D&D General Yoon Suin - the best D&D setting I ever purchased in 30 years, on sale for 1 pound

[MNblockhead]

Looks interesting, I decided to go ahead and buy it. I like the marginalia with cross references. Wish WOTC would do more of that.

 

[J-H]

I went ahead and picked it up. I'm enjoying reading through the intro, as I personally struggle making evocative descriptive text.

 

[Ancalagon]

I went ahead and picked it up. I'm enjoying reading through the intro, as I personally struggle making evocative descriptive text.

I enjoyed reading it too - it really sets the tone.

 

[squibbles]

Yoon Suin is a brilliantly flavorful setting.

A snippet I liked about one location:
"The city itself is a beautiful but haunted place. The nasnas who populate it are silent, shameful things which do not associate with outsiders - or, seemingly, each other. And many of its great buildings - its halls, its mausoleums, its domes, its tenements - lie empty and filled with dust and sighing ghosts. The ogre magi live in towers and minarets, where they stare longingly to distant horizons and ponder their tragic past. No matter the time of day, there is always a feeling that it is twilight. And you might sometimes hear music being played as you wander its streets at night, but you will never find its source."

I cannot recommend it enough.

Thanks @Ancalagon for mentioning the sale.

...bump

 

[Orius]

Totally agree, it deserves more press.

Here's a video that highlights it, along with some other campaign settings that are also really interesting.

I've seen this video, and his video on Yoon-Suin specifically, and I'm somewhat curious about it. It's on my list of things to investigate.

 

[Ancalagon]

Yoon Suin is a brilliantly flavorful setting.

A snippet I liked about one location:
"The city itself is a beautiful but haunted place. The nasnas who populate it are silent, shameful things which do not associate with outsiders - or, seemingly, each other. And many of its great buildings - its halls, its mausoleums, its domes, its tenements - lie empty and filled with dust and sighing ghosts. The ogre magi live in towers and minarets, where they stare longingly to distant horizons and ponder their tragic past. No matter the time of day, there is always a feeling that it is twilight. And you might sometimes hear music being played as you wander its streets at night, but you will never find its source."

I cannot recommend it enough.

Thanks @Ancalagon for mentioning the sale.

...bump

Ah, Syr Darya... my campaign never went there, I don't think I could do it justice...

But thank you. According to a post on this forum, only 4 people ever bought Yoon Suin, and I'm just the author in disguise shilling my book... I mean never mind the fact that I've been on EN world for 20, 21 years now?

So you are in a very elite club

 

[Casimir Liber]

I'll note that you don't "have" to play OSR with this. I ran a 2 year 5e campaign in there just fine

Hey do you still have statblocks of the critters that you 5e-fied? That'd be cool...am playing around with this now...

 

[Ancalagon]

Hey do you still have statblocks of the critters that you 5e-fied? That'd be cool...am playing around with this now...

oh, nothing so neat as formal statblocks. In some cases I just reskined monsters - like I used a hill giant for the giant slugman, for example.

As a meager consolation, here is most of the material I have for it:

Of Slugs and Silver

slugsandsilver.blogspot.com

 

[Casimir Liber]

Great stuff! You've captured the essence of the Yellow City well there....

 

[Ancalagon]

Great stuff! You've captured the essence of the Yellow City well there....

Thank you, I definitely put a lot of work into it...