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.

Thursday, 12 November 2026

I Dunno, Mike; Or, the Nerd Superiority Complex

You may have heard that M. John Harrison, author of the Viriconium books among others, has recently won the Booker Prize (the UK's prem...

Tuesday, 10 November 2026

The Quiet Fuguelike Joy

In the comments on my previous post (about creating a 1-mile hex map of Japan with the help of Claude) somebody popped up to say: I don...

Friday, 6 November 2026

Oh Satan, Is There Anything You Can't Do?

Drunk on power this afternoon, I commanded my demonic robot slave Claude to make some hexmaps. And I was impressed with what it came out wit...

Tuesday, 3 November 2026

Unicorns Are Not Just Rhinos

One of my children has a book - you will have seen the type of thing - called something like Amazing Facts About All Kinds of Things, or Is...

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

Art You're Scared to Look At Directly

I have recently been going through a bit of a Fighting Fantasy trip, having found some old books in my attic roughly six months ago. I have ...

Thursday, 22 October 2026

Big Good Guy Monsters Reviewed and Ranked

The D&D Silver Age (the period beginning at the end of the 80s and segueing into the mid-90s) were my formative years as far as the hobb...

Tuesday, 13 October 2026

5e-splaining the OSR

I recently watched an interesting YouTube video in which Ben Milton and somebody I have not heard of before called Daði discuss, among other...

Friday, 9 October 2026

Get Busy Writing or Get Busy Dying

I have never read David Gemmell - his oeuvre somehow passed me by. But I have been inspired to do so by a recent article in the Telegraph w...

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Lego Faces and the Death of Freeform Play

One of the saddest and strangest developments of my lifetime has been the gradual replacement of the generic Lego smiley face with those d...

Tuesday, 6 October 2026

The Revenant Lake

Looking around on wikipedia earlier today, as one does, I came across the entry for Tulare Lake . This is a lake in California which, alth...

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