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Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Resources for TTRPG’ Category

Plans of Larger London Underground Stations

Sunday, August 8th, 2021

Useful for anyone running modern day RPG in London the axonometric plans of larger London Underground Stations are available as PDFs thanks to a FoI.

Aerospace Publications

Sunday, November 15th, 2020

The AIA has an online collection of old publications including aircraft yearbooks from 1919 to 1970 and avitation news from World War 2.

King’s Topographical Collection

Saturday, November 7th, 2020

The British Library have added a new set of out of copyright images to their flickr. The Topographical Collection of George III contains drawn and printed maps, views and atlases produced between 1500 and 1824. At the time of posting this there are 17,908 images in the collection.

222 Posters

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020

Art of the Poster 1880-1918 is a collection of  222 high resolutions scans of posters from 1880 to 1918 on flickr from  Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD)

Paris Musées Public Domain Art

Saturday, January 11th, 2020

Paris Musées have released 100,000 images of artworks to the public domain for unrestricted public use.

Resources for TTRPG – NSA Declassified Agony Aunt

Friday, May 3rd, 2019

NSA’s Declassification and Transparency section which includes some really interesting resources for anyone who’s interested in the history of cryptography and for GMs running spy games. Amongst the documents are the “Ask Zelda” columns which might make good handouts for a Laundry Files game. There’s also a collection of UFO related material (complete with heavy […]

Resources for TTRPG – Old English to Modern English Translator

Friday, April 26th, 2019

Today’s resource for TTRPGs is an Old English to Modern English Dictionary. Great for finding names and inspiration for fantasy writing.

Resources for TTRPG – Qatar Digital Library

Friday, April 19th, 2019

Lots of reusable free digital material in the Qatar Digital Library including maps, photographs, books, sound recordings and more much of it available under Creative Commons licence.

Resources for TTRPG – Aerial Photographs of Britain

Friday, April 12th, 2019

Britain from Above has a collection of 95,000 aerial photographs of Britain searchable using a map or text. Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography (CUCAP) has a growing selection online of their extensive collection of aerial photographs of Britain searchable using a map, by theme and place with some available under for use under a  CC-BY-NC […]

Resources for TTRPG – President’s Daily Brief

Friday, April 5th, 2019

The CIA has released the Daily Briefs for the Nixon, Ford, Kennedy and Johnson presidential administrations. The collection includes almost 5000 documents from 1961 to 1977.  Produced every day except Sunday the brief summarise the day-to-day intelligence and analysis on current and future national security issues. President’s Daily Brief 1961-1969 President’s Daily Brief 1969-1977

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