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, 29 June 2022

Why D&D?

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Very often -  Monday's post is an obvious example  - I will post an idea on the blog for a campaign I'd like to run or a book I'...
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Sunday, 26 June 2022

Notes Towards a Changeling: The Dreaming OSR-Based Retroclone

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Buried underneath an awful lot of nonsense, there is a game somewhere in Changeling: The Dreaming , desperate to get out. It is difficult to...
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Thursday, 23 June 2022

On Mid-late 90s Sincerity and Role Playing Games

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I was a bit of an unusual teenager, looking back, in that I had my feet in two quite distinctive camps. On the one hand, I was part of the  ...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Advice for Everyone

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DMing advice is common. Advice for players, less so, though  Rise Up Comus has an interesting recent post on the subject, with more  here ....
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Monday, 20 June 2022

In Defence of RPG Flanerie

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The flâneur, literally a "stroller" or one who "wanders without purpose", is the word for a man (or woman) of leisure wh...
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Wednesday, 15 June 2022

D&D's Uniqueness and the Inevitability of Roleplaying

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This is a follow-up to  yesterday's post . As many of you pointed out in the comments, one would probably have to put Gary Gygax and Dav...
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Tuesday, 14 June 2022

How Unique is D&D?

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I can't remember where I came across this little aphorism (for some reason I have it in my head that it was in a Luis Bunuel interview),...
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Saturday, 11 June 2022

Table of Hippogriff Traits

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The PCs in my weekly game have tamed some hippogriffs. This calls for a chart of random hippogriff traits. The default hippogriff has HD 3+1...
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Friday, 10 June 2022

Call Me Frodo

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One of the characteristics of American literature in the period from 1800 up to 1950 or so is its individualistic heroes, often lacking a pa...
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Wednesday, 8 June 2022

The Physical Adept

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Any sufficiently advanced physical skill is indistinguishable from magic. There is a point at which a virtuoso makes something look simultan...
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