The Lorekeeper
5.0 stars from 11 reviews
29 games run on StartPlaying
John Rodrigues started his D&D career by accident, volunteering to run “just a one-shot” for friends who thought GMing was too hard. That was five years ago. The one-shot never ended.
What started at a table in Portugal became a passion: building worlds deep enough to get lost in, running games where the story belongs to the players, and eventually, when no tool did exactly what he needed, building the tools himself.
How it all began
The first campaigns were borrowed. Pre-made adventures, familiar worlds, learning the craft of the GM one session at a time. But the real spark came later, with the slow realisation that the most interesting stories weren’t in any module. They were the ones happening at the table, shaped by the players sitting around it.
That’s when Braosa was born. Not launched: born. Quietly, across years of sessions and scrapped notebooks, a world began taking shape that belonged entirely to the people who played in it. It wasn’t until last year that those stories finally had a home to live in.
What is Braosa Tales?
Braosa Tales is the platform John is building for the kind of GM he is, and the kind of players who deserve that experience.
- Sessions: the campaigns he runs every week, open to new players.
- The Atelier: the tools he needed and couldn’t find.
- Stories: the world his players lived, written down at last. Eventually the novels and the worldsetting books.
It’s all the same world. You’re just arriving early.
A bit more
When not at the table, John manages construction teams in Portugal, coordinating the kind of complex, moving-parts work that turns out to be surprisingly good training for running campaigns. He’s married, father of three, a committed Tolkien obsessive (The Silmarillion is the correct answer), and has been known to use genuinely terrible accents for NPCs.