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New Pin Post! I'm John, a freelance #illustrator for #TTRPG players and publishers. I do private and published comms, sell commercial stock art and create fan-crossover works.
Stock art: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
Teepublic (fan art on merch) www.teepublic.com/user/johnlat...
Holy shit, I forgot about the dumbness that was Stadia.
I'll just leave these here
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I've mentioned before how alot of folks miss that "Having a thing done" is not the same as "growing better at a thing"

I could get better editing software, better cameras, better mics. But if I'm not the one actually doing the editing then the whole point is out the window

The process matters
A person using chatgpt will never get better at the activity than they were the day before they started using it.

They will literally have removed learning, and gaining experience, from the process in a way no actual tool does.
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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In the sketch phase, we were considering making the map of the region outside the throne-room-cave instead of the cave. An arctic mountain range with unforgiving crevices and sharp glacial edges.

#sketch #ttrpg #dnd
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Ice Giant Throne, black and white hand-drawn battlemap commission, 2024.

Did this one for The Game Master's Book of Legendary Locations.

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

#battlemap #dnd #ttrpg #b&wart
October 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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It's part of a wider issue with sanitisation in RPGs, not just mashups. Games influenced/based on real world history are especially prone.

People will often argue that slavery should have no place in games and you can make a really good argument for that.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I have a whole YouTube video about investors bailing on the games industry! youtu.be/9HM9nmqNioQ
The games industry is screwed.
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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We are live on Backerkit along with many other cool creators for their special holiday market, which ends December 1st! Everything that we have is available, both in French and English!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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by the way, Lexie has been doing incredible work in Oath of Moment; she reworked all the weapons recently!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Oath of Moment
【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...
docs.google.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Because my wife wanted to look it up and tell me, I now know that I apparently share a birthday with Whitney Houston, Gillian Anderson and Dan Levy. Also, Tove Jansson, who created 'Moomin'.
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Pathfinder 2E tonight with Quest for The Frozen Flame group. We're heading (read: sneaking) to Lyu-ba to meet up with a resistance force called The Blood Owls that we're hoping will join our cause against the necromantic forces of Vynexis, the white dragon. It's time for subterfuge and suaveness~
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Art 🚂🚃🚃🚃 Repost your faves ~
All aboard the art train!

Choo-Choo

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November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Reminder if you know a fantasy TTRPG and/or Muppets fan, I'm here for you this gift-giving season. Or, any season. Or, gift them to yourself!

Check my shop for other designs - also prints on pillowcases, hoodies, mugs, stickers, notebooks, sheets, posters, pins. www.teepublic.com/user/johnlat...
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hanging out with this waking nightmare sketch today. Still needs tweaking and line consolidation, but this felt like a good start. Work for @serisbooks.com.

#axiomofinfinity #monsterart #artsketch #digitalart #horrorart #conceptart
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Just saw a list of TTRPG recommendations which was just the most standard received wisdom regurgitated I have seen.

So, some alternatives to DnD not created by Megacorp Hasbro (which is going to fire some people in time for Xmas this year as per their posted schedule).

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November 29, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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New Pin Post! I'm John, a freelance #illustrator for #TTRPG players and publishers. I do private and published comms, sell commercial stock art and create fan-crossover works.
Stock art: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
Teepublic (fan art on merch) www.teepublic.com/user/johnlat...
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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This holiday season continue to buy my books so I can buy food and continue the incredible priveledge of professionally writing books about how sad I am. Thanks xx

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SoulMuppet Publishing Webstore
We create and publish roleplaying games. Beautiful books in beautiful quality. Come here for Best Left Buried, Stygian Library, Orbital Blues and a fantastic array of 3rd Party Books
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November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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In case it needs to be said yes my reposting IS endorsement, hell yeah, Hipólita does amazing work and I highly recommend.
hi all! I'm open for TTRPG writing work. I'm open for writing, design, consultancy, copy editing, dev editing, translation, anything to do with words!

I've worked on Inevitable, Paint The Town Red, Apocalypse Keys, Drama Llamas, Orbital Blues, Mad As Hell, MORIAH and many more!
a girl with blue hair is holding a towel
ALT: a girl with blue hair is holding a towel
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October 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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✨🔮 Cantrip is a diceless and GMless #TTRPG by @hipolita.itch.io, where you play as queer teenage witches in a magical academy coming to terms with their emotions, their magic and the world around them.

Physical Editions available on our webstore!
soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/can...
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Iso Art Token #051 - Young Black Dragon (Bestiary, #PF2e, #DnD5e, Dragon, Medium Size)
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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A short guide to "System Doesn't Matter" bs:

1) If it's said legitimately, it's plain idiotic

2) If it's a reference to Ron Edwards forum post from two decades ago, who the fuck cares. I didn't read it, almost no one I know read it.

The deeper insight is that it always comes from the OSR...

1/10
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A couple of weeks ago I had the exp of watching a level 11 Pathfinder summoner cast chain lightning, doing a collective ~980 lightning damage spread over almost a dozen targets, fully disintegrating seven of them. Never seen "number go up" that high in any ttrpg before. 😅
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Lol, this looks like a service industry roll? 'Transition from being a residential crapper to having "customers"'. If the ply isn't more forgiving, it'll be the equivalent of crapping at a Best Buy.
Kinda overkill. But im also lazy so kinda appealing
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I'm certainly not complaining, but somehow #Arrhenius ended up on the "Popular" page for physical games on itch. For the last few months, I've been lucky if I get 4 or 5 views a day.

Today there have been over 60. !!! So, I dunno whom to thank, but "Thanks, whomever"

jesseharlin.itch.io/arrhenius
ARRHENIUS | An Icecore Roleplaying Game by Dungeonteller
A Far-Future Ice Age TTRPG Set in the Year 100,000
jesseharlin.itch.io
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Not just for games, but society needs processes and systems to matter to stay in dialogue with itself, to document where we've been. Systems matter precisely because they create shared footing for ongoing critique, discussion of what and how they represent and enable specific pov, or court bias—
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM