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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 11/09/2026

Today! Come hang out, Twin Cities game designers! Broken Clock Brewing 5:30–7:30 PM

A black and white poster that says "Twin Cities RPG Design Meetup. All skill levels welcome. Talk design. Make friends. Just chill. Broken Clock Brewing. Friday, September 11. 5:30-7:30 PM." In the middle of the poster is a stack of game books and dice.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 10/09/2026

If you're in the Twin Cities and want to talk tabletop game design, come hang with us out tomorrow! Broken Clock Brewing Friday, September 11 5:30–7:30 PM

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 12/08/2026

I'm so excited to be able to vote for the amazing @peggyflanagan.bsky.social in November and send her to the Senate! LFG!

Minnesota's Peggy Flanagan smiling and wearing a black shirt saying "Protect Trans Kids".

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 11/08/2026

Count one more vote for Peggy Flanagan!

Jesse, a bearded white man in his 40s, wearing glasses and a blue t-shirt while pointing to a round red sticker on his shirt. The red sticker says, "I Voted" in white letters.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 16/07/2026

Minneapolis air quality index at 531. Even the AQI-to-cigarette calculator website doesn't know what to do with that.

Screenshot from aqitocigarettescalculator.org showing an error message that says "AQI must be a whole number from 0 to 500."

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 03/05/2026

Happy May Day from Minneapolis where we have a T-Rex!

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 16/01/2026

Have you got a favorite TTRPG character sheet design? If so, I'd love to see it! Here's one that I love, made by the talented @jezgordon.bsky.social.

A very graphical, easy to follow layout for a Star Wars tabletop roleplaying game, featuring cute grayscale line art icons for the various skills and using bubbles to fill in to indicate the number of dice to include in a roll. Everything is clearly labeled and explained.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 05/01/2026

Haha! I can still make these animal noises and I’m still drawing weird monsters, so I’m not doing too bad!

A spread from the Dr. Seuss’s "My Book About Me" titled "I can make noises" with checkboxes for rooster, dog, cat, goat, sheep, goose, and train, and a child’s scrawled writing filling in blanks for pig, horse, and monkey. Finally, a box is checked "yes" under "My family loves my noises."

A spread from the Dr. Seuss’s "My Book About Me" titled "I can draw funny pictures like this" with a Seussical bird. On the facing page, under the title "I drew this bird" is a child’s strange drawing of a bird monster with a magenta head, purple horns, and a blue beak.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 03/12/2025

Boris Woloszyn does my favorite miniature sculpts. I recently bought a bunch of the Litchmyre Dungeon ones he did (basically reimaginings of all the HeroQuest minis) and they’re so, so full of character and detail.

Four fantasy figures, sculpted from green stuff, of a hunched skeleton holding a scythe, a lich wizard standing on a wave of spirits, a heavily armored chaos knight with a horned helmet and a giant axe, and a moaning zombie with a worn cleaver.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 17/08/2025

The instructions doc has all the details, but here's a snippet.

Information on how to use the dice font for example, typing "1_on_d4" creates a d4 die showing a 1.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 13/05/2025

There should definitely be more Robin Hood-style forest banditry in our fantasy games!

Blackletter script in black on white, saying "Do you hear the Piper’s call? It lifts us up that kings might fall!". An upside broken crown sits underneath.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 09/04/2025

Happy National Unicorn Day, friends!

Pencil sketch of a galloping unicorn on beige paper.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 28/01/2025

Heck yeah! Excited to be sending you to the senate to represent me and my neighbors in St. Paul!

Picture of Jesse, a white man with glasses and a dark graying beard, smirking while pointing at a red "I Voted" sticker on his black shirt.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 18/11/2024

Oh, nice! I made a bunch of these for Lady Blackbird too!

A white die with 3 sides showing, all with a black X.

A white die with 3 sides showing, all are blank.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 17/11/2024

The dice font is coming to life! Check out some sample text and the ligature demo:

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 15/11/2024

Jellybean. Such a good boy. 11/10.

A portrait of a sleepy black and white sheepadoodle dog resting on a blue couch.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 15/11/2024

Getting mixed feedback on the d12 shape, so I just decided to include them both! Here’s what the full set looks like.

A chart showing a variety of black and white dice icons, with the following columns: D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, and D20. Each column has a set of icons for each of the dice values. The D12 column has two sets of icons, with the second set labeled "alternates".

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 15/11/2024

Here’s attempt two. Changes include: - Slightly smaller font - Bolder text on the black icons - Wider, squatter d10 - Shape change for d12 (decagon to pentagon) - Reorient d20 to be pointed-end up Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

Two sets of 6 shapes. The top is white text on black shapes, and the bottom is black text on white shapes with a black outline. The shapes are: triangle with a 4, square with a 6, diamond with an 8, wide pointed-top hexagon with a 10, pentagon with a 12, and pointed-top regular hexagon with a 20.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 15/11/2024

Working on a polyhedral dice font. Do these read okay to everyone? Any suggestions for shape changes?

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 05/11/2024

I voted by mail weeks ago, but my wife grabbed me a sticker from our polling place this morning. And my older daughter got to vote for president for her first time! 💙💙💙

Photo of Jesse, a white man with a beard, wearing a blue shirt that says "Elect Good People" while pointing to a red "I Voted" sticker on his shirt. He's got a smirk on his face that indicates "yep, I did it."

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 31/10/2024

I’m not going to let a little Halloween snowstorm stop me from fighting Jedi (or, more realistically, getting myself killed because I can’t shoot a blaster). Happy Halloween, friends! I hope you have lots of trick-or-treaters! 🎃

A person dressed up as a Star Wars Scout Trooper standing in a bedroom, waiting for Halloween to start. The face is fully covered by a helmet.

The Star Wars Scout Trooper helmet flips up to reveal Jesse, a bearded white man with glasses, giving the side-eye to the camera.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 20/10/2024

Jellybean says “good morning” and suggests that sleeping in is a good idea.

A close up view of a black and white sheepadoodle dog sleeping on a couch.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 19/10/2024

Hi, I’m Jesse and I make tabletop RPGs. You might know me from my games Trophy, Girl Underground, R’lyehwatch, Sunset Kills or others (hedgemazepress.itch.io). I like smallish games where the mechanics reinforce the theme. I’m also a designer and illustrator and I do most of my own art and layout.

A smiling Jesse (a white man with dark hair, beard, and glasses), holding a red-bordered book called "Los Vigilantes de R’lyeh", the Spanish translation of R’lyewatch. The cover of the book has a lifeguard facing off against a giant green Cthulhu.

A painting of a woman in a white robe holding a green snake above her head. Here eyes are white and she is in a trance. This is a piece of art from the game Trophy.

A spread from the book Trophy Dark. This is the entry for the incursion "A Warm and Pleasant Hum", and has an image of a man with a crown of bees, as well as the introductory text for the incursion.

A sketchy watercolor painting of a green pig-faced orc.

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 18/10/2024

And here’s the front page of Cosmic Ray Kids!

The black and white front page of the game Cosmic Ray Kids, with lots of retro cartoon art of superhero kids and the basic instructions of the game.

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