Monkey's Lunch
Fiction, tabletop games, tools for solo play, and the culture around all of it. Written by one person who actually plays the games.
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The first time I experienced a game using the light of day to influence things, it was an approximation of daylight in Pokémon Silver. You input your local time into the game when you start it and the cartridge itself would track it like any other digital watch, affecting Pokémon availability, day and night effects, […]
The following was a submission for the 250 Micro-Fiction challenge from NYC Midnight. Participants are given a genre, an action, and a word to use. My genre was rom-com, ACTION: Overreacting, and WORD: everyone. A poof of white rose behind the counter. “Crap!” “Everything alright?” Sophia stepped in, calm as ever, pausing as those emerald […]
Solo Surveyor launched in Alpha at version 1.11 as a free mapping tool for solo roleplayers, and it's now at version 1.36 after incorporating community feedback. I shared it to Reddit in r/Solo_Roleplaying, which garnered early interest, prompting shares and feedback there as well as via Bluesky and Mastodon. Key Improvements since then Although I […]
My players and I love flavour in our games.Find a dusty old flask in a ransacked laboratory?Finish off the mug left on the wizard’s bedside table? Check out the Alchemist's Mistake for some 5D20 potion rolling! A 2-page PDF with flavour on page 1 and effects on page 2! Grab it on the DM's Guild!
A solo-first sandbox TTRPG set in a post-human world ruled by intelligent mutant arthropods. In development now.
Multi-oracle random generator for solo and group tabletop RPGs. Roll many oracles at once.
(opens in new tab)Procedural map tool for solo tabletop play.
(opens in new tab)A design system for text-based games and TUI interfaces. ASCII-styled UI components — menus, panels, prompts — for developers building games or tools that live in the terminal. Open alpha.
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