Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2018

The 9 Sentence Settlement

I was thinking yesterday about expanding the New 7 Sentence NPC to cover other sorts of game information.  I became a fan of the 7 Sentence NPC when I read it in Dragon magazine back in 1992 as it is quick to produce and gives me as a GM lots of the information I need […]

Happy Christmas 2018

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – lovely costume and set design, some really good special effects, can’t fault the cast. So its a shame the story was so laden with exposition, foreshadowing the existing films and random happenings. Also once you’ve we’ve been told its in Paris you don’t have to be quite so […]

London December 2018

Quick summary of stuff I went to in London… Cats on the Page (Free British Libarary) exhibition about fictional cats in books by various theme. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War (££ British Libarary) exhibition with lots of books and some other shiny stuff like gold jewellery from hoards Tate Britain Winter Commission by Monster Chetwynd […]

Dirk Dangerous Retired

Decided it was time to shut down the Dirk Dangerous website as I’ve not written anything for it for ages.  Moved the stuff worth salvaging into this site today.

Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho Talk at Tate Liverpool

Went to a talk from Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho at Tate Liverpool tonight.  I’ve not had a chance to see their exhibition, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho: News from Nowhere,  at Tate Liverpool yet Interesting to hear how they collaborate with each other and bring in experts in fields such as architecture, technology and fashion to […]

Two Vue Renders

So I was messing around in Vue with some real world terrain data and I rather like this test render. Anyway I was wondering – would it look good with a couple of giant science fiction buildings dropped in so just to try it I dropped in a couple of Stonemasons creations from Daz3d. They […]