In Memory of Uncle Coyote

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My brother, Mark L. Davis, passed away on 4/25/25 at the age of 52.

I owe everything to him. Literally everything I do — the music I listen to, the movies I watch, the books I read and, yes, the games I play draw from his influence. I wanted to become a writer because of him. Sigil & Shadow exists because of many campaigns we’ve played over the years — Hunter: The Reckoning, GURPS Monster Hunter, and many more.

He was almost a decade older than me, and had every right to ignore me as his obnoxious baby brother growing up. But he didn’t — he was my “third parent”, which I say with admiration to our Mom and Dad. He got down on my level, he always made me felt heard, and he talked to me like an equal. I’ve heard from quite a few that this was a quality he shared with them. He never married, never had kids of his own, but he was Uncle to many, brother to others.

The ChaosGrenade is a moniker he gave me. Us Davis men have a tendency to say things (sometimes innocently…) that would cause a butterfly effect of discourse throughout our social circles — he referred to this as “tossing a chaos grenade”. I loved that term, and in a lot of ways I felt it’s a great label for throwing dice in RPGs. Anyone who has rolled a “1” on a twenty-sided die in Dungeons & Dragons knows what I’m talking about.

A blog post can never do justice to encapsulate a man like my brother in his experience, his compassion and his journeys. But I would be remiss not to put some words here, at the place where I collect my ramblings on the hobby we shared. Every work of mine has some of his ideas in it. And going forward, he will be a compass for every project I do.

Even if his answer was always: “…you can do that with GURPS.”