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Game Designer Spooky Town / Petroglyph / Draw Stranger / Death of Rapacus / Montsegur 1244

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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 11h
Lots of cool events in Stockholm next week: www.nobelprizemuseum.se/nobel-callin...
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Nobel Calling aktiviteter 2026
Se alla aktiviteter i årets upplaga av Nobel Calling Stockholm.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 12h
"If the Russians know, why can't we know?" Mallen Baker is brilliant today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I281...
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Tack för din anmälan. Efter en noggrann genomgång har vi tyvärr inte hittat tillräcklig grund för att vidta ytterligare åtgärder för tillfället." I reported an add on Blocket were pictures clearly are ai-generated. Seems like they don't mind having such content on their site. #blocket #ai-slop
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Three chances to play Gotlandia this autumn: Saturday 3 October at Folk Lab Hallunda 13-17. Sunday 15 November at Folkes Bistro Huddinge 13-19. Saturday 28 November at Allis Uppsala 11-15. Up to 8 can play each session. First come, first serve or PM me to reserve a seat. #gotlandia
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Play Gotlandia at Folk Lab Hallunda this coming Saturday. www.botkyrka.se/evenemangsar...
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[2026-08-28] Gotlandia på Folk Lab
Pröva på brädspelet Gotlandia om Gotlands medeltid.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 28/09/2026
One week to go until the 2026 medicine laureate(s) are revealed! Quick facts about the medicine prize: Number of medicine prizes: 116 Medicine laureates: 232 Youngest laureate: 31 Oldest laureate: 87 Don't miss the announcements of the 2026 Nobel Prizes broadcast live on www.nobelprize.org.
Announcement graphic for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, scheduled for 5 October at 11:30 CEST, displayed on a dark blue background.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Writing is the most fun anyone can have by themselves, a quote attributed to Terry Pratchett. Game design is not too bad either.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was in Nyköping yesterday and took the opportunity to visit the nearby Släbro rock carvings, not far from the freeway. I’ve used one of the images from Släbro in my game Petroglyph and I wanted to see if I could find it. thoughtfuldane.com/2026/09/28/s...
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Släbro rock carvings - Thoughtful Dane
I was in Nyköping yesterday and took the opportunity to visit the nearby Släbro rock carvings, not far from the freeway. I’ve used one of the images from Släbro in my game Petroglyph and I want to see...
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#petroglyph #rockcarvings Visited Släbro near Nyköping. While many of the same motives appear on rock carvings all over Sweden, those at Släbro are like no others.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I once applied for a job and got invited to the test stage. I told my son about the job and boiled it down to "a job about making rich people richer". The next day I informed them that I was no longer interested. It is good for your soul to talk with your kids.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Halloween is coming and Spooky Town is not big enough for all its scary monsters... We are creating a game together at Folk Lab Hallunda. Hand in a drawing before Halloween and get a copy of the game. We need more zombies and more skeletons! #spooky-town #folklabhallunda
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reflections on the importance of story telling in board games from recent playtest sessions: thoughtfuldane.com/2026/09/24/w...
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When do you tell the story? - Thoughtful Dane
We have gathered a mighty fine group of game designers here in Stockholm that meet up every now and then and playtest each other’s games. Once per week it’s been now after the summer and this week we ...
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nice day for a trail with the dog today.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I always forget how nice it is to draw. #spooky-town
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jimmie Åkeson comments on the election result today. Sounds like a football coach explaining away a bad game. "We didn't do anything wrong, we were just unlucky." Well, if your strategy is to look posh for a seat in the government, you are bound to loose a few anti-establishment voters. #svpol
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I imagine Trump plays chess as McEnroe played tennis: "That piece cannot move like that! That's outrageous!"
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Imagine the leader of United States of America or Russian Federation doing a speech in three major languages of the people they represent -- as Ursula von der Leyen did this week. Europe has come a long way since centuries of war. Let's dream that dream -- that this can happen also in US and RF.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Result of the Swedish election almost ready: Still 176-173, looks like we will have a new PM soon. Thank you M -- especially minister of defence Pål Jonson -- for all the hard work put in for Sweden's security and for helping Ukraine. Now let's get a government that can fix the climate. #svpol
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Congratulations to Sweden with an election well run. I had the pleasure of working at a polling station from 7am to 1am yesterday receiving votes and counting ballots. I was happy to see the wide range of people casting their vote. Democracy is something we create together. #svpol
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John Nephew @johnnephew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Felt like posting a blog entry about #ArsMagica this morning www.atlas-games.com/news/post?s=...
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Intrigued by Ars Magica Definitive? Get it for FREE!
Almost two years ago, we asked the fans of Ars Magica to fund a massive summa of Ars Magica Fifth Edition – not a new edition, but a Definitive Edition that pulled together elements that developed acr...
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Asked my 80+ year old neighbour yesterday if he had voted. He said he wasn't going to vote: He had voted at earlier elections and it didn't change anything. Of course I challenged him this view, but I couldn't help smiling hearing this excuse. Vote tomorrow. We celebrate our democracy. #svpol
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Help us create a card game! Halloween is coming and SPOOKY TOWN is not big enough for all its scary monsters! Draw monsters and scary places and hand in your drawings before 31 October 2026. Everyone who contributes gets a copy of the game! #folklabhallunda
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CW Griffen @cwgriffen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
LLMs are like Ouija boards and somehow a large chunk of the population has been persuaded that there really are Mysterious Spirits Imparting Great Wisdom when it's really just reflecting your own superstitions* to you. *(and of course also the will of the technocrats via built-in magnets)
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mads brynnum @madsb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jeg har udvidet min webshop med lyd- og ebøger. Så kig forbi hvis du er i humør til lidt Buffy-inspirerede romaner, rim til børn eller en drabelig vælg selv handlingen-bog. Og spred gerne ordet - vi ukendte forfattere har brug for al den hjælp vi kan få. www.madsbrynnum.dk
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mads brynnums bogshop
Bøger. Lydbøger, ebøger og papirbøger. Til børn, unge og dem der er lidt ældre.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Game design update on Thoughtful Dane. Busy weeks with lots of creative juice flowing. thoughtfuldane.com/2026/09/10/g...
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Game design update - Thoughtful Dane
I had a great time in Norrköping last week playing games at The Happening. This both inspired me to revisit old games and got my head bubbling with new ideas. You easily forget how amazing it is to pl...
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In Awful Green Things From Outer Space (1979) you roll 2d6 for movement. Most characters add the dice but one is an alien that teleports to the room that is the product of the two dice. The interesting rooms are high prime numbers so hard to get to, 1/ boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16...
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The Awful Green Things From Outer Space
The crew fights the invaders without knowing which weapons will be effective.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Not very ambitious when you think about it.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I have relaunched The City after playing it at The Happening last week. It's a great game and more people should play it. If you have an older version, you can get the new version for free. thoughtfuldane.com/games/the-ci...
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The City - Thoughtful Dane
A steampunk drama by Frederik Jensen No man on is truly free, all are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.⁃ Euripide...
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Came up with a great theme for one of my games! Looking forward to get it to the table! I think it will be fun!
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Moderate muslimer?
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Calling Uppsala! Wanna play Gotlandia and live in Uppsala? Saturday November 28 I will host a session of Gotlandia at Spelens Hus in Uppsala. We meet when they open at 11, I will setup and teach the game, then we play and discuss the game and have an all-round good time. Max 8 seats. #gotlandia
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
100 years ago a river ran here. When the area was developed, pipes were laid that led rain water directly into the lake. The municipality now reestablishes the river and a reservoir to slow the water. To clean the water and to prevent flooding further down where Stockholm lies.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Made some buttons. Which one would you pick?
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Adding a couple of new products to my store and having fun writing product descriptions... thoughtfuldane.com/product/my-c...
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My cup! Mug - Thoughtful Dane
We can all get a little temperamental when someone tries to take our stuff. Avarius from Death of Rapacus is no exception, it's just that he is quick to get a strong sense of ownership for every shiny...
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RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
40 interviews later, we are done recording! We'll spend the summer listening, editing, and finding points that resonate among all our great guest speakers. Until then, we'll release, in reverse order of appearance, some info of the game designers and scholars we had the honor of interviewing!
A picture of a microphone and headphones, both black, near a laptop.

(photo credit: clasiqh on Unsplash - https://unsplash.com/@clasiqh )
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RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As promised, we'll highlight the designers and scholars we interviewed for RPG Roots, starting with the voices that will populate our Session 0. First, we welcomed the wonderful @megueyb.bsky.social - with her, we talked about...
A poster depicting a picture of Meguey Baker, a game designer and publisher, along with other pictures of four of the games she wrote. The poster background is green and depicts her name and the roots of a tree at the bottom.
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RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Another speaker we invited for our Session 0 is Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social, a professor of German, Film, and Game Studies at the University of Cincinnati but also a lifelong LARP and TTRPG player, GM, designer, and scholar.
A poster on a green background with a picture of scholar Evan Torner and other pictures of a few of his publications, both scholar wroks and games.
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RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Another guest for Season 1 of RPG Roots is Danielle Lewon, the award-winning co-designer of "Kagematsu" - another TTRPG that came up very frequently in our conversations with various authors! 1/
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RPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Two more guests that we interviewed together for Season 1 of RPG Roots are Vincent and Meguey Baker - @lumpley.bsky.social and @megueyb.bsky.social - the beloved authors of Apocalypse World, Under Hollow Hills, The King is Dead, and many more TTRPGs.
In this poster, there are pictures of Vincent and Meguey Baker in the front, and covers of three of their games in the back: Under Hollow Hills, The King is Dead, Apocalypse World. Their names are written at the top, and the background is dark gray.
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Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am very excited to now have this beautiful game, "Kagematsu" by Danielle Lewon, in two languages! Thank you @paulczege.bsky.social for the English copy! 🙏🏻 And let's all hope for a new edition! I love this game so much and I want to see it played and discussed again.
This picture shows the covers of two editions of the game Kagematsu: to the left the Italian edition, or the right the English original edition.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Got in a great game of Death of Rapacus today with my fellow players. Games should be played in person around a table.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I very much enjoyed my talk with Camilla and Set. Prepared questions and time to dig deep. It's an ambitious undertaking to interview such a large number of people and then to synthesise it into themes and topics. I very much look forward to listen to the result.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Himmelstalund rock carvings - Thoughtful Dane
In an open area not far from the city centre of Norrköping you can find the Himmelstalund rock carvings. Ships, swords, animals, people, carved into the flat rocky surface millennia ago. Norrköping si...
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Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Another great interview with a truly lovely person! Thank you @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social - and I get to play Montsegur 1244 this week! 😀
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Who was the mysterious three legged artist? Himmelstalund, Norrköping.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I don't know what to say: this LLM dev-team-in-a-box is soo good. Spent some time digging into an error in how the scoring was calculated until I re-read the rules and found out that it did exactly what I wrote in the rulebook. #gotlandia
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John Nephew @johnnephew.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As of when I left Proctor around 9:30 last night, we have 1,708 international #arsmagica packages that are sealed, labeled, and waiting for pickup by Asendia this coming week. Something like 115 packages left to pack, including numerous domestic Library of Durenmar backers as well as international
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ratko Mladić has died, the first of an unholy trio of 80-something bastards to go. Two more, let's go.
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Det er billeder af bier og blomster og Jimmie med et stort smil, i tunnelbanen, på lygtepæle, på luftballoner. Gør Sverige til Sverige igen er SDs slogan, hvad fanden betyder det? #svpol
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Thoughtful Dane @thoughtfuldane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Boardgame night tonight at Hallunda Folkets Hus. thoughtfuldane.com/2026/08/28/p... #folketshushallunda #folklabhallunda
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Play and create boardgames in Folk Lab Hallunda - Thoughtful Dane
We are starting up again with boardgame nights at Folk Lab Hallunda. Every Friday from 16-20 we play and create boardgames. Find us at 16 outside the library where you can learn new games and hang out...
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