Yoon-Suin Second Edition Hardcover Now Available from Noisms Games

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Indie tabletop RPG designer David McGrogan (better known as Noisms Games) has officially released a new hardcover version of Yoon-Suin: The Purple Land, Second Edition, bringing the legendary sandbox setting back into print for the first time in over a decade. First published in 2014, over the years Yoon-Suin has since earned a reputation as one the most inventive world-building toolkits in the OSR scene. This new second edition was successfully funded on Kickstarter back in early 2025, with the book now available to the general public.

Notably, the second edition includes new art, monsters, random tables and previously unpublished adventure modules. You can pick up the PDF version now from DriveThruRPG, with the hardcover version available now from local game stores and the Noisms webiste. Below, we take a closer look at what to expect in this return to the Purple Land.

What is Yoon-Suin: The Purple Land about?

Yoon-Suin: The Purple Land is a system-agnostic campaign toolkit focused on a region loosely inspired by parts of India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. Rather than presenting a completely fleshed out setting, however, the book instead focuses on providing resources (including a variety of random tables) that allows GMs to generate unique cultures, factions, creatures, trade networks and lore. The Purple Land itself is described by the author as “a region of high adventure shrouded in ancient mysteries, opium smoke, great luxury and opulent cruelty.”

While Yoon-Suin was inspired in large part by the so-called D&D “BECMI” period of the early 1980s (so named because it saw the release of the Basic, Expert, Companion, Master and Immortal sets), it can be easily adopted to just about any RPG system, whether it be modern games such as D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e and Daggerheart, or retro games such as Dungeon Crawl Classics, Old-School Essentials and Shadowdark.

What’s included in the Yoon-Suin Second Edition hardcover?

The new second edition of Yoon-Suin: The Purple Land is 389 pages in length and features full-color illustrations. Notably, the size of the book is a little different than most standard RPG books and is actually a landscape-format hardcover that measures 6.6″ x 9.5″ inches. Inside it includes:

• New and updated random tables for NPCs, factions, locations, cultures, rumours, encounters and wilderness exploration.
• New and extended mechanics for poisons, trade, deities, tea culture, opium and giant insect riding.
• A complete ruleset for exploring Old Town in the Yellow City.
• New systems for navigating the haunted jungles of Lahag.
• An expanded bestiary featuring liquid golems, tiger-beetle men, aphid-men, mummified monks and other creatures.
• The Crab-Man character class, updated for the new edition
• 12 new Mini-Adventures, each of which contains a full-colour map by Tom Fitzgerald.
• All-new art, from original Yoon-Suin first edition illustrator Matt Adams.

How Much Is Yoon-Suin 2nd Edition?

The new hardcover retails for $72.37 USD (which includes shipping if you order through the Noisms Games website). The PDF version is $17.75 USD and available through both the Noisms website and DriveThruRPG.

Considering the quality and amount of content you’re getting, it’s a solid deal and the book is worth it for the art alone.

Why Pick Up Yoon-Suin 2nd Edition

If you missed out on the Kickstarter from 2025 and are on the fence, below are a few reasons why you might consider picking up the book:

• Stunning new art that vividly captures the unique Southeast Asian setting.
• OSR done right, with minimal fixed canon and maximum emergent play.
• A massive toolkit of random tables that can generate entire cultures, cities, maps, factions and adventures.
• Solid replay value, there’s enough material to literally run a complete campaign for years
• System agnostic, that lets you literally drop in the content to just about any fantasy game system.
• Support for an indie designer, with David “Noisms” McGrogan genuinely pushing the envelope in the OSR and TTRPG space.

Final Thoughts

Yoon-Suin: The Purple Land remains one of the most distinctive and imaginative settings in the tabletop RPG hobby, offering a dreamlike, generative sandbox that values creativity over canon and wonder over rigid structure. The second edition looks to enhances everything fans loved about the original while offering up new art, adventures and an even richer suite of tables and tools. If you missed out on the first edition, now’s the perfect time to get into one the OSRs most unique books.

You can pick up the PDF version of Yoon-Suin Second Edition now from DriveThruRPG, with the hardcover version available now from local game stores and the Noisms webiste.