Spencer Goldade / Monkey's Lunch
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Spencer (he/him). Autistic product & design leader by day, #TTRPG designer and player by night. Bug & Claw coming soon! 🇨🇦🌈🧠 🚯No NFT 🚯No AI
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Layouts coming along!
Art by Hodag!
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A two-page spread from upcoming TTRPG, Bug & Claw.
In The Wilds, games are played by traveling along a path of cards.
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A simple graphic showing rows of cards that converge in and out on branching paths, ultimately starting at one point and ending at another.
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Sad how Facebook trapped a whole generation (or two) of "normies" users. These people will never be able to leave and will use the app their whole life.
I always try and watch all of the Gobelins stuff! They are soooo good.
We can fall in love with mechanics and systems, but everything needs to have a reason to exist in a game, or it can feel bloated. On the flip side, you may spend a long time working on something that ultimately adds little value.

Where do you need to cut?
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Me: Getting upset
Prince: Chases a sunbeam that's being interrupted by shadows of leaves in the trees
Me: Yeah, you’re right

Fur children are everything.
Quick sketch of Madonna in the tiny sketchbook.
She can always tell when we're paying attention to her and hates it, runs away.
tabby cat, looking grumpy, sketched in ink
When planning fiction, a setting, or generally world-building, I think it's important to get down what your "Fundamental ideas" are.

What are the things that are always true?
What are the things that effect everything else?
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Shreds of hope left in the world!
Alex Jones appeal against his $1.4bn fine to Sandy Hook victims who he claimed were committing a hoax has been thrown out.

Now it is time to throw Alex Jones into prison until he pays, or he can spend the next 100,000 years working it off.
Will someone buy me this so I can make a cool Bug & Claw soundtrack? Mmmkay, thx
OP-1 Field, $2896. Very expensive synthesizer with a LOT of capability and portability.
Are you running a Curse of #Strahd or other game set in Barovia? Have some curious players or looking for new ways of keeping things interesting yourself?
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An image of the great vampire, Strahd, sitting on his throne and looking all sexy and sassy.
Diversity and representation can be really important in games and other media. One way I've explored this is with communication. Different languages are often available in TTRPGs but rarely other modes of communicating.
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There was so much force behind my last sneeze that I think I'm a jedi now.
If a character would automatically pass a test regardless of their roll because their attribute score is so high, there is no need to roll. If a situation is not challenging then there should be no test to begin with– Do not overuse attribute tests.
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