After yesterday's deep-dive on the ACA, I can boil down mounds of rules to this simple bottom-line: self-employed/small business folks purchasing health insurance on the Marketplace, if your income is more than 400% of the poverty level (FPL) you are totally screwed if you don't at least break 500%.

Because I *like* paying royalties to folks at the end of each month, and we're reaaaaly close to a fun number for @jfzeigler.bsky.social's upcomng payment, I'd love to sell two more hardcopy books before the first. Or four PDFs off the Ad Astra website. :) www.adastragames.com/products/arc...

We found a novel solution to our health insurance affordability issues. Insurance becomes affordable and we'll have more spending money if we cut our income roughly in HALF. This is truly the strangest world I have ever known.

I love this gorgeous hand-made knife my beloved gave me for Christmas. It is definitely my favorite knife ever! What an amazing work of art.

Count your blessings if you live in a place w/ healthcare based on health instead of profit. 2026 health insurance for 2 healthy people is $25k/yr w/ $15k deductible. That's the low premium plan.

The next potential adventure is slowly forming out of the tropical elemental mists. Will it gather enough mana to achieve solidity? Or will it disperse and drift elsewhere? 👁️ 👁️

Crap. And just like that... I'm a Wordpress developer... again. <sigh> Just when I thought I was out...

Been working on the Firefly freighter #battlemap for #FoundryVTT again. Finally getting to building out the bridge. Made w/Dungeondraft and assets from @forgotten-adventures.net and Hellscape.

The next time I play myself in an end-world game I've got my character portrait and VTT token ready. 🙂 Fun with HeroForge...

Built my first Compendium for #FoundryVTT this morning. It was easier than I thought. Now to see if my buddy can install & use it on his Foundry rig.

New release alert! GURPS Hot Spots: Istanbul, 1453-1703 A.D. is now available in PDF on Warehouse 23. Packed with history, culture, and advice, this sourcebook will help you plan your next RPG adventure in this mighty capital. bit.ly/gurpsistanbul #gurps #ttrpg #stevejacksongames #playsjgames

The GURPS summer sale isn’t over just yet, but it will be soon. For the next three days, you’ll have one last chance at the most popular titles from our essentials and each Deal of the Day! bit.ly/gurpssummers... #ttrpg #gurps #tabletopgames #stevejacksongames #playsjgames

The quest to get it right is often brutal, messy, & filled with course corrections. WIP #battlemap for a Firefly-inspired #GURPS game. Built w/ #Dungeondraft & assets from @forgotten-adventures.net & HellScape.

It's great fun living next to national forest. This morning we had a bobcat in our backyard. What a lovely creature! ❤️ Enjoy your breakfast my friend!

Trying something new. Working on a #battlemap of a Firefly space freighter for an upcoming #GURPS game. This old girl is a bit of a rust bucket atm. With luck & elbow grease she'll shape up. Here's the Engine Room. #Dungeondraft Assets by @forgotten-adventures.net & HellScape.

Today's deals expand the magic systems in your world! Learn to harness the elements, perform rituals, craft elixirs, and more with GURPS Magic and Thaumatology books. bit.ly/gurpssummers... #ttrpg #gurps #tabletopgames #stevejacksongames #playsjgames

This month, we're celebrating the depth of our GURPS roleplaying system with summer savings at Warehouse 23! Right now, you can get 15% off everything you need to get your worldbuilding started. And be sure to follow us – new deals start next week! bit.ly/gurpssummers...

Part 2 of the Steve Jackson Games Pyramid Volume 3 Bundle of Holding is now live! Issues 61-122 can be downloaded for just $49.95, a savings of over 90%, now through July 28. Head over to the Bundle of Holding website to snag all 122 issues at their biggest ever discount today! bit.ly/bohpyramid2

I just backed Blood of Seven Queens #3-5 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ecc...

Yes, you need to ditch the prologue (probably). But that's not the only mistake making your lore drops feel... awkward and clunky. Janet reveals the top 4 most common exposition errors - PLUS, how to fix them! youtu.be/z8FedteY33w

Last Train to Bremen is LIVE on BackerKit! Your band of doomed musicians made a deal with the Devil and are now stuck in a boxcar trying to outrun your fate. Will anyone make it out alive, or will your past catch up with you? Make your pledge today on BackerKit! bit.ly/bremen_bk #possumcreek

It's the final day of the Steve Jackson Games Steampunk Day sale! Don't miss your last chance to save 15% on select GURPS and Munchkin Steampunk titles. Fly your Zeppelin over to Warehouse 23! warehouse23.com/collections/... #boardgames #gurps #ttrpg #stevejacksongames #playmunchkin #playsjgames

Designing & building a #FoundryVTT interactive landing page for the new Wardlands Campaign in the world of Ehrto. I ❤️ working with Matt's Active Tile Triggers.

Steampunk Day may not be until June 14, but our sale starts NOW! You can save 15% on our selection of GURPS and Munchkin Steampunk titles, plus unique dice featuring debossed sprockets as pips. The sale runs only until June 18, so visit Warehouse 23 today! warehouse23.com/collections/...

Working on the new #GURPS Wardlands Campaign set in the world of Ehrto. Today I'm designing and building out the campaign Timeline at #Worldanvil. Set at the edge of "civilized" lands, this campaign will feature more Action and Monsters than my other ongoing games. I'm enjoying the darker mood. 🖤

I'm staring to use #FoundryVTT as a #Worldbuilding tool as much as a virtual tabletop these days. With macros that generate random dates/names, calculate date offsets, quickly search for #GURPS defaults, & the like - I'm routinely finding new ways to use this tool. I'm even building maps in Foundry!

Oh, the horror and pain of wasting your critical success on a Cooking roll! 😆 #GURPS

What was Los Angeles like pre-freeway? 🚙🚕🚗 Recently digitized, a detailed hand-drawn created by "the only woman map publisher in the country" lets us time-travel to 1927, before the widespread adoption of automobiles: gty.art/4kvZs1l

Making & organizing Macros in #FoundryVTT this morning to make running my #GURPS games more efficient. Also made some minor adjustments to the formatting of number labels on the Hotbar via custom CSS.

Recently asked for advice across my social media & out of 1000s of views, I got 2 replies. While I appreciated those 2 replies, they didn't help. After 2 days I asked ChatGPT and got good answers with examples in under 60 seconds. Why do I use AI? Because it doesn't ignore me & is usually helpful.

💡Did you know WORLDBUILDING can be an amazing tool to help manage STORY PACING? 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Here are 5 FAST & EASY tips to help you layer in essential exposition, action, and character beats, while keeping people engaged (but not exhausted!) 1/2

Massive congratulations to Tracy & Laura Hickman on the release of SKYRAIDERS! 🥳 The game is JUST BEAUTIFUL 😍 (and powered by World Anvil)!

Working to build a Player Primer for my game world & trying to define base requirements for what to include. Goal: have enough info to build a character & share a basic intro. Anyone have an example of a simple Player Primer or checklist of the min requirements for this? #TTRPG #GURPS #Worldbuilding

I made dis! 🙌✨

Happy office mate.

"Better Than Earth": a beautiful article in Scientific American about exoplanets deemed more habitable than Earth, illustrated by Ron Miller. personal.tcu.edu/dingram/bett...

Hello Bluesky and #TTRPG players. I will be running four #GURPS games at #Momocon this year called “ Fantastical Fun House.” Do you have what it takes to be a circus freak? If you’re attending, sign up here: warhorn.net/events/momoc...

It's the final day to shop our intergalactic National Space Day sale! Save big on GURPS and Transhuman Space titles, plus Star Munchkin, Munchkin Starfinder, unique dice, and more. Blast off to Warehouse 23 at the link below! bit.ly/spaceday2025

EMERGENCY COMMISSION SALE! Happy #ttrpgrising #ttrpgcommunity! I need your help! I may not make rent this month, or next. So I am doing a 20% off sale of my map commissions! If not, retweets help too! <3 #dnd #dndmap #ttrpg #battlemap #commission #commissionsopen #commissions

Free Foundry VTT Map Modules?! 🙀🎊 For a limited time, you can hit the link below and get 3 of my Foundry map modules completely free! #battlemap #ttrpg #FVTT www.patreon.com/post...#battlemap

One of our #GURPS games is more about politics, intrigue, mysteries, & exploration. There's a castle, followers, retainers, & businesses. It involves a fair bit of accounting & commercial RP. Tracking that stuff can be a challenge. Using #FoundryVTT inventory sheets & loot journals works well.

I think the new approach to dealing with shadows is going to work well. But it will require that I make some changes to how I build battlemaps to make it more efficient. Here's prototypes/WIP of the Eastwatch #battlemap. Made w/ #Dungeondraft & assets by @forgotten-adventures.net .

Back to working on the Eastwatch #battlemap today. Getting ready to try a new approach to dealing with trees and shadows. If the results don't suck, I'll share more this evening. WIP. Made w/ #Dungeondraft & assets by @forgotten-adventures.net.

Looking for Sci-fi battlemaps? Here's your chance to pick some up at a big discount.

It's National Space Day, and most of our space-themed RPGs and games are on sale! Choose between GURPS and Transhuman Space PDFs, Star Munchkin and Munchkin Starfinder sets, or grab them all! And don't forget about Triplanetary. The sale ends May 8 – only on Warehouse 23! bit.ly/spaceday2025

Honoured to guest-write for the award-winning "Writers in the Storm" blog! 🥰😱 I wrote about the Triangle of Power: My own method for rebalancing ANY ability or technology in your setting - from cell phones to warp drives to magic! 🔗 writersinthestormblog.com/2025/05/is-y...

Worldbuilder's Disease: That feeling when you spend more time designing fictional magic systems than actually writing your story! 🌍✨ 1/4

Join Janet and the AMAZING Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries - coming soon to Apple TV) as they discuss how to write fantastic factions! 🎙️ Listen Now Part 1: worldanvil.libsyn.co... Part 2: worldanvil.libsyn.co... 2/2

This handsome and healthy fella is 16 years old today. Happy birthday Lucius! He's the bright orange kitten on the top of the pile in the first photo. Born to Trinity, who left us some years ago. One of the few familiars I've known since their birth. ❤️

GURPS Magical Styles: Traditional Styles is now available! This book explores five versions of wizardry with spell lists and all-new spells, plus suggested ways to blend magic into both fantasy and modern-world campaigns. Download the PDF today on Warehouse 23! warehouse23.com/products/gur...