Are Zombies Past their Sell by Date?
Now a few years ago a famous game designer pointed out that all successful RPGs include zombies. I think it was Robin D Laws but I could be wrong. This was extended by others to suggest that a game...
View ArticleVictorian House Model Extensions
I noticed last year that the 25mm version of my cardboard house models had picked up a steady stream of downloads. When I originally posted them back in 2007 there didn’t seem to be a lot of interest...
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Ragnarok 58 Coming Soon
Ragnarok 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...
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Accretion
When I took this picture of buildings all jostling for space with each other on a Liverpool street I was going to just post it as a throw away picture post. However this was one of the views, with its...
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Ragnarok 58
Issue 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...
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Building Maps for Role Playing with Vue
I 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...
View ArticleThe Raid Notes for Role Players
With some films I find the fun is trying to pick a game that would best fit gaming the film. The Raid isn’t one of those films. With the raid the question I find myself asking is how many games can...
View ArticleSecrets and Mysteries
I’ve been reading The Secret State by Peter Hennessy and I was struck by the differing definitions of Secrets and Mysteries used to describe what security and intelligence services know and what its...
View ArticleBronze Age Pocket Junk
Back in November I posted about Pocket Litter as a way of getting a handle on characters for gaming and writing. A New Scientist article put me on to the ice preserved remains of a man, known as Ötzi,...
View ArticleYarn RPG 0.1
Yarn is pretty simple mash up of WaRP System and DramaSystem. This is a pretty early draft and at the moment I’ve not really done a lot more than trying to pull the two SRDs together and try to iron...
View ArticleLanguage Cherries and Lemons for Trail of Cthulhu
Two ideas on ways of encouraging players of Trail of Cthulhu to take more languages. Originally I was going to just suggest the carrot of free languages using cherries but then a friend wanted to use...
View ArticleWhat’s the Best Way to Share GM Resources?
I’ve some collections of resources I’ve built up over the years for GMing. Things like maps, plans and NPC portraits. I’ve been thinking of posting them here but was wondering what the most useful way...
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1920s Images for RPG Referees
I’ve uploaded the first of four sets of images for 1920s RPG referees (good for games like Call of Cthulhu and Trail of Cthulhu). You can still vote on my poll on how I should compile them in future....
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A New 7-Sentence NPC
CM Cline in Dragon Magazine 184 (August 1992) presented The 7-Sentence NPC. Back then most of my NPCs either got a full page biography or a stat block. Over time I found moving to the middle ground the...
View ArticleBookhounds + MI5
Posted a new page last night of ideas for adding MI5 to a Bookhounds of London campaign which I inventivelly called Bookhounds of MI5. All the stats are for Trail of Cthulhu. The post Bookhounds + MI5...
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1930s Film Star Portraits
I had an email asking about where I found the illustrations I used on the Bookhounds of MI5 so I’ve pulled them all together into a collection and added it to my Trail of Cthulhu resources page. And...
View ArticleRole Playing the Movies
Obviously 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...
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The World’s Loose Leaf album of Apartment Houses
I found the online version at the New York Library Digital Archive of “The World’s Loose Leaf album of Apartment Houses” (New York World in March 1910) hard to work with. So I’ve compiled the highest...
View ArticleGaming the Heist Movies
You’re Only Supposed to Blow the Bloody Doors Off appeared in Valkyrie Quarterly issue 25. I’m posting the original article online but I plan on adding to it and expanding it. The post Gaming the...
View ArticlePocket Junk and a little Light Reorganising
I’ve been moving some of my pages round over the last few days to try and make some of them a little less buried away. So all the pages that used to be under other peoples’ games are now just under...
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