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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 11/04/2025

As always, any day a new OK Go video drops, I'll post it and be excited about it. Some really great visual inventiveness in this one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz9B...

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OK Go - Love (Official Video)

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 10/04/2025

Fire training video shoot today for Central Piedmont Community College. Got to fly the drone and catch some video of Mint Hill Fire Department and our students. Thanks to everyone involved for helping make this happen!

Loren standing with a drone controller in front of a shipping container fire training facility. Three firemen are working to control the burn and smoke inside the containers. Smoke pours from the windows.

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 28/01/2025

In trying to stay sane by not posting about US politics, here's some info about this year's technical Oscars. The new fire gels are fantastically interesting (and really cool to see stunt-related items included in the awards), and the other digital achievements are quite fascinating as well.

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2025’s technical Oscar winners have three major themes, and one is ‘setting people on fire’

Burninating the countryside, burninating the stunt folks

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 21/01/2025

Ok Go has always had amazing music videos with crazy video production, and this one is right up there with some of the classics.

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OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)

YouTube video by OK Go

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Leon Barillaro @barilleon.com · 15/01/2025

The LICHES method for writing descriptive boxed text. Really useful if you’re not sure how to get the most out of your descriptions from a Game Design perspective. barilleon.com/blog/the-lic...

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The LICHES Method of Boxed Text Descriptions - Barilleon's Web Zone

A while back a friend asked me to write up some pointers for how I write descriptive text, or “boxed text.” You know, for dungeons and...

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 31/12/2024

Would love to get some writing done, but guess it can wait because if this mess. #cats

Pixel, a white cat with black and brown patches, is curled up and sleeping adorably on my lap.

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 25/12/2024

For holiday meals did a bunch of cooking, but most proud of how the salted caramel apple pie came out.

Top down shot of a salted caramel apple pie with lattice crust.

Salted caramel apple pie with lattice crust.

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 19/12/2024

It’s been a month, so for new folks: I’ve made a starter pack for Historical TTRPGs and creators. Reply with enough info to verify if you (or someone you know of) should be included! #ttrpg #ttrpgs #history #dnd #pathfinder #d&d go.bsky.app/FVfFLLK

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 19/12/2024

Some time last night I hit 1000+ followers! Thanks everybody!

Screen shot of @bornfromicerpg.com Bluesky follower amount at 1k.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Chauvet Cave was discovered on the 18th December 1994. 30 years ago today. To many it is the most arresting expression of cave art in the archaeological record & it is one of the oldest examples in Europe. Here are four of my highlights. archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/chauvet/en #AncientSky 🦣🏺

For cat lovers everywhere, no less than 15 big cats, cave lions?, lionesses?, in black outline on the beige limestone rock.
All are looking left, their attention utterly caught by the bison and bear drawn there.
There is so much energy in their attentiveness, as if about to move.
Some close superimposition of cat profiles hints at animation

At least 10 Woolly Rhinos, in black outline on the beige limestone rock.
At the top four look closely superimposed giving an impression of animated movement.

Finally the famous, beautiful image of four horses, all facing left drawn in black outline on the beige limestone with yellow ochre paint to the rear.
The person, or people, who drew these, captured something so essential in the nature of the horse, as with so many Chauvet animals there is empathy/sympathy here.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

NEW: Where the teens are YouTube 90% TikTok 63% Instagram 61% Snapchat 55% Facebook 32% (down from 71%) WhatsApp 23% X 17% (down from 33%) Reddit 14% Threads 6% report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

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S. Kaiya J. || Mirror-lock Atelier @mirror-lock.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Okay, my meeting with my boss has been postponed by three hours, which is not enough time to start a new work task but too much time to sit around twiddling my thumbs. So I'm making a thread of What Your TTRPG Product's Title Font Says About You: Featuring Only Fonts I Already Own.

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 12/12/2024

Capturing cinematic b-roll video and managing the live stream for Central Piedmont Community College’s December graduation. Congrats to all the new graduates! #cpccgrad #graduation #charlotte

Selfie of Loren Small with Canon C200 cine camera, at the back of Bojangles Stadium in Charlotte, NC. Students receive their diplomas on the Jumbotron in the background.

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 10/12/2024

🎉 Excited to have just released Beta 0.2 of Born from Ice to our Kickstarter backers! The game is now rules-complete (pending tweaks), so design focus shifts to content. Beta info: tinyurl.com/bfiBeta02 Pre-order to get access: tinyurl.com/BFI-Preorder #ttrpg #ttrpgs #dnd #d&d #prehistory

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Pre-order Born from Ice: Stone Age Role-Playing (5e) on BackerKit

A 5th Edition Stone Age adventure. Level 1-20 campaign, setting, and player options. Play D&D in a dangerous prehistoric world! <sub>Please see our FAQ for important information regarding shipping an...

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 06/12/2024

Starting to post reviews as I rewatch favorites (or watch new films!) to Letterboxd. Last night was one of my favorites, The Maltese Falcon. I think there is a great #TTRPG campaign somewhere around the search for that bird! letterboxd.com/lorensmall/f...

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A ★★★★★ review of The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Humphrey Bogart carries The Maltese Falcon on his shoulders with a performance so commanding it’s impossible to imagine the film without him. If Bogart weren’t such a dominant force, the rest of the c...

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪 Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool! www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 26/11/2024

It wouldn’t be the holidays without making my (famous?) Chex Mix. #thanksgiving #snacks

Two containers filled to overflowing with golden-brown Chex-Mix.

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 20/11/2024

I've created a starter pack for Historical TTRPGs (and the people who make them). If you want to be added, please reply with enough info to verify you fit the goal of the pack. #ttrpg #ttrpgs #history #starterpacks go.bsky.app/FVfFLLK

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 21/11/2024

Doing #inDesign layout/editing work. Definitely the biggest inDesign project I've ever done. Pay no attention to my messy paragraph styles (with copies of copies for edge cases). Oh yeah, that is also a sneak peak of the Wolverine Totem! #TTRPG #GameDesign #DND #D&D #TTRPGs #Tabletop #TTRPGDesign

A screenshot of an inDesign spread for Born from Ice featuring the Wolf Totem and Wolverine Totem sections. The layout includes text and an illustration of a wolf.

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 21/11/2024

Still adding to this starter pack. Let me know if you should be included! #ttrpg #dnd #d&d #pathfinder #ttrpgs #tabletop Historical TTRPGs (and the people who make them): go.bsky.app/FVfFLLK

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 20/11/2024

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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today! The brainchild of the amazing Victoria Ferran at @justradiotto.bsky.social with some excellent guests – was lots of fun to be part of it www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - The Birth of Music

What music did Neolithic peoples make? Jude Rogers and guests have fun speculating.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 18/11/2024

1/9 Apparently there's 1.5 million and counting new users, and I know there's a lot of the #TTRPG, #Pathfinder, #D&D, #CybeprunkRED, #Shadowrun and more communities hitting the ground running. So I've got some solid Starter Packs and a List to get you going! Indies up first! go.bsky.app/QZAUPgT

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

(*Old thread recreated to save from Twitter*) OKAY I HAVE AN IMPORTANT THREAD FOR YOU about fighting in ballgowns! I will illustrate with Disney Princess gifs, because why not. First, you can absolutely swordfight in a dress. Some dresses are great to swordfight in, and some are not so great.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The thing about the chronological timeline is that if you have something you want to share, you have to share it a lot. And if you see something you think others should see, you have to hit repost (likes are not public).

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Question for the GMs and worldbuilders out there; Is it possible for someone to be completely without magic in your world? As in, they cannot use magic, they cannot be affected by magic, it will never affect them...period. #TTRPGs

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Cameron Loxdale @cloxdale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Good morning Bluesky. Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer. go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 15/11/2024

Working on a polyhedral dice font. Do these read okay to everyone? Any suggestions for shape changes?

Two sets of 6 shapes. The top is white text on black shapes, and the bottom is black text on white shapes with a black outline. The shapes are: triangle with a 4, square with a 6, diamond with an 8, narrow pointed-top hexagon with a 10, decagon with a 12, and flat-top standard hexagon with a 20.

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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

More than 100 perforated soft limestone pebbles uncovered at the archaeologïcal site Nahal Ein-Gev II, located near the Sea of Galilee, may have been used as spindle whorls to produce yarn or cord some 12,000 years ago. Photo credit Talia Yashuv. www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...

Five perforated stones found at Nahal Ein Gev from about 12000 years ago

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Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead: A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹 #FindsFriday Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...

Photo of a Bronze Age socketed axe head with a zoomed in thumbnail of a finger print on one of the faces towards the blade edge. The axe is dark green with oxidation and the surface of the blade edge has been lost.

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My quick #paleoart interpretation of the juvenile Homotherium latidens mummy. Article: rdcu.be/d0fku

The young saber-toothed cat walking on snowy ground with a snowstorm starting. The coloration is mostly based on the mummy with deep reddish brown and light colored underside with speculative spots added since some discoloration can happen during preservation.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

People keep asking for starter packs for TTRPG so I _volunteered_ and made a resource _unpaid_ because mess annoys me. TTRPG peeps have to stick together. I didn't _make_ ANY of these starter packs. Some kind people have put me in some of them. I don't follow most of them. Use your best judgement.

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AbyssalBrews | Weekly Magic Items for D&D and PF2E @abyssalbrews.com · 15/11/2024

TTRPG CREATORS: Help rebuild here by REPOSTING I'm going to lead by example here and check my following feed often for things to share with my audience. There is no "algorithm" here, so reposting is the only way to boost visibility and it's how we can regrow businesses here. Repost. Regrow. Easy.

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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG) @bornfromicerpg.com · 14/11/2024

👋 Hi Bluesky! I'm Loren Small, a video creative, storyteller, and #TTRPG designer in Charlotte, NC. I’m designing "Born from Ice", a science-based Stone Age RPG about survival, exploration, & humanity’s origins. Learn more: bornfromicerpg.com | linktr.ee/lorensmall 🦣🎲

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Born from Ice: Stone Age Role-Playing

Born From Ice is a new Stone Age setting and epic adventure path for the 5th Edition of the world's most popular role playing game.

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