REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter!
55 Player Classes
150+ NPC Classes
29 Factions
20 Example Moons of Realis
GMing and Prep Guidance
Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Realis Kickstarter: April 1-30, 2026. A squat frog person smokes a cigar in a sci-fi airport while their berserker companion looks at them with bemused disapproval.
Realis—the debut TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social—arrives this Wednesday, April 1 (no foolin') in a Kickstarter campaign that will run til the end of the month! Bookmark the pre-launch page today to get notified when it goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru... | featured art by @aurahack.ca
Graham and I had a real good time talking about horror, romance, and precious slices of rpg history
I had a wonderful conversation with @helloalexroberts.bsky.social on Ben Riggs' podcast.
We talked about games that are starting to disappear from memory: Ben Lehman's Polaris, Stuart Chaplin's many games, Julia Ellingboe's Steal Away Jordan, plus the many that didn't make it out of playtest.
[this is not a joke btw]
HMU w/ any leads in western WA/south puget sound to work as a Library Page. I want to push books in carts and put them back where they go, one of the last remaining net positive public goods.
The Unbearable Effectiveness of Being Able to Run the Damn Code
#programming #software #practices #rant
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The next #BandcampFriday is March 6th!
Head to ghoulnoise.bandcamp.com to add some soundtracks to your wishlist!
- Skin Deep
- Patrick'sParabox
- Spooky Express
- A Good Snowman is Hard To Build
& more!
Advent of Code in Unison, Day 7
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This was _much_ smoother than day 6 for me. The solid block of characters made for an easy parser and the data structure I used for part 1 transitioned nicely into part 2.
#unisonlang #adventofcode #adventofcodeunison
Advent of Code in Unison, Day 6
I made bad choices (or got unlucky) with my parser for this one and had to re-work it substantially for part 2, which is a shame because the parsing is the hard part on this one.
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#unisonlang #adventofcode #adventofcodeunison
Advent of Code in Unison, Day 6
I made bad choices (or got unlucky) with my parser for this one and had to re-work it substantially for part 2, which is a shame because the parsing is the hard part on this one.
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Advent of Code in Unison, Day 4!
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Grid based puzzles are always a good time. My favourite trick for these is to use an associative data structure for the board instead of a nested array.
#unisonlang #adventofcode #adventofcodeunison
Remember a week ago, when I went on a tear about the value of written documents? This is part of what I mean. This book has MASSES to tell about teachers, students, education, mental health, corporal punishment, etc. Who's printing out & keeping forever the digital records on their school's actions?
Day03 of Advent of Code: the return of Joltage!
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A few hurdles dealing with List functions, but otherwise a pretty straightforward puzzle.
#unisonlang #adventofcode #adventofcodeunison
Another day, another Advent of Code puzzle.
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Nothing terribly complicated here, though I did use streams instead of lists to avoid blowing up memory.
#adventofcode #adventofcodeunison
Day 1 of Advent of Code in Unison down!
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I feel like there might be a more elegant solution to Part2, but it's late and I'm biking both kids to school tomorrow, so this'll have to do for now.
#adventofcode #adventofcodeunison
It's Advent of Code trim again and I'm getting ready!
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#adventofcode #adventofcodeunison #unison
To @sidneyicarus.bsky.social and @mrmatthew.bsky.social
: thanks for the pod :)
Keep your Cool, from *Monsterhearts 2e* by Avery Alder
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This episodes gets at consent, player agency vs. character agency, and how Monsterhearts makes you feel like a teenager.
Tell a Story, from *Escape from Dino Island* by Sam Tung & Sam Roberts
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This episodes is all about how moves can shape pacing, and how even innocuous moves can have “balance” implications.
Some of my favourite episodes:
Accuse someone of Lying, from *Pasión de las Pasiones* by Brandon Leon-Gambetta
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This move is an exemplar of how Pasión sets you up to have effective drama.
I recently wrapped up listening to _The Hard Move_, a podcast where each episode was an in-depth discussion of a single Powered by the Apocalypse move. It wrapped up a few years ago, but the backlog was a nice (and entertaining) design resource all things PbtA.
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I wrote some backdrops for _Dialect_!
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There's a price on them so that I have something to contribute to fundraising bundles, but if that sounds like your kind of thing please grab a community copy. ❤️
#ttrpgs #language #thornygames
Per the footnotes in *How Bad are Bananas* (which I find very helpful for doing these kinds of comparisons as a non-climate-expert) it's something like a volcano eruption or the World Cup.
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I made something for the Pope Game Jam!
Catty Cardinals is a game of traditional values, veiled accusations, and conspiracy set in the college of cardinals.
PWYW on Itch: natknight.itch.io/catty-cardin...
#ttrpg #pope #gamejam
lyric comic to pink in the night, by mitski. page 1 text: and i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right. scene 1: a little boy and girl are sitting in the rain. the boy wipes away tears, having tripped and scratched a knee. the girl leans forward to kiss the small wound. scene 2: the two friends are in elementary school, holding hands. the boy looks at a picture depicting a mom, dad, and child.
page 2 text: can i try again, try again, try again. scene 1: high school. they lie on the floor during a study session, but they only have eyes for each other. scene 2: college. the same couple, only now they are two girls, kissing in bed. scene 3: the girls are getting married, exchanging a sweet kiss in a field of flowers. sunset colors cast warm light onto their wedding dresses.
page 3 text: try again, and again, and again. scene 1: the girls are moving in together. one dozes off against an unpacked moving box as the other kisses her head. scene 2: disneyland. both wear minnie mouse ears as they take a selfie, laughing at the kiss mark one has left on her wife's cheek. scene 3: the childhood friends have grown older. one woman hides a bouquet behind her back as they kiss over breakfast.
page 4 text: and again, and again, and again? scene 1: the women wake up in bed together, hints of grey in their hair. one kisses the other's bare shoulder. scene 2: a winter walk. they kiss as their dog plays in the snow. scene 3: the shore of a beach. the wives have greying hair and fine wrinkles, but they're still just as in love. they hold each other close, laughing, full of affection.
pink in the night (2019)
They say it can’t be done, but here we are, California is generated 106% of California’s entire state electricity demand from renewables.
California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world.
Let that sink in.
#energysky #greensky
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And go check out Skin Deep on Steam or Epic if you haven't already! Go have a laugh! It's good for you! 🍌🤸♂️
I think it was the bathtub scene in “The Shining”, which is surprising because I read a bunch of Animorphs and Diana Gabaldon before that and was none the worse for wear… 🤷
if you guys and pals aren’t following @clairewillett.bsky.social today you are having a *very* diminished New Pope Day Bluesky Experience™️