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Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG)
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🎲 TTRPG Designer • Born from Ice: Stone Age Role-Playing • https://bornfromicerpg.com

📽️ Creative Wizard (Video • Marketing • Writing)

🦣 Storyteller fascinated by history, human evolution, and prehistory

https://linktr.ee/lorensmall • Charlotte, NC
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and I'm soon to be getting my claws into the edits of my only TTRPG so far this year, Born From Ice, by @bornfromicerpg.com

Lots going on, lots more to come

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July 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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As always, any day a new OK Go video drops, I'll post it and be excited about it. Some really great visual inventiveness in this one!

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OK Go - Love (Official Video)
YouTube video by OK Go
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April 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Fire training video shoot today for Central Piedmont Community College. Got to fly the drone and catch some video of Mint Hill Fire Department and our students. Thanks to everyone involved for helping make this happen!
Loren standing with a drone controller in front of a shipping container fire training facility. Three firemen are working to control the burn and smoke inside the containers. Smoke pours from the windows.
April 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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For anyone who thinks D&D should be more accessible, check out the Free5e Kickstarter. Fully Creative Commons, with PDF, ePub, digital braille, markdown, audio, and more. #5e #dnd #ttrpg #kickstarter #creativecommons #DungeonMaster #GameMaster #DungeonsAndDragons

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Free5e: A Free Open-Source Dungeons and Dragons Alternative
Fully free, Creative Commons D&D-compatible core books—accessible, affordable, and open for everyone. Help us bring DnD to the world!
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March 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Big brand video shoot this week.
Selfie of me with my camera. In the background is a fire truck, a firefighter, and another camera operator.
February 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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In trying to stay sane by not posting about US politics, here's some info about this year's technical Oscars. The new fire gels are fantastically interesting (and really cool to see stunt-related items included in the awards), and the other digital achievements are quite fascinating as well.
2025’s technical Oscar winners have three major themes, and one is ‘setting people on fire’
Burninating the countryside, burninating the stunt folks
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January 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Ok Go has always had amazing music videos with crazy video production, and this one is right up there with some of the classics.
OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)
YouTube video by OK Go
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January 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The LICHES method for writing descriptive boxed text. Really useful if you’re not sure how to get the most out of your descriptions from a Game Design perspective.

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The LICHES Method of Boxed Text Descriptions - Barilleon's Web Zone
A while back a friend asked me to write up some pointers for how I write descriptive text, or “boxed text.” You know, for dungeons and...
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January 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Would love to get some writing done, but guess it can wait because if this mess. #cats
Pixel, a white cat with black and brown patches, is curled up and sleeping adorably on my lap.
December 31, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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For holiday meals did a bunch of cooking, but most proud of how the salted caramel apple pie came out.
Top down shot of a salted caramel apple pie with lattice crust. Salted caramel apple pie with lattice crust.
December 25, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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It’s been a month, so for new folks: I’ve made a starter pack for Historical TTRPGs and creators. Reply with enough info to verify if you (or someone you know of) should be included! #ttrpg #ttrpgs #history #dnd #pathfinder #d&d go.bsky.app/FVfFLLK
December 19, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Some time last night I hit 1000+ followers! Thanks everybody!
Screen shot of @bornfromicerpg.com Bluesky follower amount at 1k.
December 19, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Chauvet Cave was discovered on the 18th December 1994.
30 years ago today. To many it is the most arresting expression of cave art in the archaeological record & it is one of the oldest examples in Europe.
Here are four of my highlights.
archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/chauvet/en
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For cat lovers everywhere, no less than 15 big cats, cave lions?, lionesses?, in black outline on the beige limestone rock. All are looking left, their attention utterly caught by the bison and bear drawn there. There is so much energy in their attentiveness, as if about to move. Some close superimposition of cat profiles hints at animation A large pendant of stalactite drops down from the cave roof. On it is drawn the lower half of a female figure taking in the wider part of the stal as her belly, black charcoal outlines sketching her tapering legs and pubic hair. From the right, also in black, a bison in profile is superimposed on the left flank of the female, by its leg appears to merge with her leg. the single eye of the bison appear coincident with the position of the belly button of the female. Ambiguity in showing human forms directly does seem to be a part of Aurignacian and later European cave art. At least 10 Woolly Rhinos, in black outline on the beige limestone rock. At the top four look closely superimposed giving an impression of animated movement. Finally the famous, beautiful image of four horses, all facing left drawn in black outline on the beige limestone with yellow ochre paint to the rear. The person, or people, who drew these, captured something so essential in the nature of the horse, as with so many Chauvet animals there is empathy/sympathy here.
December 18, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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NEW: Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
December 12, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Okay, my meeting with my boss has been postponed by three hours, which is not enough time to start a new work task but too much time to sit around twiddling my thumbs. So I'm making a thread of What Your TTRPG Product's Title Font Says About You: Featuring Only Fonts I Already Own.
December 13, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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Capturing cinematic b-roll video and managing the live stream for Central Piedmont Community College’s December graduation. Congrats to all the new graduates! #cpccgrad #graduation #charlotte
Selfie of Loren Small with Canon C200 cine camera, at the back of Bojangles Stadium in Charlotte, NC. Students receive their diplomas on the Jumbotron in the background.
December 12, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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🎉 Excited to have just released Beta 0.2 of Born from Ice to our Kickstarter backers! The game is now rules-complete (pending tweaks), so design focus shifts to content.

Beta info: tinyurl.com/bfiBeta02

Pre-order to get access: tinyurl.com/BFI-Preorder

#ttrpg #ttrpgs #dnd #d&d #prehistory
Pre-order Born from Ice: Stone Age Role-Playing (5e) on BackerKit
A 5th Edition Stone Age adventure. Level 1-20 campaign, setting, and player options. Play D&D in a dangerous prehistoric world! <sub>Please see our FAQ for important information regarding shipping an...
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December 10, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Hanging out with Fiona watching A Christmas Carol (1938). #christmasmovies #catsofbluesky
In the foreground is Fiona (the cat) cuddled up on a green couch (with an orange pillow), with A Christmas Carol (1938) playing on the movie screen in the background on the wall. Nephew Fred is speaking with his fiancée Bess in the film. In the foreground is Fiona (the cat) cuddled up on a green couch (with an orange pillow), with A Christmas Carol (1938) playing on the movie screen in the background on the wall. Someone is sliding on the ice in front of the church in the film. In the foreground is Fiona (the cat) cuddled up on a green couch (with an orange pillow), with A Christmas Carol (1938) playing on the movie screen in the background on the wall. Scrooge speaks with the Ghost of Christmas Present.
December 9, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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If you need an alternative to the best Christmas Carol film (the Muppet Christmas Carol, of course - which takes many notes from this film), this is a great choice #christmascarol #filmreview

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A ★★★★ review of A Christmas Carol (1938)
If you need an alternative to the best Christmas Carol film (the Muppet Christmas Carol, of course - which takes many notes from this film), this is a great choice. Despite a questionable bald cap, Re...
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December 9, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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Starting to post reviews as I rewatch favorites (or watch new films!) to Letterboxd. Last night was one of my favorites, The Maltese Falcon. I think there is a great #TTRPG campaign somewhere around the search for that bird!
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A ★★★★★ review of The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart carries The Maltese Falcon on his shoulders with a performance so commanding it’s impossible to imagine the film without him. If Bogart weren’t such a dominant force, the rest of the c...
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December 6, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪

Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool!

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species
A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.
www.livescience.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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It wouldn’t be the holidays without making my (famous?) Chex Mix. #thanksgiving #snacks
Two containers filled to overflowing with golden-brown Chex-Mix.
November 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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If anyone wanted to nominate Born from Ice, that would be amazing! www.enworld.org/threads/nomi...
Nominate your MOST ANTICIPATED RPG of 2025
As I do every year, I'm taking nominations for the MOST ANTICIPATED RPG poll for the coming year. Here is last year's Top 10 (spoiler: the winner was Shadow of the Weird Wizard. Previous winners inclu...
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November 26, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Reposted by Loren Small (Born from Ice: Stone Age RPG)
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I've created a starter pack for Historical TTRPGs (and the people who make them). If you want to be added, please reply with enough info to verify you fit the goal of the pack. #ttrpg #ttrpgs #history #starterpacks go.bsky.app/FVfFLLK
November 20, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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Doing #inDesign layout/editing work. Definitely the biggest inDesign project I've ever done. Pay no attention to my messy paragraph styles (with copies of copies for edge cases). Oh yeah, that is also a sneak peak of the Wolverine Totem!

#TTRPG #GameDesign #DND #D&D #TTRPGs #Tabletop #TTRPGDesign
A screenshot of an inDesign spread for Born from Ice featuring the Wolf Totem and Wolverine Totem sections. The layout includes text and an illustration of a wolf.
November 21, 2024 at 1:11 PM