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Jason P
@jasonhpickering.bsky.social
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Game designer and artist. Focusing on physical TTRPGs at the moment.

https://jasonhpickering.itch.io
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Another day another map test. Still playing with sizes and tried dotted lines today. #ttrpg #hexmap #hexcrawl #mapmaking
8 by 8 Hex map there are forests throughout the map and lush field lands. There are mountains in the upper left and the lower right has an abandoned wasteland. There is a lake in the upper right and a river flows from it and cuts across down to the center. The lower left corner is not finished.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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reworking my hex mapping zine. Organized the map area better and added coordinates. Probably calling it Kobold Cartography. Testing a version that is one spread of map and 2 spreads for notes. Would be good for players. If anyone wants to try let me know. #ttrpg #microzine #zine #hexmap
Cover a small printed microzine. It’s drawn to look like an old journal and had a symbol of a kobold reading a book. Half finished hex map across two pages. There are mountains on the upper left. Wasteland in the lower right. A river cuts across the land.
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Needed to draw some maps drawing. I made a little hex grid Pocketmod. Single sheet of letter paper can be folded into a book with 3 spreads. Still messing with sizes. These are .5 inch. Might make a bunch of versions and put it up on Itch for everyone. #ttrpg #hexcrawl #hexmap #rpgmap
Image of a hex map drawn with pen. A river cuts through the middle from a lake in the Northeast. Rocky out cropping in the northwest and forest in the southern areas.
October 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Working on a large map to go with the kobold Krew book. It will be printed and folded in the back. I put the small version the GM can reference on the adventure page on there for the post #kobold #ttrpg #mapmaking
Map of a 7 room dungeon. The rooms have large mushrooms and the back is a large cavern. There is also a small version of the map as an example.
October 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Making test prints #ttrpg #zine #kobold
Picture of a small booklet on a black background. The booklet reads Kobold Krew and has an orange kobold on the front.
October 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Looking for a few people to read through a zine and give some feedback. Let me know if interested. #TTRPG #Zine #Kobold
A zine cover image. Forest with a kobold popping out of the bushes. He is shouting Kobold Krew.
September 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Finished off the major things on a hack of #TunnelGoons by @n8hps.bsky.social lots of small fixes left to do, like spelling and grammar #zine #ttrpg #kobolds
Cover wrap showing “kobold Krew” as the title. Either a kobold peaking out from bushes. Rules page with a large image of a kobold riding a boar and a combat example. Sample adventure of a 7 room dungeon.
September 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Making a little map for in the kobold Krew book. Doing like a small 1 page dungeon as a sampler for people #ttrpg #zine #kobolds
Image of a dungeon map on paper. There are 7 areas the first 5 are rooms with furniture and the last two are a large mine connected to the rooms. Mushrooms seem to be growing out of control.
September 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Reworked my cover wrap for the new layout of Kobold Krew. I am really liking this more muted color palette. #kobold #ttrpg #zine
Dark moody Forest scene showing a single kobold popping out from the bushes. Kobold Krew is written in a large speech bubble above their head.
August 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Working on a few last things before I submit my new one page rpg for @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social #1pagerpg #soloRPG
A title showing Midnight Mysteries. With the text below it stating “a solo journaling murder mystery by Jason Pickering”
August 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Working on a a One Page TTRPG for a jam over on itch. Murder mystery using some mechanics from Brindlewood bay and tunnel goons. Aiming for a mid century cartoon style which is new for me. #TTRPG #SoloRPG #murdermystery
A brief description about the crime for a TTRPG. Also has an Artist’s hand holding a paintbrush between its fingers.
August 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I don’t think I ever posted this creature for Kobold Krew #procreate #TTRPG #monster #koboldkrew
Image shows a large moss blob hanging from the ceiling above a kobold who has not noticed it yet. The text stays its creeping moss: a slow moving pile of sentient moss that climbs up surfaces and waits to drop on unsuspecting food.
July 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Mistmourne Owl
* A ghostly giant owl that emits thick fog in a large area to more easily ambush its prey.
* Can disorient prey by giving them visions of lost memories.
* Capable of intelligent speak, but will rarely bother with what it considers prey.
#TTRPG #Monsters #Monsterdesign
Large snow owl with wings spewing clouds of fog. It’s eyes glowing an eerie blue.
June 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Finally landed on a design and color scheme I like. Pulled the palette from Over the Garden Wall. #otgw #TTRPG #TTRPGdesign #zine #ttrpgzine
tabletop rpg spread about using progress tracks. Art on the left side shows kobolds in a forest. The right side shows a serpent composed of mud.
May 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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playing with layout. I might drop the bars on the side. I don’t think the book will really be long enough to need them but I like the colored titles. Still need to add a kobold to the big open spot along the bottom. #kobold #ttrpg #ttrpglayout
a page spread of an RPG called Kobold Krew. The bottom of the page shows a small forest landscape with a kobold emerging from the bushes.
May 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Working on a world map for Kobold Krew. Started with a hex crawl but then converted it to a point crawl using an event system (TESS) from @antodemico.bsky.social #hexcrawl #pointcrawl #ttrpg
Map drawing for a ttrpg showing a forest with red paths. The paths have nodes denoting travel events.
May 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Working on building a hex crawl in the OdWood. I think I am going to add some paths to break up the solid trees. Not sure how I want to handle it.
In process drawing of a Hex map. Most of the upper right corner is a swamp.
April 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Designing an RPG zine to print. Finished the system and moving on to random tables and encounters
Kobold Krew booklet on the tabletop. Two kobolds are poking out from inside of the booklet
March 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Another page for my RPG, kobold Krew. Need to bump the page notes over a little. Enemy is a “MuckWyrm” a giant serpent composed of living mud. #KoboldKrew #kobold #TTRPG #Procreate
A single page from a RPG with a large brown serpent. The serpent is made of a gloopy mud.
March 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Working on adding a village component to kobold Krew. Probably setup a hex flower around it for adventures #kobold #TTRPG #Zines
Explanation of how village creation work in kobold Krew and an image of a village across the bottom of the page.
March 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Thinking about doing the parts in several different colors. I have some adobe scripting experience so I think I can automate a process to export everything as long as I set up the colors properly. This will save a ton of time so I can make more options #ttrpg #RPGassets #Procreate.
A series of Tabletop role playing game map assets in lineart and a brown color scheme
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Put some level assets together into a nice little dungeon tomb. When I release them I want to have a bunch of examples for people to get ideas from, as well as a bunch of premade rooms. Shout out to @mapcrow.bsky.social for his helpful YouTube channel. #TTRPG #procreate
An isometric dungeon tomb map for a TTRPG. Several rooms with coffins and columns.
February 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Playing with more map assets. Going with a Tomb setting first. #ttrpg #assetpack #procreate
Assortment of environment pieces for a TTRPG following a tomb.
February 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Have gotten questions about making some publicly available art assets. While drawing a dungeon it got me thinking about doing modular isometric terrain. i also see an easy way i could make a little dungeon maker program. #TTRPG #Dungeon #procreate
Dungeon tiles draw at 2x1, 2x2, 1x2, and 1x1 sizes. Assembled at bottom of image into a rough dungeon layout.
February 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Finished this little adventure sample for my rule book #ttrpg #kobolds #adventure #5roomdungeom
Adventure about moving through ruins to find a mushroom to create a medicine Room1: locked door. Find the special symbol tile and weigh it down. Room2: temple room full of mushrooms. 4 of them are actually monsters that will ambush if you get close. There is a crack in the back leading to a cavern Room3: a 10ft wide 5ft deep trench needs to be passed. Room4: a giant mushroom is in this room firing deadly spores and blasting the ground with other mushrooms. The medicinal fungus is growing around its base.
February 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM