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StatMonkey <Rotted Tropicz>

@thestatmonkey

He/him, ADHD-fueled caffeine gremlin. Half engineer, half TTRPG designer, part-time streamer, full-time chaos. Ask me about HVAC design or zombie superheroes.... same vibe, different dice.

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Maho Maho was blood magic, fueled by the power of fresh blood and sacrifice, and drew from the sixth element: corruption. The use of maho Tainted the users forever linking them to Fu Leng and Jigoku. It ca...

l5r.fandom.com/wiki/Maho

Your welcome

09.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lol..... well if you know L5R lore you know... thats.. bad.. very very very bad

09.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#RottedTropicz

Tomorrow our heroes come face-to-face with an abomination.

Somewhere beyond the ruins, someone was signaling with a mirror.

Was it Carlos?
And if so… why is he locked inside that building?

Tomorrow – 8PM EST
StatMonkeyPresents on Twitch & YouTube

#RottedCapes #ActualPlay #TTRPG

09.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Depends, I commonly dont play myself, I did for a l5r game and it hit a little too close to home.. especially with the current situation where my wife is practicing blood magic and I have to choose between her and the honor of my clan and how her being exposed will stain the honor of our children.

09.03.2026 12:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Rules Matter: In Defense of 7th Sea’s Risk System I moved this post from my old website, seeing the new 7th sea is about to drop on Kickstarter I thought it was a good time to do so..... anyways…

I posted this a while ago on my old blog site, but the @7thsea3e.bsky.social facebook page shared it!! so I thought I would move it over to my new blog's page...

Incase you missed it

thestatmonkey.com/blog/why-rul...

#TTRPG, #Blog, #StatMonkey, #GameDesign

05.03.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming soon: Rotted Capes: Second Bite The World Didn't End with a Bang, but with a BITE! Rotted Capes: Second Bite is the new edition of the superhero-horror RPG.

#LoreThursday

The Florida Keys didn’t collapse the way cities did.

Islands turned into enclaves.
Bridges became choke points.
Water became leverage.

What does your apocalypse look like?

tinyurl.com/RottedCapes2b

#RottedCapes #Worldbuilding #TTRPG #IndieRPG

05.03.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lol.....

04.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#WIPWednesday

I’ve wrestled with how hard Rotted Capes should lean into survival

So I built an optional Resource Scarcity module.

Not bookkeeping. Not spreadsheets

Roll when it counts. Feel the squeeze

It’s your apocalypse.

thestatmonkey.com/blog/scarcit...

#RottedCapes #TTRPGDesign #IndieRPG

04.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#RottedTropicz

Deadheads drift through sun-bleached streets of Marathon Key, and somewhere inside that silence is Old Man Carlos.

Tonight the crew goes in to find him, hope its not too late.

8 PM EST /StatMonkeyPresents on Twitch & YouTube

#RottedCapes #ActualPlay #TTRPG #ZombieApocalypse

03.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#RottedTropicz

Tonight the crew goes into Marathon Key to find old man Carlos before its too late.

Live Now - 8pm EST, StatMonkeyPresents on Twitch & YouTube

#LiveNow #RottedCapes #ActualPlay #TTRPG #ZombieApocalypse

03.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#MonsterMonday

Simon Blackwell survived a cave collapse
The Molindur healed him, made him something more

Then he got Z'd

Now Blackstalk rules Centennial Park
vines as weapons, impaled heroes as warnings

Rotted Capes 2nd Edition
tinyurl.com/RottedCapes2b

#RottedCapes #SuperZ #TTRPG #RPGHorror

02.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow... love composition here, the choice of colors.... nice

28.02.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#RottedTropics is taking a break this week..

But we'll be back next week..

Same tropical time same tropical channels...

#RottedCapes, #ActuralPlay, #TTRPPG

24.02.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#Ttrpg design question

Charatcer sheets..how do you feel about a section for character portrait... I have on on my #RottedCapes charatcer sheet, but wondering if its "needed" as it eats up a lot of room.

What do you all think?

23.02.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Love your style!!!

23.02.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@ravnosarchon.bsky.social better?

23.02.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#RottedCapes

New Character Sheet in Progress

#TTRPG #GameDesign

21.02.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The other idea was more "doing what I know" and make it a tech readout, but with blood splatter and smudge overlay.

19.02.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have no idea if InDesign can do that, maybe i need to draw some of it by hand and scan it in? Or find a comic book artist to create a layout i can fill in with text.

19.02.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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I tried to give the Rotted Capes 2nd Bite character sheet a comic-book look.

Right now? I don’t think it works.

It’s not bad. It’s just not right. And β€œalmost” isn’t good enough.

Thinking about a full redesign.

Would love your thoughts.

#RottedCapes #TTRPGDesign #IndieRPG

19.02.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow.... nice!!!!

19.02.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming soon: Rotted Capes: Second Bite The World Didn't End with a Bang, but with a BITE! Rotted Capes: Second Bite is the new edition of the superhero-horror RPG.

Today’s trending word seems to be: trust.

In Rotted Capes, trust is the rarest resource in any enclave.
Lose it once, and walls fall faster than zombies can push.

That’s not horror. That’s politics.

Get Alerted at Launch
tinyurl.com/RottedCapes2b

#TTRPG #IndieRPG

18.02.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Next on #RottedTropicz

Water is power

The Barrel Men of Stirrup Key turned rain into survival, and that into an advantage.

They’ll trade.

Tonight 8 PM EST - Twitter & YouTube
/StatMonkeyPresents

#RottedCapes #ActualPlay #TTRPG #ZombieApocalypse

17.02.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#MonsterMonday

Puppeteer doesn’t kill you first
He makes you doubt the person next to you

Your friend suddenly takes a swing at your head
Then your other friend's brain starts bleed out of their ears

Rotted Capes 2nd Edition KS
tinyurl.com/RottedCapes2b

#RottedCapes #TTRPG #RPGHorror #IndieRPG

16.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#SundayThoughts

Rotted Capes isn’t about stopping the apocalypse.
It’s about deciding what still matters after it already happened.

That question should come up at the table more than once.

#RottedCapes Kickstarter Soon
tinyurl.com/RottedCapes2b

#TTRPG #IndieRPG

16.02.2026 04:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just didnt like 4e because it felt to "todos tenemos" everyone had an attack that delt X and Y.... also magic no longer allowed you think out of the box....the box was too clearly defined. Some see it as a weakness but the vagueness of some of the old rules was an advantage in a way.

15.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#GMAdvice

The fastest way to kill horror is to explain it.

Describe what’s happening.
Let players decide what it means.

tinyurl.com/RottedCapes2b

#TTRPG #IndieRPG

15.02.2026 04:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming soon: Rotted Capes: Second Bite The World Didn't End with a Bang, but with a BITE! Rotted Capes: Second Bite is the new edition of the superhero-horror RPG.

#FollowFriday

No closed doors here.
Rules drafts, design calls, playtest scars, all of it’s part of the process.

If you like seeing games built in the open, you’re welcome here.

tinyurl.com/RottedCapes2b

#IndieRPG #TTRPGCommunity #RPGDesign

14.02.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#LoreThursday

Most survivors don’t die on the road because of the dead.

They die because they trusted the wrong living people at the wrong stop.

The zombies just make the cleanup easier.

#RottedCapes, Be alerted at launch
tinyurl.com/RottedCapes2b

#PostApocalypse #TTRPG

13.02.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#WIPWednesday

One big design shift in Rotted Capes: Skillsets over granular skills.

Skill Sets describes what your hero does. It's up to you to choose how you use it.

Fewer checklists. Stronger fiction.

Rotted Capes 2nd Edition KS:
tinyurl.com/RottedCapes2b

#TTRPGDesign #GameDesign #IndieRPG

12.02.2026 03:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0