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, 31 July 2012

Only the Good Die Young

One of my favourite NPCs died tonight. You know how it is as a DM. Most of the time the NPCs you create are there for a purpose and you play...

Monday, 30 July 2012

A Plug (I don't often do these)

I don't often do this - in fact, I don't think I've ever done it - so I hope I can be forgiven for spamming your rss feed just t...

Sunday, 29 July 2012

The Exodus to, er, Made Up Worlds

I was listening to an old Econtalk podcast with Edward Castronova today while doing some house keeping, and immediately thought that it wa...

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Anthropological Titbit

I read a lot of non-fiction, and I often come across little titbits of information that I feel like using for setting material. For instan...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

D&D my Cyberpunk; or, Hit points? We don't need no stinking hit points!

Some of the comments on yesterday's post got me thinking. It would be perfectly possible to run a game of D&D and using its core the...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

The Historical Context of D&D

I sometimes wonder whether or not Gygax, Arneson and the like had the right idea in setting D&D in a resolutely pseudo-medieval era. It...

Monday, 23 July 2012

The Nine Secret Societies

Alignment languages are one of the oddest phenomena in D&D. They clearly imply that alignment is not merely a way in which creatures beh...

Saturday, 21 July 2012

The Future of Gaming

Personally, I'm not a fan of technological advancement in gaming - I like pen and paper. As I've written before, for me, RPGs belon...

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Dreamed Idea

Ever woken up in the middle of the night from a dream and written down what struck you as a great idea, and then re-read it the next day? To...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Stream of Consciousness about Morality

Patrick wrote an interesting post about an event that happened in a Cyberpunk 2020 game I was DMing. It's about morality. It's a re...

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