D&D 5th Edition - 2020-2021

During my time in Japan, I have finally found time to play Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition as a Dungeon Master. I always wanted to play in the past learning the 3.5 edition rules, but I had no time or opportunity when I worked at Rockstar. 

This has been a great tool to meet people, which led to me creating the Japan Gaming Hub, a gaming group for English expats in Japan on Facebook. I've been running three games online with the people that joined, and two of those games are still being ran each week. I've even run a simplified version of the game for my school kids, and oh boy, murder hobos the lot of them.  (ﾟAﾟ;)

This also led to me collaborating on making an article for the Connect AJET local expat magazine, explaining how to start D&D for newbies, and how to use it online as a tool to meet people.

• View/Download the magazine here. (Page 25-29)

Jet Programme 2020-2021

 

After 7 years in the games industry, I have left Rockstar to take a short break to teach English in Japan on the Jet Programme, an English language cultural exchange programme. 

Here I am teaching four different senior high schools, each with about 3-4 classes full of 42 kids, fun English lessons. I'm placed in rural south Japan, in the prefecture of Okayama.

It has been a great way to work on my presentation, language and communication skills. 

It was always my intention to travel and using this job to allow me to network and apply for game industry work here in Japan, but it has been difficult due to the pandemic that struct half way into my first year, just as I adapted to my job fully.