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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Opening the core rulebook (policies handbook) in the middle of the corporate function to rules lawyer (get written up)

Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pulling out lines and veils while we prep for the big corporate function. Pulling out stars and wishes after the big corporate function.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The madness of this is that a barista would upsell someone on a more complicated drink when most of the time they just collect their $3 and hand you a cup to go fill up, taking all of 20 seconds.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It often feels like launching an indie music career, I say as an independent musician, make stuff with love, get it in front of people, freelance and network as you can, and make sure you enjoy the process because "making it" is unlikely

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

His political position of always displaying his weakness publicly while remaining just useful enough and jyst connected enough to not get wiped out made him a perfect mark for an outside force to solve his problems while creating much bigger ones

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

He's also a rube, that solution of his let an entire spy network in and allowed them to bury their roots deep in imperial logistics. Like Dunes is a smooth operator as long as all the conflict is internal

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dork? Hardly. The navy was also a white elephant offering until Dunes secured a partnership that made it useful. Cecil is shrewd as hell just... at a serious political disadvantage.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That is the play goal of the broader idea, yeah, what if the "item crafting session" was 75% of the game and all the combat and exploration stuff was to get stuff for more item crafting. Yknow, the cozycore gameplay loop

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Solo series? One completely overwrought book of picky mechanics and tables per Fantasy Job You Can Have at the Village?

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

To be clear, the thing I made works and is actually really fun. But it also took me 30 minutes to invent a single potion. So like... I dunno if that's something for the table.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fortunately I took all "unknown effects" and pooled them into an "impurity" bucket. So if your alchemical circle crosses an unknown effect, it's just an impurity which results in side effects or needs added steps and rolls to remove

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I landed on "mixture" then set the project aside when my resolution mechanic went from stat+Skill rolls to "draw an alchemical circle with a 4x4 grid in the center and arrange ingredients and mixture effects both known and unknown to determine which 8 tables to roll on for the output"

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The only way our SEO would capture the phrase "coherent ideas" reliably is if buzz around us regularly included the phrase "does not contain coherent ideas"

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I know spam emails about this podcast claiming we have good SEO are full of shit when they tell me we're ranked #1 for "cherent ideas". Excuse me? Have you listened to us? You sure?

A Spotify ranking in a mass email that says "coherent ideas #1"

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Entire soundtrack by Clipping.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Rockies are Tall, the Appalachians are Deep, no I will not be explaining myself.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Skill issue, if we take the inaccuracy as a contradiction in historical context it creates a fruitful question to be explored through play rather than a problem in need of solving. In bed.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is Gamewoven, by the way.

Twilight zone narrator: imagine if you will a big and large dog. You're not making it big enough in your mind. Okay now it's good. Picture its favorite food is berries and salmon. You want to pet it, don't you? Well don't. What you've just invented is a bear. You're under arrest for inventing the bear.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I've also seen this among both academic and gigging musicians. They're fundamentally flawed in some really weird way and try to hide it by being dicks.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

God dammit of course we got the ferret timeline

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This was mathematically proven to be impossible at CERN

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Podcast fans I can't tell you how much having even one ravenous discord poster is a Boon for morale. So get in that discord and be a freak for your favorite niche AP.

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The problem is that we see discussion of game design as a medium shut down by this trivial observation. When people want to discuss game-structures and are shut down by somebody pointing out that play-events can be anything, the result is that we ignore game-structures as a topic.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Oddly enough, this post is about Gamewoven.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

On reflection I think the intuitive way it's designed speaks to the fact that its designers have played a TON of games. They know what needs to be in the text and what doesn't.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ran our first real combat in @oneshotrpg.bsky.social's Cosmic Century Knights last night for the podcast. During the break we landed on this pull quote "Demands to be played cinematically. Every time I need a rule for something I find it, then it gets out of the way."

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's a mess, actually the whole setting is a mess, but it feels real because it's a mess.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The result is a set of divines that are constantly in friction and who don't have so many followers as they have folks that pay deference to them when the time is needed or on their festival day. There's areas that don't know about some gods or see a god totally differently than elsewhere

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And we have gods that are just kinda... missing. We don't really have life & death covered, for example. And there's gods that predate language and thought who are primordial and don't seem to do much or have names but are the gods of shit like "the concept of having a name".

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

among their people and help out. Our villain, the Undying Emperor, is claimed to be a God 40k style but his actual nature is not firm in the text yet, we're letting that mystery ride. There's also older divine forces, natural gods of the land who are in something of a waning period

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

another continent that arrived by boat on the main continent because one of them is a trade and commerce god. We also have Gods that escaped their planet and settled on the continent and gave been causing a stir, and we have born godlings with hyperspecific portfolios who walk the earth

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Gods Potluck arc, as we call it, ended up being messier than I imagined. We have a traditional pantheon in their Lucent Realm, a dead City of the Gods which is on a planet our setting orbits (this is when we decided this world was a moon), we have a set of gods from

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When we went about designing our "pantheon" for the podcast, which is entirely worldbuilding games, we wanted it to be messy and contradictory. So each of us broke off and ran our own game with total creative freedom and we came together afterward to figure it out post-hoc.

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Radmad is Unplugging his PAX @radmad.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The challenge that pretty much every secular designer has not overcome is that religion is rarely, and only temporarily, top-down. It is maintained, cultivated, and shaped by its believers.

Real life religion isn't designed. It's slowed and left to go feral.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I love this. I'm ravenous over this. I'm always saying this shit.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Me when I made your most powerful abilities cost experience points to use and also they're the evil ones

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That's us! We've got gods from other continents who overlap via trade, gods who decided to leave their planet and seek refuge in ours, born godlings with specific domains. Old gods of the earth and younger gods in their own realm, constantly in flux and both undermining and balancing each other out

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Every game must contain at least one rule that is basically useless except that the designer learned something weirdly specific and refuses to let it go.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I like also playing the game as written. The game part is really nice and I like that too. You can overlay roleplaying over an all-day session of Risk. Like yeah it's important and elevates the experience but it's not the only thing.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Me to my dog: oh do you have a ball? Should we tell everyone? Should we call Kobe?

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

> be knockwidth > barge into a private dinner unannounced > make the vibes weird with an undercover spymaster > pick a fight with the prefect (vampire) > turns out he helped redirect a leyline > dies What did Gamewoven mean by this?

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should've been a cat @nepenthe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Iconic moment From @gamewoven.bsky.social, Hearts of Magic.

A rough black and white drawing of a dinner in progress in a fancy dining hall. In the background, a sailor carrying a crate under their arm kicks the door in with a large shouty speech bubble reading "WHO WANTS SALTED MEATS?"

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should've been a cat @nepenthe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

FUCK @gamewoven.bsky.social is so good. Hey, you! YEAH YOU. Especially my old RQG friends. Go listen to this actual play. Did you like RQG? You're gonna like this show. Don't know what RQG is? Too bad, go listen to this show anyway or I'm gonna come to your house and fight you.

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Gamewoven @gamewoven.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Man Darkest Dungeon really is the Dark Souls of video games

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