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28 | They/She | Dice Goblin | Free Palestine 🍉 Performer, Producer, Project Manager, Overlay Designer Co-founder @storyweave.bsky.social Discord: @JienBirb Email: [email protected] Carrd: jienbirb.carrd.co

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JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · Nov 14

For the new folks:

Hi! I’m Jien (they/she) – I’m an Actual Play performer, producer, project manager, and (new) overlay designer. I’m based in the US (west coast), I have two beautiful cats, I am firmly anti-Zionist, and I like to play games with people.

More info in my carrd (in bio)!

Jien: a warm-toned light-skinned femme-presenting individual sitting in front of a brightly-lit kitchen. They have short (a few inches long) but high-volume reddish-brown hair and tortoiseshell glasses and the faintest hint of a smile with a small beauty mark above the left corner of their mouth. She’s got her left hand resting against her cheek with a black ring visible on the middle finger. They’re wearing a patterned red, black, and white shell top.

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 2d

There's something to be said about the fact that Rosalie plays absolutely iconic fleeting ghosts tbh

WizardStyles @wizardstyles.bsky.social · 3d

Last post to shout out one of the great cast members of our #TheBetween campaign on @starcrawlrpg.bsky.social:

It's @rosatyrs.bsky.social as Eliska, the resident ghost haunting Hargrave House and Leander specifically. In 2 sessions, Rosie has both delivered great roleplay and one-shot a demon.

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Character art for Eliska, played by Rose, from The Between on twitch.tv/starcrawlrpg, livestreamed Saturdays at 4pm Eastern Time/9pm British Time.

The art depicts the ghostly, floating figure of a pale woman dressed in black, with a bleeding head wound as well as skeletal hands, an autopsy hammer with blood on it and a broken pocket watch floating above her.

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 2d

Leander has been an absolute delight to be an accomplice to regicide with💙

WizardStyles @wizardstyles.bsky.social · 4d

Final main cast member of the amazing group of people I'm playing #TheBetween with on @starcrawlrpg.bsky.social is @intersectionscch.bsky.social, playing Leander. Doctor, devoted husband, serial killer.
Lamia keeps yes, and-ing my NPCs to actual death, all while staying perfectly in character.

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Character art for Lamia's character Dr. Leander Prescott, from The Between on twitch.tv/starcrawlrpg, livestreamed Saturdays at 4pm Eastern Time/9pm British Time.

A tall man with a rigid smile, wearing a fine outfit including a tailcoat with blue floral brocade. He is holding a doctor's bag.

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 2d

Elliot pls play in more things with me, I love your character work and the depth you put into it. Also one day I'm gonna buy you a coffee.

WizardStyles @wizardstyles.bsky.social · 5d

Time to talk about @cursebreakerelliot.bsky.social, who plays Araxie in our #TheBetween campaign on @starcrawlrpg.bsky.social.

Elliot is a great player and has rolled with all of the many punches coming Araxie's way, including nearly turning into a vampire and being abducted by a demon.

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Character art for Elliot's character Araxie Elizabeth Justice, from The Between on twitch.tv/starcrawlrpg, livestreamed Saturdays at 4pm Eastern Time/9pm British Time.

The artwork depicts a woman, wearing a military outfit looking as if to challenge whoever happens to be in front of her, holding a halberd with gold decorations.

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry he’s your problem now 🤷🏻‍♀️

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 3d

ok Indiana Piglet

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 3d

Surprise! Chomp!

A photo taken from above of a snowshoe cat right in the middle of taking a big ol’ chomp of Jien’s bare foot while they sit on their bed. He’s even got his damn paw up on the little lip on the side that I’m resting my foot on.

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps…it comes in a mystery bag

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 3d

TO BE CLEAR THIS IS MY DRAWING, STEPH IS AN AMAZING ARTIST

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 3d

Can you take a creature with you when you leave

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 3d

Shoutout to @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social for running Daggerheart for me and @loremistress93.bsky.social @enniogoes.bsky.social @criticalchit.bsky.social 💙 Despite the quality of the ‘art’ it was such an amazing time!!

A truly horrendous set of stick figures sketched onto an index card. From left to right, there is a person with large, wide pointed ears and a neutral expression holding a whip, one with narrower ears but still pointed wearing glasses that make him look confused and holding a small dagger, a smiling person with hooved lower legs and horns holding a sickle, and a neutral-faced person with large wings. Below them are three little creatures of indeterminate type and a crudely drawn cairn of…well, ovals. To the top right is a badly drawn angry-faced ghost and a very tall slendermany-like figure with his eyes fixed on the group to the left.

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 5d

BIRTH!!

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 5d

what's that in the distance?
it's the rumble of VERY FAST GAME DESIGN! 🏎️💨🫧

Oct 14, Ray Chou of @mythworks.bsky.social is joining me & @thismaybegraham.bsky.social for another SOAPBOX GAME MECHANICS: the show where we design & playtest a #ttrpg in 90 mins!

Tech production by @jienbirb.bsky.social

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 5d

Ha. Fun guy. Fungi.

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 5d

Love a good fun guy

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 5d

Oh hello yes I can do that!!

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Dan Pyxel | CRiT Award Nominee Best GM (Darrington Press) @danpyxel.bsky.social · 6d

We’re BACK! The Circle of Seekers and Sinners RETURNS TO BadHouseRPG as a six episode Spooptober Mini-Series. The horror show continues starting Oct 10 at Twitch.tv/BadHouseRPG

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🫀 tendervicious studios @tendervicious.com · 6d

today, on the 2-year anniversary of Israel escalating its genocide in Palestine, we'd like to remind folks that the genocide did not start on Oct. 7, 2023. the Palestinian people have been experiencing a settler-colonial occupation and genocide since the Nakba in 1948. that is 77 years too many.

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 6d

@fistfulofcrits.bsky.social look it’s TWO of your fave things

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 6d

The best wet gay. 10/10 would wet gay again.

WizardStyles @wizardstyles.bsky.social · 6d

More appreciation for the cast of #TheBetween on @starcrawlrpg.bsky.social, this time for @renegadedumpling.bsky.social

Ren has both leaned into the disaster witch aspect of Noelani, and into summoning dark entities that always look like slightly wrong versions of people Noelani is close to.

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Character art for Ren's character Noelani Astoria Clemence, from The Between on twitch.tv/starcrawlrpg, livestreamed Saturdays at 4pm Eastern Time/9pm British Time

The artwork shows a woman wearing a high quality shirt and skirt, holding tarot cards in one hand and summoning a purple flame in the other, her cat a little to the right.

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 6d

WOWOWOWOW

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for all the murder 💙🔪

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 6d

It is 8.22am I did not need to be called out this viciously

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 6d

*nonbinary

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 6d

Chomp chomp they’re open to it

JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 7d

Ash did not turn out as serious as they initially were intended to be, but tbh I adore them and their scary roommates and cannot wait to play The Between again

WizardStyles @wizardstyles.bsky.social · 7d

As the finale of our #TheBetween campaign on @starcrawlrpg.bsky.social is approaching, I want to shout out the fantastic players at the table, starting with @jienbirb.bsky.social, playing Ash, who has not only stepped up as our producer but also started the #WetGod and nonbinary magic in-jokes.

Character art for Ash Penhallow: A changeling with silvery green hair and prominent dragonfly-like wings, leaning back casually, their black cat Luna next to them.