Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2016

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016 #2

Wednesday, August 10th, 2016

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016 #1

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016

Three London Panoramas

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Another year – another panorama from Tate Modern. These three panoramas were taken from Tate Modern’s Bar balcony (which used to be the Members Room) overlooking the river Thames. The first (top one) was taken 5th July 2014, the bottom one on 4th July 2015 and the bottom one on the 9th July 2016.

Tate Modern Switch Tower

Tate Modern Thoughts

Thursday, July 21st, 2016

First time at Tate Modern since the new Switch House opened on Saturday 9th July .  There are many good things: The Members bar (formerly members room) is now usable on a Saturday. The New members room is spacious. The 360 views from the top of the Switch House well worth getting to. However there […]

Tate Britain - Pablo Bronstein: Historical Dances in an Antique Setting

London Exhibitions Summer 2016

Sunday, July 17th, 2016

So a quick personal review of things I went to in London last week… Serpentine Pavilion 2016 Serpentine Pavilion 2016 (photo above) which is extremely cool. For first time this year there are the four summer houses elsewhere in the park which were smaller but also interesting.  I’ll probably do separate posts about these when […]

7th Sea 2nd Edition Likely Number of Raises

Saturday, June 25th, 2016

7th Sea 2nd edition uses an interesting mechanism to decide how well a character does with an action.  I wanted to have some idea of how many raises a starting character is likely to have depending on their Trait, Skill and any bonus dice they might get.  So I ran some simulations earlier using a […]

7th Sea 2nd Edition Traits

Saturday, June 4th, 2016

Just a few thoughts about the patterns of points that can be assigned to Traits in 7th Sea 2nd Edition. In second edition the rules create only a few possible patterns for assigning numbers that make up a character’s Traits. Here they are ordered by highest Trait first… Trait Total Points A B C D […]

7th Sea 2nd Edition Kickstarter

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016

I’m not good at picking favourites. Don’t ask me to pick my favourite book, film or TV show. You’ll get a list. This holds true for Role Playing Games with D&D Ravenloft, Conspiracy X, Panzerfaüste, Call of Cthulhu and SLA Industries all likely to feature (and yes I know Panzerfaüste is a skirmish war game […]

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