Only one week now 'til #OriginsGameFair! Come learn how to make habitat-themed bases with me! #nature #miniatureHobby

Drove to a coffeeshop 'cause our power went out last night, and it's already too hot and muggy in our house for my heat intolerance. Gonna pay for too-early activity with decreased energy all today, but sitting in that heat would be even worse. #spoonie

......Damn. Sending all my sympathies to everyone impacted. This shit sucks. paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise.

Only two weeks 'til #OriginsGameFair! Come learn how to make nature-themed bases with me! bit.ly/4x6DlWw #miniatureHobby #miniaturePainting #tabletop #warhammer

I had nothing on my schedule yesterday for the first time in two weeks, and no immediate deadlines looming. So I spent it reacquainting myself with the in-progress AP that started this whole venture.

Energy has been volatile lately. Trouble falling asleep (as evidenced by this timestamp), heat (I have I tolerance to it), and recent trouble with ADHD causing unhelpful high-energy fidgeting periods are a bad combo.

Heads up for any artists/writers/etc currently using Linktree to point people to their work: from 5 July they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E.

Good day aside from the lack of sleep the night before. Finished one project, made good progress on another, and went to a library craft night.

One time my players decided to take a break from saving their home from an imminent extinction ritual to go adopt giant corgis. Whoever added that one tiny blurb in the gazetteer of Extinction Curse book 6, you gave my players their favorite session of the whole campaign.

Less than a month 'til #OriginsGameFair, and still lots of seats in my basing classes! I'd greatly appreciate any and all signing up or word-spreading to help me not *lose* money teaching classes this year. #miniatureBasing

Being given free rein to write half a book about biology, but also being from a subfield that gets heavily dismissed/ignored by othere wrt some subjects, and also being a bit of a salty, bitter dick at times is a dangerous combo. 🫠 @adastragames.com is gonna have his work cut out for him editing me.

Okay, this is awesome.

I didn't do all I wanted to do today. Two projects untouched, but unexpected errands done. We finally have a false indigo bush after eight years of trying to find one! Alas, I need to spend the rest of the evening recuperating from the outings. I'll try again tomorrow. #spoonie

My newest [mis]adventure is out! If you weren't able to play it at Bridging the Gap this weekend, you can buy it to run yourself. 🙂 I've included a Foundry table for it, but this is my first time doing so. So please let me know if you run into any issues! #Pathfinder2e #silly

1 of 2 Bridging the Gap runs of Don't Wake Pathfinder Daddy done! I was going to release it on Infinite at con start, but have decided to hold off. Gonna try to have a day-of Foundry module release-ready for it. Gonna fiddle with Roll20 and see if I could also quickly do it there.

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

Been taking way too long to get to sleep lately, so functional working hours have been even more limited than usual. Finally made some progress on the Biological Evolution Game yesterday. More planned for today after going through some edits for Don't Wake Pathfinder Daddy.

This week on Planetside… Our series Writing from History continues with “Unearthing Timbuktu’s Legacy: Using West African Manuscripts in SFF Worldbuilding” by Jason Collins, read by @geekartzentner.bsky.social: sfwa.org/2026/05/19/u...

Welp. Cat's out of the bag 'cause B&N messed up again. I'm a Paizo freelancer now! No, I can't talk about what I wrote, sorry. All info is NDAed until release.

It's #GenCon event day! Taily-po's all gone, but the others still plenty of have space. www.gencon.com/event_finder...

Playtested Don't Wake Pathfinder Daddy last night. Running it is *very* different from running a normal Pathfinder game. It's rokeplay-forward, so a big shift from the mechanics-forward approach I'm used to for most Pathfinder games, Society in particular.

This week we’re talking about what games are and are not about based on their rules and voids, a riff on @lukegearing.bsky.social’s article on abstraction murkdice.substack.com/p/the-2-axes... #ttrpg #osr

I used to have a shelf in my office where I put the thank you cards students had given me. And being given a heartfelt sendoff from the previous job by my natural history club students and a couple colleagues from another department who also participated in it was a wonderful feeling.

Less than 35 hours remain on the Runaway to the Stars Kickstarter! C'mon Talita, put your back into it! Come support a strange slice-of-life webcomic about a bunch of scifi outcasts becoming friends! And also stealing company property and assisting a criminal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

This is a *wild* story

Warning for board game folks: this site has a list of industry people that uses AI slop for images and bios. I’m trying to figure out how to reach out to them to ask to have the entry on me removed. Wanted to spread awareness on the slop. www.4pillargames.com/about/

We still need another 15% to continue developing this game designed for gay people who love suffering + insane jigsaw-puzzle style plots 🫶 ⤵️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...

Cover reveal 🙂

Today's work was all Pathfinder Daddy. Mostly layout, some editing. It would have been smarter to hold off on the former until the latter was done, but I just really wanted to see a visual of something close to the end result.

#GenCon registration day is fast approaching. Reminder of the classes I'm teaching!

I'm a prolific box text writer in my adventures, both in the sense of verbose and in number of boxes. I've only ever gotten feedback to cut it. I wanna talk about it a bit. tl;dr, Sometimes (but not always), saying 'too much box text' is #ableist

Did I just spend a whole evening making a fancy background for Don't Wake Pathfinder Daddy? Yes I did. #Pathfinder2e #BridgingTheGap #PathfinderInfinite

Walked and talked with a friend. Grocery shopped. Replaced some vegetable plants a pesky critter pulled up 'cause I fertilized with a stinky fish-based fertilizer. Another round of edits done. Meeting for another project. Hung out with cats. Why does it still feel like I wasted half the day?

It's nice to come back to a project you'd set aside to mull over for a bit, and feel very satisfied that the new edits you're making are a definite improvement. But, oh, the pain of having to cut other good bits for word count. 🥲 #writing

The past two days have been working on Ad Astra stuff (Composer of Cultures and another project I've been tapped onto). Gonna try to wrap up a section of CoC, then hop back over to a different project for a few days.

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The #GenCon event catalog is open! They haven't finished scheduling all the early submissions, though, and only some of mine are released right now. Here's all of my submissions! The ones in the second group may have their time/day changed depending on how the schedulers finagle things, but 🤞not.

Just finished writing "Don't Wake Pathfinder Daddy" and I am so excited to run people through this. (Now on to the editing phase.) #ttrpg #writing #Pathfinder2e

Want to learn about basing miniatures at #OriginsGameFair? I'll be teaching classes on natural habitats in the #miniatureHobby classrooms! 🧵

Want to hear about a big project I'm working on with @adastragames.com and @jfzeigler.bsky.social ? Tune in to this interview at 4 pm Eastern tomorrow (May 1st)! I'll be in the chat answering any questions that come my way. #evolution #sciFi #gaming

Shameless plug—you can learn all about how rivers flow to the ocean (and sometimes don't) in my class on building world maps with science! This year, I'm only teaching it at #GenCon, currently slated for 10 am on Friday (but schedule not finalized on their end yet).

Look I love me some optimization in TTRPGs but for the love of dice, please just pick the less optimal but more flavorful/character-fitting option from time to time. No one is perfect, and your character doesn't have to be either.

There's a way to turn Copilot off (for now, at least 🫤). The linked article links to another with instructions. #fuckGenAI

Phytosaur tooth enamel microstructure. It's published now, though I'm not the one who finished it.

Something my mom posted: "Let's Unlearn: Being Loyal without Reciprocity! Doing so leads to self-abandonment" sometimes my mom be giving a whole word in just a short post.

Two new products up on the shopping cart tonight! The first is Abbreviated Architect of Worlds for Traveller! This 8 page PDF takes the highlights of Architect's world building process tunes it for Classic and Mongoose Traveller!

#OriginsGameFair events have been released! But things are still being added, so if you looked right away you missed a lot. Like my #miniatureBasing classes! They've been released now alongside my seminar on #animals, so just waiting on the new #Pathfinder2e adventure I'm debuting at #BridgingTheGap

Editors are the proletariat of the publishing industry. We are being pushed out by machines because our labor is seen as replaceable. We get paid dogshit by most companies. But w/o us, machines homogenize and fail to detect critical context and sensitivity problems. W/o us, your book looks bad.

Just went outside and found locust borers running along some of the branches Bob lined our walkway with in a mating frenzy. Good lord, they're frenetic. #entemology