Category: Inspiration
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Problem Solving – Adventure
Problem Solving is one of my inspirations for Games. The stakes are high and so is the stress, but when…
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Late Bronze Age Fantasy Setting – Against all Gods by Miles Cameron
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59348054 Against all the Gods Is an audiobook I’m currently listening to which is set in a FANTASY setting similar…
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Finished The Long War: Killer of men, Marathon, and, Poseidon’s Spear
These books makes me want to run a GURPS game set in that era (early 5C BCE). Although I would…
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Scifi notes – accessibility and abundance tradeoffs
Disclaimer :written on a note 2 pardon my many mistakes. (the blogger app is barred in the Philippines play store…
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Inspiration: Death Note
Finally Got to Watch Deathnote and it is Amazing and gave me a lot of Ideas. Anyway, the ideas expressed…
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Inspiration, catching up with Anime lately
I was able to visit Toei here in the Philippines and have some friends who used to work there. I’m…
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Classics Re-Imagined: Ravenloft
Since I’m running a Kitchensink setting, I realized I can just mine old adventures for ideas and put them under…
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Filipino Mariners, my Inspiration for the Traveller Game
I was first exposed to the lives of Filipino Mariners when I worked for one of the largest seaman manpower…
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Manoral Life of Various Cutlures
Finished Downton Abbey, I wish I can see various cultural version of a Manoral Household as inspired by their visit to a…
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Nerds are Rogues Too!
Why is it the negative stereotype that makes nerds idiots, despite their brains? I mean real intelligence is adaptability, in…
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The Spear, the AK 47 of pre-modern times; Lessons on Tactics
http://goo.gl/aQEa5 this is a reddit discussion which I concur with, and want to save for use later on. Been Playing…
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Imagination Exercise: “Light” Armors
In this thread, Dan Howard dispels the gaming Myth about the flexibility of armor (apart from mail). In gaming “Light…
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Game Experiment: Unknown Rules
What If I played DnD on the surface but all the mechanics used was something else. Players select Scale, Shield,…
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OSRIC game planned next week
I was at my bi-monthly Freethinkers meeting and its no surprise to find some of the members being the last…
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Gaming about Gaming
RPG Blog II’s if If RPGs Were More Like Pro Sports… Reminded me of a discussion some friends and I…
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Progress Report: Excuses
I’ve hit some speed bumps, like everyone else its work and I shouldn’t talk about it here. So far I’ve…
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GIMP ON! Some Art tips
Art tips for your Game Book. I spent a good hour and a half learning all the Gimp Hot keys.…
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Getting Serious with making my own RPG book (for myself)
Because I’m a cheap bastard. I’ve tried to draw my map and I’ve been using Autorealm. There are some serious…
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The Age of Magic: The Axial Age
In World history, many of the great Philosophers and their Philosophies came around the Axial Age. In RPGs, particularly Fantasy…
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Ancient Clothing and Appearances Musing
Ancient clothing has some tough problems and some easy ones. Tough are the surface area calculations. There is not enough…
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Answering Sources; Old School Inspired Tinkering
Answering Sources. Ancient Empires before Alexander is a great read. As for Anarchangels’s question regarding taxation. Sorry I don’t have…
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Comparing History and Games in contexts of Civilization
After finishing a book on Ancient Empires before Alexander the Great and short nostalgia of Civilization I’m recounting my lessons.…
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Civilization 5 as your Mapmaker
I’ve missed Civilization for a while. It sucks too much time. Seeing the new Civilization 5, I found my new…
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What is the Bronze Age?
I got confused when I learned Alexander was using Iron weapons. I thought the glory days of Hellenism was the…
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Real Monsters: the Psychopath
I began to learn more about them as part of RPG 2 years ago. I admit it was because of…
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World Builders Tools: Medieval History
The Teaching Company’s Medieval World lecture, conducted by Dorsey Armstrong is a great way to get into medieval history if…
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Kingdom of Jerusalem problems
I’ve complained about the limited material available regarding the Latin Kingdom of Syria also known as “the Kingdom of Jerusalem”.…
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Your Own Hell , Ravenloft your Setting.
Looking at my old Ravenloft books and how much I’ve learned about history over the years, my definition of Tragedy…
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Mount&Blade WARBAND: Inspiring my Games
I only began checking back when war band is supposed to be released because I’m supposed to present a game…