Kerby

A miniature of a sentient spider-person. She has metal plating on her legs, and a large bag of various goods she can try to sell you ranging from pouches and potions to crates of camp supplies and weaponry.

This was a lot of fun to paint! #minaturepainting #ttrpg

4 Society of St. Leopold vampire hunters minis with flamethrowers. They look vaguely like George Washington with a flamethrower.

4 models for the Mob, a faction in the Vampire the Masquerade Bloodfeud boardgame. They have dark jackets, purple suits, and stacks of cash.

Painting little guys for my next go at VtM Bloodfeud! Hoping to get around 15-20 players this time around.

Illustration of a cute brown bear in a clawed foot tub full of bubbles, being startled by a ghost bear who is in the bath with them. Another ghost bear hangs by a rubber ducky, offering a wash cloth. They are just here to help.

Can't even take a bath in peace!!

10 hours into Bloodlines 2. It's *fine*.

This is where I campaign for Bloodhunt being the best VtM game that's come out in the last several years. It's only crime was being a BR and not Bloodlines 2.

... Alternatively, the Vampyr video game is better than all of this.

#portfolioday is healing tbh

Aferah, an illustration by Eleonor Piteira of a woman in profile standing on a desert. Framing her head is a gold sun like a halo, and her long dark hair becomes the night sky behind her, with two pale moons among the stars. On one hand she holds a 4 leaf clover and on another a gold cup tilted down, a gold river pouring from it.

Aferah, for a personal project, 2017

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Meanwhile in #Portland

Starting my rewatch of Haunting on Hill House. So stoked!

I think the big thing is that I just feel confident in having a direction to work toward, even if I have to leave it, then not having a direction at all.

As a GM, usually A. I look to what could be cool to see by the end of a session, and am totally prepared to drop the idea mid game. Some campaigns hit those notes perfectly.

Then you had Mage the Awakening which refused to humor me even once the entire 40+ session run.

Applying for new #ttrpg writing gigs is scary. I feel like I simultaneously have a lot of experience and none at all (despite designing and KS'ing a game!). 😬

Two books side by side. On the left: A Very Asian Guide to Filipino Food. On the right: Reacting Game Designer's Handbook 4th Edition.

Back from my west coast trip! Was pretty tamed about not getting too many books.

Very excited to complete the finishing touches on my first zine anthology, Unfinished Business (a zine about the things that haunt us). Everyone's pieces are so beautiful.

Generally good! 80% of it was for pf2e.

I made sure to set expectations, learn the customer expectations, and try to work it out from there.

Ran long campaigns, birthday one shots (almost a bachelor's party one shot too), and other stuff in between.

Done both! Mostly the latter!

What portland needs is affordable housing, lower rent, a real plan to provide the homeless with a pathway off the streets that isn’t “just bulldoze the encampments”, and fluoridated water, not fucking federal goons sent in to stir up shit. I felt perfectly safe until reading that garbage, thanks.

Powell's out of Portland!

Tribe 8 TTRPG rulebook cover

@rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com found this out in the wild on my road trip!

Depends on the system, medium and players for me, but generally a bit of both? It's more interesting to see what players do with information than gatekeeping it, so I think it comes down a mix; the given information doesn't have to be complete.

A picture of Mt. Rainier from Reflection Lake.

What a hike!

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

I always think I'll do more reading or writing than I actually do on long flights. At least this time I cracked open Jade City for a read.

Three weeks later and I'm back in Seattle!

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

Wonderstorm should use the Dragon King Kickstarter to buy the Cortex Prime #TTRPG from Dire Wolf Digital, publish and produce Tales of Xadia themselves, and then make Cortex Prime itself an open license. Perhaps consider giving the spotlight authors the rights to their spotlight work.

I'd return to MU* in a heartbeat if it's got a decent community and good #ttrpg RP.

Halloween stuff creeping hard into September this year but tbh I'm not mad about it.

illustration of a cat wearing witches' clothes riding on a broomstick high above the fields, they are greeting a goat witch flying next to them, in the background there's also a crow and a frog, the sky is deep orange and there are stars scattered among clouds

This our night 🧡

#art #cuteart

I guess I need to update my resume.

I was only "gone" from running/playing #ttrpg stuff for ~4 months and I feel so rusty coming back in.