Rachael Cruz
@witchwater.bsky.social
Hi! I'm an award-winning (and now Ennie-nominated!) TRPG writer who's been helping people play pretend since before it was cool. My pronouns are she/her. My opinions are my own!
Basic writerly stuff can be found here: rachaelcruz.carrd.co
Basic writerly stuff can be found here: rachaelcruz.carrd.co
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Rachael Cruz
@witchwater.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. What they don't disagree with is that the Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork Kickstarter is LIVE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mod...
RIGHT NOW.
YES. NOW. THIS MINUTE.
GOGOGO!
RIGHT NOW.
YES. NOW. THIS MINUTE.
GOGOGO!
I still grin ear-to-ear. :) I may never stop.
Why? I achieved a "bucket list" goal: I am one of the writers on this game!!!
Ee!
#AmWriting #Discworld #RPG #Fantasy #WomenInTabletop #TRPG #Modiphius
Why? I achieved a "bucket list" goal: I am one of the writers on this game!!!
Ee!
#AmWriting #Discworld #RPG #Fantasy #WomenInTabletop #TRPG #Modiphius
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We're proud to announce our first Disability and Neurodivergence special!
Submissions are open and anyone who is or identifies as disabled and/or neurodivergent in any way that's meaningful to them is welcome to submit
Submissions close: Nov. 10 2:59 AM ET
Dates: Nov. 29-30
gdq.gg/disability-d...
Submissions are open and anyone who is or identifies as disabled and/or neurodivergent in any way that's meaningful to them is welcome to submit
Submissions close: Nov. 10 2:59 AM ET
Dates: Nov. 29-30
gdq.gg/disability-d...
October 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We're proud to announce our first Disability and Neurodivergence special!
Submissions are open and anyone who is or identifies as disabled and/or neurodivergent in any way that's meaningful to them is welcome to submit
Submissions close: Nov. 10 2:59 AM ET
Dates: Nov. 29-30
gdq.gg/disability-d...
Submissions are open and anyone who is or identifies as disabled and/or neurodivergent in any way that's meaningful to them is welcome to submit
Submissions close: Nov. 10 2:59 AM ET
Dates: Nov. 29-30
gdq.gg/disability-d...
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PSA: You can pick up my award winning indie game for less than 15 bucks. We want to keep making more games, so tell your friends! ❤️
#indiegame #pixelart #steam
#indiegame #pixelart #steam
Loco Motive is 20% off for the next week, meaning you can now grab this award winning adventure for under $15!
🗡️A feature-length murder mystery set aboard a train
🎨Beautifully animated with gorgeous pixel art
🎤Full voice acting!
✅ Verified on Deck
store.steampowered.com/app/1709880/...
🗡️A feature-length murder mystery set aboard a train
🎨Beautifully animated with gorgeous pixel art
🎤Full voice acting!
✅ Verified on Deck
store.steampowered.com/app/1709880/...
September 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
PSA: You can pick up my award winning indie game for less than 15 bucks. We want to keep making more games, so tell your friends! ❤️
#indiegame #pixelart #steam
#indiegame #pixelart #steam
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✨We wanna hear your women-made indie TTRPG recommendations!✨
Let’s hear them, folks!
Extra points for links, and don’t forget to check people’s pronouns to avoid misgendering.
Let’s hear them, folks!
Extra points for links, and don’t forget to check people’s pronouns to avoid misgendering.
August 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨We wanna hear your women-made indie TTRPG recommendations!✨
Let’s hear them, folks!
Extra points for links, and don’t forget to check people’s pronouns to avoid misgendering.
Let’s hear them, folks!
Extra points for links, and don’t forget to check people’s pronouns to avoid misgendering.
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
One of the books I worked on has earned an ENnie nomination! Ee!!
Grizelda's Cursed Curiosities is in the running for Best Adventure - Long Form! This was such a fun project, and I'm so proud of everyone!
Wanna vote? Go here: vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/
Grizelda's Cursed Curiosities is in the running for Best Adventure - Long Form! This was such a fun project, and I'm so proud of everyone!
Wanna vote? Go here: vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/
Before voting, please take the time to familiarize yourself with the products and judges. Clicking on a product's title will take you to its publisher's websites, allowing you to learn more about that product.
vote.ennie-awards.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
One of the books I worked on has earned an ENnie nomination! Ee!!
Grizelda's Cursed Curiosities is in the running for Best Adventure - Long Form! This was such a fun project, and I'm so proud of everyone!
Wanna vote? Go here: vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/
Grizelda's Cursed Curiosities is in the running for Best Adventure - Long Form! This was such a fun project, and I'm so proud of everyone!
Wanna vote? Go here: vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/
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We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...
Donate to Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense, organized by Nicole Lindroos
My name is Nicole Lindroos, co-owner of Green Ronin Publishing. Diamond … Nicole Lindroos needs your support for Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense
www.gofundme.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...
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It's my 35th birthday today🎂!!
I would appreciate if you rt my portraits as a little gift ✨
Thanks for supporting me this year !🖤🖤
I would appreciate if you rt my portraits as a little gift ✨
Thanks for supporting me this year !🖤🖤
July 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's my 35th birthday today🎂!!
I would appreciate if you rt my portraits as a little gift ✨
Thanks for supporting me this year !🖤🖤
I would appreciate if you rt my portraits as a little gift ✨
Thanks for supporting me this year !🖤🖤
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We are doing it again and this time even BIGGER!
FREE VTT DAY IS BACK!
Get the 2025 FREE VTT game collection on Alchemy for the low price of... well... FREE! (for one day only)
Check out all these titles and more using the link below:
app.alchemyrpg.com/marketplace
FREE VTT DAY IS BACK!
Get the 2025 FREE VTT game collection on Alchemy for the low price of... well... FREE! (for one day only)
Check out all these titles and more using the link below:
app.alchemyrpg.com/marketplace
June 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We are doing it again and this time even BIGGER!
FREE VTT DAY IS BACK!
Get the 2025 FREE VTT game collection on Alchemy for the low price of... well... FREE! (for one day only)
Check out all these titles and more using the link below:
app.alchemyrpg.com/marketplace
FREE VTT DAY IS BACK!
Get the 2025 FREE VTT game collection on Alchemy for the low price of... well... FREE! (for one day only)
Check out all these titles and more using the link below:
app.alchemyrpg.com/marketplace
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*scrolls through descriptions of shows and movies coming soon*
*show description exactly matches a story I started writing ~30 years ago but never finished because ‘no one’s gonna want to read this psycho-fantasy bullshit’*
Lesson: WRITE ALL THE BULLSHIT. 🤦♀️
*show description exactly matches a story I started writing ~30 years ago but never finished because ‘no one’s gonna want to read this psycho-fantasy bullshit’*
Lesson: WRITE ALL THE BULLSHIT. 🤦♀️
June 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
*scrolls through descriptions of shows and movies coming soon*
*show description exactly matches a story I started writing ~30 years ago but never finished because ‘no one’s gonna want to read this psycho-fantasy bullshit’*
Lesson: WRITE ALL THE BULLSHIT. 🤦♀️
*show description exactly matches a story I started writing ~30 years ago but never finished because ‘no one’s gonna want to read this psycho-fantasy bullshit’*
Lesson: WRITE ALL THE BULLSHIT. 🤦♀️
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We don't talk enough about how far we've come with HIV/AIDS. This shit used to be a guaranteed death sentence.
BREAKING: U.S. regulators have approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV.
FDA approves the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV. In two groundbreaking studies, Gilead Sciences’ shot nearly eliminated new infections in people at high risk of HIV.
bit.ly
June 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We don't talk enough about how far we've come with HIV/AIDS. This shit used to be a guaranteed death sentence.
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I used to buy fresh raspberries and then put off eating them because "just eating them wasn't special enough" (what???) but then they would go moldy and I couldn't enjoy them at all!! So now I eat the raspberries! Light the fancy expensive candle! Stick the stickers you're hoarding! USE THE STUFF
"Your life should not be a museum." "Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets."
May 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I used to buy fresh raspberries and then put off eating them because "just eating them wasn't special enough" (what???) but then they would go moldy and I couldn't enjoy them at all!! So now I eat the raspberries! Light the fancy expensive candle! Stick the stickers you're hoarding! USE THE STUFF
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Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer (side-scrolling action-RPG/platformer from Blast Zero) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayAj...
store.steampowered.com/app/2413800/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2413800/...
February 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer (side-scrolling action-RPG/platformer from Blast Zero) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayAj...
store.steampowered.com/app/2413800/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2413800/...
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Please don't evangelize the use of AI after I tell you I don't support AI.
Evolution saw fit to give you a brain; use it instead of relying on a magic 8 ball that accelerates climate change 🫠
Evolution saw fit to give you a brain; use it instead of relying on a magic 8 ball that accelerates climate change 🫠
January 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Please don't evangelize the use of AI after I tell you I don't support AI.
Evolution saw fit to give you a brain; use it instead of relying on a magic 8 ball that accelerates climate change 🫠
Evolution saw fit to give you a brain; use it instead of relying on a magic 8 ball that accelerates climate change 🫠
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If you are a TTRPG designer who can’t afford to pay an artist living wages it is 100% cool and good and AWESOME to use resources like this so you can create a world you’re proud of looks cool.
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you are a TTRPG designer who can’t afford to pay an artist living wages it is 100% cool and good and AWESOME to use resources like this so you can create a world you’re proud of looks cool.
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The famous green owl app Duolingo is going even harder into AI made by stolen content. It's not curated by native speakers so you have no idea if what you're learning is correct. Their algorithm overall tries to hit the happy brain juices instead of helping you learn. So here are some alternatives!
September 24, 2024 at 10:02 PM
The famous green owl app Duolingo is going even harder into AI made by stolen content. It's not curated by native speakers so you have no idea if what you're learning is correct. Their algorithm overall tries to hit the happy brain juices instead of helping you learn. So here are some alternatives!
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Oh, I have good news.
![[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kazs6skhkhitmtlhxwq2g264/bafkreigxvcrmm3rvnlyvqvekioqbrypd2l7z4vbzsgvjkncpmfr5fx72h4@jpeg)
January 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Oh, I have good news.
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Thinking about media that gets celebrated for its diverse and inclusive approach to sexuality and yet fat people are nowhere to be found save for maybe as evil trolls and demons, their bodies an object of horror and ridicule
December 31, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Thinking about media that gets celebrated for its diverse and inclusive approach to sexuality and yet fat people are nowhere to be found save for maybe as evil trolls and demons, their bodies an object of horror and ridicule
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Now I’ve heard there was a tiny rat
Who fell into a mutating vat
And who knows how much pizza he’d have brung ya?
Cos he might have raised four turtle sons
And equipped them all with shurikens,
But…
Who fell into a mutating vat
And who knows how much pizza he’d have brung ya?
Cos he might have raised four turtle sons
And equipped them all with shurikens,
But…
It’s a cold and it’s a broken “cowabunga”
December 21, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Now I’ve heard there was a tiny rat
Who fell into a mutating vat
And who knows how much pizza he’d have brung ya?
Cos he might have raised four turtle sons
And equipped them all with shurikens,
But…
Who fell into a mutating vat
And who knows how much pizza he’d have brung ya?
Cos he might have raised four turtle sons
And equipped them all with shurikens,
But…
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This is one of my absolute favorite tool for face lighting! You drag the head to the angle you want and then press play or drag the bottom slide til the light is where you want it.
williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...
williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...
FEMALE HEAD, LIGHT REFERENCE TOOL
After the success of the first one, I decided to create another version of the lighting tool. So this is the Female simplified head version. Hope it will help you for your works ! feel free to share =...
williamnguyen.artstation.com
December 27, 2024 at 11:40 PM
This is one of my absolute favorite tool for face lighting! You drag the head to the angle you want and then press play or drag the bottom slide til the light is where you want it.
williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...
williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...
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ICYMI! I have a sweet #TTRPG starter pack for the Pacific Northwest! British Columbia. Washington State. Oregon. Idaho. GMs, creators, artists, companies, and more. All here!
go.bsky.app/P7Nq6Xo
go.bsky.app/P7Nq6Xo
December 9, 2024 at 3:12 AM
ICYMI! I have a sweet #TTRPG starter pack for the Pacific Northwest! British Columbia. Washington State. Oregon. Idaho. GMs, creators, artists, companies, and more. All here!
go.bsky.app/P7Nq6Xo
go.bsky.app/P7Nq6Xo
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Because art brings joy, you have to see this too.
December 6, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Because art brings joy, you have to see this too.
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ABSOLUTELY NOT
This is a great way to completely destroy the cause of ALT.
“We steal from artists” is NEVER the answer. Repost with ALT AND ATTRIBUTION
Or politely ask someone to ALT their work
Threatening people and painting folks that advocate for ALT text as thieves is a horrible strategy.
This is a great way to completely destroy the cause of ALT.
“We steal from artists” is NEVER the answer. Repost with ALT AND ATTRIBUTION
Or politely ask someone to ALT their work
Threatening people and painting folks that advocate for ALT text as thieves is a horrible strategy.
December 1, 2024 at 7:20 PM
ABSOLUTELY NOT
This is a great way to completely destroy the cause of ALT.
“We steal from artists” is NEVER the answer. Repost with ALT AND ATTRIBUTION
Or politely ask someone to ALT their work
Threatening people and painting folks that advocate for ALT text as thieves is a horrible strategy.
This is a great way to completely destroy the cause of ALT.
“We steal from artists” is NEVER the answer. Repost with ALT AND ATTRIBUTION
Or politely ask someone to ALT their work
Threatening people and painting folks that advocate for ALT text as thieves is a horrible strategy.
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Hey, writers! Just want to put this on your radar. There's a rash of new accounts here trying to scam writers by pretending to be book marketers. They are generally not legit. You can recognize them because:
December 4, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Hey, writers! Just want to put this on your radar. There's a rash of new accounts here trying to scam writers by pretending to be book marketers. They are generally not legit. You can recognize them because: