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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Interesting take, as most people (me included) compare him to Redford. But that‘s partly due to looks of course. Probably should take this as an opportunity to watch The Sting again.

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh no, I just realised that most of the images get squased in the published version. Displaying images in the wrong aspect ratio is easily one of my top 5 pet peeves and they showed up correctly in the preview. I'll have to look into what beehiv does there.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I’ve been having some fun exploring Earthsea lately.

A black and white drawing of a wooden house on a cliff

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It also implies that I'm already productive and working...

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But amazingly, that's not all! Because Għar Gremxul actually did a whole other Shelfie over on his blog where he talks about the rest of his books: ghargremxul.mt/blog/whats-o...

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What's On My Shelves? | Għar Gremxul

Għar Gremxul: Logħob b'xejra Maltija / Games with a Maltese twist

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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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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 · 18/09/2026

This looks sick. One of my new year's resolutions was to get in the habit of drawing maps. Didn't pan out so far, but this wants me to give it another try.

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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 · 15/09/2026

Also, it helps if there isn't an elaborate cover yet (which is why the minimalist jam going on right now has been a great resource so far) I really wanted to do one for RAM by @69dinguses.bsky.social as it's super evocative, but @hodagrpg.bsky.social's art was too good, I couldn't move away from it.

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Glad you're enjoying them! I'm mostly keeping an eye out for smaller stuff from my feeds that I like/find interesting and where I form at least some kind of visual association pretty quickly. This can be purley vibes-based or something pretty concrete, it'll transform in the process anyways.

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So glad to hear that his was indeed the vibe you were going for! Amazing job communicating that in such a minimal way in your writing and title choice then.

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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 · 15/09/2026

Yes that works. Though the effectiveness differs from niche to niche in my experience. And most custom feeds pick up the same word without the hash as well as far as I can tell.

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fuck, you're absolutely right. Clearly I still have a very long way to go. (100/100 will be a redo)

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thank you so much for saying that, it's awesome to hear that from an outside perspective. And I was super happy when that gradient came together by combining elements I had learned about during the previous ones.

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thank you, very happy you like it! Love the game btw.

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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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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Imperial phase Blizzard was truly something else. Diablo 2 is like this weird, ancient tech we have that we can't seem to replicate in just the right way anymore, the knowledge and context is simply lost.

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(Though chairs can arguably function as the demoscene of woodworking. Let's say cutting board.)

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes, or any software really. The same way someone would make their own chair despite it probably being neither the most well made, nor cheapest, option.

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I understand that many (me included) might not want to, after working on software all day, but coding itself can be that creative hobby. It can still be done by hand, simply for the pleasure of it. In that way at least, AI set coding free, to be truly enjoyed for the sake of it.

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hah, also looking for the Knizia book right now

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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

synthesis: only use YT to watch book flip-throughs, pausing on each page to read them

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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 · 10/09/2026

Thanks! 😄 Sorry for not tagging you in the original post though, I tried to find you on Bluesky but somehow didn't manage to!

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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The version for the Chosen One class I couldn't get to work in time.

Same image as in the parent skeet, but the text reads "Chosen One !! Break" instead.

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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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