Jesse Ross
@jesseross.com
I design and develop experiences that bring people together. Creator of Trophy, Girl Underground, and other fine roleplaying games. Minnesotan and DFLer | he/him
https://jesseross.com
https://trophyrpg.com
https://hedgemazepress.itch.io
https://jesseross.com
https://trophyrpg.com
https://hedgemazepress.itch.io
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Jesse Ross
@jesseross.com
· Oct 19
Hi, I’m Jesse and I make tabletop RPGs. You might know me from my games Trophy, Girl Underground, R’lyehwatch, Sunset Kills or others (hedgemazepress.itch.io). I like smallish games where the mechanics reinforce the theme. I’m also a designer and illustrator and I do most of my own art and layout.
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In 2025 I will begin publishing Cairn supplements for third parties, under the moniker Cairn Press.
If you're a writer and want help with editing, layout, or printing I should be able to hook you up with the right people.
My goal is to make more Cairn content and get people paid for their work.
If you're a writer and want help with editing, layout, or printing I should be able to hook you up with the right people.
My goal is to make more Cairn content and get people paid for their work.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
In 2025 I will begin publishing Cairn supplements for third parties, under the moniker Cairn Press.
If you're a writer and want help with editing, layout, or printing I should be able to hook you up with the right people.
My goal is to make more Cairn content and get people paid for their work.
If you're a writer and want help with editing, layout, or printing I should be able to hook you up with the right people.
My goal is to make more Cairn content and get people paid for their work.
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Writers! Particularly TTRPG writers, but anyone comfortable with fantasy: The Gauntlet Pitch Day is coming December 6th!
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
Pitch Day
Pitch Day: The Great Forest We’re taking pitches for our upcoming game, The Lands Remaining ! Pitch Day will be December 6th, 2025. There will be three different Zoom calls you can join to make...
www.gauntlet-rpg.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Writers! Particularly TTRPG writers, but anyone comfortable with fantasy: The Gauntlet Pitch Day is coming December 6th!
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
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We never left the Forest
Happy Friday! We're getting hyped for an upcoming project, looking to crowdfund physical copies in March 2026! That's right, we're getting MORE (unofficial)TROPHY! In partnership with @jesseross.com and @pemetawe.bsky.social, with a stellar list of writers! #TrophyTTPRG #Trophy #TTRPG
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We never left the Forest
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If you'll allow me a Friday Shop Plug, I've got a new lino print in my Summerisle Procession series, and copies of my spooky book defaced with Krampus heads and the like. Reposts extremely welcome (Christmas is coming, lads)...
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you'll allow me a Friday Shop Plug, I've got a new lino print in my Summerisle Procession series, and copies of my spooky book defaced with Krampus heads and the like. Reposts extremely welcome (Christmas is coming, lads)...
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
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damn @epidiah.bsky.social we did it
Keep my feet on the ground
Keep my head in the clouds
Electrified by the sound
It comes from the down
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
Keep my feet on the ground
Keep my head in the clouds
Electrified by the sound
It comes from the down
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
damn @epidiah.bsky.social we did it
Keep my feet on the ground
Keep my head in the clouds
Electrified by the sound
It comes from the down
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
Keep my feet on the ground
Keep my head in the clouds
Electrified by the sound
It comes from the down
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
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Happy Friday! We're getting hyped for an upcoming project, looking to crowdfund physical copies in March 2026! That's right, we're getting MORE (unofficial)TROPHY! In partnership with @jesseross.com and @pemetawe.bsky.social, with a stellar list of writers! #TrophyTTPRG #Trophy #TTRPG
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Happy Friday! We're getting hyped for an upcoming project, looking to crowdfund physical copies in March 2026! That's right, we're getting MORE (unofficial)TROPHY! In partnership with @jesseross.com and @pemetawe.bsky.social, with a stellar list of writers! #TrophyTTPRG #Trophy #TTRPG
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"Wretched Escapees From Gisang's Forsaken Comedies"
This illustration thematically previews my next theatre adventure, which I've just sent to print. Yasss.
This illustration thematically previews my next theatre adventure, which I've just sent to print. Yasss.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"Wretched Escapees From Gisang's Forsaken Comedies"
This illustration thematically previews my next theatre adventure, which I've just sent to print. Yasss.
This illustration thematically previews my next theatre adventure, which I've just sent to print. Yasss.
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PAXU is great and all, but you could be at a Spanish con that’s just about The Between (and which is on its second or third year?)
Empieza la #BituinCon25 y @jasoncordova.bsky.social está con nosotras en nuestra convención de #TheBetween #LdS
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
PAXU is great and all, but you could be at a Spanish con that’s just about The Between (and which is on its second or third year?)
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I should have won an ENNIE for making this meme.
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I should have won an ENNIE for making this meme.
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Lilancholy has launched! Help me bring my weird, lyrical, traumatic collection of spells, poetry, and games to play when a fae corners you, to paperback form!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Lilancholy has launched! Help me bring my weird, lyrical, traumatic collection of spells, poetry, and games to play when a fae corners you, to paperback form!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Our kickstarter is live! We're not making an RPG this time, but a skirmish wargame. Get in on the "angry little sci-fi pig" action:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sst...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sst...
Rebel Trash: Angry, Armed, Alien Swine
A skirmish wargame two-player starter set from Scablands Press.
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Our kickstarter is live! We're not making an RPG this time, but a skirmish wargame. Get in on the "angry little sci-fi pig" action:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sst...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sst...
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Reporting from the Witch’s Hat Tower.
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Reporting from the Witch’s Hat Tower.
I'm running this at my local con in February and I'm super excited!
The Gardens of Ynn is a point-crawl adventure by @cavegirl.bsky.social set in an ever-shifting extradimensional garden. Perfect for creating a zero-prep session or campaign, no matter the system, as each expedition generates a new route as you explore.
soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/the...
soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/the...
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I'm running this at my local con in February and I'm super excited!
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I grew up thinking the bottom could fall out at any moment. Too many folks feel that way right now.
We need Senators that get it - and vote like they give a damn.
We need Senators that get it - and vote like they give a damn.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I grew up thinking the bottom could fall out at any moment. Too many folks feel that way right now.
We need Senators that get it - and vote like they give a damn.
We need Senators that get it - and vote like they give a damn.
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If you need a high-octane found family heist one-shot, why haven't you tried GOBLIN PROM yet????!?! My players absolutely hung from rafters, heisted a crown, impressed their crushes, disintegrated warthog statues, and peeled out in a mustang. 10/10 from @outridercreative.bsky.social's brain
Goblin Prom by Outrider Creative
A Honey Heist Hack about Teenage Goblins
outrider-creative.itch.io
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you need a high-octane found family heist one-shot, why haven't you tried GOBLIN PROM yet????!?! My players absolutely hung from rafters, heisted a crown, impressed their crushes, disintegrated warthog statues, and peeled out in a mustang. 10/10 from @outridercreative.bsky.social's brain
So hyped! Let's go!
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So hyped! Let's go!
Anyone have a copy of Trophy Dark they want to part with?
I don't know how much spare money I'm going to have at PAXU this time around, but I do have a very specific bounty: the hardcover of Trophy Dark. I've got the rest of Trophy, I've got all the PDFs. But the Dark book eludes me. Care to make a bargain? Let me know.
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Anyone have a copy of Trophy Dark they want to part with?
So grateful to Amanda and the Sprigs & Kindling team for doing this, and honored to have been able to play a part in it 🖤
I was busy doing things on my very favourite day of the year and forgot to promo this but VOLUME 5 of Sprigs & Kindling is OUT! HUGE thanks to our team for working so hard to get this done for Halloween!!!
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So grateful to Amanda and the Sprigs & Kindling team for doing this, and honored to have been able to play a part in it 🖤
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Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.
November 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.
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Alright everyone! We didn’t meet our fundraising goal to release the cats. We’re trying a new approach!
If you contribute $25 we will unlock a cat. Look at our website.
www.jasonchavez.org/cats
If you contribute $25 we will unlock a cat. Look at our website.
www.jasonchavez.org/cats
CATS — Jason Chavez for Ward 9
www.jasonchavez.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Alright everyone! We didn’t meet our fundraising goal to release the cats. We’re trying a new approach!
If you contribute $25 we will unlock a cat. Look at our website.
www.jasonchavez.org/cats
If you contribute $25 we will unlock a cat. Look at our website.
www.jasonchavez.org/cats
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Happy Halloween!
For today only (unless I forget to change it back), my Trophy Dark incursion A Warm and Pleasant Hum is FREE on itch!
Now get off my porch, a'fore I set the bees on ya!
signalstation.itch.io/a-warm-and-p...
For today only (unless I forget to change it back), my Trophy Dark incursion A Warm and Pleasant Hum is FREE on itch!
Now get off my porch, a'fore I set the bees on ya!
signalstation.itch.io/a-warm-and-p...
A Warm and Pleasant Hum: A One-Shot for Trophy Dark by Michael Van Vleet
A bee-filled scenario for Trophy Dark
signalstation.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Happy Halloween!
For today only (unless I forget to change it back), my Trophy Dark incursion A Warm and Pleasant Hum is FREE on itch!
Now get off my porch, a'fore I set the bees on ya!
signalstation.itch.io/a-warm-and-p...
For today only (unless I forget to change it back), my Trophy Dark incursion A Warm and Pleasant Hum is FREE on itch!
Now get off my porch, a'fore I set the bees on ya!
signalstation.itch.io/a-warm-and-p...
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It’s still remarkable that Disney produced - and released - this segment in 1940. A horror short that should rank with its Universal monster movie contemporaries… The animation is lush and experimental, and really shows off the Disney special animated effects team…
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
It’s still remarkable that Disney produced - and released - this segment in 1940. A horror short that should rank with its Universal monster movie contemporaries… The animation is lush and experimental, and really shows off the Disney special animated effects team…
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Seasonal Bundle of Holding! Lots of horror stuff! In terms of stuff I know and dig Stealing Cthulhu, Lovecraftesque and Cthulhu Dark. All enabling a bunch of smart ways to make it work now.
Bundle of Tentacles 7
Investigator! This Bundle of Tentacles 7 is our seventh all-new library of Sanity-shattering tabletop roleplaying ebooks inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Illuminate your position in the cosmos with fiv...
bundleofholding.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Seasonal Bundle of Holding! Lots of horror stuff! In terms of stuff I know and dig Stealing Cthulhu, Lovecraftesque and Cthulhu Dark. All enabling a bunch of smart ways to make it work now.
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There was a time we backed every #pbta #ttrpg project. Then folk's creative drive outpaced our capacity, as well as our shelf-space. It was a wicked cool moment. In 6 days, we're hoping you'll back #AW3rd, and keep the momentum rolling!
Working on the AW3rd kickstarter (T minus 6 btw) and I notice that listed under Meg's and my name it says "11 created • 347 backed."
Okay first of all, 347 backed, wowie.
But of those 347, probably around 300 have been PbtA. That's a lot to be confronted with on a Tuesday morning.
Okay first of all, 347 backed, wowie.
But of those 347, probably around 300 have been PbtA. That's a lot to be confronted with on a Tuesday morning.
Coming soon: Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM