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, 31 May 2024

Reflections on a City

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I had the pleasure of being spirited away on a business trip to spend much of the last week in and around the old town on the castle hill of...
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Thursday, 23 May 2024

Eddison-Tolkien-Zelazny: The Sweet Spot

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I am currently engaged in something of a strange literary enterprise in that I am daily listening to an unabridged (and utterly fantastic, b...
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Monday, 20 May 2024

Make Animal Fantasy Great Again

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I am a qualified fan of animal fantasy - I confess it. My tastes lean more towads the quasi-realistic Watership Down/Duncton Wood  end of th...
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Monday, 13 May 2024

Ungoliant's AI

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But she had disowned her Master, desiring to be mistress of her own lust, taking all things to herself to feed her emptiness; and she fled t...
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Thursday, 9 May 2024

Pimp My Orc (and everything else)

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One of the things that I aim to achieve with the World of TSRan project (see here , here and here ) is to vastly expand the variation and r...
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Tuesday, 7 May 2024

A Prismatic Spray Inside the Brain

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I have been thinking for some time about the right metaphor to use to describe the phenomenology of reading an RPG book, and ultimately have...
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Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Why the dearth of 'other world' campaigns?

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JRR Tolkien was a crucial 'break' between two conceptions of the fantasy genre. Before him, most (though not all) fantastical tales ...
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Monday, 29 April 2024

The OSR is Much, Much Bigger Than You Think

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I recently came across a fascinating article, called ' No one buys books ', which, while misleadingly titled (it should probably be ...
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Thursday, 18 April 2024

Play as Sculpture, Play as Prism

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Watching my eldest child and friends engaging in imaginative play, I'm often struck by the fact that what seems to excite them is decidi...
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Monday, 15 April 2024

Moons around the Storm God

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What moves the wind, brings the rain, boils the clouds into the sky and freezes them into snow?  Not the Storm God. He is rather the one who...
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