Game Desing and Writing

Edition

VTT Adaptation

Salutations!

I'm Jaime Reyes Mondragón, a Mexican game designer, writer, and editor focused on tabletop games, especially role-playing games. I'm also an undergraduate physicist and aspiring novelist.As a game designer, I love creating mechanics that reflect the stories they are meant to tell, from the heroic goofiness of a show I watched as a kid to the despair of a poor soul experiencing a horror movie in the flesh. As a writer, I'm passionate about world-building and writing stories involving characters with elusive intentions in which the players' decisions matter. As an editor, I enjoy helping the ideas and dreams of others shine all the brightest.Though less frequently, I also do book layouts and use my programming skills to translate board and role-playing games into VTT format.My journey started in 2019 when I joined Axo Stories, a small Mexican indie publishing co-op that aims to bring games from Latino and Global South people to the international market. Since then I've done freelance work for Paizo, Renegade, and Chaosium.In my free time, I like to learn about Mexican history, read sci-fi, fantasy, and crime novels, watch movies, and play video games.

Credits

Forthcoming

  • Power Rangers Roleplaying Game Through the Shattered Grid Sourcebook (game designer, writer; Renegade Game Studios, March 2025)

  • Maze Borg (game designer, layout, writer; Axo Stories, TBD)

2024

  • Pathfinder Lost Omens Divine Mysteries (game designer, writer; Paizo Inc.)

  • Bullet & Blank (editor, VTT adaptation; Axo Stories)

  • Hen & Chicks (editor, revisor; Caligaes)

  • La Larga Agonía [The Long Undying] (editor, writer)

2023

  • Tales from the Gods (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

  • Masks of Power (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

2022

  • Tezca Sentai (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

2021

  • Wild Life (editor; Axo Stories)

  • Women's Month One Page Dungeon Anthology (editor, Axo Stories)

2020

  • The Maze (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

  • Aztec Magic Items (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

  • Bloodrager Hybrid Class for 5e (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

  • Tzinacantli Ancestry (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

  • Pumpkind, Pumpknight, Pumpking (game designer, layout, writer; Axo Stories)

  • Brawler Hybrid Class for 5e (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

  • Hunt for the Piñata Monster (game designer, layout, writer; Axo Stories)

  • Slayer Hybrid Class for 5e (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

  • Oathmeal, Oaths for Paladins in 5e (game designer, writer; Axo Stories)

Awards and Accolades

  • PoC Scholar, Big Bad Con (2022)

  • ENNIE Award Nomination: Best Monster/Adversary, The Maze (2021)

  • ENNIE Award Nomination: Best Setting, The Maze (2021)

You can email me at [email protected]