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Alex @Plane Sailing Games

@planesailinggames.com

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Ennie-nominated Designer and publisher of indie ttrpg games including A Cool and Lonely Courage https://planesailinggames.com/

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

I run Plane Sailing Games, where I publish a trad space opera game and smaller story games where simple rules tell stories with big feelings. #indiettrpg

The covers of the following games
- The Long Road Home
- Expect Three Visitors
- Love and Barbed Wire
- Inner Circle
- A Cool and Lonely Courage
- Starguild: space opera noir
- Starguild: adventures in the underbelly
- Starguild: gateway to adventure

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 3h

The converse - when you're doing a bit of historical research and it turns out that something is much more complex and less straightforward a narrative than you had believed... I don't love that so much!

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 3h

How can they even call that Irn Bru?

Bet there's not even any girders in it

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 6h

family health emergencies mean I've had to pull out from trading at tomorrow's Partizan in Newark. That's a big hit to cashflow so I've just put a 10% off code on the shop to grab some orders instead - use PARTIZAN10 at Checkout to qualify. I'll ship out existing show pre-orders on Monday!

homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

Alt: homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 4h

I've barely heard about it (It was new to me when I saw it on offer at Concrete Cow)

Would you like to say a little more about it?

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

I love the idea of the Menace Track which @armadajosh.bsky.social talks about in this blog post. I can see lots of potential for this kind of device in games

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Events: bringing the mystery to life

This article was originally published on the Black Armada Patreon – please help us create more great games and gaming content by becoming a patron! Whenever I GM a mystery game, I aim to create a s…

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

Last four hours, if gothic space investigative horror is up your street, take a look!

Josh Fox 🔜 Ex Tenebris coming to Kickstarter @armadajosh.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ex Tenebris is LIVE on Kickstarter! Back now to help us get a strong start.

Play a ragtag team of investigators, walking the stars and hunting indescribable horrors with few resources and no backup.

The Republic Of Stars needs you. Will you answer the call?

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Ex Tenebris: A gothic space TTRPG

Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars

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

So while the exact probabilities might be obscured, the ‘sense’ of how likely to do well is preserved

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

2d6 as per traveller and PbtA is straightforward, but bonuses can make things too easy, while dice pool look for highest like FitD can make for more granular modifications for skill and circumstance

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

Sometimes they can disguise the exact odds while still giving you a good feel for what is better (eg fate).

On the other hand outgunned which uses poker dice left me floundering (is two pair better than three of a kind? I haven’t got the foggiest!)

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

Old school! I’ve still got my inked d20s

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

Happy Solar Revolution day!

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

This extended take on the value of AI "art" (incl. writing) by @theoatmeal.bsky.social is so very good, and it taps into pretty much every objection I have:

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Also, every new writer, PLEASE listen to this by Ira Glass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQ...

Embrace the Gap.

Excerpt from "Let's talk about AI art" by The Oatmeal: "And by jumping to the "fun" part, you're denying yourself the process."

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

This one is an ordinary animated GIF (no timer and pause button)

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

This is the little video play icons I see

Screenshot of post with a red circle around the pause button and the time is saying 0.02

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

It looks a little as if it is playing a video rather than an animated gif (different controllers showing, a countdown like on vids)

So could that be it? Somehow it’s a vid rather than a gif?

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 2d

📸 What does freedom mean to you?

As part of the national project Our Freedom: Then & Now, for which we’re creating a giant digital mosaic printed on aluminium to mark 80 years since VE Day and we want you to be part of it.

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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 3d

In Sept 1943, #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo became the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German occupied Poland, leaping from. British 4-engine Halifax bomber.
This evening…

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 4d

I’m currently at a Costa which has comfy chairs and low key easy listening music in the background, which is just right for me.

I feel the pain of trying to work somewhere with the sound turned way up though. Nightmare.

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Toasty Seahorse Studio @toastyseahorse.bsky.social · 6d

So, is anyone I know playtesting anything at METATOPIA next month?

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 5d

Oh yes!

I think I mentioned it on facebook, but I’ll say again here 😊

Road to Romance - a regency scenario where you are all in the same story, getting into each others business

Escape to Utopia - a post apocalyptic story game of relationships and resources

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 12d

If you're thinking about going to Metatopia you should fill out the panel/workshop/seminar proposal form!

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METATOPIA 2025 Panel/Seminar/Workshop/Roundtable Proposal Form

Thank you for being part of METATOPIA 2025 - November 6 - 9 at the Hyatt Regency Morristown in Morristown, NJ. METATOPIA is Double Exposure, Inc.'s Game Design Festival, an event for people who are ...

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 5d

Just what I was thinking!

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 5d

Back in August several academics raised concerns that a Deloitte report to government may have been generated using AI. Deloitte denied this and put the citation errors down to poor editing.

Anyway, Deloitte are refunding the government $440,000 for a report that was written using AI.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 5d

I think that when they started creating more SF weapons they forgot it was supposed to be a game!

Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 5d

I remember the original review in Empire (or something similar) that said "Most of movie 5/5. Final scene 1/5"

After everything else being insanely great, that fibreglass ending was just insane IMO!