Svante Landgraf
@svantelandgraf.bsky.social
PhD in literature and culture studies, writing on sf and posthumanism. TTRPG game designer and writer, doing work on Mörk Borg, Dragonbane and others. Playing old-school Magic the Gathering. Reading books. Drinking beer. https://dimfrost.itch.io
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Brilliant twist 👌
Let's talk items. First up; the flow staff! You can see it in the trailer.
The flow staff folds in to fight and out to fly; both in the game and on the sheet. But it's weaker than most heavy weapons.
All illustrated items have mechanics on the back. Never look up a magic item effect again.
The flow staff folds in to fight and out to fly; both in the game and on the sheet. But it's weaker than most heavy weapons.
All illustrated items have mechanics on the back. Never look up a magic item effect again.
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Brilliant twist 👌
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This bans the Bible.
July 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This bans the Bible.
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Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
July 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
Just watched The Phoenician Scheme. Average Wes Anderson, which for me still means very entertaining, but the most interesting thing is that there are no meta levels. After the three levels of Asteroid City, and the stylized shorts, it's a welcome break.
June 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Just watched The Phoenician Scheme. Average Wes Anderson, which for me still means very entertaining, but the most interesting thing is that there are no meta levels. After the three levels of Asteroid City, and the stylized shorts, it's a welcome break.
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porn > nazis should be considered a basic value of any civilized society
Periodic reminder:Substack profits off Nazi pages bc they don't want to be "in the censorship business,"but they also won't host adult content,so they ARE in the "censorship business." They just think Nazis are better than pornographers.
This is why I will never give Substack a single shiny nickel.
This is why I will never give Substack a single shiny nickel.
May 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
porn > nazis should be considered a basic value of any civilized society
Just the other day, I was talking to some friends, lamenting that we probably wouldn't see another Pynchon novel. This makes me extremely happy. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Thomas Pynchon announces Shadow Ticket, his first novel in more than a decade
The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Just the other day, I was talking to some friends, lamenting that we probably wouldn't see another Pynchon novel. This makes me extremely happy. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Best thing I've seen today
March 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Best thing I've seen today
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Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage
March 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage
This is a beautiful, quirky and dark little game. Can confirm it's fun to play, and I'm not even a Dark Souls player. Recommended.
The campaign for our Soulslike, roguelike story TTRPG is nearing its end.
It’s a weird little game and we’re a weird little publisher—we’ve already maxed out our own reach.
Please consider reposting so that the game might find more of its weird little audience!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
It’s a weird little game and we’re a weird little publisher—we’ve already maxed out our own reach.
Please consider reposting so that the game might find more of its weird little audience!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
February 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This is a beautiful, quirky and dark little game. Can confirm it's fun to play, and I'm not even a Dark Souls player. Recommended.
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it's cool that we reached the peak of most computer programs in like 2012 and they've all gotten worse since then. i use a pirated copy of photoshop cs6 and office 2010 at home
A version of Microsoft Word with banner ads and surprise video pop-ups that doesn't let you *save files to your computer*. Just the thought of this is painful www.theverge.com/news/618278/...
February 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
it's cool that we reached the peak of most computer programs in like 2012 and they've all gotten worse since then. i use a pirated copy of photoshop cs6 and office 2010 at home
My main complaint about The Brutalist is that it could have had more Brutalism.
February 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
My main complaint about The Brutalist is that it could have had more Brutalism.
Recommend this. Rather brilliant little game.
Knight Forlorn is on Kickstarter for #ZineQuest!
A Soulslike, roguelike story game, it uses procedural generation, rotating roles, and punishing battles to wave tales of a lone wanderer on a futile quest in a dying world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
A Soulslike, roguelike story game, it uses procedural generation, rotating roles, and punishing battles to wave tales of a lone wanderer on a futile quest in a dying world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...
February 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Recommend this. Rather brilliant little game.
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regular blogger: i don't want to suggest Altman is lying :/ maybe they work out generative AI :/
me:
me:
January 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
regular blogger: i don't want to suggest Altman is lying :/ maybe they work out generative AI :/
me:
me:
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I really need ppl to stop referring to China as a communist economy (source: www.theguardian.com/business/202...)
January 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I really need ppl to stop referring to China as a communist economy (source: www.theguardian.com/business/202...)
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I wish there was more of a push from writers/websites to have people use RSS. I know Google Reader's death made it harder, but there's apps now like Inoreader and Feedly that work on phones that I think people would use. It's just easier to see something through RSS feeds than checking social media
January 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I wish there was more of a push from writers/websites to have people use RSS. I know Google Reader's death made it harder, but there's apps now like Inoreader and Feedly that work on phones that I think people would use. It's just easier to see something through RSS feeds than checking social media
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repost if you like maps
January 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
repost if you like maps
This seems like a neat option for blogging. Might give it a try some day.
Blogging about blogging! Dan wrote up a post about using itch to host your blog. Learn what's good and what's weird on that platform!
Why and How to Blog on Itch
Why and How to Blog on Itch Enough people have been surprised to see our recent blog posts being hosted on itch.io that it seemed worthwhile to write up an overview on how the experience has gone and....
gemroomgames.itch.io
January 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This seems like a neat option for blogging. Might give it a try some day.
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Not as fun as the time we were in a night club circa 2002 (the height of Warp record EDM-style music) and the fire alarm went & me and my friend kept sitting there all like ”this is interesting. Is it German, you think?”
January 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Not as fun as the time we were in a night club circa 2002 (the height of Warp record EDM-style music) and the fire alarm went & me and my friend kept sitting there all like ”this is interesting. Is it German, you think?”
This post by Yochai sums up my preferences for most ttrpgs really well, even quite far outside of what can be labeled as osr. Makes the world feel real and play exciting. newschoolrevolution.com/basic-osr-pr...
Basic OSR Principles
On December 29th, 2024 asked on :
"This might be an overly broad question, but: does anyone have specific advice on encouraging #osr style play in a gro...
newschoolrevolution.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This post by Yochai sums up my preferences for most ttrpgs really well, even quite far outside of what can be labeled as osr. Makes the world feel real and play exciting. newschoolrevolution.com/basic-osr-pr...
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Alright wait wait wait. It's old. Over a year old. And its last post was March 2024. Need far more evidence they're doing this at scale and have "started again"
January 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Alright wait wait wait. It's old. Over a year old. And its last post was March 2024. Need far more evidence they're doing this at scale and have "started again"
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When you're exploring a new city or learning a new language, you don't understand everything all at once. You take little details and put them away for later.
That's how I run megadungeons. References to old rulers, strange coins, repeating themes. They make sense eventually.
That's how I run megadungeons. References to old rulers, strange coins, repeating themes. They make sense eventually.
January 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
When you're exploring a new city or learning a new language, you don't understand everything all at once. You take little details and put them away for later.
That's how I run megadungeons. References to old rulers, strange coins, repeating themes. They make sense eventually.
That's how I run megadungeons. References to old rulers, strange coins, repeating themes. They make sense eventually.
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
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Ett nytt rollspelssystem av yours truly, denna gång en uppsättning alternativa regler till det klassiska science-fantasy-rollspelet Terone av @svantelandgraf.bsky.social, finns nu för nedladdning på sites.google.com/view/mountai...:
drive.google.com/file/d/1aawc...
drive.google.com/file/d/1aawc...
Alternativregler_till_Terone_MMG.pdf
drive.google.com
December 28, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Ett nytt rollspelssystem av yours truly, denna gång en uppsättning alternativa regler till det klassiska science-fantasy-rollspelet Terone av @svantelandgraf.bsky.social, finns nu för nedladdning på sites.google.com/view/mountai...:
drive.google.com/file/d/1aawc...
drive.google.com/file/d/1aawc...