Monsters and Manuals

Creator of Yoon-Suin and other materials. Propounding my half-baked ideas on role playing games. Jotting down and elaborating on ideas for campaigns, missions and adventures. Talking about general industry-related matters. Putting a new twist on gaming.

Monday, 17 November 2025

Paul McCartney's Zionist-Anti-Fascist-Hard-Right-Woke Clone, Who Also Assassinated Charlie Kirk, is Shadowbanning Monsters & Manuals!

No, he isn't really. He'd probably be too old for that by now. I do nonetheless ask for help from readers who Know About Computers. ...

Thursday, 13 November 2025

The Joy of Rolling Up Characters; Or, I'd RATHer Be Doing it the Old School Way

Does the name Rath ring any bells with you? If it does, welcome to the club, one of the most exclusive of all: those who actually read the ...

Tuesday, 11 November 2025

At the Start of a Great Adventure

There is I think a formative period in the life of a young reader when certain ideas about what fiction 'should' do, or what good fi...

Thursday, 6 November 2025

The Wikipedia Trawl as Campaign Generation Device

One of my favourite lunchtime activities is to trawl wikipedia looking at obscure geographic locations. This is not a complicated task. What...

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

More Can Go Wrong

The other day I happened to be sitting in a hotel restaurant listening in on the conversation (as one does) of a youngish couple sitting nea...

Thursday, 23 October 2025

Paladin Kits - Ranked and Reviewed!

First there was The Complete Fighter's Handbook . Then there was another one of it. It was called The Complete Thief's Handbook. ...

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

The Great North Is Great

In the new year, I will be moving towards a release of a Kickstarter for The Great North , and I am confident that I have enough of a grasp ...

Thursday, 16 October 2025

The Last Temptation of the DM: Why a Living Breathing World Needs Systematising

Is it possible to create a sandbox that is a 'living, breathing world'? No. It is possible to create one that to all intents and pur...

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Teaching Tricks to Lego Cars: Being an NPC talking to an NPC

At the pub the other night a friend of mine was recounting an episode from the Tired Parent Wars. Apparently, his young son has got into a r...

Thursday, 9 October 2025

But Why Must Evil Barons and Vampire Counts Intervene?

In my most recent post and various others over the years , I made the case that the default OSR-style fantasy sandbox (and I suppose any ot...

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