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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.

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.

Kenny, the designer, wrote about that in his blog post about Making Monstrous!

MONSTROUS is the GM's go-to reference for telling better TTRPG stories through monsters. As an "oops, all flavor" book, there are no stat blocks. In it, Kyle "Map Crow" Latino’s lavish illustrations bring to life dozens of classic monsters from myth, legend, and high-fantasy RPGs.

The bad guys in this book have been remixed by the designers at Cloud Curio so their rich backstories tie directly into their motivations and actions. With our book’s robust system agnostic tools, you can build a campaign around them or drop them into an existing one.

Additionally, each type of monster will have a workbook page that Game Managers can use to design their own versions of these flavorful monsters for their homebrew games. MONSTROUS focuses on flavor and narrative impact and is compatible with any fantasy roleplaying game.

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 don’t know many Ryuutama scenarios, my publishing company @cloudcurio is currently crowdfunding 2 homebrew-ready, system-neutral adventures and one of them was originally a Ryuutama module/adventure! Sleeping Heart of the Garden was written 5 years ago and ran a lot using Ryuutama.

We designed these adventures to be pretty easy to adapt to any game of your choosing.

The example above uses Ryuutama!

And here’s a video of me briefly explaining how these adventures are set up:

I’d love to make more short videos on home-brewing and Ryuutama if I have enough encouragement for it! So please follow @cloudcurio on insta or twitter as well for future updates. I also have about 6 other scenarios I could write for Ryuutama as well!