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Ars Magica going Creative Commons is big. Anyone up for the challenge? Throw away what you don't like, run with your favourite part. Or of course, ignore everything and do your own game about time travelling wizards..

Monopoly 1244. Burning for your €€€. I'm sure it will be a big hit.

I asked John Nephew Co-Founder of Atlas Games about the upcoming Ars Magica Definitive Edition and about the open license. https://thoughtfuldane.com/2024/10/03/john-nephew-on-ars-magica-definitive-edition/

East coast for the continental climate. It’s really nice with cold sunny winters and hot sunny summers instead of the wet and windy climate in Denmark and west coast Sweden. Next I would look at university cities like Lund, Linköping and Uppsala as these are more likely to be open to newcomers...

Now here is a good field trip idea for those who need more than a random internet link as source! And I’m not the least surprised about Australia being a contender for most poisonous X.

The world's most dangerous tree: "On the fourth, a party of men were sent to cut wood, as the island apparently afforded plenty of that article; amongst other trees they unluckily cut down several of the manchineel, the juice of which getting into their eyes, rendered them blind for several...

Thoughtful Dane aka Thoughtful Games aka Frederik J. Jensen: Clemency Death of Rapacus Mars to Stay Complete list of games: https://thoughtfuldane.com/games/ludography/

Väderfenomen av Anna Fock. Tight story of three generations of ordinary Russian men and women who happen to live close to a nuclear research facility.

I dag blev jag glad då jag så första sketch av framsidan till Gotlandia… den blir snyggt bra!

1. A game only happens because you want it to happen. 2. Not all ideas work out. That’s ok. 3. It’s super helpful to have some people who want to read and maybe even play your game. 4. Try and find the right person for the game you are working on right now. Not all games are for everyone. 5...

Jag har jo gjort dessa två spel om Mars: http://thoughtfulgames.com/marstostay/index.html Building humanity’s first colony on Mars. GM less story game. http://thoughtfulgames.com/marscrisis/index.html Political dilemmas in humanity’s first colony on Mars. Interactive fiction.

FYI Ars Magica Definitive Edition funding campaign launches on BackerKit October 15th. https://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG0215

If you were to use mugs as a gaming device, what could you do? Like you could point the handle in a direction of another player to indicate support or suspicion. Or have the side of the mug you point outwards state if you vote yes or no. In a drinking game, you obviously have the liquid...

Wouldn't it be cool if instead of name tags, everyone around the table had their own mug with a picture of the character they are playing? Well, now you can. With print-on-demand mugs you can order custom printed mugs directly to your gaming table. I set up a web shop using the characters from...

Get it done, make it public, move on to the next project.

I remember downloading a ten page primer on Swedish for Danes that helped me with the basic differences. After that it was just practice, practice, practice. I read Swedish as fast as Danish and English now. However, I still struggle when writing Swedish and with pronunciation.

Someone should do a poll to rank all the suggestions!

Sånger från andra våningen, Roy Andersson, https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120263/ Visual storytelling, tragicomic characters, unlike anything else I’ve seen.

Today on Thoughtful Dane: How to play Gotlandia. https://thoughtfuldane.com/2024/08/22/how-to-play-gotlandia/ Someone on the internet took up the challenge to print and play Gotlandia! Inspired by this, I did a walkthrough of the first few generations of a game of Gotlandia.

Gotlandia update. Inspired by my visits to Gotland this summer, I tried out a few changes that turned out great. Also thoughts on publishing and next steps. https://thoughtfuldane.com/2024/08/15/gotlandia-update/