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LeviKornelsen

@LeviKornelsen@dice.camp

Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness.

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I'm not generally annoyed by discussion of D&D, and can even often participate, but the period of ramp-up to new books is tiring.

I don't have judgment for anyone; I've got my list of crap companies I buy from - but I'm just.... not going to be giving Wizards any money.

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Got proper plaster for moldmaking yesterday and started in on printing off a batch of new masters for the chess-type dudes (with arms on).

Spent my free time today pouring new molds; still need to cure, dry, and get the edges finished, but that's for tomorrow.

Thursday or Friday, I should be testing glazes on pieces out of the old molds, and starting pouring in the new molds.

Been picking my way through this project for about three years now, but satisfyingly finished bits are now in sight!

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Awen (with cards) live playtest went extremely well. Nailed every design objective I had.

Some parts sing perfectly, while others are merely functional,and a couple things got skipped intuitively with no damage done (and will therefore be dropped for the next iteration).

And, with feedback, I now have a whole list of ways to make the dry parts engaging and the fun parts notably better.

Big win.

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Paycheck was surprisingly good this round, so instead of the microwave kiln, I opted to splurge and ordered the fancy desktop kiln to attempt firing of my little dudes.

Gonna break out my fireproof slabs and set up a workstation for when it arrives.

Novel ceramic game pieces look to be in my very near future! Whee!

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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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"A mount other chess pieces can ride on" is not the silliest thing I've designed, but it's close.

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I swear, every time I boot into Windows, it does an update that reactivates some bullshit that gives me grief in Linux.

This time: It auto-re-enabled "Fastboot", locking my backup drive to Linux until I went back in, hunted it down, changed it back.

Such utter nonsense.

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Dead Boy Detectives:

This show is fun and odd!

...Ah, some gay subtext, too!

...Oh, now it's text!

...Huh, this show is pretty gay!

...I should tell people on social media; I know loads of people that would be at least a little interested.

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First attempt at slipcasting a chessable: Naturally, the witch.

Slip cast on right, painted plaster on left. Still drying, but definitely a rousing success for a first attempt.

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Realized it's actually been a year and change since I recapped what my chessables ARE, so:

I wanted a chess set plus a ton of extra pieces, for variant chess games, tokens for other stuff, etc, so I made some 3d printable ones.

They came out pretty cool.

Then I 3d printed them as molds and cast them with plaster and painted them.

I'm still working on making them as aluminum molds for plastic injection.

I'm now ALSO working on making them as plaster molds to slipcast them as ceramics.

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While I'm mucking about with ways to make my little chess dudes out of recycled plastic (I've been using a plaster-concrete concoction), I realised I could probably switch the process and make plaster molds, and slipcast the pieces.

Which classes them up enough I'd likely feel good about selling them!

Test mold #1 formed perfectly, though I forgot to add a well for extra slip....

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Heroes solve problems for local areas, and then become leaders of those they've saved. That's how the stories go!

So when the heroes show up having solved a horrifying problem... The local people might say to each other "They probably want to be in charge now, right? That's how it works?".

And some of them will want to make that happen! And some of them won't! And the ones in charge currently will have especially strong feelings on the matter.

Clearing the dungeon as political debut.

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Any shapechanging spell in an RPG that doesn't include "Oh, and you can change whatever you like in the pants and chest departments, etc" has failed to understand why a great many people would pursue that magic.

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Best fan gripe about Fallout series I've seen:

"Deeply inauthentic. Loading times too fast, browser didn't crash even once."

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Elves, being nearly ageless, have a lot of very very old ideas. Like bronze age blood feuds. And they have very good manners, because, well, same reasons. And these things have aged... Sharply.

You will never meet Elven royalty unless you are exactingly courtly, and this is for your protection. If you insult them (and you probably will), they have to kill you or they'll breach protective, critical reputations they spend centuries accumulating.

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I've watched the second half of Dune a few of times now, and, look, it's just plain better at portraying the political messaging that Herbert repeatedly said he wanted out of the book - and the changes to Stilgar and Chani are essential to it it doing that.

It has significantly less weird nerd shit, and hardly any of the Herbert obsession with consciousness, and I miss those elements.

I would have loved if it were three parts, and had all that. But it was probably already a lot for most.

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Have watched Rebel Moon part 2.

It's gorgeous.

It's badly, badly, badly written.

I recommend turning off the sound and having snacks.

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You know what I love?

Branches of ancient technology that dead-ended somewhere, but could have carried on in the right conditions.

In my head, that's deeply engaging fantasy material for doing "Things are weird and different here".

So if you know of sources for that stuff: Grabby hands

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For those who cannot go big enough on the Deluxe DM screen.

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Okay, this diagram came out surprisingly professional.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Got given a present today by my other half, and, uh, see you all tomorrow maybe?

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It's been a minute; let's do this again:

If you are a Tabletop RPG nerd and have less than, say, 500 followers (or think you have less than 500 that are actually active):

  1. Write a post to introduce yourself and your particular nerdery, if you haven't already got one pinned.

  2. Reply in the comments with a link to or copy of that post.

  3. Share, check back to find people you want to follow, all that.

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Corporate crime is notoriously underpoliced and underprosecuted. Mostly, that's because we just choose not to do anything about it. American corporations commit crimes at 20X the rate of real humans, and their crimes are far worse than any crime committed by a human, but they are almost never prosecuted:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card

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LeviKornelsen,
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@pluralistic - "Corporations are people" can be read in the tone of "They're made of meat", and is improved immensely by it.

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The main difficulty with Free Speech Absolutism as a position is that I don't believe anyone who says that's their position. Like, even a little.

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Junior has declared that these glasses are the best style.

Just to catch you all up on fashion news.

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