Jacob Marks
I love creating games and art in my spare time. Mostly strange OSR and NSR adjacent tabletop rpgs. My ongoing project is the Vaarn Atlas for the excellent ttrpg Vaults of Vaarn.
On bluesky now @jacobmarks.bsky.social.
Help the Chicken Hacker find his buddies before they get cooked!
Adventure
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Cursed Vaults of Vaarn dungeon for levels 1-3
Fight eyeball mutants while orbiting a giant space eye in this old-school dungeon crawler
Role Playing
A short animation from the world of Vaults Of Vaarn
A Vaults Of Vaarn setting with mummified robots and landed meteors.
Find a mystic-gift granting sun spider in the deserts of Vaarn.
A lumberjack and moose filled forestcrawl for Cairn
A Vaults Of Vaarn adventure within an abandoned dune crawler
Descend into a long lost library. Recover secrets to reshape the future.
A variety of tables for Vaults Of Vaarn
A Mörk Borg & Cairn Hack
psychedelic system neutral TTRPG setting filled with tiny floating moons
A Gothic horror RPG pamphlet that uses playing cards
A dumb one page RPG written (almost) entirely within the borders of the page.
One page RPG in which a group of backpackers must escape from a faerie forest before becoming fae themselves
A D10 table for MÖRK BORG containing positive events with a twist
Two new monsters for MÖRK BORG
A rules-light horror RPG that fits on a business card.
This surreal Troika minizine includes a bizarre setting, encounters, and an npc.
A Troika minizine featuring a sinister Film Noir city.
A collection of chess themed enemies for MÖRK BORG
Three Strange Items For Vaults Of Vaarn
My own alternative layout for character generation in the RPG Any Planet Is Earth
Stylistic shooter where every key is a player. Crowd around your keyboard and fight for dominance!
Action
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Contributed To
This is a collection of works I've contributed layout and art to.
Interstellar Science-Fiction Adventure Game
Into the Odd as imagined through pulp Sword & Sorcery.
A Vaults Of Vaarn adventure within an abandoned dune crawler
Descend into a long lost library. Recover secrets to reshape the future.
Minizines
psychedelic system neutral TTRPG setting filled with tiny floating moons
This surreal Troika minizine includes a bizarre setting, encounters, and an npc.
A collection of chess themed enemies for MÖRK BORG
A Troika minizine featuring a sinister Film Noir city.
Jam Video Games
Use a grappling hook to attach components to your ship and navigate around a steam-punk world in your browser.
Platformer
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