Crikey! Just two or three backers needed! $100 shy of our Goblin Goalpost with 2+ days to go! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

It will be a nail-biter, with about 48 hours to go and about 20 backers needed. The good news--there's always just enough time for heroes to save the day. Kindly back Chancers if you can! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06y...

On the front page of BackerKit in the “Ending Soon” marquee. Today’s challenge: figuring out the tone of tomorrow’s promotional approach for Chancers with less than 800 bucks to fund.

Three magical days left in the campaign for Chancers. I suspect a bunch of Bluesky folk will appreciate the high-key Mamdani vibes. Don't let this chance pass you by! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Welcome to Day 26--the day you'll decide Chancers was the TTRPG you've been waiting for all along! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Today's horoscope says: "Whatever you ask for, you get." So today I reckon I'd like some of the folks who've glanced at Chancers to take that leap of faith and pledge to the project. I feel like a strong weekend will help us reach our goal by next Tuesday. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Rainy here, but the vibes are impeccable following an A+ workout on what is usually The Slog That Followed Leg Day. Feels like a grand day to back Chancers, too! Now fortified with extra villains and messed-up monsters! Just six days left to hop on board! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Seven days to go, and the calendar on the wall tells me it would be a mighty fine day to back Chancers! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Closing in on the last week, and we're still moving right along. Don't let a good chance pass you by! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Chancers is an optimistic game, and a bunch of new pledges over the holiday weekend hints, I think, at folks imagining what the world will look like after November 3rd elections. Optimism is running high at Jaunty Goblin HQ, too. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Ten days of this delightful madness to go! The weekend has been brisker than brisket in terms of crowdfunding crowdfun, so hopes here at Jaunty Goblin HQ are high for a pledge-packed Sunday! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Today in Chancers we're reverse engineering the LeMarchand Box for alarmingly wholesome purposes. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

A reminder to my fellow Americans--it will be easier to back Chancers if you don't blow off your fingers with fireworks. So make good choices out there today! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

I like to think there's a special place in non-denominational Hell for folks who respond to generous-minded, humane, and kindly sentiments on Facebook with the laughing emoji.

I don't expect a great many pledges over at Chancers Central this holiday weekend, but I'm often wrong about such matters, and glad to be so. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

My horoscope has promised me exciting occupational tidings today. Maybe it's the day you, a person of refined tastes and prepossessing good looks, decide to back Chancers? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Chancers is officially on the downward slope and picking up speed as it hurtles toward being fully funded! A great time to climb on board if you need a break from doomscrolling! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Today we take a break from writing about beasties in Chancers to prep a Fall 2026 book order. I'll need some good picks for "Literary Modes and Genres." But you should still go check out Chancers. It's good for what ails ya. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Nearing the halfway point for crowdfunding Chancers, and I've just commissioned new art and a new map. The game guide will be "rad," as the kids say. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

When you institute basic income for all, the pricing of goods and services gets pretty darned wonky. But that's Chancers for ya. Good problems to fiddle with all the way down. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

An overnight pledge has me back on track to fund! Do give Chancers a look, won't you, if you would like to play in a fantastical world governed by competent people with good intentions: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... And it's Friday, so we pay the cat tax with Calliope and her red blankie!

Today in Chancers we add another short Story segment (the June 35th bit in the middle) to do a solid for folks reading on their phones and tablets, and we link over to some of the magic the layout editor has already wrought: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

In the day's life-affirming Chancers news, someone who canceled their pledge on Day Two uncanceled it today. Three cheers for second thoughts! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Pre-paying this week's Cat Tax with a glimpse of Prime Minister Miaou dozing on the wee sofa my wife knit for him. And today would be a dandy day to back Chancers, since you can go in knowing that Jaunty Goblin Games won't be undone by tax evasion. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Lots of promoting Chancers lately, so today we pay the cat tax. Here's my good friend Happ, playing coy and pretending he really doesn't want to hop into the lap hammock...

Dinner and a show with The Shawty on Friday. Justin Willman puts on a great magic show. The magic gets a solid A, and the interaction with the audience an A+.

A bit belated, but I thought I'd push out a Juneteenth update in order to give folks a glimpse of the diversity I've tried to capture in Chancers as we head into the campaign's first weekend. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

I am pleased to report that I've tilted the algorithms just enough to get spammed with advice vids from attorneys and a great deal of Maine Coon content.

While I keep waffling about who to use as character references for the fraternal twins serving as co-monarchs in Chancers, I feel like Ellen Swallow Richards is a spot-on choice to be the leader of the Alchemists' Guild. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Day Two of the crowdfunding campaign for Chancers! We're off to a roaring start, and if you'd like to get on board, the early bird special reward is still on the table! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

I'm not saying my brainspace is currently locked in on the tandem launch of Chancers and The Blue Way today, I'm just saying today is back/biceps day at the gym and I forgot to do biceps.

We're about a week away from launching, assuming BackerKit gives me the green light, and I'd love to get some more peepers on Chancers, a game that celebrates diversity, centers a bunch of LGBTQIA characters, and asks players to dream up new ways of doing good. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Battling BackerKit today, trying to correct a single instance of punctuation that vanished, but when I do, the system tells me I've updated my email campaign.

Didn't really have it on my bingo card, but it's beautiful to see AEW distinguishing itself from the bootlicking devotions of the WWE by leaning into LGBT rights in general and transgender rights in particular, following the lead of some of its most popular performers.

Today I'm trying to decide if I can/should catch the vibe of Chancers with artistic inserts of Representative Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Mamdani as the current rulers of the Drifting Kingdoms, or if that would be a muchness. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Few things epitomize AI nonsense to me more fully than the 15-second Youtube ad for Adobe Firefly. "Firefly, turn this spaceship into a pink sneaker!" reminds me that AI is at best a lame novelty that does almost nothing any user would want or need a program to do. It's just embarrassing.

First pedicure ever, and they did not add a hornsent or clownfoot surcharge, though I was a smidge too tall for the salon chair.

In the launch party for Chancers, I open by noting that nine generations of failsons had dragged the Drifting Kingdoms down until the Kingdoms themselves anointed a transgender king by acknowledging their greatness of soul. It gets a little bit woke after that. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Today we confront the terror of knowing I am generally better off keeping my fool mouth shut while also knowing I need to promote the bejillikers out of Chancers for the next 35 days. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Today's visit to the AI Discord did not disappoint. The academic area rolling in schadenfreuda, since one of the programs deleted a company's production database. The image addicts learning the censorious moderation of one generator has yielded to a vague "I think that must be a fetish" censor.

This is good news we can use: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/394534...

Today we throw out all pending Bald Man Action Plans to write a buddy comedy for Kane Dodder and David Howard Thornton.

Today we might need to hunt down some artists to commission for entries in the bestiary for Chancers. Not too many pieces are involved, happily, but they are quirky enough that human art is definitely called for.

Reviewing two chapters of Chancers today for revision, and I am pleased to report they are good. Today we have grading on tap, with a 50/50 chance of tackling the chapter on alchemy.

Did 80% of the stuff I meant to do today, but alas, I did not have the time to update the wife’s Street Fighter character.

The Ballad of Black Tom on tap tonight in the graduate seminar. Tuckered out, but experiencing a bit of jazzening at the prospect.

Almost called an audible and took today off as a mental health day because I was on a writing roll I did not want to come to an end. But here I am at work, full of regret. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN82...

Probably going to unsub from Shudder this weekend, as the content sans Joe Bob and Darcy does not tantalize me enough to stay. Might see about subscribing to another channel heavy with B movies and related nonsense, though.

The chief difficulty I encounter with work on a substantial, sustained project like Chancers is that I don't really have the more-or-less free time to work on all the other creative impulses that Kool Aid man their way into my brainspace.

Today’s writing challenge is revising a chapter on loosey-goosey reputation rules, which I’d drafted right after work on the combat chapter wrapped. I might have erred more than a little on the side of something like technical precision.