Too Many Ideas - Archive for July, 2015
Role Playing the Movies
Friday, July 31st, 2015Obviously there are RPGs that are licenced from movies. Others often borrow (and sometimes outright steal) from movies, TVs and books then file off the serial numbers. I’ve a couple of posts on borrowing inspiration from particular movies in the past and I always intend to write more so to chivvy myself along I’ve decided […]
Serpentine Pavilion 2015 Gallery
Wednesday, July 29th, 2015I took far too many photographs of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by selgascano. This one seems a lot more fragile than previous pavilions and it was being repaired at least twice on the three times I visited. But these Pavilions are temporary so its more appropriate in a way than some of the heavyweight, […]
1930s Film Star Portraits
Monday, July 27th, 2015I had an email asking about where I found the illustrations I used on the Bookhounds of MI5 so I’ve pulled them all together into a collection and added it to my Trail of Cthulhu resources page. And in case you’ve missed it the poll on how I should post RPG resources like this is […]
Bookhounds + MI5
Saturday, July 25th, 2015Posted a new page last night of ideas for adding MI5 to a Bookhounds of London campaign which I inventivelly called Bookhounds of MI5. All the stats are for Trail of Cthulhu.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2015 Teaser (Almost Wordless Wednesday 41)
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015I’m still working through the pictures I took of this years Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (down to 62 pictures so far). But I like this one so I thought I’d post it today.
Mayas: revelation of an endless time
Saturday, July 18th, 2015I went to the excellent, free exhibition Mayas: revelation of an endless time at the World Museum in Liverpool today for a second visit. There are 385 Mayan artefacts covering the period from 250 to 1250AD. I needed a second visit having nipped in on a lunch break the week it opened not knowing what […]
A New 7-Sentence NPC
Friday, July 17th, 2015CM Cline in Dragon Magazine 184 (August 1992) presented The 7-Sentence NPC. Back then most of my NPCs either got a full page biography or a stat block. Over time I found moving to the middle ground the 7-Sentence NPC represents a handy tool. They have the advantage of being quick to read as a […]
Two London Panoramas (Almost Wordless Wednesday 40)
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015These two panoramas were taken from Tate Modern’s Members Room balcony overlooking the river Thames. The first (top one) was taken 5th July 2014 and the bottom one on 4th July 2015.
1920s Images for RPG Referees
Monday, July 13th, 2015I’ve uploaded the first of four sets of images for 1920s RPG referees (good for games like Call of Cthulhu and Trail of Cthulhu). You can still vote on my poll on how I should compile them in future.
Terminator Genisys
Sunday, July 12th, 2015Sometimes bad reviews can be a good thing. Pleased to say I enjoyed this more than I expected based on the critics. Nice mix of twists, spills and thrills following the chase format of the previous movies. If forced I’d say this is probably the third best outing of the series but a lot […]