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 October 2024

Male Leads, Female Authors

I am currently in the middle of reading CJ Cherryh's really very good Ealdwood books - a superior example of the fantasy-knights-slip-...

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Generating PCs With Lego

You may have been into a Lego shop and noticed a large cabinet containing various buckets filled with character components - heads, bodies, ...

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

They're Eating the Apostrophes

Patrick Stuart has a new Kickstarter in the offing - and he has managed to reveal himself as having the testicular fortitude of a leviathan...

Thursday, 19 September 2024

A Simple Iterative Method for Module and Campaign Inspiration

Are you struggling with ideas for a module or campaign setting? Struggle no longer. Here is a simple method: 1. Put a country, any country, ...

Monday, 16 September 2024

The City and the Forest: The Megadungeon, Urbanised

I blame Edmund . In Planet Narnia , I discover a hitherto-unknown (to me) theme of medieval thought which insisted on the primordial forest,...

Thursday, 12 September 2024

A Blog 2,000 Posts Old

I have now written 2,000 posts here at Monsters & Manuals. I'll let that sink in for a moment: if you laid out all of these posts en...

Wednesday, 4 September 2024

The Sun as an Evil God

I was recently listening to a podcast in which (to paraphrase) it was stated that CS Lewis had once said that he could not imagine there exi...

Monday, 2 September 2024

Top 10 Most Popular Posts - EVER! (so far)

[I am putting up a series of 'Top 10' posts in the lead up to my 2,000th post here at Monsters & Manuals. You can read the first...

Thursday, 29 August 2024

On the Inspirational Power of Mercurial Place Names

Because I am a very busy, dedicated and hardworking employee and involved family man, I spend a lot of time dicking around on wikipedia, loo...

Tuesday, 27 August 2024

Top 10 Best Commercial OSR Products

[I am putting up a series of 'Top 10' posts in the lead up to my 2,000th post here at Monsters & Manuals. You can read the first...

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