Clayton

@explorersdesign.bsky.social

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Pronunciation: "Klay-tun Note-Styne" Designer. Writer. Educator. Tabletop games. Explorers Design. Pro-union and cooperatives. He/Him.

Papers shuffled on a desk with a compass, ruler, and snake skin. Maps and depictions of monsters are on the papers. It reads, The Explorateur in big, black letters.
Public Domain Art Resources
A screenshot from The Legends in the Mist rulebook, volume 1, page 73.
Rpg trader home page with products in a grid.
The inside of a flute
The Explorers Design blog post, "Designing lore blocks" with a floating table of contents with interactive links.
Bloggies nominees folded up into neat little dropdown lists. Simple lines and a red down arrow.
Girl with dog waves goodbye from the movie Bridge to Terabithia.
An example of a lore block using Smaug from JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. It has two versions side-by-side with a color-coded breakdown of its individual parts.
Meta bracket.
Theory bracket
Gameable bracket
Critique bracket.
Advice bracket
A pie chart from the fourth round of the Bloggies. It's 50% and 50%.
A pie chart showing the vote split in the Bloggies' third round.
Scary looking head with multicolored hair and teeth, red eyes, and crab legs for a neck.
Meta matchup results.
Theory matchup.
Breakdown of Gameable matchup.
Matchup example chart.
The Bloggies Schedule
Wesley Snipes crying meme about The Bloggies brackets. It was very hard to pick nominees.
Floorplan map of a home.
screenshot that says "responses 764" for best blog post in the Bloggies.
Rectangles representing covers. "The Art of the Cover."
A board game with plastic cars in a traffic jam.
Yellow book with a finger print on the cover. Title says Daggerbacks.
illustration of a mustachioed dude reading a book at a distance.
A screenshot of Explorers Design showing a page with hyperlinks.
Scooby-doo unmasking scene
The Golden Girls
Saul bass signature with a picture of a bass (the fish) with Saul's face.
A Braun radio designed by Dieter Rams.
Emoji of person twirling their finger around their head to indicate that what just happened is coo coo bananas
Different awards laid out on a colored background. The Awards Debrief 2025.
Preview image of The Explorateur: Issue #12
The ENNIES booth at Gen Con
A book cover for Amanda P.'s adventure, The Eternal Empress.
The cover of invaders of Atlantis. Designed like the Tales from the Crypt Magazine. Features a gold octopus with a laurel crown. A featuring section includes portraits of the adventure's factions. Lord Blubub XXV, the Atlantean octopus. The Mummy Akhenaten, a Boris Karloff-style mummy, and Poxlin Skuggs—the pirate and raider.
Orson Welles with a glass of wine. The worlds "For Your Consideration" laid over top of the image.
A screenshot of the final thoughts from today's design delve.
Screenshots of the four pages of the game.
An excerpt from the article titles "Delving into The Royal Art Gallery Heist."
A screenshot of two typefaces found in the project, futura and helvetica neue. These two typefaces are also shared with examples.
A screenshot from Explorers Design showing the opening to The Royal Art Gallery heist design delve.
Cover of Anchor Coast zine. It's yellow with a massive anchor's chain disppearing into water.
Beetle, from Legend of Zelda's Breath of the Wild, carrying a massive backpack covered in wares. It is shaped like a great horned beetle.
An ornate illustration from Gustave Dore with one character's face abstracted into a smiley face.
Money and gems surrounded by blood.
Design concepts all arranged on one page as arrows, shapes, and negative space.
Brindlewood Bay cover with a drippy, spooky L for layout.
A panel of controls to represent usability and accessibility.
Tim Robinson from the show " I think you should leave " saying " Quit fucking with them. " He's wearing a stupid hat. It's a fedora with safari flaps.
The Calvin and Hobbes meme where Calvin's dad arbitrarily groups everything into a binary grouping. In this meme, he claims all rpgs are either novels or cookbooks.
A centaur (horse head, human body) riding a giant cat bat with a pistol drawn.
Poster for the movie Tommy Boy starring Chris Farley and David Spade.
My profile picture from when I had a beard. Slightly more washed out.