Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category
Characters on the Couch (Part 14)
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 13). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). The Sage Archetype "The truth will set you free." Sages seek the discovery of truth, knowledge and wisdom. They prize research and intelligence. Their aim is to understand the world. They also […]
Fairy Tale Physics
Monday, October 9th, 2006I’ve been making sure the physics of my fairy tale world work today. Not as much fun as writing but since little dragon needs to exploit them in order to solve the case I need to make sure the rules make sense. So I’ve spent a lot of today mulling on entropy, brane theory, multiverses […]
Running Before the Storm
Thursday, October 5th, 2006After a day spent assembling a rather long questionnaire for a client’s new site I needed a break from typing. I thought I’d have a play with Vue. After half an hour of playing and 12 minutes of rendering I’d knocked the picture out of a ship running into a sheltered bay ahead of a […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 13)
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 12). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). The Explorer Archetype "Don’t fence me in." Explorers seek freedom and fulfilment. They seek to boldly go, aimlessly wandering with the autonomy to be true to their soul. They are iconoclasts who […]
How (Not) to Get Links and Influence People
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006I’m not going to claim to be some sort of expert on blog promotion. I knowingly break several of the rules on how to have a really popular blog. If you’ve not guessed yet there is a but coming sometime so without any thought for the rules of English grammar here it is: BUT one […]
SOCA Leg Work
Monday, October 2nd, 2006Went back to an old project today. Started trying to put Serious and Organised to bed. Tidying up the text, adding descriptions of Characteristics to reduce the wiggle factor for rules lawyers while trying to avoid the game creeping into needing lots more Characteristics if I define the ones I’ve included too tightly. Dull but […]
More Noir Challenges.
Sunday, October 1st, 2006I’d been stuck on how to move the Noir on. I’d written a scene that just didn’t seem to gell. Kim suggested I have the characters making tea (Thanks Kim). So I rewrote the scene, got the hero into a fight and into the next scene where he could pick up the next clue he […]
D'Artagnan and the Cardinal's Spy
Saturday, September 30th, 2006Subbed a quick scenario for Eureka Miniatures free rules …And One for All in to Ragnarok earlier.
Characters on the Couch (Part 12)
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 11). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). The Yearning for Paradise The Innocent Archetype “Free to be you and me.” The Innocent wants to be happy and to do things right. They have faith and opportunism. Other key traits […]
Smarty Experiments
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006Spent a few hours tonight playing with smarty templates to decide what the best way is to set up the templates for impworks for the main content. I think I’ve hit on a solution I like. Now all I have to do is sort out any fiddly bits and dress the content up to work.