Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
What’s the Best Way to Share GM Resources?
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015I’ve some collections of resources I’ve built up over the years for GMing. Things like maps, plans and NPC portraits. I’ve been thinking of posting them here but was wondering what the most useful way of sharing was for other GMs. So here is a quick poll. Hope you’ll vote!
Language Cherries and Lemons for Trail of Cthulhu
Sunday, June 21st, 2015Two ideas on ways of encouraging players of Trail of Cthulhu to take more languages. Originally I was going to just suggest the carrot of free languages using cherries but then a friend wanted to use a stick approach so I came up with lemons for them… Language Cherries and Lemons for Trail of Cthulhu.
Yarn RPG 0.1
Wednesday, December 10th, 2014Yarn is pretty simple mash up of WaRP System and DramaSystem. This is a pretty early draft and at the moment I’ve not really done a lot more than trying to pull the two SRDs together and try to iron out some of the join marks. There are no series pitches in version 0.1 I hope […]
Bronze Age Pocket Junk
Sunday, April 13th, 2014I’ve incorporated this blog post into a new page on Pocket Junk.
Secrets and Mysteries
Thursday, January 9th, 2014I’ve been reading The Secret State by Peter Hennessy and I was struck by the differing definitions of Secrets and Mysteries used to describe what security and intelligence services know and what its very hard for them to know. Here are just a few initial thoughts on the impact of the difference on writing thriller […]