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, 27 July 2023

Fantasy and the Real World - Or, Yet More About AI?

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Is it possible to create a fantasy world that is totally sui generis  - borne out of one's imagination and nothing else? Of course not. ...
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Monday, 24 July 2023

On Moral Ambiguity and Colonialism

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I have recently finished reading three books on a roughly similar theme:  Undaunted Courage , Stephen Ambrose's account of the Lewis ...
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Monday, 17 July 2023

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a TPK

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In honour of the players in my weekly campaign, whose PCs were all killed last week. Think of it as thirteen things to do with a campaign on...
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Wednesday, 12 July 2023

What is the most important thing in life? Meat.

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A month ago I posted an entry lamenting the ' thinness of fantasy thinking ', in which I described modern fantasy literature, and fa...
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Monday, 10 July 2023

Writing the DMing Ten Commandments

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Let's community brainstorm . What are the desiderata of DMing, boiled down into a series of pity aphorisms, ten commandments-style? I wi...
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Monday, 3 July 2023

The Single-Class Paladin Campaign

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One of my ambitions is to develop a variant ruleset for single-class paladin campaigns, and indeed to run such a campaign over the long term...
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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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