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, 18 March 2013

The Underlying Game and AD&D 2nd Edition

It's often said that the "gold standard" of XP for treasure (pun intended) is at the core of older editions of D&D. It...

Monday, 11 March 2013

Noisms' Theorem of Character Generation Length and Player Cautiousness

I am running a Pendragon game (set on Mars...it's a long story), and got to thinking about the lengthy process of character generation i...

Monday, 4 March 2013

GM as Auteur and The It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To Rule

Generally speaking, I favour a loose approach to GMing. I like creating detailed settings, but I usually allow the players quite a lot of le...

Friday, 22 February 2013

Were-Moray Eel

It's been a while since I've posted any Yoon-Suin stuff. It's ticking away. Were-Moray Eels are a type of Lycanthrope enc...

Monday, 18 February 2013

The Authentic Local Experience

I'm not sure about in other areas of the world, but localism is becoming A Thing in Britain. For a long time home grown British things w...

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Hexology II [Travel]

Some more thoughts on hex crawling and wilderness adventures today; this time, focusing on actual travel itself. It's my submission that...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Hexology I [Contents]: Lindisfarne Case Study

A while ago I put up a few posts regarding the contents of 1 mile and 6-mile hexes , mostly using Google maps to show aerial views. In li...

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Fetishizing the Dungeon

The kids over at the rpg site are discussing whether or not the collective output of the "OSR" has been better, or could be bett...

Monday, 4 February 2013

Thoughts on Buying White Dwarf

I was in my local Anonymous Supermarket the other day and saw the latest issue of White Dwarf winking seductively at me from behind a copy...

Saturday, 19 January 2013

Generic Cyberpunk 2020 Bastard System: Fantasy Edition

For some reason today I got onto thinking about using the Cyberpunk 2020 system as a generic GURPS-esque system - I think I started off by w...

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