Colin Urbina
@lowmountain.bsky.social
Bookbinder, Indie RPG collector
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
www.youtube.com
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.
y'all ever have a vacation so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?
September 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
y'all ever have a vacation so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?
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This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....
Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey
September 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....
First Mitch from the Huntington and now Linnea at the LoC! I love seeing @nbssboston.bsky.social bookbinding grads share their knowledge.
Welcome to the world of “inclusions,” an ecosystem known to archivists the world over in which they come across all sorts of things readers have purposefully or inadvertently left between a book’s pages. Recently at the Library, the objet du jour was... a snakeskin. 🐍 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/09/...
September 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
First Mitch from the Huntington and now Linnea at the LoC! I love seeing @nbssboston.bsky.social bookbinding grads share their knowledge.
This looks super cool.
SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...
Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize
Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.
www.newberry.org
September 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This looks super cool.
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I heard all the chuds are worried cause steve gave jay that one ancient dai-katana forged in the heart of primordial earth and she's gonna use it to cut the munchkins average play time down to a palatable 3 and a half Hours
September 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I heard all the chuds are worried cause steve gave jay that one ancient dai-katana forged in the heart of primordial earth and she's gonna use it to cut the munchkins average play time down to a palatable 3 and a half Hours
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Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Coming soon: Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Also works for an academic
August 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Also works for an academic