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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher

@jonasmerlin.bsky.social
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I wish I could but I would prefer not to. (Morally) good negotiator. Probably thinking about RPGs.

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bit late on here due to some familial expansion, but Shelfie #3 is already out and in it @ghargremxul.mt shares his very unique collection that helps him produce games inspired by Maltese history and folklore: www.shelfie.email/p/003-ghar-g...
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Shelfie #003 - Għar Gremxul
Għar Gremxul talks about his collection focused on Maltese history and folklore.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new favourite Smaug dropped
the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Commie thief!
Screenshot of a Youtube recommendation for the video "Shelfie with China Mieville" by the channel Waterstones. Uploaded 4 days ago, 18k views.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reskeet for the day crowd.
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Għar Gremxul @ghargremxul.mt · 10/09/2026
It's #SoloSeptember! If you were interested in trying out a solo #TTRPG inspired by Malta, I have a few! Għosfor is a solo lyric game about birds, hunting, and remembering the dead where you make a funerary memorial card for a bird shot down by hunters. ghargremxul.mt/games/ghosfor
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Għosfor | Għar Gremxul
Għar Gremxul: Logħob b'xejra Maltija / Games with a Maltese twist
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For this week's Shelfie, @seraphina.diceexploder.com shares her amazing collection: www.shelfie.email/p/002-seraph...
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Shelfie #002 - Seraphina from Dice Exploder
Seraphina shares some beautiful stories about her wide-ranging RPG collection.
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Kati, A Certified Yapper @bakenshake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New Carouse, Carouse! I'm talking about Residue from @weirdplace.bsky.social! www.carouse.blog/september-20...
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September 2026 - Sneak Peeks
Welcome! The seasons are changing, the harvest is coming, and our lives are suffuse with community and creativity. This issue, our featured reviews both cover different flavors of early access: Kati t...
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
08/100 of "doing design 100 times to get better at it" This time with an alternative cover for dadstep.itch.io/the-wax-marc... by @69dinguses.bsky.social Really cool game, but that bee dance diagram almost drove me to the brink.
A lot of yellow bee cutouts in the top, then a blue rect they crawl onto. Black text reading "THE WAX MARCHES, A Game by To Be Resolved". Then a bee dance diagram using card suis as its directional arrows.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m errrr. I’m on YouTube? Well, I kinda had to for showing off Inkvein. Check out a look-through and tour of perhaps the biggest @morkborg.com adventure ever made #osr www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrtp...
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The biggest MÖRK BORG adventure ever made
YouTube video by Murkdice
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
07/100 of "doing design 100 times to get better at it" This time with an alternative cover for shurebis.itch.io/iron-on-iron... by @shurebis.bsky.social Bit of a different vibe than the previous ones.
Bold, black text reading "IRON ON IRON ON IRON" on a red background, filling the canvas. Five yellow sword cutouts, one behind each word.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This goes straight onto the to read list
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
06/100 of "doing design 100 times to get better at it" This time with an alternative cover for superdillin.itch.io/jim by @superdillin.bsky.social Technically the most complex yet. Overall happy with how it came together though.
A small yellow submarine illuminating a sinking Titanic underwater. One of the smokestacks of the Titanic is replaced with an image of the burning twin towers.
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Agreeable Chatter @69dinguses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Turn your #OSR modules into a pick-up-and-play party game with RAID Array Mischief! All you need is a deck of cards and a set of dice to explore tombs and dark forests as a shapeshifting robot with a punch-card memory. Available now on itch! dadstep.itch.io/raid-array-m...
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RAID Array Mischief by To Be Resolved
Exploring yesterday's adventures with tomorrow's technology...today!
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is all my own personal vibes, mind you. But I think the best thing you can do as a brick and mortar business that isn't doing exceptionally well financially is to make your costs radically transparent like this. People just assume you will magically always be there otherwise.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
good shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdWA...
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Transmigration: Music in Transit (1968–1975) with Eren Eren
YouTube video by MAJ
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
5/100 of "doing design 100 times to get better at it" This time with an alternative cover for the BREAK!! Core Rules by @greywizard.bsky.social Orginially wanted to do it for the new Chosen One class, but couldn't get the text to line up in a way I liked (it's in the answers below for comparison)
White text reading "Break!! Core Rules" on a blue background. A golden sword in the middle.
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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him) @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
These are the blogposts made for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon, from 17th of August to 10th of September. I used the opportunity to rally the Indonesians and international TTRPG hobbyists to create gameable blogpost related to Indonesia. Enjoy! afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/indonesian-t...
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Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon ROUNDUP
Links to all the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon blogposts
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Incredibly happy to report that the great @explorersdesign.bsky.social agreed to be the first person to share their collection on Shelfie: www.shelfie.email/p/001-clayton
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Shelfie #001 - Clayton Notestine from Explorers Design
Clayton talks about his idiosyncratic and selective collection of TTRPG books.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Want to get a shelfie from an interesting person from around the RPG space every week, including a short interview about their collection? Don't let your dreams be dreams: www.shelfie.email
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Shelfie
Every week, you'll get photos of a person's TTRPG shelf and a short interview about their collection.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
4/100 of "doing design 100 times to get better at it" This time with an alternative cover for harbowoputra.itch.io/four-years-l... by @diceless.club More grid exploration. Still a bit tame though.
Swiss grid style layout with image of a notebook, pen, and calendar. Blacks and organges. Text from the game's description.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
3/100 of "doing design 100 times to get better at it" This time with an alternative cover for toucantsam.itch.io/tennis-court by @toucantsam.bsky.social Managed to try lots of new things with this one, even if it might not show. Now I wish I had kept the capitalization of TENNIS COURT though.
Alternative cover for "a small town TENNIS COURT". Text stating the title above an overhead photo of a tennis court. "A Game for 1-4 Players" below. Heavily processed overall.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
4 years since The Rock did one if the all time tweets
Rest in peace to Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth II. A great woman who sat on the throne as long as anyone in British history.
Sad she will never get to see #BlackAdam V IN THEATERS OCT 21st
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
2/100 of "Doing design 100 times to get better at it" Decided to do alternative covers for existing things, since that provides things to work off of. This one's for joelio1.itch.io/a-fistful-of... by @joelhines.bsky.social Would've loved to incorporate the Western aspect, but ran out of time.
Alternative cover for the Mothership module "A Fistful of Spore Pods" by Joel Hines, featuring a big mushroom in space with an AI bounding box  overlay.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thinking of doing one of those "do a thing 100 times to get better at it" things with cover and poster design. Not necessarily in as many days though. Here's 1/100.
Poster and/or cover showing text that reads "Elfgame" and a blurry statue of a dragon in the background.
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VGScran @vgscran.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Grapes (Final Fantasy XIV)
A screenshot of a low poly grape from the cult classic MMO JRPG Final Fantasy XIV
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
punched tape is solved.
Ad from Datamation issue 06/1961 for McDonnell TAPE direct English-to-Punched-Tape conversion.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Quick reminder that blogposts should have a visible publication date.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I found this graphic on Pinterest earlier this year and put it on my first-ever vision board. And that I'm now publicly confessing to having a vision board is proof that vision boards, and this image in particular, work and are basically magic.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
datamation covers from the 60s and early 70s are a real vibe
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Gabriel Morton @gabrielenguard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
High normals were the downfall of many a Twin Peaks resident.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The worst thing about AI is that it doomed us all to constantly put "No AI" on anything we don't use it for.
Screenshot of a YouTube video by the channel Slice of Life titled "We Built an Entire World by Hand" where the biggest text in the thumbnail is "Not AI."
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wezeldog @wezeldog.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Cover for the movie All Dogs Go to Heaven. Except for those class traitors in the Paw Patrol has been added
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is very important for people to understand. There are many good reasons to be anti-AI, but you cannot deny that they're producing useful output, or you're making a joke out of the whole movement. Luddites (mostly) didn't deny that machines were actually doing the work either.
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ரமணன் @save.vs.totalpartykill.ca · 05/08/2026
I love this quote about Keep on the Borderlands, and how it is quintessentially American.

When considering the British fantasy and folklore that inspired him Rowe also sees other marked points of difference with the kind of stories that would have sat on Gary Gygax's shelf. "American fantasy is the fantasy of the frontier between civilisation and the darkness beyond," Rowe says. "You see it best encapsulated in that old D&D module Keep On The Borderlands. You have a bunch of adventurers arrive at the last point of civilisation, step out from there and they're in a world of darkness, literally the Caves of Chaos. So you keep venturing out and returning to your little frontier fort, and there could be almost nothing more American than that idea.
Its not based on anything in European history. There are no locations like that.
Where could you place the Keep on a map of medieval Europe? Nowhere. It's an American conception of the Western frontier moved to the Middle Ages.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This shit sucks. But also, this is only partly an AI issue. I have never, not once, ordered at a restaurant online/via an app where less than 100% of the pictures were random stock images of foods that were only incidentally related to what I was ordering, probably from the app's CMS or something.
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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
100% convinced that a significant chunk of boomer and gen x hangovers attributed to alcohol are actually just them not realising they're introverted and need to recover from a party
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Danny Fist 👊 @dannyfi.st · 31/07/2026
It's DONE, my Appendix N Jam submission is here! Made for the Cairn 2e and I am pretty happy with how it looks. dannyfist.itch.io/calling-upon...
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Calling Upon the Bright Blizzard by DannyFist
High up on the holy mountain, there is a forest in perpetual blizzard.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Love how specific these are. As someone who always adds half a star to any Letterboxd rating for movies that are at most 90 minutes, I feel especially well catered to.
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Agreeable Chatter @69dinguses.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...
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Honeybees is officially The Wax Marches - Alpha Playtest Live on Itch!
Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically...
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The kids are alright
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Another solid entry in the genre of "YouTuber who wanted to become a filmmaker coming to terms with being a YouTuber": www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZmJ...
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The strange way you keep putting your life on hold
YouTube video by Lofi Cinema
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New Mythic Bastionland myth just dropped
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This looks so.good. Really looking forward to the print version!
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HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Jun Suemi Wizardry illustrations. archive.org/details/wiza...
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Go get yourself a little Raven Skull for your TTRPG project, from @coppershaman.com docs.ravenskull.ink
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Raven Skull
Free websites for the TTRPG community.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
let him cook
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Screenshot of a highlight in Readwise from Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" reading: "This is an instance in which the asking of the questions is sufficient. To ask is to break the spell. To which I might add that questions about the psychic, political and social effects of information are as applicable to the computer as to television. Although I believe the computer to be a vastly overrated technology, I mention it here because, clearly, Americans have accorded it their customary mindless inattention; which means they will use it as they are told, without a whimper. Thus, a central thesis of computer technology—that the principal difficulty we have in solving problems stems from insufficient data—will go unexamined. Until, years from now, when it will be noticed that the massive collection and speed-of-light retrieval of data have been of great value to large-scale organizations but have solved very little of importance to most people and have created at least as many problems for them as they may have solved."
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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him) @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
THE KNIGHT ERRANT: EXPANDED EDITION'S PHYSICAL EDITION IS OUT NOW! The first Indonesian Tabletop RPG product published internationally! www.copypastecoop.com/shop/p/the-k... Thank you @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social, @daniellocke.bsky.social, Copy/Paste Co-op as our publisher! #osr #tabletoprpg
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