Spencer Goldade / Monkey's Lunch
@monkeyslunch.bsky.social
Spencer (he/him).
Autistic product & design leader by day, #illustrator and #TTRPG desiger by night. Bug & Claw coming soon!
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🚯No NFT 🚯No AI
Autistic product & design leader by day, #illustrator and #TTRPG desiger by night. Bug & Claw coming soon!
🇨🇦🌈🧠
🚯No NFT 🚯No AI
#Saltmarsh and the surrounding areas are ripe for extended exploration, adventure, and storytelling. Why stop at the Ghosts of Saltmarsh when you can spin up new adventures filled with peril, mystery, and treasure?
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December 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#Saltmarsh and the surrounding areas are ripe for extended exploration, adventure, and storytelling. Why stop at the Ghosts of Saltmarsh when you can spin up new adventures filled with peril, mystery, and treasure?
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You can follow me on the internet but that's where it ends. Stop following me home. It's scaring the cats.
December 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
You can follow me on the internet but that's where it ends. Stop following me home. It's scaring the cats.
Reposted by Spencer Goldade / Monkey's Lunch
Santa -is- real. He's you every time you perform tiny acts of joy.
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Santa -is- real. He's you every time you perform tiny acts of joy.
Did you know arthropods shed their exoskeletons as they grow? It's a process called ecdysis, but most of us just call it moulting. It's also how characters level up, pass time, evolve, or mutate in #ttrpg Bug & Claw!
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December 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Did you know arthropods shed their exoskeletons as they grow? It's a process called ecdysis, but most of us just call it moulting. It's also how characters level up, pass time, evolve, or mutate in #ttrpg Bug & Claw!
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What do you do when the party has trouble committing?
Sometimes you have to "bump" them back into focus.
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Sometimes you have to "bump" them back into focus.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
What do you do when the party has trouble committing?
Sometimes you have to "bump" them back into focus.
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Sometimes you have to "bump" them back into focus.
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Madonna's favourite day. Prince? Not so much.
I hope all of your seasons have been happily greased!
I hope all of your seasons have been happily greased!
December 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Madonna's favourite day. Prince? Not so much.
I hope all of your seasons have been happily greased!
I hope all of your seasons have been happily greased!
For years the populace of Patient Watch avoids Stagbay proper because of a giant shrew living nearby, biding their time until they can take it and its kin down for good-- which is where their namesake comes from.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
For years the populace of Patient Watch avoids Stagbay proper because of a giant shrew living nearby, biding their time until they can take it and its kin down for good-- which is where their namesake comes from.
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IMHO If you’re designing TTRPGs for 2026, the interesting pressure isn’t “how do I be bigger?” it’s “how do I be specific?”
December 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
IMHO If you’re designing TTRPGs for 2026, the interesting pressure isn’t “how do I be bigger?” it’s “how do I be specific?”
A season's greason is upon us
December 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A season's greason is upon us
In The Wilds, games are played by traveling along a path of cards.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In The Wilds, games are played by traveling along a path of cards.
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2025 #TTRPG brainworms:
🫥 GM-less structures
🌊 Eco-horror and climate stories
👩🏻🌾 Non-European fantasy that isn’t just palette-swapped feudalism
🥰 Small, focused games that hit one feeling on purpose
What’s a system or genre you wish more people were talking about right now?
🫥 GM-less structures
🌊 Eco-horror and climate stories
👩🏻🌾 Non-European fantasy that isn’t just palette-swapped feudalism
🥰 Small, focused games that hit one feeling on purpose
What’s a system or genre you wish more people were talking about right now?
December 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
2025 #TTRPG brainworms:
🫥 GM-less structures
🌊 Eco-horror and climate stories
👩🏻🌾 Non-European fantasy that isn’t just palette-swapped feudalism
🥰 Small, focused games that hit one feeling on purpose
What’s a system or genre you wish more people were talking about right now?
🫥 GM-less structures
🌊 Eco-horror and climate stories
👩🏻🌾 Non-European fantasy that isn’t just palette-swapped feudalism
🥰 Small, focused games that hit one feeling on purpose
What’s a system or genre you wish more people were talking about right now?
Silkhold is one of Bug & Claw's first main towns in the fiction and #ttrpg campaign.
• Pink hue of silkworm silk
• A glow worm's mansion lit up brightly
• Potholes and dilapidated streets
• An emerald-topped commemorative obelisk
• A shadowy naval base
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• Pink hue of silkworm silk
• A glow worm's mansion lit up brightly
• Potholes and dilapidated streets
• An emerald-topped commemorative obelisk
• A shadowy naval base
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December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Silkhold is one of Bug & Claw's first main towns in the fiction and #ttrpg campaign.
• Pink hue of silkworm silk
• A glow worm's mansion lit up brightly
• Potholes and dilapidated streets
• An emerald-topped commemorative obelisk
• A shadowy naval base
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• Pink hue of silkworm silk
• A glow worm's mansion lit up brightly
• Potholes and dilapidated streets
• An emerald-topped commemorative obelisk
• A shadowy naval base
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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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December 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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Some of the aimed playable areas at launch for Bug & Claw. These are the Provinces of Western Entomara. They may seem familiar, yet different.
Places like:
Two-Vash
Arthos
Bombilly
Ganzai
New Kinship
Shrouded Steppes
The Kamerakais
Or the dangerous:
The Bivarak
The Barrens
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Places like:
Two-Vash
Arthos
Bombilly
Ganzai
New Kinship
Shrouded Steppes
The Kamerakais
Or the dangerous:
The Bivarak
The Barrens
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December 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Some of the aimed playable areas at launch for Bug & Claw. These are the Provinces of Western Entomara. They may seem familiar, yet different.
Places like:
Two-Vash
Arthos
Bombilly
Ganzai
New Kinship
Shrouded Steppes
The Kamerakais
Or the dangerous:
The Bivarak
The Barrens
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Places like:
Two-Vash
Arthos
Bombilly
Ganzai
New Kinship
Shrouded Steppes
The Kamerakais
Or the dangerous:
The Bivarak
The Barrens
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One of the most exciting “innovations” in TTRPGs right now isn’t a mechanic, it’s access. Tools, spaces, and con lounges built so disabled players don’t have to fight the room just to play.
If you’re disabled and play #TTRPGs, what’s one change (tool, layout, policy) that actually helped you?
If you’re disabled and play #TTRPGs, what’s one change (tool, layout, policy) that actually helped you?
December 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
One of the most exciting “innovations” in TTRPGs right now isn’t a mechanic, it’s access. Tools, spaces, and con lounges built so disabled players don’t have to fight the room just to play.
If you’re disabled and play #TTRPGs, what’s one change (tool, layout, policy) that actually helped you?
If you’re disabled and play #TTRPGs, what’s one change (tool, layout, policy) that actually helped you?
Every now and then I need a goofy night, but otherwise I love building an immersive world, mystery, and intriguing threads for everyone at the table, myself included.
I may be in the minority, but for me, chaos and shenanigans are not the goal at a #ttrpg table. I'm not against humor, but I love serious stories and games with stakes, and players and characters who take the secondary world and situations seriously.
Just me?
Just me?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Every now and then I need a goofy night, but otherwise I love building an immersive world, mystery, and intriguing threads for everyone at the table, myself included.
Reposted by Spencer Goldade / Monkey's Lunch
Periodical reminder that Noora Rose was ousted from this industry under false plagiarism accusations by Marcia B, involving texts that we ran thru anti-plagiarism academic software that found no instances of it, and nobody has retracted from what they did to her.
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Periodical reminder that Noora Rose was ousted from this industry under false plagiarism accusations by Marcia B, involving texts that we ran thru anti-plagiarism academic software that found no instances of it, and nobody has retracted from what they did to her.
Reposted by Spencer Goldade / Monkey's Lunch
an infuriatingly large portion of the ttrpg playing public are to rpgs what the illiterate are to novels.
no, D&D does not offer equal support to "Thrilling Dungeon Adventures" and "Harvest-Moon-Esque Cozy Socialising", and if you think it does I will treat you like you are terminally stupid.
no, D&D does not offer equal support to "Thrilling Dungeon Adventures" and "Harvest-Moon-Esque Cozy Socialising", and if you think it does I will treat you like you are terminally stupid.
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
an infuriatingly large portion of the ttrpg playing public are to rpgs what the illiterate are to novels.
no, D&D does not offer equal support to "Thrilling Dungeon Adventures" and "Harvest-Moon-Esque Cozy Socialising", and if you think it does I will treat you like you are terminally stupid.
no, D&D does not offer equal support to "Thrilling Dungeon Adventures" and "Harvest-Moon-Esque Cozy Socialising", and if you think it does I will treat you like you are terminally stupid.
Bug & Claw is being built to be solo-first.
Oracles and generators are part of the tools used to make that happen. But what makes a good oracle? What goals guide a generator?
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Oracles and generators are part of the tools used to make that happen. But what makes a good oracle? What goals guide a generator?
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December 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Bug & Claw is being built to be solo-first.
Oracles and generators are part of the tools used to make that happen. But what makes a good oracle? What goals guide a generator?
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Oracles and generators are part of the tools used to make that happen. But what makes a good oracle? What goals guide a generator?
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What I would see in Derry
December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
What I would see in Derry
Reposted by Spencer Goldade / Monkey's Lunch
Hi there,
I am Yasukata Nakama. A Japanese illustrator who engaged in TTRPG as character design+ graphicer.
mystery is currently my favorite genre.
nakama-yasukata.tumblr.com?source=share
I am Yasukata Nakama. A Japanese illustrator who engaged in TTRPG as character design+ graphicer.
mystery is currently my favorite genre.
nakama-yasukata.tumblr.com?source=share
December 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hi there,
I am Yasukata Nakama. A Japanese illustrator who engaged in TTRPG as character design+ graphicer.
mystery is currently my favorite genre.
nakama-yasukata.tumblr.com?source=share
I am Yasukata Nakama. A Japanese illustrator who engaged in TTRPG as character design+ graphicer.
mystery is currently my favorite genre.
nakama-yasukata.tumblr.com?source=share
Reposted by Spencer Goldade / Monkey's Lunch
Hi I'm not indie in the sense of indie games, since I write D&D stuff, but I'm certainly not getting paid by a big company. I write rules for firearms and other tech along with dozens of new playable species. I write everything myself and illustrate using CC/PD images. You can find links in my bio.
December 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hi I'm not indie in the sense of indie games, since I write D&D stuff, but I'm certainly not getting paid by a big company. I write rules for firearms and other tech along with dozens of new playable species. I write everything myself and illustrate using CC/PD images. You can find links in my bio.