Dan Algstrand 🇸🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Listen to my old friend talk about the culture of Swedish TTRPGs.

Have a great time! Wish I could have gone, but it wasn't in the cards for me this year.

A bunch of laid out TTRPG spreads zoomed out to illegibility.

A bunch of laid out TTRPG spreads zoomed out to illegibility.

Three days worth of TTRPG layout grinding.

Woohoo!

@bsky.app, @safety.bsky.app, @support.bsky.team – unsuspend Goran’s account.

Thank you!

I need more TTRPG creators to follow.

What are your favorite writers, designers, and artists here on Bluesky?

Yeah, of course. Spider-like demons and otherworldly entities can keep their mandibles and compound eyes for all I care.

I *think* I have edited out all the “mandibles” in Free League books (sometimes, I don’t even tell them), but a few occurrences of butt-venom had to stay, regrettably.

PSA to all fantasy TTRPG authors:

Spiders do not have mandibles (they have chelicerae). Nor do they have compound eyes (they have “simple eyes,” ocelli). Nor a venomous stinger at the end of their abdomen (that’s where the spinnerets go).

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Thanks.

Thank you.

I am, but I mostly do layout and pre-press work.

Yeah, Antonio De Luca really is an amazingly skilled artist.

Thank you. You're very kind.

Here's what I've been working on the past month (typography, layout, and pre-press). As well as the twin book for the 5E version, of course.

We're glad to have you. I'm assuming you'll be located in Stockholm. So if you'd like me to show you around town, and introduce you to everyone and everything, just let me know.

TURIF!

<pedantry>That would be *graphic design*, not layout.</pedantry> Sincerely, someone who does both for a living.

I’m sorry for your loss.

I’m from Sweden. I have no idea how to interact with strangers without the social lubricant that is a slight inebriation.

I whole-heartedly agree.

Congratulations! It really is an awesome, imagination-tickling, and useful supplement.

Also: Regular expressions (GREP) is an amazingly powerful tool. Not only for search/replace, but also for GREP styles imbedded in paragraph styles applying character styles to certain words ‘on the fly.’

That way you can change settings in the top style, and the changes will affect all styles below it. This has made my job a lot easier. Need to change the typeface/language/text size? All you have to do is change one style.

Oh. Um. Utilize the power in patent/child paragraph and character styles. Meaning that you start with the the style used for most of the text, and then create styles that inherit the settings from that one and just change whatever needs to be changed.

I second that!

12:40 a.m.

11.53 p.m.

Jämtland, Sweden. 10 p.m.