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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I have been incredibly inspired by the little snippets of it you've shared on here. I already have streamlined highly designed games, what I crave more of are interesting, idiosyncratic, personal surprises!

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I finally finished The Sopranos, and am filling the void with Tower Dungeon. Mouse hobbit and crow goat are best characters so far. I don't like it nearly as much as Blame, but I do like it much more than Biomega or Knights of Sidonia.

A happy adventuresome mouse saying "Everyone seems so nice." From the manga Tower Dungeon.

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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

I can’t stress how dangerous 20+ years of teaching men STEM without Humanities has been for all of us

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler is the most interesting and emotionally conflicting alien invasion story I've experienced. Still haven't been able to stop thinking about it. And Gene Wolf's Book of the New Sun. A fascinating world that you have to piece together through glimpses and inferences.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's the series that got me to fall back in love with reading as an adult.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If they want to dabble with making little games, I've had a lot of fun with PICO-8 (has pixel art tools built in, and a great community). If they want to make practical tools, python is great.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

That sounds way up my alley, thanks for sharing!

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ooooo, this is the first I've heard he did comics! I'll have to check them out.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This Severian plays synth in a New Wave band.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I didn't realize this was missing in my life, and now it is all I want.

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Chris P. Wolf 🛸 Mostly Offline @chrispwolf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

TV series based on the Culture novels. Episodic, old school TV where each week we watch Special Circumstances deal with some shit. All of the aliens are puppets.

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!Bob @plasmator.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This quote made the rounds a decade ago and it's equally true today.

A screenshot of text, which reads:

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

-@stimmyabby, Tumblr

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is how I learned that I had no idea where the liver was.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

If you also love climbing ancient ruins while being pursued by a terrible beast, as well as games you can finish in a single sitting, then I can't recommend Idols of Ash enough! store.steampowered.com/app/4450800/...

store.steampowered.com

Idols of Ash on Steam

Grapple, clamber and fall thousands of meters down into a dark and ancient place in this first-person horror climbing game. You are being hunted.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

At least not on my computer, out of the box.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I love how quick and unintrusive Sumatra is, but also have Foxit installed for the better printing options, like bookelt printing.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The looser the format and amount of off-topic goofin' I'll tolerate is directly proportional to the chemistry of the hosts. Some people have stay-on-topic personalities, and that is okay. By the way Between Two Cairns is the only podcast I have notifications turned on for, keep up the good work!

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Gotta prove you're actually worth talking to. It's like how in Earthsea, being a Dragonlord just means that dragons take you seriously enough to talk to you before turning you to a smoking pile of ash.

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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It’s really frightening.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I remember enjoying the last couple volumes once it got properly weird.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I always picture Electric Bastionland as Brazil (1985) through the lense of Richard Scarry, and I feel there's at least a fun animated short in there somewhere.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

birds rarely read their email and are happier than most

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Your lack of inclined ramp industrial elevators is most concerning.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Designing some abstract player pawns with unique silhouettes. I cut them out of some scrap oak flooring.

Eight shapes that look like board game pieces, each starting as a 1.5 inch by 1 inch rectangle, but with different shapes cut in the top:

Red rectangle, blue with a dome top, yellow with a pointed top, light grey with a notch cut out of the top looking like a castle wall, sea foam green with a hole through the center, gold with a flat top and angled corners, light purple with a semicircle cut out of the side, and green with a slanted top.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 06/04/2026

new zine preview

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I just spent five minutes trying to figure out which planet a helicopter was.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Yeah, I don't know how well these would work as an actual tower. I feel like this is one of those mass to surface area things where there's probably way more friction and way less space for fingers than regular size blocks.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Mini Jenga blocks at Dollar Tree for $1.75. These should make perfect dungeon walls! I've been moving towards plain wood dungeon tiles/terrain. Helps aphantasia-leaning players stay on the same page, but still forces the use of imagination and flexible enough for any theme.

Wooden stacking blocks, 2" x 5/8" x 3/8"

The blocks in their packaging: Tumbling Tower Game

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When we played 5e, they were always concerned with "what they were SUPPOSED to do", but after only three sessions of OSR play they're already pitting adventures against each other. I'm so proud 🥲

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

They are going to attempt to use an enchanted sickle from Bloodmarm Barrow to charm the dragon from Black wyrm of Brandonsford into fighting the titular blood moth from Temple of the Blood Moth. I'm rooting for their Godzilla vs Mothra moment, but we'll just have to see how the dice fall.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Three sessions in, and my Cairn players are plotting to coerce the boss from dungeon #2 into fighting the boss from dungeon #1. I love a good scheme.

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Pay a vial of tears shed from the loss of a dear friend, and she will guide your way through the Violet Way. Her Skull of St. Rathis lantern casting its pale green light across the path.

figure with sword, skull in bell jar, mask hood

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This reminds me of the one time I tried watching an AP of Burning Wheel and they spent the entire session opening a chest.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Trying to do some GM prep, Pumpkin is not as helpful as he thinks he is. He's lucky he's cute.

An orange cat with a blue collar demanding to be pet while sitting on top of a print-out of the OSR dungeon Tomb of the Serpent Kings.

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Gareth Davies @spudonkey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Gus the Goblin was always happy no matter what life threw at him.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Here are my dimensions if that's helpful. Makes a mini that has a 1" square base and is 1.5" tall. For bonus points you can "laminate" your art with packing tape and weigh down the base with a penny.

A diagram showing the paper dimensions. A rectangle that is 5" long and 1"wide. Subdivided length-wise with a 1" square at each end and two 1.5" rectangles in the middle.
The center of the long rectangle makes the top point, and the two square ends get glued together to form the base.

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Paper minis of my Cairn 2e squad.

Cairn background art has been printed out and folded into little paper triangular standees with pennies taped to the bottom for stability.

The back sides have the character names and backgrounds.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Stop trying to build tension in your videos and just show us the fuckin thing you’re trying to show us already

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

these people gleefully ripped apart the systems that kept millions of people around the world from dying of starvation and disease and now they go crying to a judge because they're suffering "reputational damage" on the internet hell is not hot enough

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Planet Gnome @planetgnome.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You'll have to pry my bullet points from my cold dead hands!

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