Want to tell better ttrpg stories using monsters? Check out MONSTROUS, an "oops, all flavor" book with no statblocks, lavish art, and robust system-agnostic tools that help you craft rich backstories that tie directly into the bad guys' motivations and actions.
Hi! I'm Amber and I'm a part of Cloud Curio. Cloud Curio is a 4 person collective designing tabletop roleplaying game supplements both whimsical and strange. (We also have a tumblr!) Part of that collective is Kyle Latino aka Map Crow. MONSTROUS was an idea that was born from his Building Better Monsters Playlist! All of the art you see in this post is by Kyle Latino!
Create custom monsters that uniquely fit your world with MONSTROUS! MONSTROUS focuses on narrative impact and is compatible with any fantasy roleplaying game.
If this is interesting to you, def check out our Kickstarter page. There are a lot of cool updates showcasing how to use this book and the design process behind it! We also have a lot of free ttrpg supplements on our itch.io page! Thanks for your time and attention!
-Amber
Everything I thought I knew about systems, about what should and shouldn't be possible, has been changed.
I *watched* an Alter system hop. This is someone I trust, who has no interest in syscourse, who has no reason to lie to me, and through grief of losing a partner system split one of that system's alters, same personality and memories.
I've seen Alter Death. Call it long-term dormancy if you want but they never came back.
I've met endos, walk-ins, spiritual origin systems, systems with only two headmates and systems with hundreds.
Putting people in boxes doesn't work, and it restricts our ability to learn, grow, and eventually understand how the brain does... All of that.
There was a water adventure, but now there deserves to be a fire one! I sadly only did a select few of the illustrations due to starting a new job, however, the cover is the best piece I've ever made so like. we pay a price, and as far as I'm aware, some of the best writing Jack's done to date!
But you best ready yourself, because the fire is rising, and we're running out of time.
See under cut for a better synopsis and link
Against the wishes of their teacher, a young mage delves into fell tomes of Deepest Fire. This magic, as ancient as it is terrible, consumes the land in a ceaseless flame.
The survivors, fled from their smoldering home, fight back against primordial fire and twisted beasts. Without aid, they will fall to fires or famine within mere weeks.
The leader of these refugees, the last surviving noble of the land, calls on heroes for aid. Those who can defeat the treacherous mage behind the flames and recover the castle’s lost wealth will be hailed as heroes.
Where Fire Lives is a system-neutral fantasy dungeon delve for mid-to-high-level characters. Venture into Castle Garet to defeat a mad mage and recover the Castellan's wealth. But you must beware: The castle is slowly sinking into a magma chamber and its walls could become your molten tomb!
A 26-room, keyed dungeon, suitable for fantasy TTRPG campaigns and designed to fit into any setting.
Designed primarily for OSR systems.
New monsters and magic items
Includes high-resolution maps, both labelled and unlabeled, by Scott Docherty (Venger's Decks).
Includes an additional digital file of statistics for creatures and magic items for running the adventure in D&D 5e (suitable for 2014 or 2024 rulesets).
A system-neutral fantasy dungeon delve into Castle Garet, a castle sinking into magma.
Bite-Sized Dungeon has been re-released together with all of its scenarios. That means you've got one core system and five complete hexcrawls, including one in which you are hunted by santa.
The core of the Bite-Sized Dungeon engine is that instead of rolling dice, you hold fingers behind your back. It uses only small numbers in order to make the game portable and playable in small chunks.
The five hexcrawls, of course, push in the opposite direction. They're full-featured adventures with random encounters, unique items, and regional monsters. You can play them with Bite-Sized Dungeon, or you can use your favorite dungeon-crawler game to run them instead (they're written system-neutrally and easy to convert.)
The whole shebang is 100+ pages, with bigger fonts, fixed-er typos, and better layout than the previous edition.
Bite-Sized Dungeon Remastered is available for money if you want to spend money for some reason, but it's also free under the Community Copies button.
Typos fixed, adventures included, in its lane flourishing.
A bustling seaside village calling adventure, brimming with stories, and ever-concealing secrets. This is a system-agnostic supplement for your fantasy roleplaying games.
Largshire is not bound by lore, setting, or rulesets. So, come along and meet the folk who bring this little town to life. Packed with NPCs, locations, quest seeds, and secrets, this is the place to start your adventure.
What can you find in the pages of this book?
Secrets and quest hooks for every location
A high-quality digital copy of the Largshire map
A random encounter tables specific to each district in Largshire
17 fleshed-out locations in the town of Largshire each with its own sidequests and secrets
A vast range of NPCs for players to interact with
Now available on DeiveThru RPG!
Largshire - Welcome to Largshire! A bustling seaside village calling adventure, brimming with stories, and ever-concealing secrets
A couple of pages from the waterlogged, gothic sci-fi RPG campaign setting me and Sam have been working on. Set in a city on the verge of rebellion thats being slowly swallowed by the sea. Theres going to be hyrdromancy, ocean-tech powered machinery and mutant mosquitos.
