TTS coming in clutch at the phlebotomist, I felt silly but she was so delighted

Katherine Stark@kastark.bsky.social · 3d ago

I managed to get the TTS app I coded running locally on my phone, so that's today's big win Now I can actually talk to people without shoving my notes app in their face constantly 😌

I managed to get the TTS app I coded running locally on my phone, so that's today's big win Now I can actually talk to people without shoving my notes app in their face constantly 😌

I still miss my horrible little halfling barbarian. She had three distinct body counts

Tom Bloom@orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 3d ago

dark sun is my favorite dnd setting by a country mile, literally the direct inspiration for my comic, and i could not be less excited lol

Wow colour me surprised, Hank Green still taking Ls because he refuses not to use The Machine That Lies To You And Also Burns The World. Is he still claiming that it's a disability aid, too?

You can pry hunger dice from my cold dead hands

There is a walled city atop a mountain, but really it is atop all mountains. The peak of the world, of all worlds, its dominion firm over all times and all places and all peoples. For walls to enclose a city, there must be an outside. For the mountain, valleys. For dominion, the dominated.

Just got my physical copy of You Will Die In This Place and I'm very excited to open it up

Watch out!!! #TTRPG #Comms #Art #LancerRPG

The main problem with doing the research needed to fully round out a project is that you inevitably need to go further back and read your influences' influences and you're forever running into increasingly nested layers of context and terminology and assumptions. It's exhausting

I saw her for the first time when I stepped onto the concourse, dragging my trunk in one hand and holding my page in a book with the other. The window sat high in the far wall, above regular eyeline so as not to induce spin-sickness in a thousand weary travelers. But there she was.

What on earth was that match?! I almost could have sworn we were going to lose, from four ahead no less. Wild stuff honestly

England tonight

The Tactical Maps module exists to give you region maps (general mission area) and battle maps, which are generated from the individual zones. Region maps also double as maps for Far Field. Basically, @kastark.bsky.social got me addicted to mission area maps.

Gelatinous Rube@rubejelly.bsky.social · 3mo ago

2 years of work. At least 1 year for the basics. Now every new feature, every new game supported takes a week or less to get off the ground. #LancerRPG #Lancer

okay so I know I said I was going to take a break from Far Field development after v0.8 dropped, but consider the following

Okay since it has been brought up in public: I have to be so very clear that my playing of any particular TTRPG should *not* be taken as an endorsement. There are some games I play despite the way they're written, because I am a professional game designer and able to rework the bits I don't like.

New version up on Pilot NET, as always the Players Guide and GM Guide docs are pinned in their respective channels

Katherine Stark@kastark.bsky.social · 3w ago

Finally done with the long-overdue aspect revision pass for Far Field. Not without its quirks and obviously will now need a lot of testing, but I'm a lot happier with where things sit. Plus I just got back some incredibly cool illustrations of alien creatures from @darkmechanic.bsky.social and omg

Finally done with the long-overdue aspect revision pass for Far Field. Not without its quirks and obviously will now need a lot of testing, but I'm a lot happier with where things sit. Plus I just got back some incredibly cool illustrations of alien creatures from @darkmechanic.bsky.social and omg

I grew up on the edge of Dartmoor and it has the best weird local legends and folklore, the Hairy Hands are one of my favourites. We would drive along this specific road quite a lot

Petra Korlević@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 4w ago

I need people to know this is a UK cryptid and these are just SOME of the depictions of it

Watched this live and I have to tell you this was an absolute rollercoaster. This is an all-time great GDQ showcase run.

Jacob Geller@jacobgeller.com · 4w ago

One of the most nerve-wracking, astonishing gaming feats I've seen performed live. Somehow makes Balatro into an actual gambling game and then, through sheer knowledge of the mechanics, forces the house to lose. youtu.be/A7Go7IXlYLg?...

I would like to propose a new RPG term of art: 'owl quotient', to describe how much any given game expects you to draw the rest of the owl.

Once again at the stage of writing where I need to comb through the Lockheed Martin and Raytheon websites to analyse the style of military-industrial marketing copy. It's only been a few hours and I feel dirty already.

The swarm is approaching. I am awake. My fellow pilots are screaming. In her haste, Safi ripped out her feed lines, and now splashes of her chrysalid's blood stain my feet as I run towards my own. A voice rings out across the trod calling the Muotan approach, somehow faster than anyone expected.

Sometimes when you play IRL you need to use whatever game pieces you have lying around. #LancerRPG

England men give possibly their best world cup performance of my lifetime at the Azteca, and now the US crashes and burns after egregious political meddling. Maybe there's hope here after all.

For the record this principle applies to other business models as well. If you can't afford to pay your employees and contractors fairly and your business relies on exploiting their labour in order to stay afloat, you should simply not be in business.

Katherine Stark@kastark.bsky.social · last mo.

“I think it is just public knowledge that there are certain rules you have to follow to make a Kickstarter work." If your business model revolves around lying to your customers then the problem isn't that crowdfunders can't work without grifting, it's that *you* shouldn't be doing crowdfunders

I desperately want to put more spotlight on the idea of comparative etiological mythology in the Lancer diaspora, how it's influenced by sublight space travel and different means of colonial founding, but it's nearly impossible to make it relevant enough outside of one hyper-niche character concept

Katherine Stark@kastark.bsky.social · last mo.

In the killing-darlings stage of development today and though I've never smoked I am feeling the need for a cigarette

In the killing-darlings stage of development today and though I've never smoked I am feeling the need for a cigarette

Last but not least of the characters for our SOTW #Lancer campaign!

Il Fantasma del Giallo is now live! Please repost, there's a lot riding on this! This is a magical realist, Neo-Noir TTRPG that uses a trick-taking card system. The game is inspired by metatextual media, like The Twilight Zone, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, and the Giallo genre. Details below 👇

Il Fantasma del Giallo: The Phantom of the Yellow

Become disgraced actors trapped in a sequence of brutal Neo-Noir murder-mysteries in this cinematic, reality-bending TTRPG.

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