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.

Friday, 30 June 2023

Preview of Work in Progress

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  Pursuant to  this post , I think I have arrived at the decision that I will keep Monsters & Manuals going here, but start a new parall...
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Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Goodies versus Baddies: Good or Bad?

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D&D PCs kill lots of ostensibly sentient beings, and often other humans, and don't usually think twice about it. Is this good or bad...
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Wednesday, 21 June 2023

The Crisis of Masculinity and Pen and Paper RPGs

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Pay careful attention to social trends and you will soon become aware that there is a  crisis of masculinity afoot . Men are doing badly in ...
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Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Campaign Settings: Noble and Debased

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It is my strong belief that being a writer is among the most noble of human activities and that its nobility lies in its capacity to give ot...
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Wednesday, 14 June 2023

Scenes from an Ancient Notebook: List of Old Naacal Servitors

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Going through old papers in my office I came across a notebook containing a list jotting down ideas for Old Naacal servitors, due to make an...
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Monday, 12 June 2023

On the Thinness of Fantasy Thinking

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Regular readers can give themselves a treat and listen to/watch this fascinating discussion of the  philosophy of Owen Barfield . You don...
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Tuesday, 6 June 2023

The Best Spells - YOU DECIDE

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So, let's imagine you were a 1st level Magic-User going on a first foray into a dungeon. Which spell would you choose to memorise assumi...
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Monday, 5 June 2023

15 Years of Monsters and Manuals and the Future of the Blog

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The 17th of May, 2023 was the 15th anniversary of the Monsters & Manuals blog. Yes, I have been writing this thing since 2008, when I wa...
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Wednesday, 31 May 2023

On Overlooked Spells and Paths Not Taken

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D&D spells can be divided into three camps. There are the Favourites , which everybody recognises to be not just useful but potentially ...
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Tuesday, 23 May 2023

[Review] Noofutra

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I spent much of my teenage years playing Shadowrun - a game I once called " the most fundamentally awful and crass idea ever invented ...
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