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Jamie Douglas - illustrating, making zines and stuff for ttrpgs https://www.jamie-douglas.com/ https://jamie-douglas.itch.io/ https://www.patreon.com/c/ZinesfromBelow Available for commission!

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Dec 10

The first image in my new fantasy art portfolio. If we met at PAX, I probably waved this in your face =)

Pen and ink illustratrion with watercolor, with a complex border framing an image of a huge cyclops monster crouching in a cave. His arms and legs are interwoven between stalactites. Above the monster, on the surface, there is a bucolic scene of tiny people dancing and frolicing in a sunset landscsape, with a dark forest off to the left, and a distant medieval town to the right. The image has lots of detailed crosshatching. Overall, the picture has a fairytale quality.

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Todd @thirdkingdom.bsky.social · 3d

OSR News Roundup is live. Check it out for an overview of last week's OSR and indie #ttrpg releases. It was a bit of a slow week, but there's still some great stuff to check out! www.sabregamesandcards.com/post/osr-new... #osr #indiegame

OSR News Roundup for October 6th, 2025

It's the first roundup for October, and the big event for this month is Mothership Month. It starts on October 14th, and will be chock full of projects Mothership. Exeunt Press is running an event for...

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · 6d

I have bought two books published by Peow 2 recently: "Mold Mold Mold" and "Magic Mayhem Metal." Both excellent art books, beautiful, I love them dearly.

But they smell insane. What is this ink? What kind of paper is this? I have never smelled books that smell like this.

Still great tho!

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Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 22d

Packed up some boxes tonight 🌒🌒

Should be shipping out tomorrow

Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 25d

BIG NEWS! Moon Rings playing card decks are available now!

Edition of 100, standard 52-card deck. Can be used for playing Moon Rings or for any reason you'd use a card deck.

Get them from the game's itch page. Shipping to the U.S. only atm

Please share!

junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings

Photo of a deck of cards for Moon Rings laid out in a grid. There is a yellow meeple on one of the cards and red 12-sided dice in the background.

hands holding a deck of cards for Moon Rings being fanned out

deck box for Moon Rings playing cards. the deck box is black with red foil that has the game title and graphics of tiny stars.

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · 26d

Oh, and the art is a digital print of an illustration I made for a Halloween Dance party at the local improv theater (the event was cancelled, sadly).

Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · 26d

My piece on display at The Camel through Halloween as part of their spooky/weird art show with 30~ish artists.

Handmade frame with wood, clay, hot glue cast in plumber’s putty molds, spray paint, air dry clay, highlighter ink and water in vinyl tubing, and a lil plastic skeleton.

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm gonna try to snag one if these next time I'm in town. If my timing is good, you'll have those WHPA hardcovers, too 😃.

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Todd @thirdkingdom.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sabre Games is a small flgs in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we're looking to expand our selection of indie titles, both for retail and wholesale distribution. We currently distribute for a couple of smaller companies (chiefly Leyline Press) and want to expand. #ttrpg #dnd #indiegames

Home | Sabre Games

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Sep 2

When I'm tracing to transfer, I use a colored pencil or or red ballpoint pen, so I can tell which parts I've already been over.

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Sep 2

I do this a lot too! Mostly to transfer drawings from my sketchbook or printer paper to nicer paper.
I usually use tracing paper, flip it over and messily retrace with a soft/dark pencil, so i don't have to coat the whole thing in graphite.

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 31

This has already been so fun to work on, and we're just getting started! All the projects for Maisritter Month look AMAZING, check them out!! Orchestrated by @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social @losing.games and @exaltedfuneral.bsky.social , so you know it's good.

#osr #mice

Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'm working on art and maps for THE BARON'S GRIP, a sandbox adventure for Mausritter Month by @mallenhall.com !!

Follow the project on backerkit here: Get Ready for The Baron's Grip: A Campaign for Mausritter share.google/RnGfX7TDPwC8...

Get Ready for The Baron's Grip: A Campaign for Mausritter

From M. Allen Hall - Get Ready for The Baron's Grip: A Campaign for Mausritter

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 27

I've been so busy this summer that I haven't had time to read blogs 😭

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Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · Aug 25

Mark your calendars!

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 26

Maybe you should stop flossing, that'll get their attention. It really pisses them off!!

Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 22

To be considered a megadungeon, an underground maze must include one really really really big room for hexcrawling purposes. Dungeon architects often ignore this important requirement.

Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hell yeah!! Excited to get that mail 😃

Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 19

I dunno if I've ever really listened to Devo, besides Whip It, and I'm 37. That's a weird oversight.

Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 19

I was listening to the Vintage RPG podcast today, which in turn led me into listening to DEVO, My Chemical Romance, and The Weird Lord Slough Feg (because I also listened to their old Erol Otus interview, and he did an album cover).
Devo and MCR are definitely outside my normal wheelhouse.

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Chris, Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · Aug 13

Next is Exton by @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social ! This is a cool little setting to be used with Cairn

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 13

Okay, not everything's analog. Here's a procreate timelapse of me messing around with the cover sketch.

Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 13

or my cover I made an acrylic painting--it is very unfinished, and I may come back to it. But with the the time constraints of the jam, I messed around in photoshop and got it lookin' good.

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 13

Here are a bunch of process sketches/work from the creation of my Appendix N. Jam entry. I like to do things analog!

#AppendixNJam #AppxN #osr

Pencil sketch for the cover of Twisting Old Wounds, an adventure module made as an entry to the Appendix N. Jam.

Sketchbook page with black and white pen drawings of molemen, serpentine furred beats, and a few thumbnail ideas for the cover of Twisting Old Wounds, an entry for the Appendix N. Jam.

A printed out WIP layout of a dungeon adventure, with cross-outs and edits, as wel as ballpoint pen drawings of creatures, scribbled notes, and a map of 7 caverns chambers labeled as various 'organs.'

An unfinished, washy acrylic painting of a serpentine dragon with googly eyes on stalks snarling at a fancy swordsman crouched on it's curling bulk, poised to pierce it's hideous hide it with a slender silver sword. Orange, blue and grey dominate the moody painting.

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Der_AJZ | Golem Productions @der-ajz.bsky.social · Aug 11

I read some adventures and a bestiary from @lemosfran.bsky.social for other systems and they were pure gold! Very creative, funny, and great art!
If you like #Mausritter, keep this one in mind! #OSR #NSR #TTRG

Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social · Aug 11

Yay! I’m joining Mausritter Month, hosted by @losing.games, @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social, this November on @backerkit.com! Check out the teaser for Tales from Behind the Ferns, a bundle of tiny adventures:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

#Mausritter #osr

Get Ready for Tales from Behind the Ferns: Bundle of Mausritter adventures

From Francisco Lemos - Get Ready for Tales from Behind the Ferns: Bundle of Mausritter adventures

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Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 11

I agree. Had to pick up a copy of this, and it's great. I haven't painted or kitbashed minis much at all, but I collect little bits and think about it a lot. Mold³ and their contemporaries like SlugWizard and Gardens of Hectate, all doing crazily inspiring stuff.

Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · Aug 11

The @peow.bsky.social crew killed it with their new artbook of tabletop conversions, kitbashes, and sculptures by Nick Borelli (MoldMoldMold), and a limited number of Borelli originals made to celebrate the book are still available! Super inspiring stuff, and so glad to have snagged one: peow.studio

Zines from Below @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social · Aug 11

I really like FAR. More great work by @n8hps.bsky.social . Would definitely run/play this.

natetreme.itch.io/far

Cover artwork by Nate Treme for his ttrpg FAR, Fantastic Adventure Rules, on a home-printed zine copy.
The illustration shows two giant d6s sitting in a cartoon landscape of trees and plants, with some kind of high-tech structure nearby. A cat peeks out of a pip on the upper d6, a figure peers out of the tech-tower's window. Foliage grows out of a broken-down car.

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