Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Ragnarok – The Big Five O
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Ragnarok Issue 50 landed through my door today with articles on wargaming Ragnarok, combat engineering for Dirtside 2, a scenario for Space Vixens From Mars, the Ottoman air fleet in Aeronef and the usual regular review columns. Steve F’s last issue as editor (thanks for the hard work over the last 10 issues Steve) before […]
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 […]
A little Gaming Experiment
Monday, July 24th, 2006I’ve just uploaded a little gaming experiment. The same top down view of a 3 oar ship’s longboat at 3 slightly different sizes as a PDF file. Hopefully they are suitable for use by wargamers and role players. I think B is probably the best suited to 25mm figures with A a little small and […]
Keyboard Burning
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006I’ve done so much typing today my keyboard should be smoking in the heat. I only stopped during the torrential thunderstorm that hit this afternoon. Couple of thousand words on a short story / novella, a rework of an old article that I’m going to serialise here on my blog for the next few months, […]
Elvis: The Legendary Tours
Monday, June 12th, 2006I didn’t know what I was going to write about today but then I saw this announcement and it became an easy call. The first supplement for Marcus L. Rowland’s Diana: Warrior Princess is now available. So here it is in Marcus’ own words… I’m very pleased to announce that Elvis: The Legendary Tours, the […]
Post 100: The Story So Far
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006So this is what 100 posts feels like and here is where I’m at… Project Status Ãrǽdan Second Draft DIY Pop Shield Article Second Draft Fairy Tale Noir About 50% written Inaccurate Web Clock Done Killer Web 2.0 App Thing Enhancing and Tweaking New Logo Done New Web Site In Development Underwater Secret Base Don’t […]
When Inspirons Collide
Monday, April 10th, 2006Walking to work has up moments and down moments. You get to see wild life. You get drenched by the rain. I’ll not blather on/wax lyrical on the subject today. The big plus is time to think. So when I started this outpouring of my incomplete concepts I had an idea for a 70s TV […]
Serious and Organised: Logo
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006I had been going to blog about the need for a cool modern (what a few years ago would have been a Cool Britannia) logo for the show. SOCA beat me to the logo and the BBC beat me to the analysis. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4876818.stm "It’s not our policy to comment on the logo or the agency […]
Serious and Organised: the Set Up
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006So what does our hypothetical show need to make it a hit. First a pair of tough crime fighters. But this isn’t the masogonistic 70s so one will be a woman. She’ll be hard as nails, dug from the same quarry as Buffy, ex special forces. For a bit of a role reversal he’ll be […]
Coming Soon to ITV 1: Serious and Organised
Monday, April 3rd, 2006It may just be me but behind all the serious talk today about the launch of SOCA there was a faint hint of a wink and a smirk. As though a few civil servants who like 70 and 80s cop shows had come up with it after a heavy night of drinking… “Ya know what […]