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.

Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Monsters and Manuals' 1500th Anniversary: Half Time After the Time?

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I hadn't noticed until just now, but the previous entry was the 1500th published Monsters & Manuals post. Crikey. Blimey. Shiver m...
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Monday, 29 July 2019

You Wankher! Or, Glimpsed-at Worldbuilding

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Having read City of the Chasch  a long time ago, I've recently moved on to the second volume in Jack Vance's "Planet of Adventu...
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Thursday, 25 July 2019

"Well," she said, "How can you be killed?"

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I have been reading The Mabinogion . Medieval Welsh shaggy dog stories with something bizarre and D&D-able on every page. Here are some ...
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Wednesday, 24 July 2019

Size and the Inert Sandbox

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When I was a lad, I spent quite a bit of time being befuddled and disappointed  by the Commodore Amiga game Frontier: Elite II . For tho...
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Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Dragonfly People

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Three or four years ago a dragonfly lay a batch of eggs into my garden pond. We've been occasionally monitoring the growth of the ny...
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Thursday, 18 July 2019

"Funny Face" D&D Monsters

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Have you ever had one of those sticker books which contains a load of blank faces and a random assortment of eyes, noses, mouths and the ...
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Wednesday, 17 July 2019

On Linnaean and Glaurungian Monsters

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Back in 2008, when the world was young,  I wrote this post , the essence of which was that modern fantasy tends to sit in between two di...
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Monday, 15 July 2019

Greatest Star Trek: NextGen Episodes

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I am not a big watcher of TV these days, to put it mildly. Whenever TV comes up in conversation I tend to sit and listen and nod and smile p...
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Wednesday, 10 July 2019

The Wizard's Garden

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Perhaps CS Lewis is to blame, for making the perfectly-manicured but eerily-empty garden of Coriakin in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader  so c...
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Monday, 8 July 2019

After the Collapse(s)

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I recently got back from a business trip in Santiago de Chile, home of the fabulous Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino . What one cann...
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