Too Many Ideas - Posts Tagged ‘Games’
The Panzerfaüste Song Book and other odds and ends
Monday, October 26th, 2015With Hysterical Games’ Panzerfaüste Kickstarter well underway I thought I’d dig up some old bits and pieces for Panzerfaüste and post them here. Just two pages to start things off… An expanded version of the The Panzerfaüste Song Book that appeared in Ragnarok 55. Now with added instrumental support for singers and some other tweaks. […]
Building Maps for Role Playing with Vue
Monday, February 13th, 2012I quite often make maps and other diagrams for games I’m running using Vue and other computer graphic software. Over the weekend I was messing around with GeoControl2 and it randomly produced a landscape I quite liked the look of but I don’t have a game it fits with at the moment. So I thought […]
The Grey Movie Review with bonus Role Playing Thoughts
Friday, February 10th, 2012Its BAFTA weekend and I’m not expecting The Grey to be getting any nominations other than for film shot in the coldest location (and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy may beat it in that category too). As is pretty obvious from the poster above it’s another Liam Neeson vehicle trying to find the ingredient that he […]
RPG Second 11
Thursday, May 12th, 2011Or 11 Games every gamer might want to have a look at playing before they fail their saving throw vs. Death Here are eleven RPGs I love but that didn’t quite make the First 11 RPGs list mostly because I’ve not played them. Agone – I’ve never actually played Agone but loved the look of […]
RPG First 11
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011Or 11 Games every gamer should play before they fail their saving throw vs. death This post was inspired by the post on Dane of War’s blog now on Geekcentricity. In alphabetical order are eleven games that I think are really worth your time and money. These are all games that I have played on […]
Ursa Carrien for SLA Industries Review
Sunday, April 10th, 2011Ursa Carrien is the first release from Nightfall Games of a pure PDF product. At 98p it’s an eight page bargain for anyone who plays SLA Industries RPG. The Ursa Carrien are a new addition to the monstrous inhabitants of Cannibal Sector Two and the opening illustration by Dave Allsop is a stunning piece of […]
Ragnarok 58
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Issue 58 of Ragnarok (the journal of the SFSFW) landed through my post box today including my article for Wessex Games’ Strange Tydes The Bare Belly Coast. Immediately spotted an editing error I’d made where I’d truncated a sentence… “The alliance with the Orcs eventually saw it added it to their empire as a protectorate […]
Ragnarok 58 Coming Soon
Friday, March 11th, 2011Ragnarok Issue 58 is at the printers according to the SFSFW blog so my Bare Belly Coast article for Wessex Games’ Strange Tydes will soon be available in lovely print form. Time to finish off the Strange Grogge companion article.
Pelgrane talk at Dragonmeet 2010
Monday, November 29th, 2010The following notes come from the seminar at Dragonmeet (27th November 2010) by Kenneth Hite, Robin D Laws, Simon Rogers and Gareth Hanrahan. I didn’t record the talk so these are just notes that I took that give the gist of what was being said. They’re also only the notes about investigative gaming. I’m providing […]
Dragonmeet 2010 Convention Report
Sunday, November 28th, 2010So I finally made it to Dragonmeet, its taken me a few years but this time I did it. My planning fu was weak so I’d not decided to go till quite late on so I was staying four miles from Kensington and eight from the centre of London. This did mean I got to […]