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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Still arguing about the D&D union (ENWorld, baby), and some people, I gotta say, are living in a whole other universe than mine:

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Attempt 2: Not perfect, but good enough for testing...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Me: I think the movement here would be improved further if each side's starter was a quick little boat. Doesn't need to be complicated. *Whips up something fast, prints it* Still me: No, that's a surfboard.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gamers out here showing that they understand that most fundamental of economic realities:

Screen grab from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The lead ape, Caesar, is holding a bundle of sticks to make his point, which is written across the photo, and is "Apes together Strong".

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Geomantic testing: After testing movement, found that 75cm x 75cm (about 2.5 feet per side) is, if not the sweet spot for board size, much closer than I was working with, so I chopped my board down, and... it even *looks* more like it should. Plus at that scale, "kitchen table" is a real option.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Test setup on 3x3 board: This may actually be slightly too large, but it IS nice to lay out a full spread.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That old thrill of "I once again have a board for wargames", but it's just a pale cloudy blue.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Box and lid, which double as deployment tray and discards: Took a fair bit more effort than expected to get good size, fit, general feel, while balancing sturdiness and material used.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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🍁 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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🍁 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 · 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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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still need to figure out the specific token and token-holding device (standing stone?) for "geomantic power here/island control", but I now have a rough concept on this...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm not the only one noticing "Hey, this is basically the same story about a vapid non-intellect here", right?

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So the 1993 Super Mario was new weird fiction and also new new weird fiction?

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Listen, if you want to interview invented characters who are also actors and have been in movies, old tech is vastly superior to new in this field.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Okay, getting close now; the bigger ones here are 75% of the design scale (which was just "convenient in TinkerCAD"), and the smaller ones are 50%. The 100% set were needlessly big. Now printing at 62%, see where those are relative to the sweet spor.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay, now. Got me some tiny people. About 20 cents in plastic (plus 2hrs print time, cleanup, power, etc, but materials are... not a cost issue here).

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

7yo learning to rollerskate, so took her to the roller rink. Annnnd, we are the only ones here. She has the whole place to herself.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

With new 3d printer on the way, pulling up my lil' dudes to make some custom dudes for Geomantic.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've never met a TTRPG theory or game I didn't want to hack towards my own brand of nonsense at least a little, and I'm not going to start resisting the urge now.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tiny cubes + revised hex-and-node map = much clearer game space...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rewatching Blood Quantum (2019) to remind myself what a film without shiny gloss but with an *intense* interest in every part of its content looks like.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Testing of scenario rules is leading to my boards actually starting to look like they represent *something,* though it rakes an effort to visualize *what.*

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Feeling confident enough that basic play in Geomantic is going to get locked down nicely that I'm starting in on the bits for scenario play, which are very much about turning it into a... Skirmish game without violence? Kinda?

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Geomantic: Playtest Round 2! Put in the fix to the big issue I've had in the solo part of my second round of playtests. Figured I should share the file for anyone that wants to give this a go at home. I think it's, like, a *good game* now. Token-heavy! But good. drive.google.com/file/d/1LE82...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Okay, the on-one-leg one didn't QUITE work out, but the rest of these came out decent.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So, a not-new flowchart, but I want to point out a (really blatant) thing here: The rules that produce this kind of structure aren't usually exhortations to follow the flowchart (though the chart can be right there in the game if you like). Instead (+)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Continued rough-sketching for Geomantic.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Every so often, someone says that TTRPGs are eventually going to break into little clusters that don't talk, and separate entirely design-wise. That's absolutely never going to happen, and I can explain why. It starts with the idea that TTRPG design tech is steadily improving, which, look: (+)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Testing out another potential move for this...

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Long work day today, but hey, quick concept marker doodle.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Geomantic: After more of solo testing and refining, and one whole game with someone else, this is now an actual print & play game. I don't know that it'll hold up to "playing it a bunch and discovering the strategies", but it's certainly a neat puzzle to play at. (1/2)

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I want outlines on the meeples, but otherwise, I feel like this is a decent look.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Concept test as two-player board game: You need this map, 3 meeples or pawns each in two different colours (6 in all), a d6, and a LOT of glass beads or cubes in three colours; I'm assuming black, white, and green. 1/

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Okay, area control geomancy fight now runs in about a fifth of the time and is genuinely *interesting,* though probably not at all well-balanced.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Continued messing about! If you want to follow along: Print this pic out full-page, then put poker chips / glass beads / whatever on the circle segments as indicated (1, 2, or 3 of them). Then: (+)

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