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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@infrabeige.bsky.social got me thinking about what a minimalist dot-grid character sheet for Vaults of #Vaarn would look like. Doing some tests.

Minimalist character sheet. Mostly a dot grid in a red color. There are several boxes with diamond shapes and blue lines containing text in a light blue groovy looking font. The box at the top says Name. The next boxes are much smaller and have a cross through them to allow for a minimum and maximum value drawn over the text inside. These smaller boxes have the following text in order: HP, AV, STR, DEX, CON, INT, PSY, and EGO.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

More Into the Odd character sheet tests. I'm planning a one shot at a gaming store and I really want something to communicate the simplicity, while keeping room for notes and maps. #osr #nsr

Simple rpg character sheet. Most the sheet is dotted paper. The top has a box for the name and other info. The left top side has boxes for HP, strength, dexterity, and willpower. The sheet is filled out with number, items, notes, a little character illustration, and a crude map. None of the text is important, it is for illustration only.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Made the most basic Into the Odd character sheet for reasons. Might make a tiny blogpost to share the pdf and talk about why. After I clean it up and improve it.

Extremely basic rpg character sheet. Mostly just a gray dot grid. In the top left are boxes for Name, Strength, Dexterity, and Willpower. In the top right are boxes for HP and Deprived.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I've started a campaign of Jennell Jaquays' Dark Tower using the DCC conversion, I do like some of the additions, but I found the book pretty unwieldy at the table, so I've taken on the task of converting the entire thing into bullet points 😅

Screenshot of a 2 page spread showing rpg room descriptions and a minimap on each page.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was looking at Exalted Order of the Mystic Moose again and I think this is the best room title I've come up with.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Made this graveyard sheet so players can write in their dead characters to memorialize. Just started a DCC campaign so this is very necessary 😂 #rpg #dcc #osr

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Reading DCC's Dark Tower conversion and found a rogue "lorem ipsum" 😂

Photo of a D&D map with a random text block saying "lorem ipsum".

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I just got Megadamage and it's really cool, but I'm questioning some of these color choices. Lavender text on a black background with interspersed white art is really hard to read.

Content of the text is unimportant. Photograph of some magazine text. First paragraph is lavender on a black background which is hard to read. Part of this lavender text has white art behind it which makes it impossible to read. The next paragraph below this is white text on a black background which is easy to read.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I haven't painted in over a year, but got back into it for these Cthulhu: Death May Die minis.

Large painted mini of Tsthathoggua. A squatting sloth and toad combo with a pair of wings. Covered in fur and many eyes.

Large painted mini of a Dhole. Purple belly and light blue back. Covered in bulbous yellow eyes. It's mouth is open in a fanged roar.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Of course Marathon goes down when I have time to play. Made this in frustration.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I recently remembered these procedural #sprites I made 8 years ago. I had been planning a big sci-fi #roguelike where you could see you and your crew's equipment. Body and head shape would change the helmets of the sprites. I'm thinking of maybe trying something like this again for a new idea.

Pixel art showing a grid of 6 by 5 side view characters. Each character is just 3 colors and very abstract. They are equipped with random outfits, helmets, capes, and weapons. The weapons vary between different swords, daggers, and sci-fi guns.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Not a movie, but Doctor Who: The Web Planet has human sized ant like creatures. Gonna watch this thread with great interest since I love ants.

Black and white photo of someone in a ant like costume. From Doctor Who: The Web Planet.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

All I can think of is THX 1138

Screenshot from THX 1138 showing the main character talking to AI Jesus. Text on screen said "You are a true believer. Blessings of the state."

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Working on more Arthurian pixel art for some sort of roguelike. I need to come up with an actual game, but for now this is more fun. #roguelike #pixelart #gamedev

An array of 5x5 sprites on a checkerboard grid. Each sprite is 20x20 pixels. The whole thing is framed by simple thorns. Each sprite is a solid color. The top row is religious figures. Second row is fairies. Third row is monsters. Fourth row is a knight and dragons. Fifth row is a wizard, a king, and some other people.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Saint John the Apostle witnesses a Seraphim. Working on some more silly #pixelart for my Arthurian #roguelike

Simple pixel art showing a light blue saintly figure kneeling before a yellow angelic lion faced figure with multiple wings. The figures are very simple and only 20x20 pixels each. They are on a checkerboard grid of grey and black that is 5 wide and 3 tall. Surrounding the figures is a border of green vines.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I'm once again working on sprites for some sort of Arthurian roguelike. Taking a lot of inspiration from marginalia. #roguelike #pixelart #gamedev

An array of 5x5 sprites on a checkerboard grid. Each sprite is 20x20 pixels. The whole thing is framed by simple vines. Each sprite is a solid color. The top row is people, an angel, and a deer. The middle 3 rows are weird monsters inspired by marginalia. The bottom row is knights.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This may be the best sprite I've ever made. Weird little marginalia monster with a big ass. #pixelart

An abstract 20x20 solid color sprite. Looks like a strange medieval marginalia chicken with a giant ass and a cone hat.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Making good progress on my #7drl project. Captain Yendor's Lost Treasure. Here's a title screen test. #roguelike #gamedev #ascii

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The player ship is now in the world and moving around! #7drl #gamedev #roguelike

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Today I've got almost all the ship, crew, and captain generation finished. No ship names in there yet, and there are a bunch of other details. But almost there.

Lots of text on screen. A roguelike screenshot. Describes a ghostly pirate crew with various abilities, a ghostly pirate ship with different stats, and a ghost pirate captain.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Working on multiple screen layers for popups, and a treasure maps popup for my #7drl. The overall world map here is a little odd, but I think it'll work. The idea for treasure maps is that you'll have to sail until you find an island that matches one of your maps and then travel to where the X is.

Ascii roguelike screenshot. Shows a map screen overlaid on the main game view. The map is mostly brown and very abstract. A title says Treasure Maps, and a subtitle says The Known World.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

More #7drl map generation progress. Different colors show sand and vegetation. There are atolls, mountains, rivers, lava, ruins, palm trees, and coral.

Bright colored pixel map showing an archipelago of various types of islands.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Progress on map generation. There are different sorts of island chains. Each color will be either a different civilization or a different type of island.

Image showing different colors making up scattered islands and chains in a simple map.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Working on map generation. I'm going to use noisy voronoi cells for islands. Clusters will be combined in various different ways to form an archipelago. Some islands will be large clusters, others thin strips.

Black and white 100x100 pixel image of noisy voronoi cells.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Started working on my pirate themed #7drl project. First thing I'm doing is pulling colors from various Treasure Island frames to make a palette.

Shot from the 1950s Treasure Island of Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins. A palette of several colors is overlaid on the frame.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Amongst the first rpg butts I saw was in Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. I believe this is by Jeff Dee.

Black and white illustration. 4 fantasy adventurers are framed walking away from the viewer, while a brain with legs watches them. The woman in the party is wearing by far the least clothes, but everyone's butt is in frame.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Some tiny party people by Dirk Detweiler Leichty for TROIKA! Numinous Edition. I'm starting to run out of butts. I didn't plan this well.

Some abstract naked people partying on a building. The people are red and yellow ink, while the details around them are red, blue, and black. One person is sitting on the other person and you can see the top of their crack. The bottom person has a bottle of something they're pouring off the roof of the building.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Mutant Crawl Classics cat girl butt by Doug Kovacs. The future is pants-optional.

Black and white ink illustration of a humanoid female cat wearing lots of bands, bones, and spikes. She has a shirt with a short skirt like thing, but no pants. She is holding two daggers and wearing headphones around her neck. The background is full of graffiti on the ground, puddles and mess, and some other characters who have been cropped out of frame.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The Murder Princess by Carlo Tartaglia from Break!! All the character design is so fucking good.

Drawing of a severe looking woman wearing very tight gray pants and various pieces of gray armor. She is holding a large purple poleaxe. She has blue hair in two large buns. She is facing away from the viewer and looking over her shoulder with a glare.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Pengling from UVG 2E by Luka Rejec. No distinct cheeks, but I still like it a lot. Shows that adventurers need less pants than you expect.

An adorable short penguin person adventurer carrying a big backpack and no pants. They have a tiny stubby tail. Another penguin person is in the background facing foreground person. In the distance you can see the ocean.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I really like this knight butt by Andrew Walter in Dolmenwood as well.

Small section of a painting showing a naked man with a knight's helmet emerging from a bath tub.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I'm cataloguing my favorite butts in rpgs. I think Sean McCoy's Mothership space butt is pretty high up there.

Black and white painting of a naked person floating in space. It is very rough, butt the cheeks are clearly visible.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We need to go back to having a dedicated room for the computer.

Screenshot from Alien of the Mother computer room.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The creepy androids just say hi now. Not sure how far I'll actually get with this project. Losing a bit of motivation. Gonna try to stick with it for a bit. #7DFPS

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Now he's wearing yellow and full of Catholic guilt.

Same android but wearing a yellow jumpsuit with a cross on the chest.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Friendly neighborhood android.

PS1 style screenshot. A grey-skinned android with glowing eyes wearing bright blue stands menacingly in a dark industrial corridor.

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Jacob Marks @jacobmarks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

It's important for your maps to have lots of comments and description.

A old school looking dungeon map made in DungeonScrawl. One label says "Goopy", the one other says "Goopy side".

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