Colin Urbina
@lowmountain.bsky.social
Bookbinder, Indie RPG collector
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We are an MLIS capstone team working with the GAMER Group at the University of Washington seeking input on how TTRPG players find games, or want to find games. If you are a TTRPG player, designer, or both, please consider taking our research survey: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
TTRPG Cataloging and Metadata Survey
This survey is a part of an MLIS Capstone project aiming to improve the ways we can catalog and search for Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs). Results from this survey will be used to improve the pr...
uwashington.qualtrics.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We are an MLIS capstone team working with the GAMER Group at the University of Washington seeking input on how TTRPG players find games, or want to find games. If you are a TTRPG player, designer, or both, please consider taking our research survey: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Do me a favour and follow this project. Ella needs 400 followers to get this into ZineQuest, so you'll really help her out.
(That means...follow it even if you don't think you'll back it, but also, back it.)
(That means...follow it even if you don't think you'll back it, but also, back it.)
We've already got over 150 followers! I'm so excited about how quickly and kindly people have shown support for this project.
Please keep signing up to be notified on launch and tell your friends, the number of followers we have on our teaser page will impact whether we get into Zinetopia!
Please keep signing up to be notified on launch and tell your friends, the number of followers we have on our teaser page will impact whether we get into Zinetopia!
Delve into The Deepest Dark
From Ella Watts - Delve into The Deepest Dark
www.backerkit.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Do me a favour and follow this project. Ella needs 400 followers to get this into ZineQuest, so you'll really help her out.
(That means...follow it even if you don't think you'll back it, but also, back it.)
(That means...follow it even if you don't think you'll back it, but also, back it.)
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If you're still feeling uninformed about trans folks & sports, but understand that past lack of understanding about trans healthcare let hate gain steam—ACLU lawyer @chasestrangio.bsky.social has a good Insta summary of how anti-trans arguments both mislead & more broadly threaten everyone's rights:
Chase Strangio on Instagram: "On January 13th we face a collective test. Will we recognize that we rise and fall together or will we continue to let those in power pit us apart?
When SCOTUS hears arg...
3,938 likes, 33 comments - chasestrangio on January 1, 2026: "On January 13th we face a collective test. Will we recognize that we rise and fall together or will we continue to let those in power pit ...
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January 2, 2026 at 12:42 AM
If you're still feeling uninformed about trans folks & sports, but understand that past lack of understanding about trans healthcare let hate gain steam—ACLU lawyer @chasestrangio.bsky.social has a good Insta summary of how anti-trans arguments both mislead & more broadly threaten everyone's rights:
Just catching up on some @friends-table.bsky.social streams and I’m charmed by the red duke.
December 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Just catching up on some @friends-table.bsky.social streams and I’m charmed by the red duke.
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ttrpg design evolution has been weird, it's like 40 years of calculating armour values with logarithmic equations, and then in 2010 vincent baker gave everyone permission to fuck
December 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
ttrpg design evolution has been weird, it's like 40 years of calculating armour values with logarithmic equations, and then in 2010 vincent baker gave everyone permission to fuck
I didn’t realize I had so many plaquettes.
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I didn’t realize I had so many plaquettes.
I love going to museums because I get to see how long humanity has been interested in making l'il guys.
Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I love going to museums because I get to see how long humanity has been interested in making l'il guys.
There is no greater feeling than perfectly aligning the freight elevator.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
There is no greater feeling than perfectly aligning the freight elevator.
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I did a couple bookmaking ones in this and it was nowhere near enough! (Btw, your printing work rocks)
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I did a couple bookmaking ones in this and it was nowhere near enough! (Btw, your printing work rocks)
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Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
As my college advisor once told me “sometimes a thing is worth doing poorly”
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As my college advisor once told me “sometimes a thing is worth doing poorly”
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
Made a tiny box to keep all the business card games I have together.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Made a tiny box to keep all the business card games I have together.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzT... This is the only music you're allowed to listen to today.
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
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November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzT... This is the only music you're allowed to listen to today.
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We've never played Apocalypse World on @friends-table.bsky.social, and yet I think it's pretty fair to say that the show (and a big part of my career) relies on its existence.
Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...
Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We've never played Apocalypse World on @friends-table.bsky.social, and yet I think it's pretty fair to say that the show (and a big part of my career) relies on its existence.
Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...
Couldn't be more excited for this new edition. And I already have multiple ideas around how we might play it...
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I don’t know what it is with so many boomers treating their knowledge like a precious family recipe that you’re not related enough to learn. Literally pass on your wisdom you weirdos you’re gonna die
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I don’t know what it is with so many boomers treating their knowledge like a precious family recipe that you’re not related enough to learn. Literally pass on your wisdom you weirdos you’re gonna die
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How influential is Apocalypse World?
This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.)
www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...
This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.)
www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
How influential is Apocalypse World?
This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.)
www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...
This influential. (And I wrote this chart four years ago.)
www.designers-and-dragons.com/2021/11/02/t...
Apocalypse World and its descendants changed the way I thought about RPGS and has contributed to so much joy in my life. I accidentally started a collection of rpgs focused on the system. I counted them all up the other day and it's around 150. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Apocalypse World and its descendants changed the way I thought about RPGS and has contributed to so much joy in my life. I accidentally started a collection of rpgs focused on the system. I counted them all up the other day and it's around 150. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
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DnD 4e was the only edition that actually knew what it was and that’s why it’s the best one
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
DnD 4e was the only edition that actually knew what it was and that’s why it’s the best one
A titan of the bookbinding community died this past week: Jim Croft. I went to learn from him at his homestead in Idaho way back in 2011. It was a two week course making all part of the book, from making the paper, tanning the leather, splitting the wooden boards, everything.
October 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
A titan of the bookbinding community died this past week: Jim Croft. I went to learn from him at his homestead in Idaho way back in 2011. It was a two week course making all part of the book, from making the paper, tanning the leather, splitting the wooden boards, everything.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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As a bookbinder of over a decade I can confirm most of this, including some inadvisable experiments I ran on the roof of my apartment when I was in bookbinding school.
The History of the Book is a history of markets & piss buckets & animal skins & experiments with hay & men & women & metal & wood & palm & yak & how many sheep go into a single manuscript or using cutting edge tech to see inside a book burned into a single inoperable block.
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
As a bookbinder of over a decade I can confirm most of this, including some inadvisable experiments I ran on the roof of my apartment when I was in bookbinding school.