Too Many Ideas - Posts Tagged ‘Role Playing Game’
Do Role Playing Games Need XP?
Thursday, March 18th, 2010When making rules for a role playing game there is the ongoing balancing act between narrative and simulation. Both of which ultimately need to create fun. At one extreme you’ve a game like Over the Edge with very lightweight rule system and at the other end you’ve got rules heavy, simulation game like Rolemaster. Both […]
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. […]
SLA Industry Pages are Back
Saturday, December 5th, 2009In the dim and distant past (well circa 1996), when I had my first web site on mudhole, I had some pages about SLA Industries a British, dystopian, science fiction, table top role-playing game. Last night I revived some of those pages from back-ups. So for the first time in quite awhile (well probably 8 […]
Hand me my Chainsaw of Editing
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009The rebuilding and post launch work on impworks is now pretty much done which means I can get back to other projects. tonight I’ve taken an editing chainsaw to a 120 page text which is the core design for a game and so far I’ve cut it to 60 pages. Now I’m at the hard […]
Hold on a Minute Lads, I've got an Idea!
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008I wrote an article on heist movies, You’re Only Supposed to Blow the Bloody Doors Off!!! , for Valkyrie issue 25 several years ago. I’ve been working on game ideas related to that and to a detective based game for quite a while either as a role playing game or as a wargame. I’ve been […]
Disavowed-1010
Friday, February 9th, 2007I started another blog a few days ago. At the tail end of last year I picked up the new edition of one of my favourite role playing games, Conspiracy X. I’m not a believer in conspiracy theories tending towards the cock up theory of history. However I do think conspiracies can make for interesting […]
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 […]
First thoughts on New Game with No Name (Yet)
Monday, January 30th, 2006So I want to do stuff for the new web site. I’ve got several stories underway. I should come up with a game idea to work on too. For years I’ve been playing round with an idea for a game that can be used as both a role playing game and a wargame without any […]