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, 27 March 2018

Everybody Loves Our Game: On the OSR "Scene"

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I am just finishing off reading  Everybody Loves Our Town , Mark Yarm's superlative oral history of grunge. It's a really entertaini...
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Monday, 26 March 2018

The Mediterranean and Cultural Coolness

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Back in the mists of time, I wondered aloud on the blog why it is that you get lots of Japan-inspired RPG settings but not many Polish, Ton...
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Thursday, 22 March 2018

The Phantom Force Awakens a Menace

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I feel like I may have courted enough controversy for a while, but, goaded by a comment on a recent entry, I'm going to put myself out o...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic

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The interaction between magic and technology has interested me for a long time. But there are fine distinctions between different approaches...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2018

Curse You! Or, Putting "Spells and Magic" to Use

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When I was in Kyrgyzstan, I'd sometimes come across reams of cassette tape, pulled out of the actual cassette, and hung on shrubbery by ...
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Sunday, 18 March 2018

Would You Play D&D with Donald Trump?

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[ Addendum, 23rd July 2020 : This post is possibly the most misunderstood entry in the history of my blog. I make no apology for it, because...
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Sunday, 11 March 2018

Caesar, Homer, Pytheas and Lugh

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What if, when Julius Caesar first sailed across the Channel to carry out his first abortive foray into Kent, he had discovered that refugees...
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Wednesday, 7 March 2018

RPG Books as Imagination Training

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We are now in the Bronze Age of OSR blogs (the Golden Age being 2008-2009 and the Silver Age being around 2009-2012), and I think Joseph Man...
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Friday, 2 March 2018

When is a Quantum Ogre a Quantum Ogre?

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The answer: when it's really  a quantum ogre. 2011. Halcyon days. Summers were warmer then, and chocolate was tastier. There wasn'...
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Thursday, 1 March 2018

Japanese Kids' Books

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Children's books (I mean little kids' books, not YA fiction) are an often-untapped resource for inspiration. This is especially true...
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