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.

Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Scenes from The Great North

Tom Kilian has sent me some more works-in-progress for art for The Great North (formerly The Meeting of the Waters ). As a reminder, this i...

Monday, 21 August 2023

Whither the Fantasy Gamebook?

Is there a place for Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf style gamebooks outside of the realm of mere nostalgia? I ask because a recent podcast...

Wednesday, 16 August 2023

An Important Question about Warhammer and Stamps

It turns out that this year is the 40th anniversary of the creation of Warhammer , and to celebrate, the Royal Mail is, er, putting out a li...

Monday, 14 August 2023

The Dark Heart of Planescape

The Planescape campaign setting was described by its own creator Monte Cook as being self-consciously 'edgy' , as a response to the...

Thursday, 10 August 2023

Still Satanic After All These Posts

Like a 1950s coal miner in a County Durham pit village, I return once more to the tap: yes, I am writing once again about AI art. (See posts...

Monday, 7 August 2023

On the Characteristics of Demihuman Empires

The other day, I made the case that a philosophy of empire would suggest that, since such a polity lacks an a priori geographical or ethn...

Thursday, 3 August 2023

Single Class Paladin Campaign Book - First Glimpse

I have decided to write a book on running a single-class paladin campaign for OSR type games. Here is the introduction and opening section. ...

Tuesday, 1 August 2023

On Postcolonial Scholars in the Peanut Gallery and Realistic Empire Building

Google alerts are an interesting thing. You get to read all kinds of things being written about you on the internet, and are never sure whet...

Thursday, 27 July 2023

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

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. ...

Monday, 24 July 2023

On Moral Ambiguity and Colonialism

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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