Robert Marriner-Dodds

Marriner-Dodds founded Dragon Turtle Games in 2016 while in Hong Kong.[6][7] Between 2017 and 2018 through Dragon Turtle Games he wrote and published Dragon Drop Adventures 1, 2, and 3, a series of simple adventures for Dungeons & Dragons designed to be easy to run for new gamemasters.[8][9][10] In 2019, after a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter[11][12] Marriner-Dodds wrote and released Carbon 2185 | A Cyberpunk RPG. The crowdfunding campaign for Carbon 2185 reached more than 14 times the funding amount required to publish the game and was, at the time, the most funded cyberpunk project ever to appear on Kickstarter.[13][14] Carbon 2185 went on to receive widespread acclaim and was featured in various publications such as Forbes, New Scientist, and RPG Net.[15]

In early 2020 Marriner-Dodds and his sister Cassandra Dodds co-founded Studio Cerca.[5][16][17] Through Studio Cerca, the siblings intend to write and publish family friendly Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Content inspired by the works of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki and the films of Studio Ghibli.[18][19][20]