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, 31 March 2025

On Being Grateful

I am going to do something unexpected, unusual, uncharacteristic and even, dare I say it, unbecoming now. I am going to do something sincere...

Thursday, 27 March 2025

When the Clouds Come Down

On certain days, at twilight, the clouds gather themselves down along the horizon and become indistinguishable from hills. At such times, ...

Monday, 24 March 2025

The Most Difficult Single Class Campaign

I've long been interested - really since I was an adolescent reading the old 2nd edition 'brown book' Complete... series - in t...

Friday, 21 March 2025

The Crossing of a Threshold: The Ontological Condition of Adventure

Doorways and thresholds do not exist in nature: it requires a human being to conceptualise even a cave opening as being an 'entrance...

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

So, What Is So Bad About Space Knights?

One should never put one's faith in Google Gemini. (I learned this after discovering that searching for information about The Lord of th...

Tuesday, 18 March 2025

The Posts That Never Were

Every so often I get an idea for something to write about and jot it down by creating a post and putting the idea in the title, and saving i...

Monday, 10 March 2025

The Lynchian Paladin

Regular readers will know that I harbour a long-simmering ambition to write up rules for running explicitly heroic campaigns oriented around...

Wednesday, 5 March 2025

The Rule of Dice and the Resort to Chaos

'I've sometimes thought,' said the Head Man, 'it might be interesting if we didn't let chance decide the moves but thoug...

Thursday, 27 February 2025

A Troubling Setting Riddled With Orientalist Tropes

[Click to enlarge] This blog post is a warning. There is at loose in the world a nefarious RPG setting book with foul and malevolent conte...

Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Why Make Up Elfworlds?

I have a confession to make. I make it in the hopes that, out there in the world, there are other strange deviants such as me - who can perh...

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