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, 26 March 2026

Against the RPG Rulebook Spartans

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  I have been writing this blog, and reading other RPG-related blogs and forums, for almost twenty years (!). One thing I have noticed durin...
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Wednesday, 25 March 2026

The Holy Grail of Dungeon Representation

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I read an interesting blog post today  in which the author makes an eloquent and compelling case for describing dungeon locations (and, by i...
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Friday, 20 March 2026

A Western in Fantasy Dress

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D&D can be understood as a Western in fantasy dress. The reasons for this are not complicated. D&D grew largely out of the American ...
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Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Adding a Touch of Colour: Or, Blue Dwarfs, Yellow Giants, and Red Trolls, Oh My!

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There is a pleasing direct vividness about colour words appearing in book titles, monster names, or fantasy geographies. 'The King in Ye...
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Friday, 13 March 2026

Terrain Types for Encounter Tables and Hex Maps: What Principles?

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How fine-grained does one like one's terrain types, sir? And is it possible to come up with some principles regarding how many such type...
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Tuesday, 10 March 2026

The External and Internal Faces of Nerd Commerce

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Yesterday, I had half an hour to kill in the local city centre while waiting for a delayed train. There are two chain nerd shops not far fro...
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Friday, 6 March 2026

Pale as a Ghost in the Afternoon

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  I like the moon, and moons, as a feature of RPG adventures and settings. A while ago , I wrote that:  The moon has played an exceptionally...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Oh, Tell Me the Truth About Lusaphone Fantasy

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Due to a strange confluence of events, my life has recently become dominated by all things Portuguese. All of my professional interactions a...
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Monday, 2 March 2026

Reviewing the Covers of a Miscellany of Treasures Found in an Old Box in the Cellar

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The other day I was doing a clearout of old junk and came across a box filled with books put into storage from a childhood bookshelf. Below,...
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Friday, 27 February 2026

Was D&D Inevitable?

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A very long time ago, I read an anecdote in a book (I forget the title and who it was by - my memory is now like a dusty attic full of boxes...
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