percival hornak

I love working in TTRPGs because I can be at a planning meeting dealing with a lore reconciliation issue and earnestly say to my collaborators, "would mech suits solve this problem?"

(for the record: mech suits did solve it)

fearing the day that listening to Sean Kingston at an unsafe volume won't get me through doing last-minute article edits

it's just me and my talenti jar of peanut butter pretzels against the world

it's out, it's in the world!! tune in to our main podcast feed for the first two episodes of our season of @stillfleet.bsky.social — listen to our brief Explainer to get a sense of how the game works + why we were so excited to play it on the podcast, then dive into our first actual-play episode 👾

really enjoying the avatar selections on my family's shared streaming accounts

The Expressionist Games Manifesto “Work! Intoxication! Brain-racking! Chewing, eating, gorging, rooting up! Rapturous birth pangs! Jabbing of the brush, preferably right…

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

Me @percivalhornak.bsky.social and @nsorvis.bsky.social went on Why We Roll to chat game stuff! And it’s a back door promo for our UPCOMING SEASON of @dndramanerds.bsky.social, releasing to your podcast feeds on 9/10!!!

We're back with more lovely actual play friends! On this episode, we're joined by Percy Hornak, Nicholas Orvis, and Ben Ferber of ⁠Dungeons + Drama Nerds⁠! As we discuss the intersection of stage plays and games, improv, tiered authorship in TTRPGs, and more. #WhyWeRoll #Podcast #RPG #TTRPG

it was indeed a difficult feat and they sure did not roll well

tonight at our d&d session I did say the sentence "roll to make a croquembouche"

sometimes writing stuff about trans art is just googling "[name] pronouns?" over and over

copiously weeping at the new episode of Game Changer, wysocki-heads are thriving in this chili's tonight

AMAZING presentation by @persephone.blue and @percivalhornak.bsky.social, I was spellbound right to the end! Go read their full paper, it is so good: analoggamestudies.org/2025/07/lich...

A title slide showing an eel with the words "Liches, Lampreys, and the Moon: An incantation for trans life & lyrical play" as the title.

So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨

had to be the hottest person in the audience for Prince Faggot tonight for some reason

you're a genius

in order to ensure maximum productivity while i'm writing i work for 25 minutes while my roommate's cat naps next to me, then i spend 5 minutes rumpling his fur, and work for another 25 minutes while he fixes what i have wrought upon him

if you call Twelfth Night Shakespeare's most trans play you have no imagination or understanding of what being trans actually is at all

rolled a nat 20 on developing a new civil infrastructure for the bottom of the continent of Issylra in the penultimate session of our d&d campaign today

you better believe my artificer invented trains and public transit

this is what you're looking for except the bag might be pink

genuinely if they have this candy I will send you money for pigs and shipping

yes this is my unfortunate new reality

alas, I live in the United States

my coworker brought me some Percy Pig candy back from Ireland and unfortunately they may be my new favorite candy (unfortunate only bc it seems like you can only get them in the UK)

the actual song I listen to before I do any conference presentation is Cha Cha Cha by Käärijä but I think a better public-facing walk-up song would be, like, Can't Stop by Red Hot Chili Peppers

what if I asked the panel moderator play to walk-up music for me when I present at academic conferences

every time the ice rattles I lose a point of editing mana

the bonus of editing your own podcast is you can drink apparently the loudest drink known to man during your recordings

forgot how when you need to make dinner you can actually just put a bunch of stuff together in a bowl and you need not plan a cohesive dish

a screenshot of a comment Percy made on Google Docs that simply says "please help"

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