Deus Ex Minima

Indie TTRPG designer, beginning fantasy cartographer, layout guy. He/him. Find me on

[Russell Zimmerman ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) @RussellZee]

This right here.

Tolerance doesn't mean absolute pacifism, unwavering acceptance of any awful treatment, never disagreeing with or wanting away from someone.

Tolerance is a social contract.

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"Your hype for your own work is infectious" - @TheDovetailor 🌟

[Jen 💚 @JenKatWrites]

THE SUN RISES ON THE FIRST DAY OF #GENCON 🌅 My game, The Price of Coal, is available at the @IPRTweets booth 2447! Go check it out (and the rest of the incredible breadth of wonderful indie games they’ve brought)!

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@monkeyspawgames Pong. We had this thing from Coleco with two knobs on it, so there were one and two player variations on the Pong theme you could select with some switches. It attached to the antenna input on the vast TV my grandad had gotten broken and then replaced some tubes on and given us.

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@MartinDubu Original Cthulhu had percentile skills. If used in game, you’d tick the box. At end of chapter, roll percentile dice for each skill used, and if you rolled -over-, you’d get a small die worth of extra points. I think it is an elegant simulation of improvement, scales well.

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@WCgameco Okay, I’ll bite, what is a reverse funnel?

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@kathleenneeley The semi-transparency effect in the shading on the feather! Wow!

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Also, brains like success. You get a boost when you do something your brain thinks is beneficial, which trains you to keep doing it. If you're already good at something, you want to do more of it. (Like the Engineer wants to optimize and the Consultant wants to negotiate.)

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Back to cognitive workload. Brains are expensive organs to run - 20% of your energy goes to feed your brain. Brains love shortcuts, because they save energy. (This leads to habits, but also stereotypes, more's the pity. 😬 )