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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · May 27
“We each have property in our own hands and minds, and a right to fairly trade in what we produce with them.” – #Anonymous
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 6d
(...cont'd)

- Magitecnica - Codex 1: The Use and Misuse of Powers Great and Small
- Unseen City / Down The Snail's Spire
- Into The Odd
- Knave 2e
- Knock #5
- Acid Death Fantasy
- Troika!
- The Black Hack
- Between The Skies
- The Book of Changing Years
- Kids On Brooms

Fin (for now...)
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 6d
This growing stack of A5-ish ttrpg books brings me joy:

- Whitehack
- Role-Playing Mastery
- So You Want To Be A Game Master
- Cairn 2e Player's Guide
- Cairn 2e Warden's Guide
- Breach Of Contract
- Mothership Warden's Operation Manual...

(cont'd...)
A stack of A5-ish ttrpg books includes: - Whitehack - Role-Playing Mastery - So You Want To Be A Game Master - Cairn 2e Player & Warden Guides (no spine text shown) - Breach Of Contract (no spine text shown) - Mothership Warden's Operation Manual (no spine text shown) - Magitecnica - Codex 1: The Use and Misuse of Powers Great and Small (no spine text shown) - Unseen City / Down The Snail's Spire (no spine text shown) - Into The Odd - Knave 2e - Knock #5 - Acid Death Fantasy - Troika - The Black Hack - Between The Skies - The Book of Changing Years - Kids On Brooms The stack sits on a cardboard box against a grey wall, with a dice bag resting atop it.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 8d
Old news, still true:
The new Android ≠ Good

#google
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For example,
- Cropping in Photos app now with less functionality and worse UI
- Mobile phone autorotate = yes please. Autorotate in Phone app (i.e., the one you use to call ppl) = No thank you.

They broke #Android
aefact.bsky.social aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 29d
@newsfromgoogle.bsky.social news flash:
The new Android = not good.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 10d
* Not legal advice
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 10d
It seems, mostly, it can be likened to "privity of contract"… i.e., Akin to ~ If I have a contract with you and a separate contract with a 3rd party… Then, 3p can't use either to sue YOU for breach of contract… Not even if the contracts contemplate / cross-reference contributions under each other.*
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 14d
To be clear, Magical Industrial Revolution is also (pictured above and) absolutely beautiful and awesome... I just didn't receive it today! :)
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 14d
Just received a physical copy of this *absolutely beautiful* book: #MonsterOverhaul by Skerples. Awesome book and #ComposeDreamGames in Canada was super helpful. Kudos.

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A book entitled The Monster Overhaul - A Practical Bestiary by Skerples is shown. Its cover is largely red and features a red dragon above a grey temple amid blue-purple vegetation. The book sits atop another Skerples book, Magical Industrial Revolution - A Pre-Apocalyptic Setting Guide. The two books cast a shadow towards the top of the image, and sit upon an autumn-colored table cloth.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 14d
"AI Could Have Written This…"

AI shaming includes disparaging someone's work & blaming them for alleged use of AI, with attendant harm to their reputation. The academic paper's author posits anxious workers may level such slurs to maintain solidarity and limit work boundaries.

youtu.be/Rir-HoYJNYs
AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work
YouTube video by ACM SIGCHI
youtu.be
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 16d
Don't start the week with a to-do list. Start on Tuesday.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 17d
Maybe some of its art… But certainly some of its ideas, and those that have built upon them since.

For example, Slugblaster's 'Kinetic Deck' and 'Negafriction Sword' both involve 4D <–> 3D <–> 2D game mechanics.

Maybe add in a dose of Paper Mario and we're cooking with gas… !
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 18d
The ALT text on my above image was incorrect. The gem tokens are in the third section of the tray, with the medium monster and trap tokens.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 18d
Here's my self-diagnosed OCD at work 🤣

The bags pictured are supplemental ones I'm using.

I saved the other 4 bags, which came with the set, as intended for the PCs cards and tokens (not pictured).
Heroes of the Borderlands box set, showing its included storage tray, with HP tokens in a first bag, and gold and gem tokens in a second. Dice and power tokens are in a first section of the tray, large monster tokens and character standees are in a second section. And, trap and medium size monster tokens are (alphabetically) arranged in a third. A large spider web token is stored above the combat tracking pad.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 18d
I expect, we'll see no savior arise to solve the world's problems, and I'll soon need to get our brightest 'tube technologists' working on this most dire emergency.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 18d
Ideally, some evil genius figured out how to store all the tokens in the tray that's provided inside the starter set.

In this dream world of pure order, the monster tokens are organized alphabetically (for ready finding on the fly) and everything still fits nicely inside the box.

Too much to ask?
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 18d
Or, maybe I shouldn't store them in the box?

(Maybe I get separate pouches for the gold coin and gem tokens? Maybe I get a mini first aid kit for the HP tokens? 🤣 I dunno!)

Curious what other ppl might've done.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 19d
Thank you for this video. Have you seen any best practices, in convention play or elsewhere, for how to store the set's tokens in the box after they're all punched out?

…iirc, the quick start guide says, something like, 'keep like tokens together'… ?
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 20d
Literally, the matter speaks for itself.

Whether or not one presently views it as nonsense.

Many opposing views just differ in what order to fix things.

Their difference speaks as one anyway.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 20d
res ipsa loquitur
'many opposing views just differ in what order to fix things' is written in a white lowercase font over 4 center-aligned lines on a green background.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 22d
2/2

... So, maybe you're rolling to free yourself from bummers, but if you crap out then you gotta take a buttload of them. // But, I dunno, have no inside knowledge, and am going off about 11 words, in 2 phrases, and one 10 second video clip, with no sound. So, I'm just guessing 🤣

✌️
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 22d
I think, "press your luck" games are ones, like Farkle, where players can continue rolling dice for better game outcomes, with the risk of worse ones if they press their luck and fail to score on a roll. // Then, I think, the game also overlays a "leave your bummers behind" game mechanic...

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keith-baker.com Keith Baker @keith-baker.com · 22d
My latest game is available for preorder! Jerry Garcia’s Cosmic Journey is a press your luck dice game you can play with anyone, of any age, in any state of mind! Check it out here: www.twogetherstudios.com/pages/jerry-...
Jerry Garcia's Cosmic Journey
Indepdendent game design studio of Jenn Ellis and Keith Baker
www.twogetherstudios.com
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 24d
Ok, follow-up with you in about a week, if I haven't heard back from you by then... Unless, that's too soon?
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 27d
Agreed. One of the great things about ttrpg systems is, for me, their apparent self-awareness in how they loosely model an emergent game world…

Now, if only "real" world politics, economics, sociology, psychology, news, and science, et al. could regularly remember as much.

Stay thirsty, my friends
explorersdesign.bsky.social Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 27d
What I love most about rpgs is that it's hard, maybe impossible, to remove the sincerity.

Designers can keep one foot outside, hide behind sarcasm, or try to professionalize or optimize it as something else—but it will always be playing pretend.

And I like the work that knows that's a feature.
Preview image of The Explorateur: Issue #12 A preview image of the article's opening paragraph titled, "The importance of being earnest."
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · 29d
@newsfromgoogle.bsky.social news flash:
The new Android = not good.
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · Sep 24
FYI, Answer (by email): Yes.

Me, interpolating a silver-lining here: Perhaps there'll be pre-orders or, at least, when it actually goes on sale.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Slugblaster: Slime, Warp, and Solder
Slime, Warp, & Solder is a three-pack of fluorescent zines that make your Slugblaster sessions grosser, trippier, and radder than ever. More monsters, more gear, and a dozen+ new character options. An...
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aeFact 🌾 @aefact.bsky.social · Sep 20
i gotta admit, the #Daggerheart core book and card set are high quality and quite beautiful.
[Check the ALT.]
Also, love the maths of two dodecahedrons with binomial distributions.
And, it might be nice to hold a character as a hand.
Will I play this game? Unlikely.
Would I? You bet.
A photograph of a Daggerheart core book and set of cards, along with a Crown Royal dice bag. All, on a coffee table. // The book lies open to pages 146-147 bearing a Pitfalls To Avoid heading within the Core Guidance section of its Chapter 3. // The pages bear two illustrations. One shows two humal (sic) people. A first, with an outstretched hand. The other, surrounded by flames. // The other illustration shows two fungal people. A first, on sedge in bright green, against a starlit mountainous dark purple background. The other, rooted in dark purple, against a bright pink deeply wooded background. Each, carries a staff in one hand. Both, their other arms, respectively, spectrally joining one another across the divide. // The card set is arranged, in six stacks, in a case. The card on the top of each stack bears a smaller illustration. They are Rune Ward, Brace, Words of Discord, Forest Sprites, Unbreakable, and Warden of the Elements mastery. // The bag is purple with gold stitching. // The table is worn wood veneer. // The bag is in the top left quadrant of the photo. The card set in its top right. And, the book in its bottom half.
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