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.

Thursday, 30 May 2019

Living Larders and Monster Mutualism

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Out in the garden the other day I was amazed to discover ants farming little clusters of black aphids on one of the plants. I knew th...
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Tuesday, 28 May 2019

The Bay of Sweetness

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East of the Forested Sea, beyond the peninsular known as The Finger, a vast wide gulf opens up in the land. Into it flow rivers bringing wit...
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Monday, 27 May 2019

Why Animal People?

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Comments on a recent post got me thinking about anthropomorphised animals. Why is it that as children we are told stories about rabbits,...
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Sunday, 26 May 2019

Map Porn

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I am not very active on reddit, but I do occasionally drop in, primarily to visit  this subreddit . It is called "Map Porn". It fe...
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Thursday, 23 May 2019

Doing Things With Humanoids

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These days when I look through a bestiary the excitement comes from digging out the stranger and more esoteric monsters (Jackalwere, anyone...
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Monday, 20 May 2019

In Defence of Geographical Appropriation, or, the Lake Malawi Dilettante Problem

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The other day I visited an aquarium. Call me a bleeding-heart liberal if you like (nobody else does), but I find it very hard nowadays to go...
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Sunday, 19 May 2019

Three Vignettes from an Unpublished Setting

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A long, long time ago,  Patrick S ,  Chris M ,  Nathan R  and I sat down in a pub in Liverpool and plotted the release of a kind of RPG-supe...
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Wednesday, 15 May 2019

The USP of RPGs and the Phenomenology of New Beginnings

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There is no word in English to my knowledge which describes the feeling one gets at the start of a fictional adventure. We have words like ...
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Monday, 13 May 2019

Slaughter, Mayhem and Destruction

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Some quotes on life in Gascony and south-west France in the early years of the Hundred Years' War, from Jonathan Sumption's Trial By...
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Thursday, 9 May 2019

Reading RPG Books and the "Ontological Flicker"

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Reading an RPG book is I think almost a unique experience in that it induces a special kind of what Brian McHale in Postmodern Fiction  call...
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