Jay McCann Creates — The Workshop
A maker's workshop · forged in the open

Creative tools for the ADHD chaotic brain.

Free tomes, tools, and contraptions — for brains that roll initiative in ten directions at once.

created by Jay McCann — maker, Dungeon Master & author (writing as James McCann)

I — The Armory

Tools for the long campaign.

Single-purpose, account-free, low-friction. Tools that get out of your way so the work can happen.

Enter the full Armory →
Tabletop Dungeons & Dragons tools

Player's Tome

Class features, spells & inventory in your pocket.

Coming Soon

DM's Companion

Run the table without flipping through books.

Coming Soon

Session Zero Helper

Forge a party and a world together, fast.

Coming Soon
The Forge Blender → Unreal add-ons
This is an add on for Blender to remove the frustration of trying to get the correct size of your Blender asset imported into Unreal Engine. No more calculations or having to remember to change the size guide. Figure out the size in the add on and export it at a scale of 1:1.

Blender to Unreal Engine Size Guide

Removes the frustration of trying to get the correct size of your Blender asset imported into Unreal Engine.

A screenshot of the Blender app, Shortcut Cheat Sheet.

Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

Searchable, mode-aware, made for scattered minds.

A screenshot of the Blender app, Mesh Pre-Rig Evaluator.

Pre-rig Mesh Evaluator

23 mesh checks for clean UE5 exports.

Coming Soon
A groom exporter for hair from Blender to Unreal Engine.

Groom Exporter from Blender to UE5

A groom exporter for hair from Blender to Unreal Engine.

Coming Soon
II — The flagship quest

Fuzzy World — forged in the open.

A survival video game and a lightweight tabletop RPG sharing one world: peaceful Fuzzies defending their village from crashed aliens. Grown from a childhood drawing into Unreal Engine 5.

Unreal Engine 5BlenderTabletop RPGClassroom edition
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A drawing from 10-year-old Jay McCann. (When he was ten.)
An purple alien modelled in Blender 4.5 modelled after my childhood drawing.
https://jamesmccannbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/game_01.webp
III — The bard's tale

Oh — and the bard writes books.

Author — writing as James McCann — of YA and middle-grade novels (Orca, Crwth, Iron Mask), with two decades of storytelling workshops in schools and libraries, and a library tech who facilitates a recording studio. The maker's craft didn't come from nowhere (probably).

Book cover for Children of Ruin
Book cover for Flying Feet
Book cover for Rancor: Vampyre Hunter
Book cover for Pyre: Vampyre Defender
Book cover for The Three Spartans
Book cover for A Spartan at Sea