Since the early 1990s, I’ve pursued freelance writing and cartography, mainly for games. The vast majority of my work has been for the various editions of the Star Wars Roleplaying and Miniatures games (West End Games, Wizards of the Coast and now Fantasy Flight Games) and Dungeons and Dragons. I continue to pursue freelance work within and outside of the games industry.

You can find out more about Sterling and his work here.

Fantasy Flight Games

• Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Roleplaying Game (now in Beta)

Wizards of the Coast

For Dungeons & Dragons (4th Edition) Roleplaying Game

Box Set:

• Monster Vault: Threats to the Nentir Vale, 2012 Silver Ennie Award Winner for Best Monster/Adversary

D&D Insider (Dragon and Dungeon Magazines)

• History Check: The Blood War, article, Dragon #417
• History Check: Strahd and van Richten, article, Dragon #416
• What’s Up in Downshadow? adventure, Dungeon #204
• Hunt for the Heretic adventure, Dungeon #203
• History Check: Rary the Traitor article, Dragon #405
• Battle of the Witchlight Hermitage adventure, Dungeon #191
• Chaos Scar: Scarblade adventure, Dungeon #189

For Star Wars Saga Edition Roleplaying Game

Hardcover books:

• The Unknown Regions
• Scavenger’s Guide to Droids
• Rebellion Era Campaign Guide, 2010 Ennie Award Nominee for Best (RPG) Supplement
• Legacy Era Campaign Guide
• Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide, 2009 Origins Award Nominee for Best RPG Supplement
• The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide

Website RPG items:

• Iridonian Darkness Star Wars adventure for Knights of the Old Republic
• Power Beyond Belief Star Wars article for Knights of the Old Republic
• Dawn of Defiance #6: Core of Corruption Star Wars adventure

For Star Wars Miniatures game products:

• Attack on Endor Scenario Pack
• Star Wars Miniatures scenarios and previews at the Wizards of the Coast Star Wars products page.
• Over 40 Star Wars Miniatures scenarios (complete list and links)
• Dozens of previews that often included RPG stats as well as insight into upcoming minis.

For Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition

• Monster Manual V (contributor)

For Star Wars Roleplaying Game (d20 system Original and Revised Core Rules)

• Talnar’s Rescue adventure for Star Wars Gamer magazine issue #5 (later updated for the Revised Core Rules and reissued for free).

Greg Rucka

• Alpha, novel. Cartography and layout for Wilsonville theme park. See my blog post for more information.

DungeonADay.com (Monte Cooke/Super Genius Games)

• DungeonADay Kickstarter – Fane of the Sea God 3D Fly Thru Video

Cartographer (membership required):

• Dragon’s Delve: Fane of Sea God areas
• Dragon’s Delve: Level 18
• Dragon’s Delve: Level 19
• Dragon’s Delve: Level 20
• Night of the Starbird
• Temple of the Black Goat

Lone Wolf Development

Cartographer:

• Realms Works RPG campaign utility software – Isle of Kandril map

Starwars.com (Lucas Online)

• Situation maps for the Battle of Turak IV article (Hyperspace members only).

The Game Mechanics

• Black and white cartography or the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game:
• Flight 23 adventure map
• The Brindisi Protocol adventure map

West End Games

For the Star Wars Roleplaying Game (d6 Second Edition; Second Edition, Revised and Expanded)

• The Far Orbit Project (Cartographer/designer – Nebulon-B deckplans)
• Hideouts and Strongholds (Author, floor plan designer and cartographer)
• The Kathol Rift for the Darkstryder Campaign (Author – “Rogue Elements”)
• Shadows of the Empire Planet Guide (Author – planet Rodia)
• Heroes & Rogues (contributor)
• Flashpoint! Brak Sector (author/designer)

Magazines

• Inquest Gamer #144 (Starship Battles fleet) and #145 (BC3 Star Wars Minis squad)
• Scrye #95 Star Wars Miniatures scenario Get the Walker.
• Polyhedron #83 Star Wars RPG adventure Milk Run
• RPGA Network adventures
• Defection (Star Wars RPG)
• Milk Run (the RPGA’s 1991 GenCon Star Wars RPG adventure)