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, 29 April 2019

Lost in Dreams of Mu

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Somebody asked for an update on  Behind Gently Smiling Jaws . I shall oblige, but be forewarned; it's not pretty. BGSJ is a setting ab...
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Friday, 26 April 2019

Name That Aesthetic: Niceland?

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There is a certain kind of 'look' which exists across a multitude of visual depictions of fantasy and SF settings. If I could descri...
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Thursday, 25 April 2019

He Was Merely King

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I have been reading Jonathan Sumption 's mammoth and as-yet unfinished history of The Hundred Years War . (Three series of books which I...
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Monday, 22 April 2019

Every Man for Himself and God Against All

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Walking back home earlier today I discovered the local sparrows in much consternation; a magpie raid was in full flow. It's been a warm ...
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Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Hobby Shivers: Definition and Caterogisation

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Patrick posted an interesting interview with Kevin Chin , an artist who does a lot of work for Games Workshop. In it, the subject of "H...
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Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Gene Wolfe, Ursula Le Guin, and Friendships Across the Divide

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Gene Wolfe and Ursula Le Guin were friends. (Wolfe talks about this a little bit in the interview I linked to yesterday.) Nothing unusual in...
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Monday, 15 April 2019

So. Farewell then...

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You will have probably heard of Gene Wolfe's death by now.  This is a nice interview with him in the last year of his life. He begins...
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Sunday, 14 April 2019

Footnotes Suck

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I do quite a bit of peer-reviewing for a certain academic publishing house, which means I often get paid in kind with book vouchers. (Genera...
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Wednesday, 10 April 2019

Wimmelbilderbucher for Grownups

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In a comment to a recent post I lamented the lack of bestiaries-for-grownups in the fantasy/SF genre, by which I mean straightforward ones u...
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Tuesday, 9 April 2019

Cockatrice Variants

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I love me a petrification monster, and have often felt that you can't beat a good cockatrice for a dangerous encounter. In the early day...
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