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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 2h

It's probably caught by the "oh they mention merch and so..." level of intellect

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 10h

How the month started to how it ended.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 13h

Delighted to have another bite-sized interview up, this time with London based designer Tor @toothandshore.bsky.social After reading, why not go and check out (and back!) their crowdfunder to bring a new solo game to life 😀 planesailinggames.com/interviews/2...

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Interviewing Tor

Meet Tor, a Londoner who wants to bring mudlarking to the masses. What is mudlarking? Read on!

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 10h

The games on sale include the WW1 2 player epistolary game Love & Barbed Wire, the WW2 solo game Tail-End Charlie about life as a tail gunner in bomber command, A Cool and Lonely Courage about women spies in WW2 France, and The Long Road Home - a story game where you create an epic fantasy adventure

A cool and lonely courage cover, showing a female spy working a clandestine radio powered by a bicycle generator.

Love & Barbed Wire, showing kilted scottish soldiers resting up in a trench

Tail-End Charlie, with a black and white photo of the badly damaged tail of a Lancaster bomber, where the turret has been shot up

The Long Road Home cover, with a path through woods suffused by golden evening light

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 10h

Hey! Compose Dream Games have a special 20% sale off until this coming Sunday, and you can find four of my most popular games there! Do them and me a favour and pick them up at a great discount! composedreamgames.co.uk/plane-sailin...

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 13h

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Interviewing Tor

Meet Tor, a Londoner who wants to bring mudlarking to the masses. What is mudlarking? Read on!

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 13h

As cloudflare route traffic for over a third of the internet, I'm already trusting them with my web domain and everything else, so this doesn't seem like any additional level of risk 😊

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 13h

I use cloudflare to provide a number of services, and that easy URL redirect is one of them (covered in their free service, which is nice)

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 13h

The ideal (IMO) is a static one that points to a URL which you control and which you can redirect as necessary. My convention banner has a QR code on it to planesailinggames.com/banner and by default it redirects to the games page on my site but I can easily tweak to other places (e.g. kickstarters)

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Games

My table top role playing games, and free game 'hacks' of other games

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 15h

two big heavy hitters in the world of technology!

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 15h

I was astonished that it ever saw publication. Couldn't imagine what the writer and editors were thinking about there.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 15h

I'm just thinking about web design wisdom from oodles of tests that every extra click before someone finds something means you lose a certain number of people. Seems reasonable that it holds true here too. If it's in the book, everyone has it. If it's an extra some people will look but not all!

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 17h

I bet there is a significant drop off in people going to even free downloadable adventures

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 17h

I’ve run that adventure three times for three different groups and each time it rocked big time. Three very different endings too! I included a write up of the first one in my review of the game here planesailinggames.com/review/2024-...

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Review - Alien RPG

An RPG which captures the feel of the Alien/Aliens films beautifully.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 18h

So in the end was the sword mightier than the pen after all? :-)

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 18h

I’ve added my voice to the campaign, and if you are in the UK I’d love it if you considered adding your voice to the campaign too. Our wildlife reserves are precious. Data centres are not.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As well as books, posters, games and all sorts, I also do editorial illustration. Here's some of my work for the independent, (award-winning!) news site londoncentric.media Thanks to editor @jim.londoncentric.media for being a pleasure to work with! #illustration #art

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 19h

I'm in what I hope is just a tricky interregnum at the moment as multiple pitches & jobs fell through & unfortunate circumstances have delayed moving ahead with my new book at the pace I'd like. I'm trying to find solutions but if you like my work, a few tips would quickly add up: ko-fi.com/timclare

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Buy Tim Clare a Coffee

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 19h

Haha, that’s a promotional angle to take!

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Ross Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're getting ready to launch the Kickstarter for Ludonarrative Dissidents season 4 on October 13. We have a high level reward for backers to make us run an online game for them. Why not make us try to run an unplayable game like Continuum? www.patreon.com/RPPR/posts/l...

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 19h

I was particularly struck by this section in the results summary

RESULTS

We find that sycophancy is both prevalent and harmful. Across 11 AI models, AI affirmed users’ actions 49% more often than humans on average, including in cases involving deception, illegality, or other harms. On posts from r/AmITheAsshole, AI systems affirm users in 51% of cases where human consensus does not (0%). In our human experiments, even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right. Yet despite distorting judgment, sycophantic models were trusted and preferred. All of these effects persisted when controlling for individual traits such as demographics and prior familiarity with AI; perceived response source; and response style. This creates perverse incentives for sycophancy to persist: The very feature that causes harm also drives engagement.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 19h

I can’t quote or reply to the original post, but was stunned by this interesting article by Myra Cheng of Stanford, published in Science. tl;dr; genAI is sycophantic and this is bad for our relationships. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 19h

Although they don’t make it easy to find on their website, I’ve finally tracked down the release notes for Affinity 3.3 www.affinity.studio/help/release...

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good news; we are currently running a clearance sale for copies of our SF game of memetic horror, After the War. You can pick up a copy for 50% off while supplies last from @ipr.bsky.social at www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/After-...

After the War: Science-Fiction RPG of Memetic Horror

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

COMING SOON: In prelaunch w/ Violent Delights, another game inspired by Shakespeare: Mousetrap is a cursed game-within-a-game that won’t go back into its box. It’s game night. You and your friends have gathered to play a Hamlet-inspired game manuscript from 1983. But there’s a catch…

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Coming soon: Mousetrap & Violent Delights

A cursed game-within-a-game that won't go back into its box, and a chess-based RPG about Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Secrets are scattered throughout the game, revealing that you aren’t its first victims. The game text, which was found and reconstructed by Dr. Cornelia Foote, is lined with her notes. They may be the key to rescuing you — and breaking the curse for good. But you will have to play again. And again.

Secrets, anomalies, and easter eggs. Anomalies flipped in every direction.

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mousetrap's framework is based on the Bakers' Firebrands. You alternate between mini-games and vignettes — mini-games that depict common interactions between players at the table and scenes that depict your characters in the fictional Castle Muldoon. Until your player and your character swap!

Immerse yourself in the game. Bring your characters to life. Cross the magic circle. Concentric circles. In the outer circle are the titles of mini-games and the Players at the Table. In the inner circle are Muldoon Vignettes and Characters in the Castle.

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 29/09/2026

Ending soon the HUGE Solo September Games Bundle for solo TTRPGs 🧡 rpg-trader.com/products/835... Includes narrative-focused, world-building, dungeon/hex/point crawling, epistolary, roguelike, LARP, rules-light, puzzles, journaling games and so more!

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Solo September Games Bundle on RPG Trader

A collection of 134 games to play on your own. In partnership with Solo RPG List.

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rather than your standard press release, I talk a little bit about what drew me into making Mousetrap, about what feels both Shakespearean and dramatic about Firebrands-style games, about metagames. I hope you'll check it out, via @rascal.news!

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In Mousetrap, metagames and Shakespeare meet with Firebrands mini-games

The cursed game-within-a-game has landed on Kickstarter

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once More Into the Void is 50% off until the end of the year, at which point we need to dispose any remaining full-colour hardcopies. This is the last, best chance to pick up your copy, with all proceeds going to to support @temporalhiccup.bsky.social www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Once-M...

A banner for Once More into the Void with the tagline, "Save the Galaxy, One Last Time".

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 29/09/2026

Never occurred to me that it might be pronounced with an L!

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 29/09/2026

It looks like a colossal giant has set a trap for those pesky little humans, but it has grossly overestimated their ability to knock the peg holding the rock in place.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 29/09/2026

What’s a poster you had in your room growing up? I’m pretty sure that I’m going to be unique here!

A swedish Nautiskt Bildlexikon poster, showing schematics of sailboats, yachts, turrets, sextants and more.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 29/09/2026

I see there is a new point version of Affinity out. This screengrab shows the new features which are included in this hour long video they have produced www.youtube.com/live/Dqm9HHV...

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

Work is still progressing on my Romance game, Road to Romance. I realise that I hadn’t written up one of my ‘actual plays’ so I’ve fixed that - it is a classic victorian romance planesailinggames.com/post/2025-09...

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Road to Romance - Victorian Mischief

A detailed write up of a game of classic victorian romance.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

Games are fun to play with friends. Solo games can also be fun. Fun is good.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

Just watched Fury (2014). Wow, that’s a bleak and uncompromising WW2 war film. No glorifying of war here. Tense and uncomfortable watch all the way through. www.imdb.com/title/tt2713...

Film poster for Fury, showing Brad Pitt standing in front of a Sherman tank with other crew around

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

I wish I could read the actual article but “not available in your region”?!?

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

I think I might rewatch Iron Giant tonight after that reminder!

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

Some people (nationalities?) seem to get more hung up on “the rules as written” than others. It’s always been plain to me that I can do what I want with them, but I’ve seen enough discussions over the years that I can see why designers started including it.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

I think it is really valuable, not just as a quick way in for GM/players, but also as a means of showcasing parts of the rules (or setting) that you think are particularly interesting

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

Roosevelt said "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. " I think it is probably also true that the only person who never makes a mess is the person who never does anything!

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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In case you missed it, I actually have FOUR playtestable games out right now - fully playable and fun, just a little rough around the edges, needing a little polish, you know. (And there might be a fifth before the year is over) YOU can indulge my project-juggling mania itch.io/c/6610878/pl...

An itchio collection with four projects in it: Collegiate Gothic, Blood of the Covenant, Pax Deorum, and Before the Season Ends.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

I don’t know about ‘best’ but I’ve endeavoured to make mine clear and with useful sections about the wider ttrpg scene as well as selling my games? It’s functional rather than beautiful, perhaps. planesailinggames.com

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