StatMonkey <Rotted Tropicz>

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

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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?

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Lol.....

#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.

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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.

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

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

#RottedTropics is taking a break this week..

But we'll be back next week..

Same tropical time same tropical channels...

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#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?

Love your style!!!

@ravnosarchon.bsky.social better?

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New Character Sheet in Progress

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

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.

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 “almost” isn’t good enough.

Thinking about a full redesign.

Would love your thoughts.

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Wow.... nice!!!!

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
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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.

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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
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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
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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.

#GMAdvice

The fastest way to kill horror is to explain it.

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

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#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.

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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
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#PostApocalypse #TTRPG

#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:
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I have obsidian notes but playing around organization because right now, it just doesn't flow right...

But ya I would love to see your stuff

Tonight or heroes have a choice to make

They survived the Iron Tomb... and have a boat filled of supplies

But a storm brews over the horizon

Same waters. Fewer choices

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#MonsterMonday

Not all deadheads shamble.

In #RottedCapes, the common zombies can be slow and relentless…
or fast, twitchy, and terrifyingly direct.

Speed changes everything, changing confidence to panic.

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#RottedTropicz is back in the deep end.

Campaign notes and character sheets are live for anyone following along, or catching up.

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Same waters. Fewer exits.

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