Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2019

Almost Wordless Wednesday 45

The London Mastaba 2018

Resources for TTRPG – Federal Writers Project – Boston and Massachusetts

  Massachusetts; 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

Almost Wordless Wednesday 44

Holyrood Abbey Window 2017

Resources for TTRPG – Federal Writers Project – Almanac for New Yorkers 1938 and 1939

The 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 […]

Almost Wordless Wednesday 43

Finally 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

I’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 […]

Almost Wordless Wednesday 42

Testing the 9 Sentence Setting So Far

I wanted to test how well the 9 Sentence Setting elements work together in anger.  I’ve used it to assemble an RPG setting for a silly idea that keeps coming back to me for a game set in a world not unlike Death in Paradise except the island is a place the dead from an […]

The 9 Sentence Organisation

Expanding on the 9 Sentence Settlement and the 7 Sentence NPC and last weeks  9 Sentence Region and the 9 Sentence Building this week I’ve been thinking about how to make a compact but useful description of an organisation.  This is my first stab… Heading – Name Line 1: Introduction – Alternate names, leader, size and status Line 2: First […]

The 9 Sentence Region and the 9 Sentence Building

Expanding on the 9 Sentence Settlement and the 7 Sentence NPC here is my first stab at the 9 Sentence region Heading Line 1: Introduction Line 2: First Impressions Line 3: Geography Line 4: Resources Line 5: Flora and Fauna Line 6: People, Population, Demographics, Government and Culture Line 7: Places and Infrastructure Line 8: History  Line 9: […]