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, 14 March 2016

The Human Body Can Do a Lot

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Apropos of nothing much at all really, here are some examples of real-world D&D-style monk/mystics and why having them do huge amounts o...
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Saturday, 12 March 2016

More Game World Building Reaction Tables

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Following on from this recent post , I got to thinking a little more about how reaction tables can build the setting and serve as sources of...
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Thursday, 10 March 2016

The Face in the Frost: Ur-D&D

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Sick in bed and hallucinating feverishly, I today raced through Bellair's The Face in the Frost, as recommended to me by the inimitable ...
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Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Reaction Tables Which Create the World

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So let's think a little about how to use reaction dice to make animal encounters interesting. BECMI has the following reaction dice ta...
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Tuesday, 8 March 2016

The Voice of the Earth

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I like how this programme ( The Last Seabird Summer ?) presents an encounter with a seabird in an intelligent and thoughtful way. You ge...
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Monday, 7 March 2016

Random Encounters with Rooks

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Rooks. Pale-faced, sword-beaked swaggerers, bundles of contradiction, cloaked raggedly in black feathers that gleam with luxuriant purple, a...
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Thursday, 3 March 2016

[Actual Play] Cruth Lowlands Campaign: Session 6 - Grand Larceny and the Murder of Gnomes

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Session 6 of the Cruth Lowlands Campaign took place yesterday. For previous AP reports, see  here . PCs Present: Luke, playing Andy, a ...
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Wednesday, 2 March 2016

The Mahogany Dungeon

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In my  earlier posts about the 'Fixed World' setting  I described how, in the part of the world where it was always afternoon and al...
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Monday, 29 February 2016

[Actual Play] 5th Edition in Pre-Medieval Japan: Session 1 - The Three Mysterious Weirdos

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In the cedar halls of Prince Uesugi-no-Mishiri at Kawa-no-Kuchi, a small coastal settlement on the frigid shores of the Northern wilderness ...
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Sunday, 28 February 2016

More Thoughts on Fifth Edition

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I ran 5th edition for the first time today. I'll do an actual play report tomorrow, probably, but thought I'd jot down some comments...
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