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, 27 August 2018

What Are RPGs Like?

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Scott Adams, whether you love him, loathe him, take him with a pinch of salt, think of him only rarely as that guy who did the Dilbert comic...
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Friday, 24 August 2018

Goodbye to All That

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I find it hard to conceive of circumstances in which I will buy another RPG rulebook "in anger" - that is, with the intention of p...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2018

The Lamarckian Orc

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What if orcs evolved through inheritance of acquired characteristics, so that a one-armed orc produced one-armed progeny; a body-builder orc...
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Thursday, 16 August 2018

Mapping a Giant Tree Trunk

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I've had some preliminary thoughts on mapping a giant tree, beginning with the trunk. Have a look at the following diagram, which is a s...
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Sunday, 12 August 2018

On the Virtues of Terseness

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Having previously praised the likes of MR James, Roger Zelazny, and Clark Ashton Smith, I must now give the most credit where it is most due...
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Thursday, 9 August 2018

Yoon-Suin Supplement: The Tree

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There will at some point be a Yoon-Suin addition. This is from is the introduction. The high, wild vastness of the Mountains of the Moon...
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Monday, 30 July 2018

The Master of Monster Descriptions

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Zelazny does not get enough attention in general in RPG circles, but in particular for his excellent, efficient descriptions of monsters. He...
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Friday, 27 July 2018

Gygaxian Scientasy

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I have a lot of affection for a phenomenon which I am here going to call "Gygaxian Scientasy", or "scientasy" for short....
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Wednesday, 25 July 2018

Plane as the Nose on Your Face

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There are two models for the Inner Planes. Let's call them the purity model  and the playability model . The purity model  is the one ...
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Monday, 9 July 2018

The Problem of Sport

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I play a lot of sport, I watch a lot of sport. With the sole exception of golf, I can enjoy almost any sporting activity you could name. But...
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