@annethegnome.bsky.social
Award-winning TTRPG creator: horror, comedy & queer melodrama 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♾️ {they/she} Star Trek account: https://bsky.app/profile/wheregnomeannegoes.bsky.social I make so much stuff: linktr.ee/annethegnome Email: annethegnome@gmail.com
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YES YES YES are you thinking as a game, or as something else entirely??
Artist's books tend to be limited runs or one-of-a-kind objects. They tend to be critical of "book as institution", and often have a sense of playfulness. And I think there's a lot of fun inspiration to be had for if we're thinking of TTRPG books as art objects!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist'...
I told you the lineup was absolutely stacked.
Unfolding Practice: Reflections on Learning and Teaching by Azru Mistry and Todd Elkin
A double-sided accordion book that shows a conversation charted like a sprawling geography over 56 continuous "pages"
Imagine a visual, flowing layout 🌊
digitalcommons.risd.edu/cgi/viewcont...
World without end by Julie Chen
A triangulage book with angled, swirling text on the pages (found maps) and pop-out strips, that spins on an axis suspended a metal rod on a crescent-shaped, wooden stand to form a diamond-shaped globe.
JUST THINK ABOUT IT 🤩
www.si.edu/object/world...
Plinitude, by M.L. Van Nice
Pulling material from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia in a format that almost looks like a curiousity cabinet, with hidden doors and windows all over
I'm imagining a game with layered voices examining conceptions of nature
www.si.edu/object/plini...
A hypothetical analysis of the twinkle in stars (as told by a child to a teacher) by Katherine Ng
This is a large wishing star (lucky star) folded from a single strip of paper with writing on both sides. It contains 5 smaller wishing stars.
A journaling game???
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/c...
Tauba Auerbach: [2, 3]
ok now we're really pushing the boundaries of "book" but imagine an eldritch megadungeon where level are revealed through this kind of dynamic, almost holy geometry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsU3...
Gold rush a multi-page serigraph by Jill Timm
This book is reversible book made out of criss-cross cutouts (called a flag book structure) so that you see something different depending on the angle of perception
A social deduction game, perhaps?
collections.si.edu/search/detai...
Glimpse, by Barbara Tetenbaum and Julie Chen
Pages of envelope sleeves with miniature square window cutouts, and no sleeve with the same cutout pattern.
Think of how pulling an unseen card, with only that glimpse as a hint, could be used in a game!
mcbaprize.org/barbara-tete...
What’s Happening With Momma? by Clarissa Sligh
A free-stranding accordion book that looks like a house, with text that spills out of the windows
Imagine this as an intimate haunted house game 🏚️
clarissasligh.com/themes/memor...
We are Tiger Dragon People Pop-up Books by Collette Fu
A photography project presented as an incredibly ornate, layered pop-up book
Imagine this as a collage-aesthetic, maximalist lyrical game ✨
See the book here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAc7...
there are a lot of posts like this going around and it's VERY EXCITING TO ME, an artist's book nerd 🤩 Artist's books are art objects that are *book inspired*
Please, follow me on an journey through some artist's books that I think would make killer (and commercially maniacal) TTRPG book formats 🧵
RIGHT?!??????
Absolutely wild to be on a panel with these stars.
this is rad and I got jumpscared by the mention of the show I was in and also now I really want to recontextualize that show (and the reactions to it) in the broader narrative and evolution of TA
Catch us live at twitch.tv/gnome_anne Friday, March 20 at 3pm PT (ask questions from the live audience!) or get the VOD afterwards at www.youtube.com/@Gnome_Anne
Want to submit a question in advance and support the show? Head over to www.patreon.com/posts/call-f...
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Next week's #ttrpg panel on 🎤sound design🎶 in AP will feature the auditory wisdom of:
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🔉✨ Sound design in Actual Play ✨🎧
NEXT WEEK, I'm hosting a live #ttrpg panel on all things auditory in AP!
YALL as an enthusiastic-but-generally-uninformed sound geek I'm vibrating with excitement about this one 🤩
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Or a lil pop up guy!!
When I’m learning games, I make flowcharts if the rules to help it get in my lil brain 🤩
It's true. Canadians don't like bullets.
i hold parties for solstices & equinoxes, but the spring equinox kinda snuck up on me and I haven't got time to throw a proper party and im just going to run a game ---
does anyone have a #ttrpg they recommend for 6ish ppl with a *spring* vibe?
The game has already started
I want to make a yarn board of the meta-tingleverse specifically
THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT
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Let’s goooooooooo
gotta bring this guy back