Anyone have this? Looks delightfully weird, but too expensive to buy just for the heck of it (as I already have Kwantoom) without further details/opinions

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/144820/YoonSuin

Quote from: JeremyR;816539Anyone have this? Looks delightfully weird, but too expensive to buy just for the heck of it (as I already have Kwantoom) without further details/opinions

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/144820/YoonSuin

While I am admittedly a cheap bastard. $9.53, for 300 pages of content is not a bad deal in my eyes. More on point it looks like it could be interesting. I, too would like to learn more about it.

Quoteopium smoke...tiger-beetle men...new character class, the Crab-man...Purple prose

I admit, my interest has been caught.

I've read the fellow's blog and caught bits of the setting here and there... lots of fun/weird stuff from what I recall. This is definitely going into my next bin purchase.

The preview was interesting. Like an opium nightmare mix of Kolkata, Bangkok, Saigon and the looming jungle beyond. I like the inhuman Hlondath city founder vibe, too. Instead of Tiger-headed Opium Nightmare, it's Slug-men Opium Nightmare (with Crab-men slaves).

I look forward to the purple prose myself.

I am the author/creator of Yoon-Suin!

Ask me anything you'd like to know.

Also, to give a little info on what it is: it is a setting which is very loosely based on the region of Asia which encompasses, Tibet, Nepal, Burma and Northern India. And I mean loosely in the sense that the Forgotten Realms is loosely based on Europe. It's a fantasy world without orcs, elves, etc. Instead it's a world with a caste system where slug-men are at the top, humans are in the middle and crab-men are at the bottom. It has psionic gharials, fakirs, and blood golems. It has extensive tables for creating varieties of poison, opium, and, of course, tea. It has archmages with faces in their hands and a city entirely populated by nasnas.

Rather than just be a hex crawl, my idea was to create a toolkit to create your own version of the setting. So you get lots of information about the setting, written in an in-game-world way, and some blank regional hex maps, and then a load of random tables and pre-written adventure sites for you to populate the hex map yourself. The idea is that, rather than give you the canonical Yoon-Suin, you make your own Yoon-Suin.

It also has a big bestiary of monsters and enough pre-written hex contents that I'm sure anybody can plunder its contents for use in a non-Yoon-Suin game.

EDIT: I'll add that a print version will be out pretty soon - in a week or so's time. It is in 9" x 7" landscape format, 327 pages long, fully indexed.

I didn't know it was out!  I'm a fan of Noism's blog, so I've been planning to get this when it dropped.  But I digest print better than pdf, so I'll wait for that.

considering your fondness for "renegade crowns" i would assume yoon-suin would be very similar. if it is, that might be a good angle for promotion. i don't know anyone who doesn't like that book.

Quote from: shlominus;816630considering your fondness for "renegade crowns" i would assume yoon-suin would be very similar. if it is, that might be a good angle for promotion. i don't know anyone who doesn't like that book.

Yes, the idea is somewhat similar, and I do love Renegade Crowns.

This looks and sounds awesome! I love City/Campaign kits that are customizable.

I follow his blog so I will have to check this one out. Looks interesting.

Quote from: Necrozius;816634This looks and sounds awesome! I love City/Campaign kits that are customizable.

Quote from: Arkansan;816638I follow his blog so I will have to check this one out. Looks interesting.

Let me know what you think if you do download it. Feedback is always welcome.

Will do. I plan on grabbing it tonight so I may even post a review if no one beats me to it.

Yoon-Suin is definitely worth picking up-one of the most original and fully-realized settings period in DIY D&D or otherwise.

This is not a retread of anything familiar, but at the same time it has a magic and a logic holding it together that makes it easy to get into the spirit.