Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category

Pifl ’81 Day 6: Harbour Road Bandstand

Across Harbour Road from the Pifl branch of Norbury and Sons department store is one of the towns Bandstands. Provided for the entertainment and edification of the population and visitors to Pifl by Victorian benefactors it was manufactured by W MacFarlane & Co. Ltd of Glasgow. It has seen better days. The town council see […]

Pifl ’81 Day 5: Madam Rasputin

Madam Rasputin (real name Maggie Rivers) is a local fortune teller in her mid-40s who works out of a room above Candy’s Cotton Candy. She has no ability as a fortune teller but a small gift at spinning an entertaining yarn. However about 1 in 20 of the fictions she spins seem to come true. […]

Pifl ’81 Day 4: Candy’s Cotton Candy

A little further inland along Harbour Road is Candy’s Cotton Candy. A gaudy and popular sweet shop run by Candy Chase who originates (as she likes to say) in Cañon City in the Great State of Colorado. She came to Pifl with her husband, a USAF officer seconded to nearby RAF Coterel. Rapidly becoming board […]

Pifl ’81 Day 3: Fl and Chips

Fl and Chips at Number 1 Harbour Road is an unassuming, two storey building that  stands on its own just before the West Pier. It takes its name from the River Fl which flows through the harbour on its way to the North Sea. It used to be the best Fish and Chip shop in […]

Pifl ’81 Day 2: Arcadia

Arcadia in 1981 is a large entertainment complex to the left of P’s Postcards from Pifl on the Harbour Road. Originally built by Josiah Caxton at The Grand Arcadia Gardens on instruction from the de Pifl family in 1865. They had been inspired by a trip to Paxton’s Crystal Palace, completed for the Great Exhibition […]

Pifl ’81 Day 1: P’s Postcards from Pifl

On the Pifl harbour road, sandwiched between an ever changing cavalcade of gaudy emporiums Postcards from Pifl is a small, unnoticed Pifl institution. The shop has been here, in the same family, since 1903. It occupies a narrow shop unit rented from the Butty family. Barely wide enough for two customers to squeeze past each […]

Happy Christmas 2022!

Made with: MoI – Modelling the Church Plant Factory – Tree generation Vue – Landscape, Composition, Texturing, Sky, Lighting and Rendering Digital Auto Painter – Post Render effects Affinity 2 – Mixing several DAP versions to get the final picture

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Ancient Hermit RPG

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

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.