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LeviKornelsen

@LeviKornelsen@dice.camp

Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness.

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I believe that trans people should chair all meetings going forward, as I have been told that they have an agenda, and I am sick to shit of this meandering nonsense.

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This is a find-your-people post for TTRPG folk.

Please respond by saying what sorts of TTRPG things you're pretty likely to either talk about or respond to if you see them.

This can be a list of games (D&D! Tribe 8! Fate!) or categories (the weirdest of indie stuff! NSR! Anything PBtA!), topics (Worldbuilding! Publishing!), stuff you're making, meta-commentary (The State Of The Industry), and so on.

Then maybe share, and if the replies are building up, check them for new people.

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An actually smart appliance would be a dishwasher that had exactly one button marked "start", and could figure out the minimum time, water and soap to do the job, and do it.

This is exactly the opposite of the "smart" we're seemingly getting.

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EDIT: Updated!

If you're posting a game on Itch or Drivethru, and you're not sure what to write...

That's sales copy, and there are books and books about it. I've read plenty, and then proceeded to write good copy for, like, three of my games. I'm lazy. But it DID improve their downloads, visibly.

So if you want a very basic, one-page, zero-level starter, I have one for you; see the picture or the link. (Left column, how-to, right column, example).

https://levikornelsen.itch.io/one-page-sales-copy-guide

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I slowly creep away from anything involving data-scraping, government backdoors, mass surveillance, etc, but not because I understand the issues in any depth.

It's because I read my Terry Pratchett.

“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

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Anyone who says they very much want to stimulate the economy and isn't advocating handing a shitload of cash to poor people (whether by simply forking it over or by hiring them at scale) has an unstated priority other than stimulus, a limited definition of the economy, or doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.

You just give poor people money. It always works, it works immediately, it will trickle up to the rich guys eventually.

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This is your occasional reminder that if you want to screw around with drag-and-drop isometric castle blocks for actually free, this relic of the Internet Before remains up and running:

http://www.citycreator.com/

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"Do drugs and don't trust authority or AI" may not be the whole intended takeaway from Dune, but it's absolutely in there.

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NSFW, Kobold.

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For anyone confused by cents per word among RPG freelancers:

1-4 cents / word ought to be "Name and shame the person who offered this bullshit" territory.

5-7 cents / word is trash money, but if there's no research and you can hammer it out fast, maybe.

8 cents / word is the SFWA MINIMUM for "professional rates".

9-14 cents / word is low-grade professional.

15+ cents / word is where "actual professional writer" rates live.

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The core moral lesson of Star Wars is that Fascists are bad and it's good to shoot them (with lasers), and while the property has plenty of issues, I still think that's a pretty strong basic ethos.

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An older post, copied over to the new blog:

Huge chunks of early D&D were built using the wrong parts of the fiction they were sourced from.

https://levikornelsen.wordpress.com/2024/02/04/the-wrong-parts-of-the-right-fiction/

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Everybody is clear that "George Soros" is a direct replacement term for "Banker Jews", right?

When you see people complain about Soros in anything other than actual, specific, Soros-in-specific-and-reality ways, they just mean "Jews" (or are a complete fucking smoothbrain that listens to people who mean "Jews"). Nobody is actually confused anymore, right?

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Also also:

TTRPGs are the foundation of many hobbies, and "Fixing D&D" is one of those hobbies.

And I'm not joking. This is literally a specific activity from which people derive joy; many of them know about other systems, and are doing something they LIKE.

"Why do you like restoring old tractors? They're not even good at the job!"

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OSR folks:

Judge's Guild decided the right way to post about the death of Jennell Jaquays was by deadnaming her throughout in their Facebook post.

This got them a bunch of yelling-at, during which they doubled down that this was somehow neutral practice, and then it vanished, possibly deleted, possibly reported into oblivion.

So, like, if they weren't already on your asshole list, mark 'em on down.

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For those of you who are somehow not aware, Dune absolutely includes a White Savior narrative and also deliberately paints it as horrible.

The follow-ups, Children of Dune and Dune Messiah, turn the "No, seriously, it's shit" volume up to the level of "I will fuck these characters over SO HARD to prove it."

God Emperor is, on the other hand, "Fine, you want a Perfect Savior Of All? Let's get fucking grotesque up in here. Also I wanna do some weird monologues, so hey."

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If you want to help good games get discovered more often on Itch, put them in a collection, give the collection a specific name that people might go "Oh, yeah, that's the kind of thing I want!" and put that collection on your page.

Ratings and reviews help people decide to try it if they're on the fence. To the extent they help a game be discovered, it's in the zero-sum popularity contest.

Collections help people find it in the first place, and replace competition with cooperation.

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Fantasy fun:

Prayer doesn't give gods power. It keeps them awake.

Not all gods want to be awake.

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You should definitely call your creative output "content" if is just meant to fill up the container of your format, or pad the platform, or if it's meant to act as material in your bid to be micro-famous, or it is in some other way just some processed filling you are placing inside of a different endeavour.

Then, I can avoid it, knowing that neither of us actually cares about it.

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Netflix has failed to learn the lesson of West End Games and Star Wars: You can just let the nerds make you raw material, and if you let them keep their pennies from it, they will keep on making that material.

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Today I learned about the existence of German Judicial Dueling shields.

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Made a book gripper for the lady for Christmas; liked it enough I printed up another one for myself (still needs sanding, but hey).

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Welp, my experience of Mastodon has now reached the point of living up to my nostalgic memories of G+, which means it's almost certainly actually better.

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Ben Robbins, the creator of Microscope, is kickstarting a worldbuilding game called In This World; there are three days left on it and I somehow missed it up until today.

Also he's on here as @benrobbins and I'm unclear why you're not all following him.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lamemage/in-this-world

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I now have a design version of the Chessables in which they are heavily armed.

  • Bottom row is standard chess: Pawn, Reeve/Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King.

-Middle row is: Damosel, Mann/Merchant, Prince, Princess, Friar

-Top is: Vampire, Skeleton, Witch, Elf, Wizard.

(A few are not pictured here, including the Hood and Ranger.)

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