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SketchyVanRPG (He/They)

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He/They - Leftist TTRPG illustrator - maps, layout, etc Game Designer - Moon-howler Mad Scientist - Psychonaut Main - https://sketchyvanrpg.com/ Itch - https://sketchyvanrpg.itch.io/ Patreon - https://patreon.com/sketchyvanrpg

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · Apr 29

Give me money, I'll give you maps

Personal commissions & commercial freelance available. I've been published multiple times, and my own work is available on itch, drivethru & Exalted Funeral

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 18h

and there was an expansion book with micro-systems to run toon in a bunch of different genres!

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 22h

I make the Joy of Cooking mushroom soup every Christmas Eve!

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 22h

the dozen hours of work to do all these was worth it, then!

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 22h

I've completed my Cairn 2e statblock conversion of the NPCs and monsters for N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God

Check it out here: sketchyvanrpg.com/2025/10/29/c...

#CairnRPG #osr #dnd

Cairn 2e Conversion: N1 Against the Reptile God

Whats good, everyone? I’ve run the classic TSR era adventure module N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God for five different groups in the past few years. Those groups have unanimously focused much…

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Ryan Lynch @outridercreative.bsky.social · 1d

Practicing drawing dragons for the next Perils & Princesses TTRPG adventure, and I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out. I have to admit: drawing dragons is so hard for me. Four legs, plus wings is just too many appendages!

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 1d

Keeping 35% of a sale that you merely act as the credit card processor for is wild behavior

I used to work in retail and even the most greedy CC processor only kept 4.5% of sales

Is dtrpg even driving views/sales? My dtrpg store earns pennies on the dollar compared to my itch store, but I'm tiny

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 1d

Subterranean cult on the drawing board this morning

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 2d

Mythic Bastionland fucking rules

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 2d

I'm about to play Mythic Bastionland for the first time

Meet Sir Draefend the Snare Knight!

He's got a helmet made of ropes

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 3d

Ive been sick and dropped the ball on this, but for the next week (Oct 26-Nov 2) all my stuff on Itch is 20% off or grab the entire catalog for $20 (an extra $5 off!)

itch.io/s/164080/hal...

Halloween Sale by Andrew Duvall

A bundle by Andrew Duvall, $20.00 for 6 games

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 7d

Finished region map!

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 7d

I've been cooking up my take on N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God, called Anyone Believe Its Not A Reptile Cult

Here's the work-in-progress regional map

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 7d

I regularly send out A5 zines with 120lb cardstock covers in 6x9 "regular" envelopes with standard letter stamps and I've never had issues with the USPS. Even stuffed 3 32pg ones in a single envelope with no problems.

I haven't tried international shipping that way though

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 8d

NSR is people tired of being told "that's not OSR" about anything that's not strictly b/x

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 8d

"murder, what murder? they were the best guys around"

a group of cartoon characters from the lion king are standing next to each other with hakuna matata written on the bottom

ALT: a group of cartoon characters from the lion king are standing next to each other with hakuna matata written on the bottom

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 8d

in this house, we lift all the homies up to the sky <3

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 8d

From my take on N1, working title: "Anyone Believe its not a Reptile Cult?"

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 8d

Entrance to a swampy lair

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 8d

Entrance to a swampy lair

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 9d

OSE is great. The core rules (so just classic B/X from the 80s) are free online from their SRD. You'll miss the Advanced D&D content they ported to b/x from the OSE Advanced books, but thats not a great loss imho.

Hole in the Oak is where I'd start, but any of the official adventures are great!

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 11d

It started as an attempt to "show off" the tools in the Warden's Guide, so folks will understand how I write adventures, so they can do it, too. I wrote a blogpost describing my thought process, and developed the adventure in a very public way.

newschoolrevolution.com/lets-make-a-...

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SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 11d

Just finished the G's

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 11d

Hot take of the day:

Anyone who spreads the idea that it's bad actually to get paid for creative work is an unfuckable loser

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 11d

"Art should be free" is the exact mindset of the generative AI fans

It's a cancer that metastisizes into an artists soul, this idea that art should somehow remain outside of commerce in order to be "pure". Every famous artist you've ever heard of gets paid for theirs, you should too

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 11d

IDK about you, but I kind of enjoy things like eating, a roof over my head, and lights that turn on when I flip the switch

This "nobility" thing is imaginary and largely spread by consumers of art and not producers of art

Unless you are independently wealthy, it's a toxic ideal of suffering

SketchyVanRPG (He/They) @sketchyvanrpg.com · 11d

exactly