Jonas-Merlin Schumacher

...and face-sitters.

Screenshot of page 10 in the Mythic Bastionland quickstart on "Specifics of Combat" with the Shieldwall & Spearwall rules highlighted.

Screenshot of page 11 in the Mythic Bastionland quickstart on "Warfare" with the Warbands and leading from the front rules highlighted.

Mythic Bastionland has the concept of shield- and spearwalls where 3 or more knights can work together. There's also the concept of warbands, which are diegetically larger than just the party, but are still controlled by them.

(Screenshots are from the free quickstart so okay to share I think.)

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.

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

My post didn't win!? I'm sure if you finally counted the thousands of votes still held in a Polish warehous it would!!

Train a prediction model on this year's blog map + bloggie results, put the whole thing on autopilot.

Congcats! Clayton has done an incredible job this year, but can't help but expect 2027 to be the most technically sophisticated Bloggies ever now.

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.

Sounds like a great way to handle that part. Will the book version be available in Germany in March as well, or will I still have to wait some time before I can force all my non-TTRPG playing friends to play it? (I actually think it might be a good "cross over" game)

(Sorry for the double response, Bluesky is acting up)

We played a quick session of "Oh Captain, My Captain!" afterwards btw., where we imagined the captain of our generation ship. Really great pairing!

Thanks for making the game! I was really impressed with how well it played and how even with "just" the 2 x 6 prompts for the planet's features, it lead to wildly different results. Having the physical object as a reference and inspiration really worked very well as a prompt-multiplier.

Thanks for making the game! I was really impressed with how well it played and how even with "just" the 2 x 6 prompts for the planets, it lead to wildly different results.

It's a world builder in the truest sense. You choose rocks (which you optionally collect yourself as part of the game) as inspiration for "planets", and then the players take turns describing aspects of that planet, like atmosphere, fauna, etc.

All in search of a planet you can settle.

(Yes, those are slate tablets and chalk pencils. He christened this version a "slate and chalk" game!)

Photo of the final table state of our round of A Perfect Rock. Shows a big slate tablet holding smooth, round rocks, representing the plantes you explore in the game, as well as smaller slate tablets with text about the planets we created. In the background, there's a device that shines light into a green rock, creating an "artificial sun".

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!

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

A horse rider with spear and an incredibly badass conical goblin helmet

A woman in some kind of blank faced habit with the top of her head on fire, she looks like she’s manipulated genetic lines for 10,000 years to make sure you were born and you turned out to be a soft as shit dickhead

A load of couriers all wearing face mask sat around a yurt at the feet of a dude in a gold suit sat on a throne with his own face a pitiless void

A dude on a horse, the horse has fucking antlers and somehow that’s not the gnarliest thing here, again his helmeted head reveals a terrifying Stygian abyss where his face should be

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?...

Okay, yeah, makes sense. Sounds like they were trying to not have the same info in two places at once. I also find that annoying when I notice it.

What are your issues with it?

The Age of the Grift Shift For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, a...

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Even better: write 24 episodes just in time like pre golden era, to react to the viewer‘s reactions during the early episodes and find what works.

That‘s great, rescuing a dog can be a lot of work, but he sounds like a jackpot.

The ear comment was just about how cheeky he looks. He definitely knows what he‘s doing

Those ears tell a different story though

Very good gateway dog. (Welcome to being a dog person)

Human Centric Game Design: A Manifesto Exploring how we make games designed for humans to play with humans.

I blogged:
personable.blog/human-centri...

“Love 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.”
[Carter Heyward, Our Passion for Justice, 1984]

Screenshot from a video teaching you how to spell "boobs" using a calculator. The still shows a hand punching in the number 5, thus finishing the deed.

(Loved your post btw!)

A Pattern Language for (OSR) Adventure Design - Dungeon Merlin

Can confirm: dungeonmerl.in/3lw2nzp6yls2y