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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 15h

And thanks to our beloved long-winded Canadian Mountie of board games, I don't need the game to drip feed me rules throughout multiple sessions

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 17h

Hot take? No more board games with tutorial scenarios that slowly trickle out core mechanisms. Give me all of them up front. Bury me in rules. I will sink or swim. I want to discover the special sauce of your game on my own, not have it shown to me after three scenarios.

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026

In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)

The fractal game of epic histories

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 30/09/2026

Catching up on albums I missed. Annoyed that I never listened to this Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean (best band name ever?) album before. For the sludge and doom nerds. chainedtothebottomoftheocean.bandcamp.com/album/obsess...

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Obsession Destruction, by Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean

8 track album

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 30/09/2026

Meth crime orgies? Normally you gotta pay extra for the trim with those features

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 30/09/2026

Really enjoying this! Less huge epic moments, but feels tighter and thinkier to me.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 30/09/2026

Whoa I missed this news about the new job! Huge congrats! Their games look real nice 👌

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 29/09/2026

Also, go buy games from @travisdhill.bsky.social. They are always thoughtful, little, poetic games presspotgames.itch.io

presspotgames.itch.io

Travis D. Hill

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 29/09/2026

Oh I totally get the frustration. I'm enraged when something goes wrong at print. This one was too delightful though. Definitely don't need a replacement, but thank you!

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 29/09/2026

A perfectly placed printing error. My copy of Metal Scraps Covered in Moss has a slightly folded page where “The Black Line” location appears in the book. @travisdhill.bsky.social

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 29/09/2026

Players are the worst part of game design

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 26/09/2026

I played Marathon for six hours tonight ❤️

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 25/09/2026

I’m basically surviving off the happy hour burritos at Smart Donkey these days

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 24/09/2026

This year, I’m refusing the existence of Fall and my friend @merrykish.bsky.social is an absolute monster for leaving pumpkin spice syrup on my front porch

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 23/09/2026

New source of entertainment. Search “chem trails” on Nextdoor.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 23/09/2026

I don’t really drink IPAs but I’m gonna find one and crack it cuz it’s purdy

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 21/09/2026

I saw it last night and was legit impressed with how good an fun it was! Nonstop fun with not an ounce of fat on it

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Lone Archivist @lonearchivist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Working on "Archons," a solo (and maybe 2-player) skirmish-style PvE game with a focus on an index card battlemap setup. Uses a d12 dice pool system as the core mechanic.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 16/09/2026

Now plz remake all of Metal Gear 1 in this style

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 15/09/2026

What’s it mean when I read this and I’m like, “damn this is gonna be a sexy rpg?”

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 14/09/2026

Dang so many games! I was on vacation in Nashville most of this last week but still snuck in a play of Concordia and Neon Hope, and painted some minis for the new Infinity Hexadome Legends

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 13/09/2026

Painted up Infinity Hexadome Legends 🎨 @corvusbelli.bsky.social

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 14/09/2026

I’m trying to inspire you to paint them yourself

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 13/09/2026

No I don’t want to play Marathon, I need a relaxing video game. [Downloads Remnant 2]

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 13/09/2026

Oh man this looks great. I really enjoy their Whisper of the Deep game which uses a similar system

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 12/09/2026

Just got home from vacation and step 1 was cracking this open. @corvusbelli.bsky.social

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 12/09/2026

On the shortlist of best ball games

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 12/09/2026

Observation: men in Nashville do not wash their hands in the bathroom

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 09/09/2026

MTG x Coors Light collaboration coming soon 😆

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 09/09/2026

Importantly, get paid for your work up front and the contract mist include when you will get paid (usually 50% at start and 50% when you deliver files). Promises of royalties later are usually trying to screw you. Feel free to DM me. I’m a CD at a branding agency and hate seeing people get screwed

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 09/09/2026

Every illustrator will probably give you different opinions on contracts and it’s often highly dependent on the project. I highly recommend joining the AOI, even for a month, so you can read all the resources they have on contracts. theaoi.com/resources/

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Resources – The AOI

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 09/09/2026

Went around a couple bars in Nashville tonight asking every single person in the bar “have you heard of Magic the Gathering?” Only about 30% of people had at least heard of it

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 08/09/2026

Having a quiet night on vacation in Nashville reading rulebooks, drinking whiskey, and staring at the skyline. This is a reminder to go on vacation more often. 🤓 Reading Last Train to Bremen by @possumcreekgames.com and Wyrd by @gilarpgs.bsky.social

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 06/09/2026

The preorder links goes to a dead page. But this looks good 😍

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 06/09/2026

This lady’s face captures my current thoughts on Nashville

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 03/09/2026

The not pretty part was Kyle absolutely demolishing me, as per tradition

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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 03/09/2026

⚠️ Accessories are here! RPG Trader just got a big upgrade. Creators can now offer print-on-demand physical accessories for their games - alongside digital downloads & print books. Cards. Dice. Maps. GM screens. Tiles. Character sheets. Game boxes. And it all happens directly through RPG Trader.

Screenshot showing the 7 accessories now available - Screen, Tear-off pad, Sheet, Cards Hex Tiles, Dice and Game box

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 03/09/2026

If I could only play games from one publisher for the rest of my life, I think I’d have to choose @dvcgames.bsky.social. Pacts delivers.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 02/09/2026

No worries at all. Miscuts happen and I won’t even notice when I sleeve the cards. I’m really liking the game a lot!

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 02/09/2026

These pajamas are fuckin brutal

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 31/08/2026

It’s so good. Those moments when you’re deciding between finishing a mission or traveling to save your asses is peak gaming 👌

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