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TTRPG Writer & Layout Designer | Best-Selling DMsGuild Author --------------- Ecology, Nerdery & Eberron fan
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geckopirate @geckopirate.bsky.social · Dec 21
Well, it's time slay the beast known as Self-Promoting and introduce myself. I'm Jamie 'geckopirate' Bernstein, and I write, design, and lay out TTRPG books - mainly for D&D's Eberron setting, but also for indie games such as Eat the Reich and Mappa Mundi!

Everything's up on
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Jamie Bernstein - TTRPG Portfolio
Adventure In Mind
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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 4d
Hey game designer! If at any point you think you're going to want to hire an artist - spend some time today going through the #PortfolioDay tag and follow/save some art you like. The future you will thank you 😌
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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 12d
strange mountain wanderer

#digitalart #fantasy #rpg #d&d
A hooded, robed figure bearing shield and spear confronts strange and cold jagged mountains
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 20d
Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896) — an Art Nouveau reference book full of elaborate ornamentation: winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs, warring sea creatures, and more... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/das-thier-in-der-decorativen-kunst/
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momatoes @momatoes.com · 22d
BOOK COVER ARTISTS
QRP with your book covers.

I like the covers I make :)

#BookCovers #HumanMade #NoAI
The cover for What Dust Remains, showing the title of the game against an abstract liquid blend of gold and silver paint. The cover for ARC. A swordsman with a round, glass helm holds a flaming sword and faces down a glowing maiden floating atop a lake. A white snake rushes beneath the water towards the swordsman. A leviathan with a mushroom for a head surrounds the text "The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri" while art deco frame sits around the cover space. A cheerful drawing of two children chilling atop a tiny, floating island. The title of the cover says "Tiny Stories: A conversation game by momatoes".
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jaen nighly || welaway @jnb.art · 22d
BOOK COVER ARTISTS
QRP with your book covers.

hand-lettered & hand-skulled

#BookCovers #HumanMade #NoAI
A color cover illustration for the Little Wolves TTRPG with muted purples, blues, greens, yellows, and reds, with black line art. The title logo is done in a yellow stylized blackletter ambigram style that reads the same upside down and right-side up. The logo sits in front of a large red moon. The main focal point of the composition is a young werewolf with glowing eyes, running along with two wolves behind them. The werewolf is tangled in the vines emerging from the silhouetted trees that frame the composition. Along the edges of that frame, in four circular vignettes created by the branches and vines, there are cameos of the four queens of the game: the witch queen, the troll queen, the pumpkin queen, and the mermaid queen. A banner along the bottom of the cover reads “A realm of folk and fae from Dinoberry Press" a black and white illustration for the cover of the game HELLPIERCERS. It features a decorative border of metal and gems with skeletons bearing spears. the title text is written in a stylized hand-lettered blackletter typeface. there are arcane sigils and floating geometric forms, as well as two veiled and haloed attendants flanking the composition below billowing clouds. one attendant is holding a hammer and the other, a sickle. an angel wing and demon wing cross below the title text, and at the base of the art, demonic hands and limbs reach upwards. A color cover illustration of a vast abandoned valley flanked by craggy mountains and crumbling castles. a skeleton with a royal crown and cape lays on a rock in the foreground. The title text spells “Dead Reign” and is written in a black letter typeface with a dagger in the middle for the ‘i’ in ‘reign’. The lettering also implies the shape of a crown and sits on top of a skull in the top center of the cover. A color illustration of a planet with an angry face exploding from its middle. The words “10 MILLION HP PLANET” are bursting out of the planet in the center of the composition. Black fractal-like circular forms, sometimes referred to as Kirby Krackle, are drawn around the edges of the image. The limited color palette of yellow, orange, red, fuchsia, and blue, is applied as halftone dots.
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Anya Chalina @anyachalina.bsky.social · May 6
It's time for a new pinned post with some of my recent work.
Hi! I'm Anya! I draw fantasy illustrations like these. I am open for work and also accept private commissions.

📩: [email protected]
prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/anya...
portfolio: anyachalina.myportfolio.com
"Nuptial Rites". The illustration shows a wedding ceremony. There's a woman in the left side of the image. She wear a headpiece decorated with flowers and holds a large egg in her arms. There are stairs leading to an elevated stage with musicians playing lute on both sides of the stage. There's a skeleton in a festive clothes riding a white horse in the center of the image. There are festive robes behind them. The room is decorated with tiles and there are two roosters in front of the stage. There are some poppy flowers in the foreground. The artwork is colorful with much red, blue and beige. "Angel's Whisper". The image shows a room decorated with tiles and murals with a pool in the foreground. There's a queen sitting in on the throne in the center of the image. There's an angel standing next to her closely. There are two white peacocks in the room and two swans swimming in the pool. The artwork is mostly grey-blue. "The Dressing Room". The illustration shows a woman with long black hair sitting in front of the mirror. There are people behind her holding and brushing her hair. There are flowers around the woman and behind the wall in the middle ground. There's a statue of a man on the right and some flowers and herons near it. There are broken plates and vases in the foreground. There are eggs in some plates. In the background there are buildings that connect to each other. The artwork is mostly pastel with pinks, blues, turquoise and purples. "Sojourn". This artwork is inspired by "Picnic at Hanging Rock". The artwork shows a ruin with young women sitting and standing around it. There are two teachers among them. They are skeletons. One is holding a chihuahua and another one is reading a book. The young women participate in different activities such as reading books, drawing, sharing secrets with each other, playing flute and admiring the surroundings. There are two dogs in the foreground and a bird that one of the characters is drawing. There are trees in the background and some rock formations. Two young women are walking towards the rocks. The artwork is mostly green and brown with some white and light blue accents.
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RAVioli 🥟🌿 @unravy.bsky.social · Feb 1
Red, silver, and gold. Most recent mothdakes 🌿
#mothdrake
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geckopirate @geckopirate.bsky.social · Aug 18
I've just published Ruins of the Rustworm, a megadungeon pointcrawl through the heart of a volcanic dwarfhold shattered by a centipede kaiju!

It's #ttrpg system-neutral, with 32 locations, 4 major factions, maps, weather, encounters, and stinky golden geese.

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Ruins of the Rustworm by geckopirate
Volcanic Megadungeon Pointcrawl
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giant robot tackler @giantrobottackler.bsky.social · Aug 14
our submission for the mythic bastionland jam is up! a set of knights and myths inspired by the Mabinogion. i did the knights, @thebarse.bsky.social did the (stellar!) myths and art. we were smoking on the shit that killed the lindow man with this one. check it out!

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Flood and Flora: A Supplement for Mythic Bastionland by Barse, giantrobottackler
Two Knights and two Myths for Mythic Bastionland, inspired by the Mabinogion
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geckopirate @geckopirate.bsky.social · Aug 10
To summarise, you equate everything into the average number of successes it grants. This is also true for blood - you can equate blood into dice gained, and thus successes it grants (including its value for healing injuries). Hope that helps!

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geckopirate @geckopirate.bsky.social · Aug 10
That equipment above should br 2 dice, typo.

If you put all this together, and use the official Vamps as guidelines, you can make sure your vamps are rolling enough average successes to keep things moving. Ubermensch are the inverse - you look at what the vamps will need on average to defend.
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geckopirate @geckopirate.bsky.social · Aug 10
If you look at the official vamps, this checks out. A vamp using their 2nd best skill (3 dice) and using the weakest equipment with the narrative bonus die (3 die) is rolling 2.5 successes a turn. They go neutral. Crits, good equipment, and skills then push them over into achieving things. (3/X)
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geckopirate @geckopirate.bsky.social · Aug 10
Enemy successes on average = half their attack die. The most dangerous Ubermensch roll 6 die baselines -> 3 successes. Weak enemies are 2 successes. This means Vamps need to be rolling, on average 2-3 successes on their turns to be 'neutral' - not achieving anything, but not getting injured. (2/X)
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geckopirate @geckopirate.bsky.social · Aug 10
To put it short, yes; its less of a formula, but ETR revolves around rolling enough successes to match enemy successes (I.e, to defend), then using further successes to deal damage or complete an objective. Characters, on average, should be rolling more successes than the enemy each turn (1/X)
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McNastyPrime @mcnastyprime.bsky.social · Aug 10
The story behind this is NOT what I was expecting! archive.ph/TlJnd
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Mike Laidlaw @mikelaidlaw.bsky.social · Aug 2
About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?”

No. Fuck you.

I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.
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geckopirate @geckopirate.bsky.social · Jul 29
Its stunning! I love how you used the different fonts and palettes for each section to match the story and personality. 10/10
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Mabus @mabus808.bsky.social · Jul 26
Elder Royal Griffon. Sketchbook sketch of 2023

#sketchbook #art #ink #griffon #gryphon #moleskin #fantasy #DnD
Different views of an Elder Royal Griffon
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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · Jul 26
Here are some of the vampires I drew, as commissioned and described by @trixmg.bsky.social
a drawing of a very large bat like goblin with many wings a giant sword and a floating red crown drawing of a winged vampire in a suit with red eyes and holding a cup of tea drawing of three vampires in fur coats sitting at a table drinking tea
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Peter Mohrbacher - Angelarium @angelarium.bsky.social · Jul 23
Raziel
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geckopirate @geckopirate.bsky.social · Jul 17
Not sure I've ever said this, but thank you so much for every one - such a lifesaver for hobby layout designers 🙏
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nao70shark @nao70shark.bsky.social · Jul 17
Dinomorpho
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Arthur Baron-Clément @arthur.baron-clement.com · Jul 15
press start
#art
Rough landscape digital painting of an old bridge in some green mountains. A pink-dressed girl is watching the view in the foreground. A huge golden cloud is blurring out the horizon.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · Jul 14
PPS: the thing I am working on now is TTRPG setting sourcebook. Am trying to make it so you tweaks its fundamental resolution mechanics, depending on which locations you visit in the world.

Because, you know, when you travel from place to place, the rules you live by may change ...
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · Jul 11
Who up stroking they sword while lamenting social realities
Engraved line of chinese poetry captioned "Stroking the sword while lamenting the social realities" (tE 剑伤世路），engravedbyShen Qianqiu. Ming Dynasty (Fig. 14)
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