Zach Owens

This is hands down one of my favorite things we host. The art from the community is always a delight to see.

I don't post often, but when I do my posts get reposted by an Spam account that puts their entire ethos into their username. I can't tell if this is a marketing strategy, scam, or attempt to flood Bluesky. Either way, please know I'm mostly here for the art and cool people.

One of the few times I actually sat at Blizzcon. Ran around 20+ games across 2 days and had such an amazing blast. So many wonderful and cool people down for a little improvisational storytelling and dice throwing. Mad thanks to all those who made this possible. Each player signed my rule book!

Greetings Blizzcon Adventurers! If you are coming to Blizzcon come see me and a bunch of other WoW devs at the Last Call at the Arcantina experience. We'll be right next to the super comfy Guild Lounge. Seriously can't wait till this weekend! :-D

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas! The near futurism of this is on point. Looking forward to seeing Riviera and Molly and the rest of the gang.

Smudge * The Darkness (her name, not mine) * Brat * Smudgebutt * Parkour Champion Bandit * Bandicoon * Bandita * Snorfler * Wobblebonk * Whiner * Miss thang Bailey * Sweetheart * Snugglewumpus * Leaner * Chomp chomp * Scaredypup Collectively: * My girls

W/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Our fantastic art team is getting a chance to showcase their stuff. They bring it every time and this expansion has been no exception. So proud of this crew and so happy they get to show off their art!

Thousand Island Role Playing Games. (I found TTRPGs during a time when it was not appreciated by Christians or popular kids)

So excited to see this piece go up. Liadrin and Alonsus are two characters that have grown on me over the years and super happy to see them get screen time like this. Some fantastic work went into this piece. Enjoy!

Just wrapped up a full playthrough of Dispatch and was super impressed with not only the story but how well the integrated the pacing of the game mechanics into that thing. Clearly I am a terrible hacker though so grading on a curve. Still, super satisfying wrap up. Great energy end to end.

Just saw Predator Badlands in a theater and very glad I did. Well thought out action scenes and as a lifelong Alien fanatic I was just enjoying everything about the Weyland Yutani synths and planet full of monsters deadly enough to rival the more peaceful parts of Australia.

Blizzcon is coming. Woot! Can't wait. I've worked every single one and each and everyone has been both exhausting, wonderful and filled with stories and shenanigans.

Can't wait for players to get a chance to check these zones out. Some fantastic work went into all of these zones and the overarching story. (Plus I may have to build my old RP dive bar using our player housing system because seriously I keep getting sucked into our own demo.)

So happy to see the amazing @christiegolden.bsky.social bringing these characters to life in ways few other media are able to capture.

Imagine you're being summoned. What GIF represents that? (I'm on the left...)

The Lucky Blep

Meanwhile, at the Gallagio…

Gamedev

My crew is hiring!

Going to have this on a loop this year. Hee hee. Those wolvar models are old enough to vote.

I put hats on people and cause lots of explosions. But... like... fake explosions.

"You will be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

About 5 pages into spell descriptions and spell schools for this TTRPG that I'm building and I'm realizing I very much need a shorter hand version of all this data. Problems for future me. <Scampers off to build stats for 7 different Resistance spells that legit could just be 1...>

GOOD MORNING HUMANS!

SpoilerBot Alert! The perfect incentive to make more future spoiler fodder. :-D @taliesinevitel.bsky.social This came out soooo cute. Thank you!

Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game. Burning Crusade would have been my first but I was Customer Support. My table top RPG was the first one I felt like a Dev on. I joined Mists of Pandaria as a Quest Designer just afterward thus ending my attempt to do more TTRPGs.

My favorite time of the year. Sooooo many wonderful pieces come out of this each year and we have so many former winners of this art contest on our art team today. I can't art myself and look forward to seeing what all of you lovely people make.

This rendered me unto tears. Two of my favorite characters and so little time available to spend with them. This is just... seriously I love it!

These are so amazing!

Finished the 1st draft of my 5th novel! ✍️133,323 words!✍️ Weee! *Collapses*

Wee! I'll be signing at Blizzcon in Hall D on Friday 1:30-2:15. Then off to Portal Pass from 2:30-3:00. Can't wait to chat with the players!

Enjoy this stack #art #warcraft

Happy Zero Cool day to those who celebrate it.

Heyyy, you've got this!

I'm going to keep <3 artwork until my feed is covered in art. :-D Please @ me if something evocative or dragon-related or sci-fi-related drops that you think is cool. I can't art and love those who can. My skills are in writing and world building so I love anything that provokes the imagination.

Wrote 5K words on my novel yesterday in a fit of pent up creative expression. Now to see if I can hit at least a decent word count today. Time to get these fools up the space elevator so I can blow it up!

These beasts want a walk sooo badly…

Starting off the day with a mug of cold brew and an ambitious writing goal. Time to write about someone learning to be a space pirate! :-D

Hi new friends! Here, have some pictures of the dogs giving me that look when I told them it was time to come inside.