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.

Tuesday, 12 August 2025

The 'I Want' PC

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Readers who do not live in the dank earth beneath rocks with only woodlice and earthworms for company will no doubt have heard of something ...
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Friday, 8 August 2025

The Roundabout Animal Fantasy World

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This is a picture of ' the most dangerous roundabout ' in the North East of England, not far from where I work. The persistent local...
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Tuesday, 5 August 2025

Monster Manual Deadly 60

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Do Americans know about  Deadly 60 ? This is a kids' wildlife programme that has been aired on the BBC since 2009; the conceit is that t...
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Friday, 25 July 2025

Lie Back and Think of Rivendell

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In Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes raises the important question of elf reproduction  avant la lettre when he opines that Adam and Eve could not h...
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Wednesday, 23 July 2025

You Could Tell I Was No Purple Worm

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The idea that the dreams we create in our minds while we sleep could emerge into reality is a rich seam for creators of imaginative fiction ...
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Thursday, 17 July 2025

Incomplete List of High Concept Single or Duo PC Campaigns

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I have often thought there is a gap in the market for one-on-one (i.e., one PC and one DM) campaigns in which the PC is a 'high concept...
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Tuesday, 8 July 2025

How to Describe a Campaign Setting in One Song or Less

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A long, long time ago, I can still remember when I wrote a post that made me smile. It was called How to Describe a Campaign Setting in Twen...
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Thursday, 3 July 2025

Thoughts on Real World Dungeoneering

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My house has a big and eccentrically designed cellar. The house was constructed around 1930 on a pretty steep hillside that once was riddled...
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Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Towards a Complete List of Excellent Medieval/Fantasy Combat Scenes

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Like, I suspect, 99.9% of my readers, I love a good film combat scene. Some non-fantasy favourites include the big gun battle towards the en...
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Wednesday, 25 June 2025

What Monster Would Satan Be?

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In a flash of idle curiosity today, I asked ChatGPT the following question: If you could be any D&D monster, which would you choose and ...
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