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The Public Universal James
@greatbigjames.bsky.social
Largely cis, mostly het, mid-fat, very left. (He/they)
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
October 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Post a mage! 🪄
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Having finished the moon base set of terrain for my terrain tile system, I'm trying to decide what theme to cover next. Thoughts?
September 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
August 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Endurance zoomies (where "endurance" here means running around for a *whole* minute)
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I'm not usually a guy who takes a ton of pet photos, but come on, look at this fucking doofus
July 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
No cheating, post the last pic of your pet.

The new pup explores the surrounding environs.
July 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Glad to see our new doggo is, in fact, a greyhound
July 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
July 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Show us your favorite character designs you've made

If there's a common theme here, it's "ttrpg characters I barely got to play before the game prematurely ended"
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
May 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Don't talk to me or my son (or my son or my son or my son or my son) ever again.

(Another Lancer NPC mini, the Engineer, based on @retrogrademinis.bsky.social corpro sprites)
April 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Only a matter of time before you've got a space marine (mammal) on your hands
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Progress on the next set of terrain things: looking pretty lunar.
April 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
(cont'd)
- Capable of multi-level and bridged topography
- Colorable with simple layer swaps, so I could avoid painting if I didn't have the time/energy/focus
- Leaning toward sci-fi and overland terrain, rather than the semi-ubiquitous fantasy dungeons, castles or sewers
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
What I wanted in a terrain system was:
- A hex grid with defined, readable spaces
- Easy to print on my FDM 3D printer with no supports
- Simple/abstract enough that it'd look good printed with a standard .4mm nozzle
- Not so abstract I had to try to remember what tile was supposed to be what
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A few months, ago I went looking for 3D-printable hex-grid terrain for playing big robot tabletop games, specifically the mech TTRPG Lancer. I found a number of terrain systems doing a lot of cool things, but nothing I found was quite what I was looking for. So, I made my own:
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
If you see this, QRP your green art!
March 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Give me my combination wheellock pistol/cleaver/calendar of saints' days, you cowards
February 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Also literally this Simpsons bit:
February 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Don't forget, mobile artillery needs headpats too

(Been working on 3D modeling and printing some Lancer NPC minis inspired by the designs of @retrogrademinis.bsky.social; this is the Bombard)
January 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Apparently my brain decided that what I needed to do for lunch today is to try to reproduce the EVA Unit 2 McChicken.
January 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Just watched the first episode; their Marion is perfectly cast, exactly how I pictured her, and I love how they intercut the first two stories, works perfectly for the medium. (Coincidentally, this just happens to be sitting on the desk next to me this evening.)
December 18, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

The most mid of the Universal Action Pack properties; no Xena, but no Tekwar either. Featuring a pre-Firefly Gina Torres.
November 22, 2024 at 8:19 AM