About Us

Shane Cubis (24 as of April 2nd, 2004) is a school teacher, Integral Energy phone monkey and writer from Wollongong, Australia. In addition to role-playing, he enjoys playing a variety of board games, including Diplomacy and History of the World. His other interests include Spider-man, MAD Magazine, time travel, politics, and history.

His favorite movie is Back to the Future, and his favorite book is Catch-22. While pretending to work on the computer, he listens to TISM, Bloodhound Gang, and other random music. He has had articles published in a number of publications, including Knights of the Dinner Table, The Chaser and d20zine!. He also wrote and acted in ‘Dream Date’, an award-winning short film starring Australian cricketer Brett Lee. Antipodean Adventures, in The Silven Trumpeter, is his first regular column, and he is very proud of it.

His favorite D&D humanoid foe, PC race and PC class are, in order: bugbear, dwarf, and wizard. His favorite RPG is Hackmaster. If he could cast one first level spell, it would probably be Charm Person, to the scorn and derision of his Magic Missile-favoring peers.

Cubis has pipe dreams of being able to write as a proper job, instead of a diverting hobby. His mother once called him a ‘wordsmith’, and he cannot conceive of any higher praise. Anyone requiring such a handsome, urbane and - above all - gifted writer should feel free to contact Shane. He is currently waiting by the keyboard, drumming his fingers in anticipation at writing deathless prose for you or your organization.

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