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Caleb Zane Huett
@calebzane.bsky.social
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Creative Director @ Haunted Table. Lead Designer of Triangle Agency TTRPG. Children’s author (Top Elf, Buster, Ironsword Academy). calebzanehuett.com
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Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · Oct 17
while people are looking:
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calebzane.bsky.social
my character, the young pope Metropolitan Sampsa, is now marrying big_dog beefstink, leader of the hacker collective, in the final hour of the game. it's all gay drama in #over/under turns out
calebzane.bsky.social Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · 1d
"toxic gay drama in #over/under will never come for me" i said. "it is out there somewhere but my poor sampsa will never get roped up in it." i was wrong. it comes for all of us
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
calebzane.bsky.social
i've been writing on my laptop in a chair that does NOT have room for dog but jpeg does not care
Caleb in a papasan chair with Jpeg the dog invading his space and trying to lick his face.
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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norgad.bsky.social
#over/under
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online
you should buy this album of songs written by taiko montgomery in #over/under because they're incredible & also i am on one of them!!! this one!!!!! i'll probably post all of mine some time this week too but for now: wowowowowowow
The Rise of Dawn (Feat. Satah), by Taiko Montgomery
from the album Under the Dream
taikom.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
calebzane.bsky.social
"toxic gay drama in #over/under will never come for me" i said. "it is out there somewhere but my poor sampsa will never get roped up in it." i was wrong. it comes for all of us
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online
over a week ago i wrote this out to deliver in #over/under for a big dramatic reveal that ended up simply not happening. so it just Sat There. but as of a few minutes ago i've officially managed to organically hit every single anecdote in roleplay so i'm CHECKING IT OFF BABYYY, SPEECHIFIED,!!!
Sibling-Cardinals: the stars whose name I was gifted were said to look like the pendulum of a clock. I connected with this because of its rhythm— its metronomic power— but I invoke it now to ask for the indulgence of… Time. A series of moments. Chronological order. 1. The ship I largely grew up on passes through an energy net set up by enterprising corporate-sponsored pirates. Many in cryo wake up suffocating to death as the reverberating shockwaves take out system, then back-up, then emergency back-up. Many get their life back as huge portions of corrupted data erase the evidence of debt. Balance can look simply like violence if your point of view is too short. The grandmother who raised me— is still raising me, though I cannot admit it, because I am young— incurs significant damage when the drone helping her in her farm duties glitches and attempts to... as we understand it, harvest her. When she can speak again, she asks me to step in as choir director. "You waste your talents on lonely pursuits," she says. Uncharacteristically critical, but she is in much pain still. "Your faith is strong enough and needs no further work. Use it instead to help others strengthen theirs." I have to bristle, because I am young. She is correct anyway. 2. Stepping into the sanctuary on the Dream for the first time, folders of sheet music in my arms— I'm learning quickly that this marks me as an eccentric but I'd learned not to trust data, as you might imagine— I'm outright shocked by the esotericism on display. It is a blessing for my reputation that I have already been so offended by the air quality that I have my face covered. We did not much go in for the cards on the transport. Whether it was true that tarot was legally seditious for its technical depiction of monarchy or if simply no-one was willing to test the limits was unclear, but the suppression was effective regardless. And now, suddenly, here it is, everywhere: openly dealt, widely trusted. It still scares me for a while, but eventually, I come to find great comfort in it, and the hands of the oracles who shuffle it. That which seems dangerous can, in fact, be a gift. 3. Our Metropolitan and Pontiff come to me with an offer, and a warning. You are all intimately familiar with both. First, I think of Sol. The Invictus shines within me. I see stars, I feel the last moment of tension in a bud just before it blossoms, I hear the choir that has always hummed in my dreams. Then, briefly, I think of my long-dead grandmother. I know that she would advise me to gratefully, reverently decline. "A title is not the work, and worse, it will convince you that it is," she would sometimes say. I am old enough now to know she needed to believe that to face the day every morning. To not crumble under the weight of never getting the recognition she deserved. To rituallistically stave off resentment. I tell the Radiances that devoting myself to the cultivation of Solarian creativity has been my life's work, and I am prepared to give any amount of it to that aim. I mean it. I will never stop meaning it. 4. As many of us have, I arrive at the Bratva Ball with a gift for the Obshchak: in my case, a somewhat standard song of friendship. As vines up the lattice can keep it upright / As pollen needs wind to lift it to flight. The party is loud. There are more people in one room than I would have seen in a full month for much of my life, and there are multiple rooms. I keep thinking I'm used to the Dream, and then something reminds me I am not. As fruit spreads the flower / as flower bears fruit / As trees stretch higher the deeper their root. Myself and the Many-Voice work carefully through the words in the bustle of the party. As water and ground produce naught without seed / May our combined efforts bloom all we need. I spend much of the night quiet, observing, close yet far, wondering why I know so few of these people. Even those I came with. I resolve to change this. I mean it. But I do not follow up on it. 5. I am still covered in the wax from my Flare ceremony. Some has flaked off, but some cakes deep into the lines of my hands, and it all sat long enough that the colour stained my skin. In the Caliban operations center, I find calm. It is maintained, purposeful. In the sanctuary, I find panic. It is stoked, purposefully. I am detained. I am released. A litany against fear is shouted down. Fear continues to be brought to me, shouted at me. My mind returns, more and more, to the calm focus of the operations center, and I tell myself that it does not. That I do not think of it. That I do not find comfort in it. I do not mean it.
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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d20plusmodifier.bsky.social
Some of my favorite pieces of art I've done during #over/under for #mothershipmonth
A tarot card for "death" that has a graphic illustration of tentacles ripping a person apart, their skeleton on display. A black and white portrait with gold accents of a woman with long dark hair and sheer scarf over the lower half of their face. Their eyes glow gold.
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
calebzane.bsky.social
could everyone please help my cardinals elect a new space pope. it isn't healthy for them to be stuck in a conclave. they only do this when they are very distressed
posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online satah @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 3d
i dunno how they're talking about it out on the Dream because i'm sequestered but take it from me: this is all you need to know about the conclave so far #over/under
a playstation 2 badly photoshopped so its name is spelled P L Y A Y S T A T I N same but now all of the sony brands on the image are spelled S Y O N Y now the image is just covered in a blown up "2"
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
calebzane.bsky.social
posting this is like taking the pulse of my bluesky feed. yall still cool? the answer is no except for 4 of you smh
calebzane.bsky.social Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · 6d
juro izumi ? but i'm . . . juro kurabe . . .
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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foresightstudio.bsky.social
Just released a super minimal, layout-free version of this game for the minimalist ttrpg jam! Could reasonably be described as "show-and-tell meets the X-files in an anime high school," but it's also a lot more than that

free/PWYW on itch now: foresight-studio.itch.io/epic-minimal
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
calebzane.bsky.social
feelin stressed about meeting folks' expectations right now so in case I am bothering you or delayed: on a tight deadline for a big novel for the first time in several years, and on deadline for pitching a book series, and trying to produce multiple ttrpg projects,, i will not be annoyed at a nudge
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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nrcgray.bsky.social
lady knight painting:
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
calebzane.bsky.social
juro izumi ? but i'm . . . juro kurabe . . .
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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willjobst.bsky.social
there are so many of these quiet inclusions of pure diesel all over this project. one super plunderable thing is that each region has a short tone poem at the top, like here:
Screenshot from the Valley of Flowers from Phantom Mill, that reads: Brobdin Wood Big-bellied laughter from the forest’s depths—!e vegetal sweetness of wild honey—Ducks fussing and flapping in a cottage garden—Cook fires crackling amidst the pines—Two streams converge in a rocky glen—Cold dew on wildflowers as the sun rises. There's also an illustration of Brobdin wood with a dark path through the trees, two hard men having a conversation, and a tavern!
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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willjobst.bsky.social
a cool part in poetry is that your title is included in the poem.
in rpg design, think about abilities, picklists, and roll tables like poems, and experiment with the title and subtitle. for example, look at this picklist from @jedediahberry.bsky.social and @andrewmcalpine.bsky.social.
A screenshot from https://phantom-mill.itch.io/rere-regardant-wildendrem. Here's the text: What Misfortune Befell Your Liege? d6 You Were There When It Happened 1 Pierced through the heart in a tournament. Take plate mail with a hole in the breastplate (as chain mail but heavy as plate). While wearing it, you receive a +2 bonus to reaction rolls with chivalrous types. 2 Waylaid by a band of ruthless brigands. You have a 2-in-6 chance of detecting ambushes (before rolls for surprise). 3 Lured to their doom by an enchanter/enchantress. You receive a +2 bonus to saves relating to illusions. 4 Vanished into a mysterious fog and never heard from again. You suffer from terrible nightmares which sometimes provide clues to the whereabouts of lost objects and people (but never your lost knight). 5 Choked to death on a chicken bone. You can go without air for twice as long as other people. 6 Died peacefully in their own bed. Take your inheritance: a long sword (d8), a shield, and 100gp.
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
calebzane.bsky.social
#over/under
Metropolitan Sampsa, an over/under character, says: Why can't the gay people in my phone stop going to war?
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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annleckie.com
I suspect that the techbros who read the SFF stories about robots rebelling decided that the moral of the story was "design them so they won't" and they think that's actually possible and desirable.
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8d
side point but the idea that if you make a human grade robot intellect it will do whatever you say without protest seems underexamined
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8d
Even if you were willing to buy that an LLM/Gen AI tool has human-like intellect, you’re still left with the fact that an LLM doesn’t NEED a job to remain alive under capitalism, but a human does.

morality-wise, surely many would agree that humans should thus be given priority for jobs due to need
November 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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mattlikestapes.bsky.social
ms paint cartoon: deranged-looking person sitting at a laptop and smiling, saying "Aah yes time to go online! I hope every person on the planet likes every single thing about me!"
November 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
calebzane.bsky.social
pokemon got me with corbeau. i can still be targeted and manipulated by fiction
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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ianzell.bsky.social
a few new plushie designs Ive been trying out
blue plush with white stomach and yellow beak, penguin maybe? dog plush dog plush dog plush close up blurry
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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moreblueberries.bsky.social
It’s my birthday, please play the time we have and be sad with a friend in my honor
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
calebzane.bsky.social
i should have said: quiet, 5 barking dogs. a 17 is speaking
calebzane.bsky.social Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · 8d
based on your appeal score (which is basically how hot you are) you get more flexibility on what you do in the feast. In round two I was able to discard the card "angry dogs" and replace it with queening out with an older duchess because my character is hot enough. sorry dogs. i'm busy
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
calebzane.bsky.social
last night in "Pendragon but everyone's gay" we went to our first feast. I drew a card from the Feast Deck of events that happen at the feast (god i love this game) and the very first one introduced a "generous knight" who wants to pay my knight's bills and make him functionally rich for a year
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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rossignol.bsky.social
The joy of ttrpgs, to me, is that anyone can hack them. After years of hearing people say "wouldn't it be cool if" about digital games and then sighing at the sheer ludicrousness of work involved, a medium where someone can suggest something at the table and then you can just do it, is bliss.
jdragsky.bsky.social jay Dragon is recovering @jdragsky.bsky.social · 9d
idk i think one of my big goals as a designer is that if you read my book and spend enough time playing , you can absolutely understand and deconstruct the philosophy that was used to make the game. it's not that hard to approach games with a game designer mindset! it's odd to try and gatekeep it
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM