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.

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Mindless Pap of the Worst Kind

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There seems to be something in the air, because this month has seen the release of not one but two inspid, uninspired, hackneyed, crappy, po...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009

The Knowledge Economy and the New Cyberpunk

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I was flicking through my old Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook again last night while listening to the football. Fascinating how different the world ...
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Monday, 27 April 2009

Colonialpunk

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I've been wanting for a long time to come up with a campaign setting for Cyberpunk 2020 - a kind of alternate history of the future. Not...
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Sunday, 26 April 2009

Societies of the Yellow City

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The Yellow City is famous for its many cabals, societies, philosophical groups, and guilds of sages. Some of these are detailed below. The I...
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Friday, 24 April 2009

The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth

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This is one of my favourite of Zelazny's short stories. It's set in a futuristic, semi-terraformed Venus with mighty oceans, where e...
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Thursday, 23 April 2009

Exoticism

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In a post the other day I mentioned that I liked settings with non-European influences. This is mainly because, like many people, I'm j...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009

The Monsters and Manuals Interview [#2 - Brian Murphy]

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An occasional series of interviews with other RPG bloggers . Brian Murphy is a wolf-breeder and turkey-shoot-stall owner from the town of D...
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Spelljammer Star Trek

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Apropos of my post the other day, I was thinking about how you might map the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew to D&D classes and rac...
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Monday, 20 April 2009

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.

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Things I'd like more knowledge of and/or skill in, so that I could generally Game Better: The probabilities of getting each score on eac...
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Saturday, 18 April 2009

My Magna Carta

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Cool post at Uncle Bear the other day: In the book No Plot? No Problem? author Chris Baty discusses creating two “Magna Cartas” before tac...
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