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🍁 Levi Kornelsen

@levikornelsen.bsky.social
3.2K followers 1.2K following 12K posts

Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness. Most of my things are at: levikornelsen.itch.io

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2h
This would be *generally* a great idea, I'm just saying.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 2h
Thinking I might want to actually just use the TinkerCAD visuals directly as illustrations? Be kind of amusing staging example scenes in the design platform, but hey, they've got *clarity* going for them.
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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 13h
absolutely no hatred towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like 'a crown of blank and blank' stories as 'A kraft of mac and cheese' and I cannot stop thinking about it
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LycanthrEppy @epidiah.bsky.social · 5h
It came up again elsewhere, and so I'm oathbound to reshare here. Using AI can only reduce your audience.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 10h
"It's just a silly little guy, you can't get mad at a silly little guy!"
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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 16h
Garth Marenghi saying: I know RPG writers who used nuance, and they're all cowards
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dude who predicted last crash and put his money where his mouth is now predicting new crash, putting money, sometime before... End of next June, sounds like? No guarantee he's right, obviously, but in the class of "Expert says this is likely", I feel like this counts.
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Michael Burry shifts AI short bets to put options as bearish timeline moves closer
Michael Burry shifts his AI short strategy to put options, expecting weakness in major tech stocks as bearish risks grow despite equity highs.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I desire a spoochula - a spatula spoon. For lasagna, and the cutting and serving thereof.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm gonna need a bigger board to enable "islands sliding around as vehicles", but this is promising.
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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
7yo: You can kiss ladybugs, but you have to do it very softly, or they DIE. Me, not out loud: Did you learn this the hard way?
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best practices suggests I should have started the testing of the minis-based Geomantic with, like, paper islands and chess pieces instead of doing full 3d designs and printing them for every component before I even know if it's workable. But here I am producing the toys first, so hey.
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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ttrpgs are a generally myopic field of design and have a small fraction of the creative variety present in other kinds of games, and this is somewhat (although not entirely) due to social pressure and aesthetic standards historically exerted by conservative players, designers, and publishers
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I suspect that, just as a matter of one aspect of gamerdom meeting another, *some* game out there gets people excited enough to play it's premise that they often stampede directly over rules carefully engineered to support that exact premise, and I'm staring at my bookshelf to see if I have it.
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Jack Panic | DNGN CLUB @dngnclub.itch.io · 28/09/2026
Game genres are only really useful in an academic and retail setting. Otherwise they are invisible walls and tribes that become barriers for people to experience the full breath of what these types of games offer. Pbta and OSR are more alike than you think.
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K Lam (she/her) @ladylakira.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You can learn a lot about design craft by reading and playing games that are not to your taste. This is work in the same way as marketing your game is work, so there's def a cost benefit analysis here. It might be worth it to miss out on this, but you *are* missing out.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The degree to which "I have explained the rules clearly" and even "the rules affect and shape play" are both curves which can reach a point of diminishing returns for a given reader / user, but the fact that this varies by person makes all views on where that point is extremely suspect.
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Flintlock. Why do all these nerds follow me? I'm not a nerd. @flintlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look everyone, I broke this all down LISTEN TO ME FOR I AM FUCKING WISE.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"AI bros out here ruining technofetisitic sex cult-dom for the rest of us" doesn't even FIT on my Bingo card.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chugging my way towards a playtestable Geomantic-but-it's-minis-now, I now have a collection of notes that will probably work and is... uh. Too complicated, unless you're an old school wargamer. Gotta boil it down. Or make a VERY sexy reference sheet. Probably both.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"You are required to run your code through the AI editor, for liability reasons." "It makes it safer?" "What? No. It allows us to pass the buck on lawsuits."
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Look, some people actually maybe haven't heard Lazytown's You Are A Pirate, but others of you are just saying that because you don't want to look like the fuckin' nerds you are.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I mean, this isn't the only way, but yes.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This. I was playing random nonsense, it played, it was fine, I didn't remember it until people made a big thing. Could easily have missed it; I rarely know what's popular anymore.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"What are your thoughts on putting money into the pockets of the world's most litigious and influential transphobe? If we give you enough nostalgia, would that be okay?"
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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have lost count of how many times I have sat down with a design and thought, "ok, 4 core stats. They should be...." I've been doing this particular dance for ~30 years at this point, and I *still* haven't settled on a solution that I remain happy with.
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🅳🅴🅰🅳🅻🆈 🅵🆁🅴🅳🅻🆈 @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Your house rule for results of putting a bag of holding inside of a bag of holding, that's more interesting than "opening a rift to the Astral Plane," is ___________________________.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
thank you, Bluesky, for being my pumpkin full of frozen raw meat in my enclosure
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This simple test will tell you if the sorts of people who like eugenics think you're smart, and in fact just HOW smart, with an amazing score we call an intelligence quotient!
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We used to have Fandom Wank, a site existing purely to report on (and often make fun of) completely outrageous bullshit; it was petty and mean and about people being awful and shitty in ways that could be spun to be funny. I adored it. We were never nice.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am absolutely certain that the fall arrest harness is someone's kink, and I hope that they are having a very good time with it today, just for the sake of karmic balance, because I am not.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When I take the time to actually compensate sufficiently to talk to regular people about game stuff, I end up concluding that whatever I want to tell them (often, exactly why I am laughing whilst staring at my phone) is probably not worth the explanation.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The balance of wanting to support writers + untrustworthy enshittified playforms has led me to the fun habit of "Buy an eBook, and then if it is in any way DRM'd or tricky to get the bare file, also download a pirate copy and put THAT one on my eReader". Which is a special kind of something.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Premise: In the mage war, blood magicians set loose a flux that transforms creatures touched by it into monstrosities. The earth magicians replied with their own flux, which tears islands from the ground and sets them in the sky. Both factions were decimated by these acts of magic.
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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The island building procedure I mentioned earlier. complexoscillations.blogspot.com/2026/09/isla...
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Island Building Procedure
Begin with a single hex, on paper or on a screen. The general procedure will be: For each clear face of the hex(es), roll 1d6 and if you rol...
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Historian: These two women were roomates, you see. Lesbian historian: One of them probably thought so for a surprisingly long time, yes.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Progression toward "Magical monolith I can stack pyramids on but won't be mistaken for a tree at a glance", left to right.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Capitalism is a social system in which the capitalists are in charge, and Patriarchy is a social system in which the patriarchs are in charge. Neither of these is technically correct, but damn they're useful ways to figure out the fuck is going on. Trump, by the by: Both capitalist and patriarch.
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Clark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Humans are responsible for the automated systems they build and initiate. Every time. - Says me, a guy who builds automated systems for a living
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
School bus driver gets sick for two days: 1: Substitute driver, late (45 min) 2: Different substitute, late (80 min) Driver returns, is not given updated schedule, arrives 15 min early at multiple stops, is forced to backtrack and go again. I am forced to conclude the bus company is incompetent.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hell is other people, and most of the people comprising Hell wear very nice suits.
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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The kickstarter for Lonely Timbers is now live at www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag... and I would love your support. La campaigne sociofinancement pour Tire-toi une bûche est maintentant active. Merci pour soutenir ce projet franco-canadien et québecoise.
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Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche
A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New (completely unbaked) theory: Major edition changes (like, proper edition war) are when D&D primarily leaks players into the rest of the hobby.
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Archarzel @archarzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oof. Painfully true, and worse- the usual only options for advanced information is through mildly gatekept mentorship or the regimented academia that created those mentors. Self-taught is a harrowing form of expertise developed to match a narrowed field of vision. I could talk for hours on this.😬
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Re: The current discourse: This is basically the top-end example of my whole view, so... there it is.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fun nonsense: My new trees are in fact stacked pyramids, looney / icehouse style (though mine are smaller). This is gonna be a theme; I want pyramids for tokens, so I'm going to try and tuck them in all over...
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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never been a more appropriate time for this tweet
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Colours getting close now...
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have staunchly believed that one should vote for the lesser evil, but this Newsom guy, I gotta tell you, is doing a bang-up job in the department of convincing me that "Do not lower yourself to engage with this election" is real, real valid.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyway, this is your occasional reminder that Quest was written via "The Author listened to AP after AP and wrote mechanics to fit what he actually heard done", and if you know that when you read it, it's obvious, but if you don't, it just seems quirky, and that's *fascinating*. www.adventure.game
adventure.game
Home
Quest is a thrilling adventure with your friends that you won't forget. Get the game and join the fun.
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