Jonas-Merlin Schumacher
@jonasmerlin.bsky.social
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I wish I could but I would prefer not to. (Morally) good negotiator. Probably thinking about RPGs.
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Just released the 2nd version of my set of hex tiles based on paintings from The Met Collection. This version brings the number of tiles from 6 to 44 and includes bangers such as ocean tiles, making it usable to create real maps for the first time.
jonasmerlin.itch.io/the-met-coll...
#ttrpg
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The Met Collection Hex Tiles v0.2 by Jonas-Merlin Schumacher
Hex tiles for Hex Kit
https://jonasmerlin.itch.io/the-met-collection-hex-tiles
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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)
about 2 months ago
THE KNIGHT ERRANT: EXPANDED EDITION'S PHYSICAL EDITION IS OUT NOW! The first Indonesian Tabletop RPG product published internationally!
www.copypastecoop.com/shop/p/the-k...
Thank you
@davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social
,
@daniellocke.bsky.social
, Copy/Paste Co-op as our publisher!
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Yo
@lusionltd.bsky.social
, why did you have to make all of us small-time shitposters look so lazy?
oryzo.ai
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ORYZO AI
A physical product, reimagined for the AI era, proving even the smallest idea can feel extraordinary.
https://oryzo.ai
about 2 months ago
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So... anyone from Germany got a free weekend next year and wants to spend it getting weird?
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same energy
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Finally managed to write up my notes on A Perfect Rock by
@deepdark.games
!
dungeonmerl.in/3mgzespqirc2e
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Notes on Every New System I Play this Year #6: A Perfect Rock - Dungeon Merlin
https://dungeonmerl.in/3mgzespqirc2e
2 months ago
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When you're searching for images of actors to see how they look now, at what point in the year do you switch from adding the previous year to the current one?
2 months ago
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Only relevant review of Paradise:
defector.com/its-just-ano...
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It's Just Another Day In 'Paradise' Cover Song Hell
Paradise is a good show. I have to get that out of the way early, because I do think that itβs fun and well-plotted and knotted with enough twists to sustain a strong momentum throughout its eight-epi...
https://defector.com/its-just-another-day-in-paradise-cover-song-hell
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Zak H. | Bommyknocker Press
2 months ago
New blogpost, daydreaming of Mythic Bastionland: A knight can interact with the themes of a myth to draw closer to it. PLUS 12 myth-specific relics.
#osr
#ttrpg
#blog
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Myth Attunement
12 new items and new houserules to draw your knights deeper into myth
https://bommyknocker.bearblog.dev/myth-attunement/
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Ivan Reese
2 months ago
with all the deskilling and gell-manning (etc) we're gonna get from automated thinking machines, now is the time for the 'tools for thought' crowd to make tools that help you think things through for yourself. tools to do *more* hard thinking. it should feel effortful. cherish that feeling.
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elmcat
3 months ago
Have you blogged today? You should blog today! Make sure to link to other posts as well! Your inspirations, and posts you disagree with. Keep the conversation going. Or just posts you enjoyed. Every post and every link will last infinitely longer than any skeet, reddit comment or discord message
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This new video essay by
@thomasflight.nebula.tv
on the role extras play in movies pairs perfectly with this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwUr...
Love this trend(?) of essays on the less obvious things that impact how a film feels to watch.
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3 months ago
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A friend created his own perfect version of "A Perfect Rock" by
@deepdark.games
and brought it to our weekly RPG meetup yesterday. This game plays as smooth as those planets look, really enjoyed our time with it!
3 months ago
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Roland Meyer
3 months ago
Fascist
#slopaganda
isn't about seducing anyone. They're aware that their nostalgic images are ugly & fake, and that their promise to return to an imaginary past is a fraud. They're proud of the shallowness of their nostalgia, because their real promise is to legitimize cruelty against others
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Wyrd Science Magazine
3 months ago
Seen a couple of clips the past week from some 1995 Kyrgyzstan documentary The Universe of Manas and had to check out the whole thing. Just absolutely fucking unreal levels of drip here
youtu.be/jgJZCaOI5KE?...
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Even better: write 24 episodes just in time like pre golden era, to react to the viewerβs reactions during the early episodes and find what works.
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Personable | Markus
3 months ago
I blogged:
personable.blog/human-centri...
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Human Centric Game Design: A Manifesto
Exploring how we make games designed for humans to play with humans.
https://personable.blog/human-centric-game-design
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Dr. Emily Friedman
over 6 years ago
βLove is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life, rather than as an alien in the world or as a deity above the world, aloof and apart from human flesh.β [Carter Heyward, Our Passion for Justice, 1984]
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Wrote about why I think writing in networks deserves all the love itβs been getting lately.
dungeonmerl.in/3meqjfytmkc2f
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Writing Things in Networks is Unreasonably Effective - Dungeon Merlin
That's because RPGs are network building games.
https://dungeonmerl.in/3meqjfytmkc2f
3 months ago
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Agreeable Chatter
3 months ago
Can you represent characters as the relationships they have with others? I expanded on Bonds from His Majesty the Worm to find out.
tbr.bearblog.dev/a-miserable-...
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A Miserable Pile of Secrets
This morning I was listening to Boonta Vista, an Australian comedy podcast, and they were discussing a part of the brain called the Corpus Callosum. This is ...
https://tbr.bearblog.dev/a-miserable-pile-of-secrets/
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I very much agree with this. It's actually one of the things I like most about the RPG space: basically no one you meet is in it for the money, because there simply isn't any.
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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open
3 months ago
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Zak H. | Bommyknocker Press
3 months ago
Blog enthusiasts! It's been a huge community effort. We're proud to present WE READ THE BLOGGIES. The year's best blogging coming to you - in audio form. A show to SAVE YOUR EYES and SOOTHE YOUR EARS. Catch up on all your Bloggies reading before voting commences next week!
#ttrpg
#podcast
#blog
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We Read The Bloggies
Games Podcast Β· Weβre volunteers turning Bloggies-nominated blog posts into audio. So you can enjoy them anywhere, in a more accessible format.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/we-read-the-bloggies/id1876393653
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Generally the vibe I go for in all games I run.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLS...
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J-Cut & Kolt Siewerts - The Flute Tune (Soulpride Remix)
YouTube video by skismania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLSrNu1ppI
3 months ago
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Bruce Mackay
3 months ago
found u on the map
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Post a banger that's not in English. Can't not do my boy Guillaume then:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=11A4...
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I would like to already nominate this for next year's gameable category, please:
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...
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3 months ago
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Wrote about the process that turns blog posts I read into lots of tiny little plants for my new digital garden:
dungeonmerl.in/3meeit5e7522w
This turned out both stranger and longer than expected.
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Exploding a Blog Post - Dungeon Merlin
Or: Growing a digital garden out of a Zettelkasten about RPGs
https://dungeonmerl.in/3meeit5e7522w
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ngl folks, I'm pretty proud of this one
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP...
This is a great essay, and one of those things that reminds you to be in constant awe that something like movies even exist. It's also one of the rare essays that really makes the most sense as a video essay.
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Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwPKBXEOKE
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Went through ALL THE TROUBLE to take this photo only to realise that reply guys aren't welcome on the orginal post, so now you all get to see two great lens caps on the official camera of the 1980s!
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One of the most amazing things about OSR blogging culture is how many times I read a keystone post from 2008 and then check when the author last posted something to the blog and it's like a few hours ago.
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Immediately forgot about my plan to do this. Been slowly working my way through this during January, and can proudly report that I'm now... not even 10% finished.
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4 months ago
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Books should look beaused anyway, so why not get them pre-beaused?
accidentalrandonneur.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/t...
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4 months ago
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Everything that increases the physicality of playing is an instant win in my book. (Without me having to stand up, of course. (So we really need some kind of dice fence here that prevents them from rolling off the table... ))
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yourself, but as a cartoon
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the girl with Jean Seberg hair
4 months ago
As someone pointed out to me recently, it's common for rules to say "only roll when needed" without really specifying when it's needed.
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Everybody step off the platform please. New load-bearing theory is being installed.
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Third rule of DNGN CLUB: Jack never misses. Never.
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Ruin a first date: "so depending on who you ask, the r stands either for revival or renaissance..."
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Just released the 2nd version of my set of hex tiles based on paintings from The Met Collection. This version brings the number of tiles from 6 to 44 and includes bangers such as ocean tiles, making it usable to create real maps for the first time.
jonasmerlin.itch.io/the-met-coll...
#ttrpg
#osr
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The Met Collection Hex Tiles v0.2 by Jonas-Merlin Schumacher
Hex tiles for Hex Kit
https://jonasmerlin.itch.io/the-met-collection-hex-tiles
4 months ago
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Kathryn Salamander
4 months ago
I don't always agree with Hank Green but I do quite like what he's saying here. "When we can't find anything we can believe in, the humanity leaks through the drywall and says 'I AM STILL HERE! [...] I AM WEIRD, AND I AM HUMAN, AND I AM NOT FOR SALE!'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWP...
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Here's Why New Year's Eve is Bad Now
YouTube video by Hank Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWPs75q2_Q
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Danny Fist π
4 months ago
I wrote something about the DCC discourse in which I: - Summarise the story so far - Attempt to synthesise two contrary module styles - Praise
@zedecksiew.bsky.social
with a small cameo from my Oma's Nasi Goering
dannyfi.st/posts/Doing-...
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Doing Both
How do we write a module to be both a reference document and good prose?
https://dannyfi.st/posts/Doing-Both/
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GAI Debord
4 months ago
One of the weirdest people to ever exist
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Quick response to
@orthopraxy.bsky.social
's excellent "Eating the Book--a response to 'We Need to Talk About Goodman Games'" to test my extremely cool new URL:
dungeonmerl.in/3mcasvels6s2m
(DM... get it?)
#ttrpg
#osr
#blog
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"We Need to Talk About Goodman Games" vs. "Eating the Book" - Why not both? - Dungeon Merlin
https://dungeonmerl.in/3mcasvels6s2m
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Slightly diminish a game: Mausknappe
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Slightly diminish a game: Line Agency
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Slightly diminish a game: Pile of Rocks
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