Veryn. The world was always there. It just kept changing names.
Veryn is the version that finally stuck. It started the way most worlds do, as a short story from a teenager hunting a beast that was also hunting him, as a notebook of song lyrics that went nowhere, as a campaign setting, as a NaNoWriMo draft. It became what it is now because the tools finally caught up with the vision. For the first time I can hear what the music sounds like, see what the characters look like, iterate fast enough to react rather than just plan. Forty years of making things, and this is what happens when the brakes come off.
Get in early
Patreon is where the world is alive.
Every month, new content drops across all the lanes. Quickshot dungeons. NPC builds. Novel chapters. Album lore. Maps. Design confessions. It is not a quiet place. Phantom Insider is five dollars a month and gets you into the current drop as it happens.
Instagram gets you previews, polls, and a steady feed of artwork from the world.
Get in touch
Want to say hello?
Patreon DMs are the fastest path for members. For press, podcasts, retail, or just to tell me the last album wrecked your Thursday in the best way, Instagram works.
Cheers, Andy
P.S. In Veryn, when the memories start to fade, the music remembers for you.