Did you know, for the Children of Time RPG we designed a GM screen that transforms between reference materials for the ark ship and the alien planet side of play? Why? Because I am incapable of making a normal-ass GM screen and @mazistyping.bsky.social keeps enabling my sicko shit.

In case anyone wants a glimpse into the mindset I enter immediately after I hit the 'GO LIVE' button on a crowdfunding campaign. This is my playlist today:

Look at this little creature. So chill. Such vibes. She doesn’t have a crowdfunding campaign to launch today!

Another good reason to sub to the RRD newsletter is for dumb shit like this:

Entering my bard era with a little gift to myself.

Going to my first ever LARP tomorrow and I’m so excited. I’ve been trying to get to one for a couple years now but life kept throwing curveballs at me. It’s a LOtR LARP set at Duncairn Medieval Village near Stirling (Pic below). I’m dying to run about a fort and hit folk with a foam sword!

Finally entering my cryptid era where I l can be spotted lurking in the top left of TTRPG industry group photos.

Great workshop at @cymerafestival.co.uk today! Tickets sold out so we had a full house of city building nerds. Ended up with some great cities, including one that makes you explode, one that’s perpetually sinking, one with rainbow beaches and a slight cannibalism problem, and many more.

An Infinity of Ships is a great wee read. Just bucketloads of spark tables.

It’s the last day of UKGE which means you should swing by the lake and watch the geese with me! Wait shit, Im supposed to tell folk to go the RRD stall aren’t I? @naomithinksit.bsky.social is gonna kill me.

I need to deploy this picture the next time a developer questions whether they should charge more than £30-40 for one of their books. Have you SEEN the shit that nerds will pay money for? Your art is worth more than this, surely?

PoV: You finished your stall shift and decide to go play the hot new game at the con.

Geddim!

Friend sent me a screenshot from an old stream just now like ‘Yeah but remember when your hair was LONG?’ I’ve had mid length or short hair for so long this was like a jumpscare. (Also holy crap the exposure on that camera. It really was the early days of WFH).

Bonus new prescription sunglasses shot.

Con-season haircut ✅

The sun had claimed another victim.

One of those rip-roaring Saturday nights where I sit in blender, sipping coffee and trying to visualise different ways I could convert the built-in wardrobe in my office into a TTRPG reference library. Absolute mad woman over here.

White chocolate and lemon. It was great.

We need to take a bold stance.

TIL there’s a formal name for this style of book design. When designing Ways and Means I just spent months waving my arms at folk and screaming “FLIPPY BOOK! THE BOOK IS FLIPPED DOWN THE MIDDLE! ONE SIDE PLAYER CONTENT! ONE SIDE GM CONTENT! PLS COME BACK! IM NOT CRAZY!”

The garden bun is SO SMALL! Robyn is getting some amazing pics.

Day 3 and the bunny is still in the garden. I think they’re a permanent resident now!

More garden bunny! This is giving me the serotonin I need to live.

So… round…

Stop what you’re doing! There’s a bunny in the garden!

Been making some LARP armour out of scrap leather for a friend and, gang, I always forget how long sewing takes. They should make a machine for this or something.

Great wee panel at Conpulsion. The bisexual lighting and velvet curtain gave the whole affair a stand-up-club vibe that, honestly, more con panels should embrace.

Can’t believe it. The video games industry is in such a dire state that the Valve logo is moonlighting as a bog roll holder. 😔

The magpies have been pulling the coconut fibre lining of our planters for nesting material, so every now and then I catch myself doing a double take at a magpie with a moustache.