by Newt | Oct 9, 2017 | Monkey Monday
Over a day and a half, while I was researching for the Mandate of Heaven (which I co-ran with +John Ruddy and +Lynn Yin at Furnace in Sheffield last weekend), I’ve learnt what an absolutely fucked place/concept the Chinese 10 Courts of Hell are. A place of...
by Newt | Oct 2, 2017 | Convention Games, Monkey Monday
Furnace this weekend coming, so here’s the information about the three tables that the Mandate of Heaven runs across. Information for players You will need to sign up for a ‘table’. This means we’ve got table allocation done before the game starts and we can...
by Newt | Aug 21, 2017 | 2nd Incarnation Development, Monkey Monday
This following fragment is from the Narrator’s advice chapter, where I talk briefly about the tricky issue of presenting the setting information. For many role playing games, setting information is portrayed as an unassailable beacon of truth. For many reasons,...
by Newt | Aug 14, 2017 | 2nd Incarnation Development, Monkey Monday
Gosh, it’s been a while ( summer holidays and all that), but work continues getting the core rule book together. One of the new pieces I’ve written for the second version of the game is a section that allows you to create your version of the Tang Monk,...
by Newt | Jul 7, 2017 | 2nd Incarnation Development
I’m trying very hard not to make Monkey a dissertation on Eastern Religion/Philosophy (even on a personal level) since that would completely defeat the purpose of it being a game. Every now and again I’m having to dip into the more intense explanations to...
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