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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.

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

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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.

Cloud Curio is a 4 person collective designing tabletop roleplaying game supplements both whimsical and strange. Part of that collective is Kyle Latino aka Map Crow. MONSTROUS was an idea that was born from his Building Better Monsters Playlist! 

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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.

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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.

Cloud Curio is a 4 person collective designing tabletop roleplaying game supplements both whimsical and strange. Part of that collective is Kyle Latino aka Map Crow. MONSTROUS was an idea that was born from his Building Better Monsters Playlist! 

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New in store!! Journals!! Perfect for solo ttrpgs or you know, regular journaling 😝 #stationery #shopsmall #smallbusinessowner #bulletjournal #journaling #diary #notebooks #bujo #bloomingtonindiana #ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons (at Bloomington, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqgCUFArv2-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Too windy today for the sign to be outside :C it already blew over once 😬 but we are open til 6 pm today!! artists pictured @onesleepybeetle and @rocketorca_art #shopsmall #smallbusiness #smallbusinessowner #bloomingtonindiana #localartists #indieartists #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #goblins #gifts #giftideas (at Bloomington, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqgACrar4ML/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Pssst. You got any Ryuutama scenarios you can recommend? Or tips for homebrew?

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!

Thanks for inquiring!

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Cloud Curio's first ever crowdfunding campaign is live until March 12th! We're creating 2 home-brew ready, system-neutral ttrpg adventure zines.

Broken Heart of the Castle is a gothic fantasy steeped in mystery, romance, & tragedy. Sleeping Heart of the Garden is a a pastoral fantasy filled w ith exploration, discovery, & ritual.

We've already fully funded so we are ready to get these pdfs completed and zines printed! We have only 2 stretch goals and we're coming up on the first one soon! We're a tiny company of only 4 people so it would be wonderful to get more eyes on our first big project.

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Greetings, traveler!

art by @mapcrow

Welcome to the Cloud Curio, your destination for wondrous items of all kinds!

Step right up to my humble shop, and don’t mind the cloud sprites, they’re perfectly harmless. What can I get for you today, my friend? I have all manner of wonders great and small on offer.

Look here, a bestselling novel that happens to be written by a future version of you. And here we have a Scroll of Concretizing, very useful for combating ethereal beasts or abstract ideas. Where did I leave the Origami City? A sprite folded it up into a secret drawer no doubt. Or perhaps you’re seeking a greater challenge? I happen to have a sale on this Rose Garden Sphinx, quite fresh. Ha! Very good!

An explorer such as yourself must always be in the market for a dream. Everything in my store is ready-to-use in any quest you might find yourself on, though I do include special instructions with each product on how to use it should you encounter a Dungeon or a Dragon, one can’t be too careful you know.

Not to worry, my friend! I’m sure my wagon and I will find our way here again soon…

Cloud Curio is a TTRPG publishing company focusing on the whimsical, wondrous, and weird. Amber Seger and Kenny Webb began conceptualizing this project in December 2021 and what started as a small personal endeavor began to quickly evolve into something much larger.

As they planned, they realized they lacked certain sets of skills and also…starting a company with two people ain’t easy! Thankfully they were able to recruit two amazingly talented and wonderful people, Sally Tamarkin and Kyle Latino. With those additions to the team, the Cloud Curio Crew was fully formed!

So what is Cloud Curio producing? You can look forward to a Table Top Babble podcast interview of the Cloud Curio Crew and long-form biography blog posts of the Crew!

Cloud Curio releases content every other week. Much of our content will be small releases. They can be any one of the following types (as of now):

Item

Monster

NPC

Plot Hook

Spell

Weapon

All of our releases are designed to be system neutral with optional ready-to-use D&D 5e rules.

Accessibility, usability, inclusion, and diversity are also built into our overall design ethos. This means all of our art will have alt-text, we will have printer-friendly options, the graphic design is built on user-experience principles, and as we grow and fill the Cloud Curio, we will strive to be a place that brings different voices and perspectives to the TTRPG industry.

Sign up for our newsletter, the Cloud Courier, to stay current with updates and new releases!

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