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.

Saturday, 28 February 2015

Yoon-Suin Print Edition Update

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My laptop has chosen an inopportune moment to die. Fortunately, I've been able to do some guerilla PDF editing on my work computer; the...
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Monday, 23 February 2015

Light Consequences, Combat Consequences, and Noise Consequences in the Dungeon

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We all - those reading this blog at least - know that YOU CANNOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES. A big part of the DM's...
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Thursday, 19 February 2015

Yoon-Suin is released on PDF

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Yoon-Suin is a campaign toolbox for fantasy games, giving you the equipment necessary to run a sandbox campaign in your own Yoon-Suin -...
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Sunday, 15 February 2015

Storytelling and Immersion, or We Are Ahead of the Curve

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Digging my way back through old Econtalk episodes I came across this old interview with Frank Rose on "Storytelling and the Art of Imm...
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Thursday, 12 February 2015

Hit Points as Proxies for Character Traits, and the Genius of the Abstract

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I've written a lot about hit points on the blog over the years (see entries passim here and here , for starters) but one thing I haven...
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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Yoon-Suin Trailer

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Yoon-Suin is coming.
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Monday, 9 February 2015

Dukes of er, Hazard, Revels & Rhymes, and Elizabethan D&D

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I've been doing some more playing around with Revels & Rhymes , which I must make absolutely clear from the outset is not my idea. I...
Thursday, 29 January 2015

The Importance of Shadowrun

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I played a lot of Shadowrun as a teenager. Christ, I played a lot of Shadowrun. I played a shark shaman from Hawai'i with a big tattoo o...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Random Encounters in New Troy: The Forest of Broceliande

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This is a random encounter table for the Forest of Broceliande. All random encounter tables for New Troy have two columns, with some rough c...
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Monday, 26 January 2015

Effusing About Writing

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If for no other reason that this passage made me smile both for its humour and its sheer storytelling and stylistic craft, here's James ...
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