Too Many Ideas - Archive for February, 2019
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2019Arthurs Seat from Holyroodhouse 2017
Resources for TTRPG – The Buttolph Collection of Menus
Friday, February 22nd, 2019The New York Public Library Digital Collection’s The Buttolph Collection of Menus is an extensive collection of 19,000 menus from the 1850s to now . I use these as a bit of period colour and to get player characters interacting over something other than how to do the next part of the adventure. Just keep […]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2019The London Mastaba 2018
Resources for TTRPG – Federal Writers Project – Boston and Massachusetts
Friday, February 15th, 2019Massachusetts; a guide to its places and people An almanack for Bostonians, 1939 is very similar to the New York almanacs by the FWP – this one includes local holidays, flag days and phases of the moon, Boston looks seaward; the story of the port, 1630-1940
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2019Holyrood Abbey Window 2017
Resources for TTRPG – Federal Writers Project – Almanac for New Yorkers 1938 and 1939
Friday, February 8th, 2019The published in 1937 and written by Federal Writers Project authors the Almanac for New Yorkers 1938 has a guide to warnings for small craft, a day by day guide to things that were going to happen in New York along with a fact of the day, a pictorial map of the city, a list of […]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2019Finally put together my annual panorama taken from the balcony of the members bar at Tate Modern from July 2018
Resources for TTRPG – Federal Writers’ Project Guides to New York
Friday, February 1st, 2019I’m a big fan of reading guide books and other period books as source books for RPGs. Yesterday I stumbled across the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) – a project to provide jobs for unemployed writers established by the US federal during the Great Depression. Amongst their output were guides to various parts of the US. Now […]