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Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category

Cardano Grille RPG Plot Generator

Saturday, February 17th, 2024

Had an idea for a plot generator for table top role-playing games last night. Probably best suited to an espionage or conspiracy theory game or a game set during the Renaissance. I was originally thinking of The Dee Sanction but Project Cassandra, Spy Master, Conspiracy X, Night’s Black Agents, 7th Sea and All for One: […]

Ancient Hermit RPG

Saturday, March 27th, 2021

Ancient Hermit is a micro table top Role Playing Game (TTRPG) for one player and one or more game masters. The player plays the Ancient Hermit who is really just looking for a quiet life. The Game Master(s) are Truth Seekers who want advice from the Hermit and the Forces of Nature.  

What’s so Cool about Quantum Branes

Thursday, February 25th, 2021

What’s so Cool about Quantum Branes is a micro table top RPG inspired by “What’s So Cool About Outer Space?” where you play characters who travel between parallel worlds finding themselves in inexplicable situations. Included in the download zip are an illustrated PDF version and a simple markdown version.  

Goldfish RPG

Tuesday, January 5th, 2021

Goldfish is a rules free, micro table top RPG I wrote in the ’90s where you play a Goldfish. Included in the zip are PDF, Markdown and HTML version of the game.  

Trumpton Newtown

Sunday, October 27th, 2019

This is a little thought game for two or more players. I made it up to help explain world building to friends who aren’t into RPGs or writing. It actually first came about because of a long car journey I was taking with my Dad back in the early 2000s. Start with a simple premise… […]

When Ants Attack!!!

Sunday, September 29th, 2019

Just added an old article I wrote for Ragnarok – When Ants Attack!!! a look at the pseudo science of giant ants in fiction.  The second half of the article is game stats for table top wargame Tusk.

Testing the 9 Sentence Setting So Far

Sunday, January 20th, 2019

I wanted to test how well the 9 Sentence Setting elements work together in anger.  I’ve used it to assemble an RPG setting for a silly idea that keeps coming back to me for a game set in a world not unlike Death in Paradise except the island is a place the dead from an […]

The 9 Sentence Organisation

Saturday, January 12th, 2019

Expanding on the 9 Sentence Settlement and the 7 Sentence NPC and last weeks  9 Sentence Region and the 9 Sentence Building this week I’ve been thinking about how to make a compact but useful description of an organisation.  This is my first stab… Heading – Name Line 1: Introduction – Alternate names, leader, size and status Line 2: First […]

The 9 Sentence Region and the 9 Sentence Building

Sunday, January 6th, 2019

Expanding on the 9 Sentence Settlement and the 7 Sentence NPC here is my first stab at the 9 Sentence region Heading Line 1: Introduction Line 2: First Impressions Line 3: Geography Line 4: Resources Line 5: Flora and Fauna Line 6: People, Population, Demographics, Government and Culture Line 7: Places and Infrastructure Line 8: History  Line 9: […]

The 9 Sentence Settlement

Sunday, December 30th, 2018

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 […]

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