Seth Skorkowsky

Seth Skorkowsky is an author and YouTube, focusing mostly on Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop RPGs.

History
Seth grew up in East Texas, and has been playing tabletop games since he was thirteen years old. His first tabletop game was the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and began playing with some friends in his Boy Scout group. When Seth was eighteen, his friend introduced him to the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk 2020. After reading works by H.P. Lovecraft and watching several horror movies, Seth would eventually discover the game Call of Cthulhu, a tabletop RPG based off of Lovecraft's works.

Seth's first book was DÄMOREN and was the first book in the Valducan series. It was published in 2014. He would later add to the Valducan with the books HOUNACIER (2015), IBENUS (2016), and REDEMPTOR (2018). He also wrote the Tales of the Black Raven series.

YouTube
Seth's first YouTube video was The Mist of Lichtafen, an audiobook recording of the book of the same name written by Seth. Seth's first tabletop-relate video was about miniatures he owned for the RPG Call of Cthulhu, and was uploaded on November 2018, 2016, two years after his first video.

Series
Seth has various different YouTube series, mostly relating to tabletop gaming.

RPG Reviews
RPG Reviews is a series of reviews for various different tabletop games, including Conan, Call of Cthulhu: The Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic, and the AD&D module Tomb of Horrors. The series will also included Game Master (GM) tips.

RPG Philosophy
Seth also has a series in which he talks about his philosophy on tabletop gaming. This includes types of players, good and bad things for GMs to do, and what he calls the RPG Social Contract. He has also talked about what is called the Mercer Affect, in which Dungeons & Dragons players and GMs are held up to an impossible standard because they're being compared to another, and oftentimes famous, player, as well as his experience with it.