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Freelance TTRPG writer/designer/tester available for hire. Sr. Contract Tester, MCDM. Posts are my own. He/him. Business: pestopublications@gmail.com.

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Official USPSยฎ Change-of-Address Form

If you have mail forwarding set up, it'll get sent to you the same way envelope mail would be. (moversguide.usps.com)

09.03.2026 23:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tome of Intangible Treasures II: A Hunter's Guide to Rituals and Rites Hunt the Monsters. Prepare your Rites. Take their Power. What better way to celebrate a victory against a dangerous creature than to take its power for yourself?

Tome of Intangible Treasures II, a 5e supplement that I wrote extensively for and tested, is out today!

Hundreds of stat blocks, plus rituals to turn monster parts from those foes into powerful temporary and permanent buffs.

www.shop.lonecolossusgames.com/products/tom...

06.03.2026 20:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I commissioned Dojikaan for the cover of the Kobold Ancestry.

If you want to see what an art brief looks like, here's the one I prepared for that cover: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ti0g...

(Also, they were very easy to work with and I absolutely love the final piece. I plan to commission them again.)

26.02.2026 07:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

<slides into your DMs>

Hello. I'm calling you to discuss your car insurance.

26.02.2026 05:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cooooool!

23.02.2026 21:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is, of course, #TriangleAgency (@hauntedtable.games)'s doing.

The Manitoba office asked the agency to make tires triangular so they could escape the Rollerskating Moose.

The Saskatchewan office changed it back later, but by that time the agency owned Canadian Tire, so the logo didn't revert.

22.02.2026 04:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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$15 5e Collection by Pesto Publications A bundle by Pesto Publications, $15.00 for 6 games

I've listed all my 5e releases as a bundle for $15 (~36% off).

It lasts through the end of June.

No reason for this other than that spending the last two days sorting out my accounting made me realize I barely talk about my old work anymore.

itch.io/s/180816/15-...

22.02.2026 00:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

What was that famous quote?

"The best time to discover you own a hot glue gun is before you start assembly. The second best time is now."

Something like that...

20.02.2026 12:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just got my contributor copy of Scions of Blood and Shadow for Draw Steel, and the production values are aspirational.

Gorgeous cover, great interior art, and fantastic layout. Special shout out to their use of subclass-specific colors and icons to help players navigate the ability lists.

20.02.2026 12:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 40 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's an amazing piece.

17.02.2026 17:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because you don't become a leader in crypto without being a narcissistic sociopath.

Normal people reach either "this is a house of cards in a hurricane and I'm going to lose all my money" or "this is a grift and the only way to make money in this to actively hurt people" and bail instead.

14.02.2026 22:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I, the jury, poisoned myself.

I remember little of the 7th Sea 2E rules. But since I was told that the people pushing for 3E were fans of 1E that didn't like 2E, I came into reading 3E thinking it was unnecessary, and now find myself disliking it despite not knowing what's actually changed.

Oops.

14.02.2026 22:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats!

13.02.2026 03:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Time is running out before the heat death of our universe, and we don't know how to save ourselves, so we built a simulation in the hope that they'd discover a solution we could implement.

But instead, time started running out before the heat death of their universe, so they built a simulation...

06.02.2026 02:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's no salary listed, it doesn't offer health insurance, it's a six-month contract, and at 30 hours/wk, it requires enough time that holding another job would be difficult, but it seems to be remote and there are very few jobs in the TTRPG industry, so maybe the trade-offs are worth it for you.

04.02.2026 23:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hell yeah!

03.02.2026 06:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of part of a stat block.

Whack a Mole, 2d10 + 3, Villain Action 1
Melee, Strike, Weapon
Melee 1, Two creatures or objects
Tier 1: 7 damage; Might < 1 embedded
Tier 2: 10 damage; Might < 2 embedded
Tier 3: 13 damage; Might < 3 embedded
Effect: A creature that is embedded has the bottom half of their
body pushed into the ground and is restrained until they use a
maneuver to crawl out of the hole. While restrained this way, other
creatures benefit from high ground against them. A creature can
only become embedded if they are on the ground.

Screenshot of part of a stat block. Whack a Mole, 2d10 + 3, Villain Action 1 Melee, Strike, Weapon Melee 1, Two creatures or objects Tier 1: 7 damage; Might < 1 embedded Tier 2: 10 damage; Might < 2 embedded Tier 3: 13 damage; Might < 3 embedded Effect: A creature that is embedded has the bottom half of their body pushed into the ground and is restrained until they use a maneuver to crawl out of the hole. While restrained this way, other creatures benefit from high ground against them. A creature can only become embedded if they are on the ground.

Oh, right, my marketing plan was to share villain actions. I should, you know, do that.

Here's the first villain action for the Hammer Master, a kobold with a comically large hammer.

Get them and the rest of the backer kobolds in the Kobold Ancestry! pestopublications.itch.io/kobold-ances...

30.01.2026 22:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you backed on Backerkit, the email with the new version appears not to have gone out. However, if you're logged in, you can download it here: kobold-ancestry.backerkit.com/backer/digit...

If it asks you about a survey, ignore that; you already filled it out. Backerkit is weird.

28.01.2026 02:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Put a Brick on the Gas and Dive	
Villain Action 3
Area, Weapon	
Range: Special x 2 line within 1	
Target: Each enemy in the area
Effect: Each target makes an Agility test.
Tier 1: 6 damage; push 3, ignoring stability
Tier 2: 5 damage; push 2, ignoring stability 
Tier 3: 3 damage; push 1, ignoring stability
Effect: The lawnmower travels until it strikes a size 3 or larger creature or an object at least 1 square large made of stone or harder material. Objects in the line that are smaller than 1 square or made of material weaker than stone are destroyed. When the lawnmower stops moving, it explodes, dealing 5 fire damage to enemies in 2 burst. The artificer loses their Lawnmower Chariot ability.

Put a Brick on the Gas and Dive Villain Action 3 Area, Weapon Range: Special x 2 line within 1 Target: Each enemy in the area Effect: Each target makes an Agility test. Tier 1: 6 damage; push 3, ignoring stability Tier 2: 5 damage; push 2, ignoring stability Tier 3: 3 damage; push 1, ignoring stability Effect: The lawnmower travels until it strikes a size 3 or larger creature or an object at least 1 square large made of stone or harder material. Objects in the line that are smaller than 1 square or made of material weaker than stone are destroyed. When the lawnmower stops moving, it explodes, dealing 5 fire damage to enemies in 2 burst. The artificer loses their Lawnmower Chariot ability.

In lieu of having a post-release marketing plan, I'm gonna just post the abilities from kobold leader stat blocks that made me giggle the most. Let's start with the Tool Shed Artificer's third villain action:

pestopublications.itch.io/kobold-ances...

28.01.2026 02:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Kobold Ancestry by Pesto Publications An ancestry for Draw Steel

Ah, right, a purchase link. I'm terrible at marketing, huh.

pestopublications.itch.io/kobold-ances...

Enjoy!

28.01.2026 02:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I tried two different ways to get Backerkit to send folks the updated file, and thus far it hasn't arrived, at least for the folks in by Discord. I'll reach out to @backerkit.com support now.

Sorry, folks.

28.01.2026 02:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hope she likes her kobold in shining armor!

28.01.2026 02:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much to everyone involved:

* Cover art: @dojikaan.bsky.social
* Editor: @sabriel.gay
* On Kobolds editor: @donaldschepis.bsky.social
* Fonts: @tintenseher.bsky.social
* The testers
* And, of course, a huge thanks to everyone that backed or preordered the project.

Enjoy!

28.01.2026 01:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Only the single-page version is going out today. I'm having trouble getting Word to export the two-page spread.

I plan to borrow Acrobat over the weekend to get that out, plus add bookmarks and alt text to the single-page version, but I didn't want to keep folks waiting.

28.01.2026 01:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Illustration of a purple-scaled kobold with glowing red eyes, psionically projecting a glowing red shield and several glowing red javelins. Above them it says "Kobold Ancestry". In the bottom left corner, it says "Powered by Draw Steel".

Illustration of a purple-scaled kobold with glowing red eyes, psionically projecting a glowing red shield and several glowing red javelins. Above them it says "Kobold Ancestry". In the bottom left corner, it says "Powered by Draw Steel".

After months of hard work and many evenings giggling as I turned wacky kobold prompts into stat blocks, I'm thrilled to announce that version 1.0 is ready!

If you got it on Itch, you can download the new version from the Itch page. If you got it on Backerkit, a download email should go out soon. ๐Ÿงต

28.01.2026 01:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 112 ๐Ÿ” 31 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Aww, crap. It just occurred to me that โ€” now that I no longer have a paid version of Acrobat โ€” I don't know how to fiddle with PDFs. Bookmarks, alt text, machine reading, all that stuff I used to do in Acrobat.

Anyone have any alternatives they can recommend?

The base document is in Word 2019.

28.01.2026 00:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A black tee shirt with a white screen print of a floating, tentacled eye monster surrounded by six floating, tentacled eyeballs.

A black tee shirt with a white screen print of a floating, tentacled eye monster surrounded by six floating, tentacled eyeballs.

My outfit right now is the Flee, Mortals! tee shirt, a pair of denim carpenter shorts, and sandals. ๐Ÿ˜

24.01.2026 20:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dear Jira / Atlassian haters:

It took me a long time to come around to your position, but with the rollout of their new AI tools, which can't be permanently turned off, I am fully in your corner.

Time to see if I can block Rovo the way I have to block Gemini: Ublock Origin element picker.

23.01.2026 20:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wallmaster? Where's that from?

22.01.2026 04:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love all my backers equally, of course, but I love the backers that gave me silly prompts for their custom content the most.

21.01.2026 02:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0