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JV West

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Creator of comics, TTRPGs, adult pinup art, weird art, Black Pudding zine, GOZR, The Pool, Doomslakers blog, ZSF. Trans rights are human rights. Human made art ONLY. he/him person. www.jvwest.art Reshare my posts if you like, just be cool about it.

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Nah, don't think so

03.03.2026 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But if you think of hp as luck and fatigue as well as damage, it makes more sense I think. Arrow doesn't have to hit to wear you down. You know?

03.03.2026 19:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Exactly my experience

03.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not bad, just different. Super fun combat dungeon crawler. Not my choice, but pretty well designed.

03.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Drawing of beefy warrior guy with blond hair, helmet, sword, and tight buns.

Drawing of beefy warrior guy with blond hair, helmet, sword, and tight buns.

"I see you looking. Don't worry... it's just a scratch."

03.03.2026 18:10 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Sketch of a possibly pregnant woman lying on a couch looking very tired. Skull on table

Sketch of a possibly pregnant woman lying on a couch looking very tired. Skull on table

I don't remember why I sketched this exhausted pregnant woman.

03.03.2026 14:53 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks!

This looks cool

03.03.2026 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Wax golem. A big triangle shaped figure with lit candles all over it

Wax golem. A big triangle shaped figure with lit candles all over it

Wax golem! Done for @andysolberg.bsky.social lo these many years ago. Still a fave of mine.

02.03.2026 14:55 — 👍 24    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
Ink sketch of a muscular warrior woman in chainmail bikini looking kind of irritated.

Ink sketch of a muscular warrior woman in chainmail bikini looking kind of irritated.

"Why are your ceilings so god damn low?" I'm gonna rip your stupid head off now."

01.03.2026 23:09 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

And to be clear, we never really used it in a negative way. We just said "Hey, you wanna play a shotgun adventure?" and one of us would run it. It was never real pressure, you know? Always fun for those of us who liked to DM.

01.03.2026 23:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks like they started doing that in 2005. And I think the original Delta Green was in the 90s. Since my gaming circle was saying shotgun game as early as 1985-1987, they're probably not connected. But that's a great observation! It probably has similar or same roots? I dunno.

01.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You know I'm born to ink
my inking really stinks
but that's the way I like it baby
I don't wanna sketch forever!
And don't forget the gutters

01.03.2026 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bw drawing of hag profile, long tongue, black eyes

Bw drawing of hag profile, long tongue, black eyes

Give us a kiss

01.03.2026 13:36 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I've used that PO Box since 1994 to trade and sell comics and games and have published it in every book I made since then. But thanks for asking!

01.03.2026 10:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sketchbook drawing of Lemmy in black skull hat and smoking

Sketchbook drawing of Lemmy in black skull hat and smoking

Killed by death. Deaf forever!

01.03.2026 02:26 — 👍 28    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0

As a kid, I often sat silently in my room listening to every sound as my parents fought, hoping it didn't get really bad. My own country has been making me feel like a kid again in the worst way possible.

I hope everyone is ok tonight. I want to keep hoping things will get better soon. I hope.

01.03.2026 01:38 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

It was free art paper! Just haul unneeded printouts from work.

01.03.2026 01:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I definitely am not a typeface nerd. When I see Souvenir, it makes me feel like a kid again. Hard to think of fonts as being dated, but they totally can be.

01.03.2026 01:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Pencil sketch of a plump woman in a plaid dress

Pencil sketch of a plump woman in a plaid dress

Old sketch, c. 1997-1998. Not exactly sure. Drawn on dot matrix printer paper, like almost everything I did back then.

28.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I am curious about the influence of popular books within subcultures. In TTRPGs, AD&D left a big impact and those books used Future, which is a sans. I know for me I love Souvenir because it was used in the 1981 D&D basic books. But outside RPGs, I think Souvenir is kind of a joke?

28.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Pic of a jukebox with CDs. Insert coin, flip through selections, select, enjoy. Play that Hoobastank song 15 times in a row. Start a fight.

Pic of a jukebox with CDs. Insert coin, flip through selections, select, enjoy. Play that Hoobastank song 15 times in a row. Start a fight.

Ah, ok. I'm unfamiliar. It's been a hot minute since I went to bar. I was thinking of this:

28.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This was just a curiosity question, mostly. For my published works, I've very often used Vollkorn. I latched onto it many years ago and it kind of stuck with me.

28.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh yeah, I like Fira Sans a lot!

I'm mostly using Liberation Sans on my docs right now. Not necessarily for publication, just my own personal docs.

28.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow. It's been part of my lexicon since I was 15. I guess it was just something in the coterie of gamers I was with. Probably my old friend DM picked it up from guys he learned the game from. I dunno. I've used it in blog posts and replies so I probably confused people once or twice.

28.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sans or Serif?

28.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

One of my favorite artists I've discovered just by random algorithmic Insta shenannigens.

28.02.2026 12:18 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I love her art so much.

28.02.2026 12:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

For a moment I thought "head home and party" was new slang for doing dishes.

28.02.2026 12:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think the term originates with "shotgun wedding", which is where a guy is forced to marry the girl he knocked up while her father holds a shotgun. The implication is you don't really have a choice, but you're a GM, so you gotta do it.

Is this common lingo or just regional?

28.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Any other #TTRPG players say "shotgun game" for a sudden, low prep game session? Like your friend Willy comes over and says "hey run something tonight" and you had no plans to but you come up with something as if a shotgun is held against your head. I picked it up from other gamers in the 80s.

28.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 6    📌 0