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 for D&D Tools

Tools for the long campaign.

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

Tabletop Dungeons & Dragons tools

DM's Companion

Run the table without flipping through books.

A player character reference app that requires no sign ins and runs remotely on your device.

Player's Tome

Class features, spells & inventory in your pocket.

Coming Soon
A mobile app that can be used to remotely control your Foundry VTT character. Rolls dice in the app and shows in Foundry.

Remote Player App for Foundry VTT

Roll dice, manage inventory, and more — all from your mobile device. Save your screen for the maps and chat log.

Coming Soon
An app to track multiple NPCs during combat. For use with Foundry VTT.

NPC Tracker for Foundry VTT

An app to track multiple NPCs during combat. For use with Foundry VTT. Can be used on a mobile device or in a seperate browser tab for multiple screens. No more opening and closing multiple NPC sheets while also trying to maintain the map and combat.

Coming Soon
II — The Armory for Blender Tools

Create better pathways to Unreal Engine.

Tools that just work.

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
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