{"id":8099,"date":"2025-07-02T12:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:40:14","slug":"what-ive-done-with-the-first-half-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=8099","title":{"rendered":"What i&#8217;ve done with the first half of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Clearing the decks has been a focus for a while now, and it has finally worked out. So here&#8217;s a marker, as we hit the halfway point of 2025, where I&#8217;m at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handiwork.games\/fiveevil\" title=\"\">FiveEvil<\/a> is done. A horror roleplaying game using a smart remix of the most well-known set of rules there is. It&#8217;s out in PDF, and physical preorder is on the way, and I am so so proud of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/Stay-Fight-Innis-Tutagalevao-ebook\/dp\/B0DTJTGBXS\" title=\"\">Stay in the Fight<\/a> is done. A personal memoir of family and struggle by a good friend. It&#8217;s out on Amazon now as ebook and POD. Innis&#8217;s story is engaging and valuable and he tells it well, his way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/en\/product\/524861\/kill-your-grandad\">Kill Your Grandad<\/a> (the game) is done. A black-comedy tabletop roleplaying game about teenage time-travelling nihilists. It&#8217;s out in PDF and Print on Demand. (As some of you know, I&#8217;ve also written a novel which is a different riff on the same conceptual ground, they are designed to complement each other. Someday i&#8217;ll figure out what to do about the novel. I think it&#8217;s pretty good.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwirpg.com\/kiwirpg-week-2025\/\" title=\"\">KiwiRPG week<\/a> happened. I&#8217;ve managed to step away from this org after being massively involved in setting it up, and it&#8217;s great to see it rolling along. I did a lot of comms for it this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Submitted on two government bills that demanded opposition. Good work me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>House renovations are happening. We&#8217;ve been talking about this for over a decade, and have officially set things in motion. This will give me plenty to do in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also released one episode of my weekly podcast. And walked the dogs a lot. And (most importantly) really looked after my mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty good, I reckon. What next? There&#8217;s a FiveEvil follow-up on the way, of course, but I&#8217;m also going to get one more thing out of the 90% done column and into the done column:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/morguebasiccover.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"500\" data-attachment-id=\"8100\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?attachment_id=8100\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/morguebasiccover.png?fit=630%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"630,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"morguebasiccover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/morguebasiccover.png?fit=300%2C238&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/morguebasiccover.png?fit=630%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/morguebasiccover.png?resize=630%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/morguebasiccover.png?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/morguebasiccover.png?resize=300%2C238&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing the decks has been a focus for a while now, and it has finally worked out. So here&#8217;s a marker, as we hit the halfway point of 2025, where I&#8217;m at. FiveEvil is done. A horror roleplaying game using a smart remix of the most well-known set of rules there is. It&#8217;s out in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=8099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What i&#8217;ve done with the first half of 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-ish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-26D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8101,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions\/8101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}