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will jobst - PAXU 4059
@willjobst.bsky.social
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willjobst.bsky.social
yeah this works for me
sakurai on a couch saying “the game you like best is number one!”
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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yeah so basically one of the cognito hazards of presenting at conventions is that you get these puzzle piece tiles. don’t get the ones with wood grain. you will find yourself trying to match all the grain on the edges. you’ll blink and then it’s dark outside. there is no system to make it easier
a foam tile for comfortably standing, and the edge that fits into that tile to make it flush. the tiles have grain like wood grain. i have a migraine i’m sorry about this alt text. i watched basically all of season three of The Diplomat with sunglasses on. right so the wood grain, the edge bit—i guess i would calm it the frame of the tile, it has its own grain that, in this picture, is perpendicular to the tile grain. but it gets worse, the grain is different on all the tiles so that each rim tile only works with one tile base. you feel me?
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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GOOD LUCK PRESS is coming to a PHILLY CONVENTION CENTER NEAR YOU (FOR PAX U)
expo hall map of PAXU with an arrow pointing allllll the way over to the top right corner, showing Booth 4059. the text under it says "If You've Found Us, You've Gone Too Far"
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
willjobst.bsky.social
i love editing rpgs
Two microsoft word comments by me, will jobst, on a ttrpg manuscript. The first one reads: "what's the defense and hp?". The second reads: "any ability to meld with the large woman?"
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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there are so many of these quiet inclusions of pure diesel all over this project. one super plunderable thing is that each region has a short tone poem at the top, like here:
Screenshot from the Valley of Flowers from Phantom Mill, that reads: Brobdin Wood Big-bellied laughter from the forest’s depths—!e vegetal sweetness of wild honey—Ducks fussing and flapping in a cottage garden—Cook fires crackling amidst the pines—Two streams converge in a rocky glen—Cold dew on wildflowers as the sun rises. There's also an illustration of Brobdin wood with a dark path through the trees, two hard men having a conversation, and a tavern!
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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a cool part in poetry is that your title is included in the poem.
in rpg design, think about abilities, picklists, and roll tables like poems, and experiment with the title and subtitle. for example, look at this picklist from @jedediahberry.bsky.social and @andrewmcalpine.bsky.social.
A screenshot from https://phantom-mill.itch.io/rere-regardant-wildendrem. Here's the text: What Misfortune Befell Your Liege? d6 You Were There When It Happened 1 Pierced through the heart in a tournament. Take plate mail with a hole in the breastplate (as chain mail but heavy as plate). While wearing it, you receive a +2 bonus to reaction rolls with chivalrous types. 2 Waylaid by a band of ruthless brigands. You have a 2-in-6 chance of detecting ambushes (before rolls for surprise). 3 Lured to their doom by an enchanter/enchantress. You receive a +2 bonus to saves relating to illusions. 4 Vanished into a mysterious fog and never heard from again. You suffer from terrible nightmares which sometimes provide clues to the whereabouts of lost objects and people (but never your lost knight). 5 Choked to death on a chicken bone. You can go without air for twice as long as other people. 6 Died peacefully in their own bed. Take your inheritance: a long sword (d8), a shield, and 100gp.
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
willjobst.bsky.social
im creatively free
screenshot of affinity studio. in it, i'm design a poster with the main text saying "the tour is ruined" in pink letters over a smudged blue semi circle.
October 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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tested negative post gamehole con! thanks to everyone that masked, i tried to give each one of your a compliment. thanks to everyone who picked up a mask from our booth! special thanks to @adambell.games for letting me use the laminar air flow filter, a piece of scifi technology.
it’s me, wearing all black, holding up a negative rapid test. it’s a mirror selfie, so i’m bokeh in the background
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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i need to know everything about how they made this movie
letterbox screenshot review of War of the Worlds “welcome to the bad movie pantheon. not since cats (2019) have i been so delighted”
October 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
willjobst.bsky.social
uh oh
big concrete brutalist font that reads L99UGLMs
October 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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book i finished / book i started
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
October 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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there's a chance i can crank out this zine before gamehole con this month!
a cover for a zine, black text on a dusty scratchy white background: "rpg words 1: a set of linguistic forms known especially to readers and players of imagination games. the players filled the conversation with rpg words. 2: a tabletop roleplaying language fanzine by will jobst. rpg words is published by Good Luck Press a limited dictionary, covering the essentials: the terrible places: sepulcher, oubiette, gazebo the unpronouncables: crevasse, dwoemer, chasm words d'art: THAC0, fail-forward, TPK and over ten polearms: [the text is covered up by a sticker with the good luck press logo"
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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i gotta know what jeff probst was playing on ps2. too specific a plan to be lying about it
screenshot of ps2 testimonials, this one says: "Jeff Probst, host of TV's Survivor When we did the first Survivor, I didn't realize I'd have some down time between challenges and Tribal Councils, but for Survivor 2, I was ready. I brought a PlayStation 2 as my luxury item. So, we'd finish Tribal Council, head back to base camp, toss in a game and start jammin. It was a great way to get your mind out of your work and not a bad way to relieve some tension as well."
September 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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just needed to get this out of my system
It's a hades 1 textbox over an image of Pascal from Nier Automata, but a version of Pascal from the animated version, holding a flower. Pascal says: "I taught the children what fear is. I felt they had to know so they wouldn't heedlessly run into danger. But... instead..."
September 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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fuck it why not make it a project
google sheets header that reads RPG WORDS
September 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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book i finished / book i started, iain m. banks edition
the modern cover of Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas, showing a curved waterscape. The cover of Iain M. Banks' Against a Dark Background, orange and red rusting shiphulks
September 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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it's time for the SOLOTEMBER SALE! for the rest of September, take 10% solo games at goodluckpress.co.
A leafy background with text on top that says: "Solotember Sale: 10% off select solo games all September!"
September 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
willjobst.bsky.social
i dont trust this fucking guy
Mr. E from the new Yoshi game from the nintendo direct. Mr E has a giant walrus moustache. He is a leatherbound book with a big buckle. Mr E opens himself to the Yoshis, explaining nothing. He has a solid gold monocle and beady little eyes like a shark. He looks like your dad' wallet.
September 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
willjobst.bsky.social
i decided to do the hardest possible conversion, in which i made a scale hexmap of the Valley of Flowers, placed the pointcrawl locations into that hexmap, and then put myths on the remote empty hexes of the land, sort of "bridging the cards" between both games.
a stretched and squashed version of the Valley of Flowers map converted into hexes, using the HexKit tool and the Highland Paranormal Society's hex art.
September 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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will with a shaggy haircut, wearing a world champ game co hardcore tee, taking a mirror selfie
September 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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check out my character from damn the man, save the music
a screenshot of a miro board of my character who's name is Kendra L, and there's an illustration I made of Kendra crying surrounded by the text: UNDERAGE, UNEMPLOYED, 93, MA
August 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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bob from twin peak
August 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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it’s here. UNDERNEATH. PERILOUS SOLO SPELUNKING
Will holding up a copy of UNDERNEATH by Seb Pines, with a stark black and white cover with crisscrossing ropes and cavern walls. an interior shot of UNDERNEATH by Seb Pines, with a photograph of a stalactite formation, and prompts on the facing page.
August 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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today i learned that if you upload an image to kickstarter as a part of your project, they can use it for almost whatever they like! 🙃
Screenshot of KS policy: We can use the Content you’ve submitted. You grant to us, and others acting on our behalf, a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right to use, reproduce, make derivative works, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, disseminate, communicate, commercialize, and exploit the copyright, publicity, trademark, and database rights with respect to your Content. In general, we use this Content to promote projects and showcase our community on the website, including through application of a Project We Love and other similar badges. There are many factors that we take into consideration before featuring a project on the homepage or giving it a Project We Love badge. This includes, but is not limited to, a crisp project image with no logos, badges, or text on top, a clear and detailed description that includes a thorough plan for completing your project, captivating images or videos, an excited community, what we think different users will be interested in, and of course, a lot of creativity. In addition to giving some projects a Project We Love badge, we also carefully curate the homepage to highlight great examples of Kickstarter projects. The projects at the very top of the homepage typically are best-of-the-best Projects We Love—based on factors such as creative innovation, honesty, and alignment with Kickstarter’s mission and charter —but we also use algorithms to surface popular projects, projects your friends have backed and launched, and projects recommended just for you. We may also recommend projects that are gaining traction as a result of their creator’s own advertising, and/or on the basis of a user’s prior search terms, browsing history, project backings and other interactions, and cookies we have collected during their visits to our website. Kickstarter reserves the right to apply and remove all such badges, and to start and cease all such promotions, in its sole discretion.
August 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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borrowing the format from @aaronmfking.bsky.social: book i finished / book i started
cover of "Billie Holiday: The Last Interview", with a minimalist cover with a cel shaded image of Lady Day. cover of Nathan D. Paoletta's RPG DESIGN ZINE TWO: Tools and Techniques, another how-to zine about tabletop roleplaying game design. This one is in a cut-and-paste style with letters from many different roleplaying games. The ampersands are really nice, which is how you can tell Nathan is a ringer graphic designer.
August 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM