Too Many Ideas - Posts Tagged ‘Roleplaying’
Dracula Dossier Campaign Cartographer 3
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015Tonight I wanted to have a little play with the new floorplan style for Campaign Cartographer 3 for creating plans in the style of the Dracula Dossier. With little time available I didn’t want to take on a full blown project like a building so I thought I’d throw together one of the locations beloved […]
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 […]
The Woman in Black Review with Notes for Roleplayers
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012The Woman in Black is a solid attempt to make a classic ghost story from the revived Hammer . The film making combines the best of the old school Hammer with 21st century production values. It takes a classic approach to horror eschewing the slasher / blood and gore school of horror. The cinema I […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sketch Elevation
Sunday, March 14th, 2010I’ve been writting the next adventure for the role playing game I’m occassionally running today. As well as the traditional overhead map of one of the key locations I’m considering using elevations of the streets to help players visualise their surroundings. The small sample above is a section from a trial elevation I sketched tonight. […]
Fort Knox
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010I thought I’d post another satellite picture after last weeks picture of the boneyard. Being a fan of the old Bond film Goldfinger I thought Fort Knox and the United States Bullion Depository (the large building with nothing around it at the bottom of the map). View Larger Map
Serious and Organised Revisited
Saturday, July 29th, 2006I’ve been revisiting my notes for Serious and Organised after enough time for the ideas to mature a little more. After a bit of editing to cut fluff I got down to writing a background to go with it drawing on the classic 70s and 80s cop shows for inspiration. A bit more polishing and […]