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Jerod Leupold | Paroxysm by Design
@jerodleupold.bsky.social
Freelance writer and publisher. Avid ttrpg gamer, disc golfer, and wrassl'n fan. Watch me struggle updating a website: https://paroxysmbydesign.com/ I mostly make light crunch rpgs. Trying to perfect the drama to crunch ratio!
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The Admiral's Compass is a short adventure for @paulbaldowski.bsky.social The Dee Sanction. Written for the Tales from the Raspy Raven competition, it's a tale set in the aftermath of the English Counter Armada.

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November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Played this last night an excellent and classy addition to The Dee Sanction cannon and the first to be set in Winchelsea!
The Admiral's Compass is a short adventure for @paulbaldowski.bsky.social The Dee Sanction. Written for the Tales from the Raspy Raven competition, it's a tale set in the aftermath of the English Counter Armada.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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This is such a great listen!
The humor, introspection, game play, and soundscaping are tremendous.

Partnering with Many Sided Media on @mossdaggar.bsky.social’s and the Brewist team’s Hellwhalers has been a blast!”
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Do you know what I'd like for my birthday today though?

I'd really love for you to check out the Hope Springs Eternal Daggerheart TTRPG Kickstarter and give us a follow if you haven't already!

Signal boosting, also great.

It would make my day 🥰

www.kickstarter.com/projects/eri...
Coming soon: Hope Springs Eternal
A supplement for Daggerheart. Five in-depth campaign frames, each complemented by a location (hooks, NPCs, adversaries, environments).
www.kickstarter.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Greetings TTRPG friends! ... This weeks issue... well. I kinda like it. I kinda hate it. I'm kinda story-and-cinematic-GM-brained, and not theory-brained. Would appreciate your takes on this topic.
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Transcending Random Encounters in TTRPGs (Dungeon Delve #42)
What story do our encounters tell? Are random encounters too complex, or too simple? Do they provide enough inspiration to the GM? This week, I give advice on how to better present, build, and write!
chaoticanwriter.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Just under 24 hours left for Heliosail!☀️⛵🪐🌱

We're trying to reach the first stretch goal before it ends! If you like art nouveau, pulp adventure, and way too many plants everywhere, this game is for you ;)
#TTRPG #Solarpunk #SciFi #Pirates #IndieRPG #Kickstarter
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Heliosail by Quinnsilver Studios - Gamefound
You and your friends become a crew of space pirates and adventurers in this solarpunk sci-fi campaign system.
gamefound.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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CROWDFUNDING NOW! Bite the Hand is a cyberpunk TTRPG using Mothership’s Panic Engine to bring a touch of horror to the genre. With dozens of cybernetics and items, the core rulebook contains everything you’ll need to experience tense action at your tables!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Bite The Hand - a Cyberpunk Panic Engine TTRPG
Bite The Hand is a cyberpunk TTRPG built on Mothership's Panic Engine. The Core Rulebook contains all the information both players and game masters will need. It features a catalogue of cybernetics, w...
www.backerkit.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I entered #raspyraven contest to write a minimalistic 3-page adventure for Dee Sanction judged by game creator @paulbaldowski.bsky.social!

I didn't win the whole enchilada, but I was featured during the event as a winner.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

paroxysm-by-design.itch.io/only-a-fool
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Paroxysm by Design presents...Harrowed Hearts of Somersend!

The Goblyn Market RPG is always a whirlwind of chaos.

Here is my attempt at something a little more somber. I think sometimes I'm the reason we can't have nice things.

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Goblyn Market: Harrowed Hearts of Somersend (Part 1) "What's in the pie?!"
YouTube video by Jerod Leupold
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November 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
So much this week!

Dee Sanction adventure for sale: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Accepted a contract to write an OSR adventure for Bree-YARC's upcoming kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

Honorbound inching closer to completion! Read all of it here:
paroxysmbydesign.com?p=818
DriveThruRPG
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November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Thrilled my competition scenario, Where the Roads Unravel, was accepted by Paul for The Dee Sanction Monad Edition.

A labour of love, set in Tudor Leicester & its surrounds, somewhere I enjoyed endless happy summers. Not entirely sure, then, why I ended up creating such a morbid & deadly adventure!
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I had a lovely time discussing scenario writing, tools, methods and resources with these lovely people.
Participating in NANOWRIMO? Symphony has asked some of our favorite prolific authors, scenario-creators, and game designers to explore their own personal processes while revealing some of their preferred tools, methods, and reference books to help get them publish!

twitch.tv/symphonyentertainment
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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(PLEASE REPOST!) Reviewers, journalists, content creators, YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, and TTRPG people of all kinds : WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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A great sounding playtest opportunity for @moltensulfur.bsky.social's new Fear Itself scenario, Dead Man Walking, coming soon from @pelgranepress.bsky.social

Sign up and details of a new Fear Itself scenario anthology, here: pelgranepress.com/2025/10/30/c...

Playtest Deadline: 7th Dec 2025
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The finale of our first time playing #brindlewoodbay or any #PbtA game for that matter! Join us as we finish up All Halloween Scream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wla6...

Spread this far and wide to give Liz a special welcome for our one shot!
Brindlewood Bay: All Halloween Scream (Part 2 - Finale)
YouTube video by Jerod Leupold
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October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We did a thing for funzies!

Paroxysm by Design presents is taking a break from playtesting and we're just going to play a game of Brindlewood Bay for Halloween!

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Join us as we play a PbtA game for the first time in All Halloween Scream.
Jerod Leupold
Slowly building an empire of ttrpgs under my umbrella including Goblyn Market, Honorbound, and Legends of the Khurst Riders available on itch.io and rpgdrivethru. You can fine several of my other shor...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Hear ye! Hear ye!

@louiems.bsky.social painted on more micexplorers, waiting to be taking to your stock art library on the link below. It can be purchased without subscription.

#micexplorers #ttrpg #osr #fantasyart #stockart
October 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#ttrpg folks! If anyone wants to have myself and/or the UO crew on their podcast/stream to chat about Harrow: The Blighted Plane, just hit up my DMs!

Same to reviewers/actual players interested in copies of the book!
Take to the watersands with your scrap house crew and unlock the secrets of the Blighted Plane!

Harrow: The Blighted Plane contains everything you need to explore this incredible crystalpunk fantasy world.

Grab yours here! #ttrpg

Store: undergroundoracle.co...
Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com...
October 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Buried Dreams was a runner-up in the recent Dee Sanction adventure writing competition. The quality across the entries was great—so tough to choose winning entries.

Dreams has a fascinating premise, a solid timeline, and it digs beneath London's skin. Buy it!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Finally coming down to Earth after a great time at #GameHoleCon by booking my hotel for next year!

Honorbound is now with the layout artist and still has a possibility of being printed before Christmas. I am doubtful because of the holidays but January looks like the latest!
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I had a blast playtesting this adventure! The right blend of mystery, action, and ultimately some hard choices. Loved it!

Buy it!
Dystopian sci-fi adventure on a generation ship? Runnable as a one-shot or a 3 to 4 session mini campaign. (System neutral: use your space horror system of choice.)

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
October 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Had a BLAST at my first #GameHoleCon!

Every table I ran for Honorbound and Goblyn Market went smoothly and more importantly, was a lot of creative fun. Every game I got to play was new to me and expertly handled.

And dealer room is always a favorite!

www.gameholecon.com
Gamehole Con
Featuring role-playing games, board games, fantasy and historical miniature gaming, and collectible card games, Gamehole Con is for the fantasy and adventure tabletop gaming enthusiast.
www.gameholecon.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Yesterday, I ran a Trophy Dark (fantasy/horror) game for strangers, which requires making sure everyone at the table feels safe before we start terrorizing their characters.

And that means safety tools.

Thought it might be worth sharing what worked.
Bts Kpop GIF
Alt: A young person wearing a blue hoodie and a yellow chin-strap safety helmet is emphatically saying "Safety first, safety second, coolness third."
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October 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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We are in the final hour of the campaign!

Then I'll never speak of it again (well almost)

#ttrpg #kickstarter #spacehorror
Ex Tenebris: A star-spanning gothic investigation TTRPG
Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars
www.kickstarter.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I was very lucky to playtest Cold City 2e and, oh boy, you are all on for a treat!
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM