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@algstrand.bsky.social

Role-player. Freelance graphic designer and production artist specializing in TTRPGs. Nerd. Member of STOCKHOLM KARTELL. Leftie. Trans-inclusive feminist.

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Iโ€™m sorry for your loss.

07.08.2025 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

05.08.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I whole-heartedly agree.

05.08.2025 05:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

02.08.2025 11:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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 โ€˜on the fly.โ€™

14.07.2025 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

14.07.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

14.07.2025 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I second that!

10.07.2025 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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12:40 a.m.

09.07.2025 22:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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11.53 p.m.

07.07.2025 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jรคmtland, Sweden. 10 p.m.

07.07.2025 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I miss G+ too, sometimes. It was excellent for finding and chatting with roleplayers from all over the world. And a catalyst for getting the OSR movement off the ground.

04.07.2025 10:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*Mythic Britain*, obviously. โ€Mythic Brianโ€ makes me want to rewatch a certain Monty Python movie.

27.06.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just realized that my original post sounds a bit passive-aggressive. That was not my intention.

I merely wanted to explain why I couldn't do the vaesen chapter in Mythic Carpathia the same way I did in the core rules or Mythic Brian & Ireland.

27.06.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, I have. But apparently there's a โ€œbudget.โ€

27.06.2025 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What I *did* do was to keep the boxed game stats for every vaesen on a single page. So when you look up a vaesen at the table, you have all the stats available without needing to flip to another page.

2/2

27.06.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I would have loved to keep every Mythic Carpathia vaesen on single spreads, but it was impossible.

When just the text for a vaesen fills two pages, there is *no way* for me to fit the text *and* the image on one spread.

1/2

27.06.2025 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It always makes me happy when my layout work is appreciated.

25.06.2025 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Total Party Chill โ€“ like, whatever, man.

25.06.2025 10:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why, oh why, did I not go to UKGE? Everyone seems to be having a great time. And I do miss shooting the shit with British game designers over a pint or ten.

Oh well โ€“* maybe thereโ€™s a Dragonmeet in the cards for me in November.

[* Non-AI generated en-dash.]

31.05.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To a coffee-loving Swede, this sounds really weird โ€“ and oddly tantalizing.

24.05.2025 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I GMed that mystery a while back. It is set right next to where my family is from โ€“ and I had a blast doing the dialect for all the NPCs.

17.05.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Enjoy!

17.05.2025 22:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Loving the colors.

13.05.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

QFT.

If Iโ€™m stuck doing layout, not being able to get the spreads just right โ€“ I work on something else. And while I do that, my brain ticks away in the background, finding a solution to my problem.

Nearly every time.

08.05.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character says ha-ha while pointing his finger Alt: Nelson from The Simpsons says โ€˜ha-haโ€™ while pointing his finger.
05.05.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's amazing (and by amazing, I mean bad) how people who follow and interact with a bazillion of trans gals that actively make OSR stuff and are in their 30's, keep insisting on making long rants about how it is exclusively a scene of old bald bearded man in their 60's and shit

30.04.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Knock! Issue #5 An Adventure Gaming Bric-a-Brac. Being A Compendium of Miscellanea for Old-School RPGs. For us OSR weirdos and curious D&D heads alike.

I'm sure by now you've heard that KNOCK! #5 is live on Kickstarter. And like the 4 volumes before it, it's jampacked with #osr goodness. And somehow they've squeezed another of my articles in too: a most unusual merchant, in a most unusual conveyance. www.kickstarter.com/projects/896... #ttrpg #nsr

30.04.2025 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A cute faun holding a flail with a face. She is crying and the flail say smash me I want to break bones. The faun answer but I donโ€™t wanna.

A cute faun holding a flail with a face. She is crying and the flail say smash me I want to break bones. The faun answer but I donโ€™t wanna.

To post on my patreon later:
โ€œBut I thought you were a nice flail..โ€

27.04.2025 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 319    ๐Ÿ” 67    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Myconificent!

25.04.2025 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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