Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications

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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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Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· 4d

I commissioned @rmrondel.itch.io to design a 100% Human Em-Dashes badge so that you can proudly let your audience know that your tasteful (or excessive) use of em-dashes is a purely human endeavor. It's under CC-BY-SA 4.0, so anyone can use or remix it for free! rmrondel.itch.io/emdash-ergo-...

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jul 8

I can toggle whether I want to see nudity, but apparently I can't toggle whether I want to see... what? Swearing? Insulting one of the Bluesky developers?

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jul 8

I am not five years old. How do I turn this off?

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jun 10

4) Revenue sharing. This is a huge one. So many big collaborations rely on it, and since Itch doesn't support that, it limited those products to DTRPG. Note: I've yet to use this here. 5) Some nice little bells and whistles. Custom purchase text and subtext, contributors front and center, etcetera.

Screenshot of custom purchase text and subtext. The purchase text is "Purchase the Kobolds!" and the subtext is "If not friend, why friend shaped?".

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· May 24

Do you love goblins, and want them to remain a threat as your heroes level up? Do you want to throw (literally, in one case) a bunch of weird little dudes at your heroes? Well then boy do I have the product for you! Reinforcements: Goblins is out now! pestopublications.itch.io/reinforcemen...

Goblin belcher stat block. It's a level 3 horde hexer with an area fire breath attack, a concussive burp that knocks both the target and the goblin back, and a death explosion.

Goblin swarmer and goblin nosebreaker stat blocks. The swarmer is a level 3 minion ambusher with an attack that allows other swarmers to surround the hero. The nosebreaker is a level 4 minion brute that inflicts bleeding if the target is winded either before or from their attack.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· May 21

Name your fav TV show starring a woman. QI!

Sandi Toksvig, mid-laugh, on the set of QI, which she has hosted since 2016.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· May 5

Also, you can pick up the Kobold Ancestry, my first solo release for Draw Steel, as an add-on for 25% off retail!

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· May 5

Weapons of Lore was originally created for 5e. I converted all of the leveled and cursed weapons for Draw Steel, and designed a bunch of implements and gloves from scratch so that the casters and nulls would have some new toys too. Here are the original authors whose work I converted:

Screenshot of the text: "Weapon Design: Bianca Bickford, Chad M. Lensch, Chant Evans, Chris Bissette, Dale Critchley, Daniel Kahn, E. R.
F. Jordan, Ethan Yen, Graham Ward, Greg Marks, Jamie Flecknoe, J. A. Headley, Jeff C. Stevens, Jeff Mueller, Joe Raso, Jon Hook, Kari Jo “Kage” Freudigmann, Kelly Pawlik, Meaghan J, Michael Spredemann, Mosey, Richard Green, Ross Leiser, Skeeter Green, Spencer Hibnick, T.M. van Dalen"

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Apr 24

How it started vs how it ended

Snip from a stat block. The ability lets the monster throw an ally at a hero, dealing collision damage.

Snip of feedback from testing. The monster threw the mount they were riding on at the hero, with them still on the mount.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Apr 23

Is there a way to turn this off? If someone posts 3 images, I want to see... 3 images. Not 2⅕ images.

Screenshot of a Bluesky post where the artist posted three images of their stock art, below some text advertising said art. Only a small amount of the third image is visible, with the rest out of the post border unless you click on the image directly.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Apr 20

Someone already got the best one...

Screenshot of text: "Me Flortles!" -Flortles

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Apr 12

My style sheet is an unmitigated disaster.

Screenshot of Microsoft Word 2019. In the center is the stat block from the previous post. On the right is a list of dozens of styles, indicating that the formatting is a giant mess.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Apr 12

Case in point: this monster for an upcoming project. (Hot off the presses - untested and possibly riddled with errors.) If you want to hear more about said project when it's announced later this month, join my Discord: discord.com/invite/bdt4t...

A draw steel stat block for a goblin belcher. They have a fire breath attack, a concussive burp maneuver, and when they die, they explode.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Apr 1

Did a double-take at the nearly identical silhouettes.

Screenshot of Bluesky with a post from Elena Zimina with her illustration of Data from Star Trek right above a post of Gianmarco Soresi doing stand up. They have nearly identical silhouettes.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Mar 29

Made this thinking about one artist that did work for Flee Mortals, but there are a lot of great artists that have seemingly dropped off the face of the earth lately. Hope you're all doing okay.

A bugs bunny meme where he's in a tux starting at the viewer with a wry look. It says "I wish all the artists I follow on Bluesky that don't post anymore a very I hope you're still alive".

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Mar 15

My players really know how to fill me with dread. #drawsteel

Screenshot of a Discord ping saying "have you guys banned opening a portal into the ocean yet?"

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jan 30

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...

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.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jan 28

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...

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.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jan 28

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. 🧵

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".

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jan 24

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

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

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jan 20

Sue Perkins

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Dec 9

Want.

Image of the world ender die, an oversized 20-sided d10 with a hollow center and a model of a dragon inside the center.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Nov 21

The World Could Always Use More Kobolds

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Sep 5

Altered version of the Shen comic.
Panel 1: One scowling person to another "See, there's the problem with Dungeons & Dragons these days. All these tourists."
Panel 2: The speaker from panel 1 yells at a guy with messy hair, an anime-style blue coat, and a catgirl bag "Hey do you like Dungeons & Dragons?"
Panel 3: The messy hair guy replies "No". In much smaller text, it says "But it's the only thing everyone at the table was willing to play."
Panel 4: The speaker from panel 1, looking nervously to their companion outside of the panel, says "Alright nevermind that one's legit."

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Sep 4

Itch has finally paid me.

Screenshot from Itch's dashboard, showing that I was paid two payouts after 46 and 16 days respectively.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Aug 15

Why yes, the only way I can convince myself to do marketing is to turn it into a shitpost. How did you know?

Screenshot of the web address for the backerkit page. It has the reference tag "I can put basically anything here and it doesn't matter. It's just data. Break free and embrace your inner kobold."

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jul 27

Itch lets creators set their cut. I changed it to 0% when they started delisting LGBTQ content (let's call a spade a spade). Itch responded by turning all of my info panels greyscale. Looks like when my bandwidth frees up, I'll track down that Rising Tide talk about setting up your own storefront.

Screenshot of the back end of Itch.io. Typically, this would be in full color, but it's now in greyscale.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jul 11

Clip from TV news with the text "Zohran Mamdani's Socialist Promises" above a photo of Zohran. To the right of the photo, I blacked out the original list of promises and replaced it with "Kobolds".

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jun 28

This is what my 5e (2014) stat blocks look like. Close to the Monster Manual, but with some formatting stripped out. It fits my products' style better, and more importantly, I was able to build this into my Microsoft Word template (I do my own layout in Word), which means my products actually ship.

Monster stat block for D&D 5e. Compared to the official design from the 2014 Monster Manual, this doesn't have background texture, lines dividing the sections, or multiple colors of text. All of the gameplay elements of a standard stat block are still in the same place, with close to the same formatting, however.

Spencer Hibnick | Pesto Publications@pestoenthusiast· Jun 27

Do I know anyone that's played around with @speakthesky.itch.io's Dicier font? I'm curious whether it can be used to create approximations of the Draw Steel tier icons. Having those as a font would make third-party releases (especially those without professional layout software) so much easier.