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Jack Packard
@jackpackard.bsky.social
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I play Dungeons & Dragons on Adventure is Nigh!
I watch bad movies on Best of the Worst.
I perform Improv Comedy at Comedy Sportz.

And somehow, I still think I’m pretty cool.
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And that’s a wrap on Adventure is Nigh! Season 5 filming.
Y’all…
This was a good one.
A group photo of 8 people sitting across various tables. There are cameras and film lighting.
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Here the full crew for Adventure is Nigh! Season 5.
Looks like some SideQuesters are helping out to fight the God of Chaos.

Also, I’m learning the DMing 6 players is HARD!!!

You can watch all previous seasons over at @secondwindgroup.com
A photo of a group of people, most of whom are smiling. From left to right: Liv Shircel, Jack Packard, Marty Sliva, Jesse Galina, Yahtzee Croshaw, JM8, KC Nwosu Jack is holding a giant d20, indicating that they are playing or have played Dungeons & Dragons recently. KC is trying very hard to look cool, and achieving that look.
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Anyone looking for a last minute couples costume idea!?!?
October 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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These are the movies in my "recently searched for" bar.

Looking at my life right now... the WEIRD OUTLIER isn't the one you think.
A screenshot of a "Recently Viewed Movies" section of Google search. The movies are: Pontypool (2008, Horror/Mystery) The X-Files (1998, Thriller/Sci-fi) One Battle After Another (2025, Comedy/Drama) Shock Treatment (1981, Musical/Comedy) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, Horror/Musical) The Skateboard Kid (1993, Comedy/Family) For those unaware, the male lead in Shock Treatment plays the an used car salesman in The Skateboard Kid.
October 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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One final one... buttering bread.
September 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Alfred Hitchcock was the master of suspense.
September 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Also, the way that Jeff and Lisa fall more in love while gossiping and shit talking the neighbors... I'M HERE FOR IT!
A still image from the movie "Rear Window" It depicts James Steward as "Jeff" and Grace Kelly as "Lisa" Jeff is sitting down and Lisa is standing next to him. Both are looking off camera with JUST THE BITCHIEST face. They are watching Jeff's neighbors and judging the hell out of them. There is text superimposed on top of the still reading #CoupleGoals Like, I would like to be in a relationship like this. Where we gossip about everything.
September 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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When I say that I love classic movies... this is what I mean.
September 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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We have some new merch over at @secondwindgroup.com including a SICK Adventure is Nigh! Season 4 Vorothax shirt.

store.dftba.com/collections/...
August 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Here at @secondwindgroup.com we discus important topics at our meetings... about important things.
Notes from a Google Meets meeting reading: "Jack Packard's Appearance: Jack Packard discussed shaving his mustache, noting that while he liked its look in person, he disliked it on video, which was why he decided to shave it (00:00:00). Marty Sliva and Jm8 expressed that they thought it looked great, while KC Nwosu remarked that shaving was "classic Jack" (00:00:40)."
August 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Look.
It’s the actual @thejenna.bsky.social in real life… at GenCon!
Jenna is smiling because of all the Magic the Gathering cards in front of us.
A selfie style picture of me (Jack Packard) and internet celebrity Jenna Stoeber. We are in a giant sports arena that has been converted for nerd and nerd adjacent activities.
August 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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1 million, 29 thousand and 46 blank d20s... for $7.

So they either mistyped, and are actually selling a pack of ten
OR
I'm about to have over 2 million dice on my doorstep in 2-4 buisness days!!!
A screenshot on an amazon listing selling blank d20 dice for around 7 dollars US. The dice are light ivory color. The listing for the dice has an obvious mistyped portion that stats it is a "Pack of 10,29046" dice. for $7.00
July 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The Adventure is Nigh! season 4 finale is this Saturday.

Here are two still showing my two sides as a Dungeon Master.
- Immense Concern and Confusion.
- Immense Joy and Confusion.
A still of me, Dungeon Mastering an episode of Adventure is Nigh. I am looking very concerned... maybe a little angry, but mostly confused. A still of me, Dungeon Mastering an episode of Adventure is Nigh. I am looking shocked and happy with hands slapped against my face and my mouth open.
July 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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It being Father's Day and me being a Father...
I can (without guilt) self-promote and remind everyone to vote for a Villainous Father LaTavia Ticklepuss over at the CRIT Awards.

Also, clearly I did not understand that I was supposed to submit a headshot.

GO VOTE HERE:
www.critawards.org
A Graphic depicting the five finalists for "Best Villain" of the 2025 CRIT Awards. There are 5 pictures each with the name of the villain and the show they are from. Top Row is: Zami Gazzari from Venture Forth: A D&D Podcast Ashmodai from Godkiller: Oblivion/Balance Second Row is: Kayden Bartless From Ancestral BLood Kesh from Dice Legends Bottom Row is: Latavia Ticklepuss from Adventure is Nigh!: The Liar, The Withc, and the Wartorn It should be noted that there are pictures of the finalists and while 4 of them are headshots of the performers, Latavia (mine) is of Latavia. I DID NOT understand the assignment apparently.
June 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Latavia Ticklepuss has officially been nominated for "Best Villain" at the CRIT Awards. @critawards.bsky.social

Yes, the guy who fondly remembers feeding coconuts to an Alligator-man named Peeknuckle... could be the best villain of 2024!
Excited that AiN is among fine competition.
A screenshot of all of the finalists for the CRIT awards "Best Villain catagory. it read: 10. Best Villain in an Actual Play (Ivy had a personal conflict of interest in this category and was fully excluded from participating in finalist selection. All nominations in this category were decided entirely without Ivy’s input or participation.) This award is to be given to an actual play for a villain that is judged to be the best based on its creativity, detail, narrative significance, and implementation. Large scale and union productions are not eligible for this award. Finalists Emperor Kesh as performed by Vahid Qualls (@dicelegenz | He/Him) in “Hunted of Kalnour” (35:29) by Dice Legenz Ashmodai as performed by Cody Heath (@paperchest | She/They) in "Godkiller: Oblivion/Balance" (28:57) by BlackwaterDnD Kayden Bartlett as performed by Arcane Adam (@arcaneadamtv | He/Him) in “Ancestral Blood” by MagiRPG Zami Gazzari as performed by Seth Fowler (@sethdanfowler | He/Him) in “Venture Forth: A D&D Podcast” (17:13) by Venture Forth Latavia Ticklepuss as performed by Jack Packard (@jackpackard | He/Him) in “Adventure is Nigh!:The Liar, The Witch, and the Wartorn” (1:05:23) by Second Wind
June 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Tomorrow is new Adventure is Nigh! day!!!

This might have been the most difficult episode to edit as it has the toughest balance of tension, drama, and dick jokes.

Also it's later in the shoot, so while recording we were both excited and exhausted.
2 hours: 41 minutes of footage down to just 1:04.
The image shows two editing time-lines in, digital editing software, Adobe Premier Pro. In the software both video and audio is represented by rectangles. The top time-lime shows all the collected footage from the Episode 8 shoot of Adventure is Nigh! in order with nothing removed. The total time is 2 hours and 41 minutes. The bottom time-line features significantly more rectangles, all smaller in size. Each break in a rectangle represents an edit made and this bottom time-line has hundreds of breaks. The bottom timeline has a total time of 1 hour and 4 minutes meaning 1 hour and 36 minutes has been cut out of the episode. All to say that a lot of work and love goes into this show. I think it's worth it as making this show it truly one of the highlights of not just my work day/week but in my life in general. Season 4 has been themed heavily about the adventurers finding joy and by no coincidence, while it is a metric butt-ton of work, I've found a lot of joy within creating this show with all of these wonderful people.
May 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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To add to the Dark Souls 2 Caked Up Index.
Did you know that the pillars near Grandahl, that lead to the the Dark Chasm, are covered with nude bodies... boobies, butts, and all.

Neat!
A screenshot from the video game Dark Souls 2 that is a close up shot of a stone pillar. The pillar is decorated with several human figures, all nude.
May 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Reminder that there's no new AiN this week... it's next week.

But here's a sneak peak at the upcoming OneShot, a picture of 3 gorgeous people playing D&D and miming... something.
A picture of 3 people in a video call, each in there own frame on top of each other. On the top is a handsome, mustachioed fella (me) holding one hand open and upward and the other hand is miming holding a cylindrical object. The middle frame is famed author and video game critic Yahtzee. He has his hand open and is looking mostly confused. The bottom frame is notable sicko Jenna Stoeber who is combining the hand positions of the top from with the confused look of the middle frame. You can not tell from this picture but they are currently playing Dungeons and Dragons and Jack (me, the Dungeon Master) has given them a clue.
May 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Tim Higgins is not on BlueSky... so I stole his Instagram post to post here.

BATHE IN HIS GLORY!
Me, a bald man wearing glasses with an average mustache... holding the face of another man wearing a baseball cap whom has a glorious mustache.
May 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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This Saturday is the new Adventure is Nigh!

This is a still from that episode after one player does something... unplanned for.
A picture of me, Jack Packard looking shocked... shook if you will. There is a microphone and Dungeon Master's screen in from of me as this is a still from the hit D&D actual Play Adventure is Nigh! My shocked expression is pointed toward a player off screen, though if you've watched the show you might be able to figure it out. I'm looking to my right... which is camera left. I like the amount of shadows in this picture, it makes my chin look sharp.
May 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I take my clown education very seriously and, on the latest Best of the Worst, I have been accused of being a balloon pervert!

I am not denying these accusations... more bragging.
A screen shot of a paused YouTube video. The title of the video is "Best of the Worst: Wheel of the Worst #30" The paused video shows two men sitting at a green table and a picture of a third man superimposed over the center of the video. The superimposed picture is of a very handsome man, a bald man with glasses smiling directly at the camera. You can tell that there is a joy to this man and a willingness to spread joy to those around him... which somehow makes him more attractive.
May 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Books have the power to whisk you away to magical lands or give you valuable insight into history.
But sometimes... they do both.

From the book "Box Office Poison" by Tim Robey. This is a chapter on the film Doctor Dolittle (1967).
I highlighted partial sentence reading: "... and a giraffe, who hardly appears in the finished film, held up shooting for days when it reportedly stepped on it's own penis." From the book "Box Office Poison" by Tim Robey. This is a chapter on the film Doctor Dolittle (1967).
April 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Who wants to come to my creepy basement and play board games with me?

The Adventure is Nigh! version of The Red Dragon Inn is shipping out now to Kickstarter backers and I just got my hands on a whole pallet of 'em!

Thanks again to SlugFest Games for making this silly thing happen.
Deep in a basement in Milwaukee, a handsome man with glasses and a tastefully trimmed mustache sits on boxes labeled "SlugFest Games". This man is holding the board game "The Red Dragon Inn" specifically the "Adventure is Nigh!" version of Red Dragon Inn. The man is looking directly into the camera lens, "right down the barrel" as it's known, and in his eyes you can see an intensity that only comes from someone who plays a lot of D&D.
April 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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In a hotel in New Jersey and this lamp/mirror placement is artistic as hell!
The lamp obscuring the face… I’m sure it means something…
A photo of a laptop on a desk with a lamp over the laptop. On the wall behind the desk is a large circular mirror. In the mirror you can see my torso. But the lamp is placed in such a way as to obscure my head. This could be considered an artistic statement… like that painting with the pear in front of that dudes face. I’m pretty sure that the lamp is placed there to make sure that I keep working and don’t get distracted looking at that handsome man in the mirror!!!!
March 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Here's a sneak peek at the nonsense that I (along with most DMs) must put up with.

New Adventure is Nigh! this Saturday over at @secondwindgroup.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM