jess

@jessfromonline

jess. award-winning TTRPG designer as @JumpgateGames. jewish lesbian. marxist. freelancing available. scifi author, stories in @clarkesworld. she/her ☭

Pittsburgh, PA jessfrom.online Joined April 2015

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jess @jessfromonline Apr 16, 2025

if it hasn't been obvious, i don't use this site anymore, because, y'know, owned by an honest to god in-power fascist, but: here's where else you can find me.

BIG announcement coming next week 04-23-25, but it won't be announced here. any of those urls will get you it, though!

jess @jessfromonline Jan 16, 2025

the other day i was putting on my P100 mask and i couldn't figure out why it felt like there was a lump in the rubber on the chin section.

i reached into the fold-over lip, and there was a d6 tucked into it. felt like an absolute parody of a TTRPG designer in that moment.

jess @jessfromonline Oct 24, 2024

got shit from the TSA @ the millimeter wave scanner for my P100 mask for the 1st (after ~3 times no issue!)

gently insisted it was no metal, flexible, & i’m ~immunocompromised until they put me through & brought a supervisor, scanned my hands, and then i offered (cont.)

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jess @jessfromonline Jan 14, 2025

Crucible of Aether is a v cool TTRPG 🎲 w/ a rich setting & a clever progression mechanic—succeeding on skill checks ranks up that skill, creating v interesting organic (narrative!) character growth. it’s been SO fun to play.

plus im a stretch goal writer! check it out! 🔗⬇️

picture of the book cover and example spread with a variety of anthropomorphic furry fantasy creatures

jess @jessfromonline Jan 10, 2025

SO excited this is live! Alone Among the Stars was a joy to play & i feel so much fondness for my bi̶o̶l̶o̶g̶i̶s̶t̶botanist.

if you want hear me explore weird alien biospheres & get WAY too into describing all the flora/fauna b/c i've been reading the Mars trilogy, listen ASAP!!

folio: a solo & epistolary TTRPGs podcast @foliopod Jan 10, 2025

👩‍🚀 EPISODE ONE of ALONE AMONG THE STARS with @jessfromonline & @Dustehill 👩‍🚀

starting the year with one of the most iconic solo games of all time-- witness the surreal interplanetary journeys of

👩‍🔬 a botanist
🤠 a space cowboy
🏖 a time loop chaser

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jess @jessfromonline Jan 8, 2025

won a commander game off a Chance for Glory with my Aurelia the Warleader deck the other week and it felt. So Good. it's not a good card but its such a FUN card. Chance for Gloried into a destruction board wipe into 2 turns of Aurelia commander damage to end the last player lol.

Creatures you control gain indestructible. Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn’s end step, you lose the game.